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

THREE negroes named Ambrose Young,
Charles Latham and Frank Freeman,
charged with being implicated in a MUIR
der, were taken from the officers at Union
City, Tenn, on the 18th by a mob and
hanged.
CHARLES METTY, a merchant, of Toledo,
o., was found dead in a room in the Co.'S
mopolitan Hotel, in New York, on the 18th.
He failed to u off the gas and was suffo-
Gated.
THE United States Treasury on the 10Th
purchased 465, 900 ounces of silver for de-
livery at the Philadelphia and New Or
leans mints.
ADv1cEs of the 10Th state that the me-
groes in Buncombe County, N. c., were
holding weekly meetings to consider the
question of migrating to Liberia. Quite a
number of influential colored citizens were
leading the movement.
In the United States and Canada there
were 2S6 business failures during the seven
days ended on the 18th, against 26O
the previous even days. The distribute
ton was as follows: Middle States, 81;
New England States, 81; Western, 49,;
Southern, 60; Pacific States and Terrific.
ries. 81; Canada. SO.
THE President on the 18th issued a proc.
lamation that an invasion of the Oklahoma
lands would not be tolerated, ..and that If
unauthorized possession be taken the mill
tary power of the United States would be
invoked to expel the intruders. Persons
already in occupation Of the lands would
also be removed.
Pope & COLE, dealers in metals at Balti-
more, Md, have failed, with liabilities va
riously estimated at from 100000 to
81, 100000.
The citizens of sarahville, O., erected a
post near the center of the village a few
days ago, and severely whipped a man
named Dayton, who had beaten his chill
dren to an unmerciful degree.
In a dispatch on the 18th from Caldwell,
Kan, to the War Department iniNNashing-
ton, General Hatch said that there were no
trespassers now in Indian Territory, but
that about 1900 settlers were encamped
near the TERRITORY borders and were
threatening to go over the line.
In getting out of a window the other
night ut Darlington, o., for the purpose of
clipping with her lover, Minnie Hamilton
fell to the ground, receiving injuries that
caused her death.
SIX tenements and a stable at Youngs.
town, O., were destroyed by fire a few
mornings ago, some narrow escapes from
death being made. -Four horses, including
a valuable stallion, persisted in the flames.
AT Vernon, Tex, and vicinity Captain
Schmidt, of the State Rangers, arrested
twenty-five men on the 18th charged with
murder, many of whom stood high in the
community. 1t was claimed that the men
constituted a secret vigilance organization.
Four recent murders are attributed to
them.
THE Southern Agricultural Works at At.
lanta, Ga, made an assignment recently
to secure debts of $780,, 900.
( TELEGnAMs from nearly all the larger
cities to Bradstreet's on the 18th announced
an improved feeling asto the outlook for
general trade.
SUPERINTENDENT SNowDEN, of the
United States Mint at Philadelphia, states
that he has received over fifty thousand
trade dollars since March 4, and that let
tiers from holders of coin in various parts
of the country were pouring in upon him.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-03

We noticed the other day a Mexi--
can woman trudging toward her home
WIN a 1lfty-pound sack of -four on her
shoulder, while the husband, who was,
10y her side, was engaged in rolling O.
cigarette. -Ph9nir "a. ~ Gazette.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-03

"A family consisting of one man.,
ms Vile, nine children, II hound and
Two muskets camped on Howard street
inc other morning. Their baggage.
Courier. /
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-03

,-lwo centuries ago two cousins in
me Mayhem family, of Massachusetts,
we're married, and from them can be
'raced a hereditary line of deaf-mutes..
Connecticut western news., 1885-03-25
C0urtship in Greenland.

When the Danish missionaries had secured the confidence of the Green flanders, marriage was made religious ceremony. Formerly the man married the woman by force. One of the mis- sionaries, writing in his journal, de- scribes the present style of courtship as follows. The suitor, coming to the missionary, says: "I should like to have g wife,"
 "Whom ?" asks the missionary. The man names the woman. 'tHast thou spoken to her ?"
 Sometimes the man will answer.
 "Yes, she is not unwilling; but thou knowest womankind p . More frequently the answer is, "No. !" 'Why not" ,...
 "It is difficult. Girls are prudish, Thou must speak to her." The mis- sionary summons the girl, and after a lit- tie conversation says:
 ''I think it is time to have thee mar ried."
 "I won't marry"
 "What a pity have suitor for thee."
 "Whom ?" The missionary names the man who has sought his aid.
 "He is good for nothing {! I won't have him r
 "But," replies the missionary, ''he is a good provider. He throws his harpoon with skill, and he loves thee"
 Though listening to his praise with evident pleasure, the girl answers:
 "I won't have him."
 "Well, I won't force thee. I shall soon find wife for such a clever fel- low"
 The missionary remains silent, as | though he understood her "No" to have ended the matter. At last with a sigh, she whispers:
 "Just as thou wilt have it"
 ''No," replies the clergyman, ''as thou wilt; I'll not persuade thee"
 Then, with 8 deep groan, comes "Yes," spoken somewhat quickly, and the matter is settled.
Connecticut western news., 1885-03-25
Out of Whole Cloth.

A few weeks ago a dispatch from West Virginia stated that at Okonoko, in that State, Miss Cox had been pre- maturely buried; that subsequently the grave was opened, and that the oon- dition of the body showed that the girl had recovered consciousness in her coffin, struggled desperately to release herself, and died of suffocation. The details given were minute enough to warrant belief in the story, but inquiry on the spot has developed the fact that there was not word of truth in it, be- yond the circumstance that the grave was opened to satisfy an idle conjecture. ''Nothing whatever" writes the pastor of Okonoko, twas found to furnish the shadow of a doubt that Miss Cox had died natural death, and was dead when put in her coffin" Out of this the sen- sational story telegraphed broadcast was framed, and thus another dreadful case of family negligence is shown to be baseless. It is scarcely necessary to say that the person who took the pains to invent so. deliberate and elaborate falsehood deserves to be punished, though it is probable that the Ananias or Sapphira, as the case may be, will be prudent enough not to avow his or her connection with the imposture. So lively and gruesome an imagination might be put perhaps to uses more valu- able commercially than the narrowing up of the public mind with fictitious graveyard horrors.
Connecticut western news., 1885-03-25
Gloom Among inc DaIrymen.

The Orange County Farmer has been collecting statistics regarding the present condition and future outlook of the producing industry. It pub- fishes tabulated statement of the re- ports received from over sixty farmers engaged in the milk business in Orange, Sullivan, Delaware and Ulster Counties of New York State, and Sussex in New Jersey. The average profit for 1884 re- ported by these producers on the capital invested is little less than 5i per cent, but the farmers own labor is left out of consideration. With proper sum al- lowed for his services the editor of the Farmer estimates that the average prof. it would have been reduced to not more than one per cent. Opinion as to the value of glucose feed and brewers grains for COWS varies, but the majority of the farmers condemn. their use and others express modified approval. One frankly says they are good thing when quantity and not quality of milk is de- sired. The number of farmers using these articles as compared with the whole number is small. The outlook for the present is considered disoourag- ing. No one expects as good year as last and many think 1t will be decidedly worse. Various suggestions looking to the improvement of the present situation are made, but the one which finds most favor is that the production oi mfk Ehenld be greatly reduced
Connecticut western news., 1885-03-25
PREMATURE BURIALS.
An Undertalxer's Belief thnt People arc
 Often Buried Alive.

"The world would be mortified, !" said a New York undertaken, eff it knew the number of bodies that are buried be- fore life is extinct. Once in a while one of these cases comes to light, but no steps are taken to prevent their recur- renee.
 Something that happened to me about twelve years ago has worried me ever since. I was sent for one day to take charge of the body of man in Division street. The man was tailor, and had fallen over while sitting on his bench sewing. He was big, feshy man about 40 years of age, and weighed about 250 pounds. The body was warm and the limbs were limp. I did not be- lieve the man was dead, and said so. His friends told me that physician had pronounced him dead. I was ordered to put the body on ice at once, but I de- layed the operation, on enc pretext or another, for nearly two days. During this time the body lay on the bench in the little shop. Finally, I could delay no longer. The limbs were still as limp as when I first examined the body. I prepared the body for burial, and the next day 1t was buried. I do not be- lieve that man was dead when the earth was shoyelled in on the coffin. II the same, thing were to happen again I
 
 would let tsomebody else do the burying.
 "About the same time o young woman living up town was supposed to have died very suddenly. A physician was called in. He said she was dead. An old woman who was present thought otherwise and insisted upon it that she was in 8 trance. The body was buried. A few weeks later the old woman de- termined to satisfy herself about it, and bribed the grave diggers to disinter the the coffin. The lid was removed and a horrible sight was seen. The young woman had come to life and had made a terrible struggle for liberty. Her hair was torn out, and her face was fright fully scratched. She had turned over on her face.
 'A person Is generally believed to be dead if there is no action of the heart or pulse. But if person is in 8 trance there is no action of the heart or pulse. A vein should be opened. If blood flows the person is not dead. This oper- ation would take about thirty seconds, but it is not often resorted to. Suppose the person is suffering from temporary suspension of animation. Before he can recover the use of his faculties an under taksr comes in, and he is pat in an ice box, where whatever life may have been in him is frozen out. The Board of Health should take hold of this matter and devise some means of ascertaining beyond all doubt that life is extinct be- fore the body is buried. have thought of good many different means. A re- ceiying vault could be built in every cemetery where bodies could be placed until decomposition had begun, when they could be buried"
Connecticut western news., 1885-03-25
Ton Can't Stop 'Em That Way.

Felix Pare, n rosy French cock, of New York, brought his mother-in-law, Marie 0uinaud, to Jefferson Market, and told Justice German that he wanted her "leotured."
 "Zis yomau," he said, ''she talk avec vigor all 20 time. She noffer stop ze clack, clack, clack of ze tongue. She ia similaire to one masheen. Eet most stop"
 While Pare with difficulty and hoaita- tion was making his statement hia mother-in.law hurled sentence after aon- tenee of musical French at Justice Cor man. She talked so fast Ool. Truoey and other Frenchmen in court couldn't understand more than one-third of hor interminable sentences.
 "Take her homo quick, said the Jus tioe, when tho mothor-in-law stopped for breath. "I can't stop her ta king: a dozen Judges couldn't Tell her nhe'a under $500 bonds to keep her tongue still"
 aAlas |" sighed Pare, 'that Is Inc only thing she don't keep" and he souUw- fully left ths court in excited converse ton with the uneEuahed moihanAn.aam
Connecticut western news., 1885-03-25
The War Question.

Prof. Sarsaparilla Hunter then offered the following resolution:
 "ResolVed-Dat in dis struggle be- tween England an de Arabs, de sym pathies of dis club go out for the latter. |"
 "You offer dis, do you Y'' queried the President, as he looked from the paper to Sarsaparilla and back.
 "Yes, sah."
 "You sympathize with de Arab, do you?"
 "Yes, sah."
 "Any pertickler reason ?"
 "A very great reason, sah. De Arab am seeking to abolish slavery in England"
 There was period of silence so deep and painful that Shindig Watkins blis- tered his heel ou the hot stove without realizing it. Brother Gardner finally said:
 "Giveadam Jones and Pickles Smith will take de Professor to the aunty-room an rub de back of his neck with cold brick. If dat doan, effect cure we'll send him to de idiot asylum p
 The Professor acted like one who had been knocked down by brick house, and after the rubbing process above re- ferred to had been completed he ex- plained that the resolution had been drawn up by . tin peddler, who had promised him . new tin pan to present h~L8Dse1XsIn 0gNk,
Connecticut western news., 1885-03-25
Local News a Speciality.
THE WIDOW 0SHANES RZNE

Whisht, there Mary Murphy, doan think
 me insane,
 But I'm dyin' ter tell ye of widder oshane; She as lives in the attic nixt mine, doan ye
 know,
 An does the foine washin fer ould Misther
 Shnow.
 wid niver chick nor child ter track in, Her kitchen is always as nate as pin; An her cap an her apron is always that Och, a moighty foine gurrul is the Widder
 OShane. An wud ye belave me, on Sathurday night We heard rough stip comin' over our flight; An Mike, me ould man, he jist hollered to me, "Look out av the door an see who it moight
 be- ..-= An I looked, Mary Murphy, an save mo if
 there
 wusn't Thomas Malone on the uppermost
 stair CHe's the landlord; ye've seen him yerself, wid
 cane), An he knocked on the door of the Wilder
 O'Shane.
 An whispered to Michael, "Now, what can
 it mane .s . That his worship is calling on Widder
 O'Shane ?'' Rint day comes 8 Friday wid us, doan ye see, So knew that it wusn't colIectin' he'd be. '1t must be she owes him some money fer rint, Though the neighbors do say that she pays to
 the cint; oR 4In 6nI1 H.,
 says I, "An' I'll pape through the keyhole, will, if I
 die"
 The howly saints bliss me what shudnt see But the Widder O'Shane sittin' pourin' the tea; An the landlord wus there, Misther Thomas
 Malone,
 A-sittin' one side ov the table alone. An he looked at the Widder o'shane, an sez
 he,
 '1t's privilege great that ye offer ter me; Fer I've not once sat down by fair woman's
 side Since sat down by her that once called me
 bride. "An' is it ye're poor now, Widder O'Shane Ye're dacent woman, both tidy an clane; An we're both av us here in the wurruld
 alone Wud ye think of unitin' wid Thomas Ma
 hone ?"
 Then the Widder O'shane put the tea kettle down, An rshe9says, 'rMisther Thomas, yer name is 2
 crown; I take ib most gladIy"-an' then me ould man Hollered, Bridget, cum in here, quick as yer
 can.''
 So then, Mary Murphy, rig of that floor, An run into me attic an bolted the door; An sez to me Michael, 'Now, isn't it mane ? She'll have no rint to pay, will that Wilder
 0Shane,"
 ~ Youts's Companion.
Connecticut western news., 1885-03-25
The End of Socialism.

The Manchester, England, Times says: A draper's assistant in London, who was in the habit, with bis masters cognizance, of attending a workmen's Socialistic meeting, neglected for 8 week or two to attend themeetings, and thefol- lowing dialogue took place between mas- ter and man. Master-"Well, John, and how is it that you have not kept up your attendance at the Socialistic meetings ?" John (rather confusedly)-"Well, sir, I don't think I shall go any more" Mas ter-"But how is that, JohnP"
 John-'I have found out, sir, that the scheme is not quite so fair as I thought it was. At the last meeting I attended we calculated how much there would be for every one when everything was divided up, and we found 1t would only be 21o5 each, and you know, cir, ! have sl5o in the hAAk,
Connecticut western news., 1885-03-25
POET AND sIGN-PAINTER.
Verse Writer Who Used to Play It on
 the Boys.


 I was running a weekly paper in small Northern Indiana town at the time I first met the poet Reilly, says a writer in the Pittsburg Dispatch. You know how the inhabitants of small places go wild over anything of freak ish nature, and the reigning sensation just then was the work of blind sign painter. A party of advertising fakirs had just struck the village who deco rated the dead walls and fences in the most gaudy way imaginable, the finish ing and artistic touches being done by a member of the party who was known as the "only Blind Sign Painter on Earth" Business with them was rush ing, every merchant in town coming around and wanting work done, for when the Blind Sign Painter, who was none other than Reilly, felt his way up lad der and dnshed off an artistic sign, half the inhabitants of the place turned out to witness the feat.
 The scheme of the fakirs, which was an original one and calculated to catch the multitude, all depended on the his trionic ability of the Hoosier Poet. He had large, frank gray eyes, and the vision of an eagle. When the surface was selected he was brought out and led to the foot of the ladder. A part of his business was to go up a step, carefully feeling his way, then turning. stare into vacancy in an aimless, moony sort of style, and bring to bear on the crowd face full of pain and pathos. This rarely failed to draw expressions of sympathy, and, what was more to the point, additional advertising contracts. Slowly climbing the ladder, he fingered the surface, measuring carefully with his hands the dimensions of the letters, and then seizing the brush, the sign was reeled of much more rapidly than the zage painter could do it
 Another catching bit of "business" was to stumble on coming down, when one of the party gave him showing be- low, with an imprecation and brutal order to be more careful.
 "Shame, shame Some one ought to take the poor man away from those rut- fians," were sample remarks from the crowd on such occasions. One day when he was up the ladder caught his eye. My suspicious had been aroused, and he saw it in my face. Slowly and deliberately, with owlish solemnity, he winked that great gray eye of his in q way which spoke whole libraries.
 After that was taken in his conf dence, and finding he was gold mine of talent induced him to leave painting and go to work in my office. task whicl was not difficult, for he only regarded the "Blind Painter" dodge as boyisl lark, and was getting tired of the fun That was the beginning of his news paper career. He went to Indianapolii and has been doing excellent work or the press of that city ever since. I Iun derstand his book is netting him quit, handsomely and is success in every way.
Connecticut western news., 1885-03-25
SANDY'S DIAMOND.

"Now, Sandy, it's your turn; why don't you read ? have you lost the placer" ...
 Sandy strengthened the tails of his ragged coat with an air of conscious virtue; he was not given to losing bis place, whatever the others might be. "Now, Judas said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag," he read out in & shrill treble. "It was an awful pity they let him keep the bag, then," he added by way of comment.
 "Maybe they'd no ken he was thief," suggested his neighbor, who was Sandy's chief friend and ally; ''and may be you wad have helped yourseP bit now and again, Sandy, if you'd had as good chance" .........s.....
 "Speak for yourself, Sam Knox," was Sandy's nasty retort. "I'm no thief, at any rate."
 sBoys, attend to the lesson," inter- rupted the teacher, and the debate had perforce to be postponed for the present.
 Sandy marched home after school, swelling with indignant pride, utterly declining Sam's usual escort. The two were friends more from force of circum- stances than natural affinity. Both earned scanty income in London, carrying parcels and messages from the railway to the different quays; but . though they held the same profession, and were comrades to certain extent, Sandy by no means considered Sam in the light of an equal; his clothes were in many degrees more ragged, his shoes thing of the past, or future. and. in point of family onnections-well, there could be no comparison between Sam's drunken father and his own thrifty, ard-working mother. Decidedly Sam must be made to understand that he was not to disparage his superiors in public with impunity.
 The coolness lasted some days, and might have lasted much longer, but for @ startling adventure that befel1 Sandy. Trudging round the edge of the dock at dusk one evening, with huge package for coasting steamer, his foot struck against something something that gilt tered in the dim light. "Just bit oi glass;" he said to himself, turning il over with the toe of his shoe; and then he dropped his burden with crash, and swooped down upon "his find"
 RA .Ixz1I yaA "a wvfk mud, but neither crushed nor broken. and the ''bit of glass" was the stone. Il gleamed out like the windows on the op- posite shore at sunset. In his younger days, before he became such 8 practica person, he had firmly believed that Paradise lay over there; he knew bet ter now, but for moment, as it lay or his palm, he almost fanciedit must have come from that region.
 Only for moment; then Sandy wat his cautious little self again. He rolled it up carefully with the private store O halfpence that even his mother, worth! woman, did not know of, shouldered hi package and delivered it at the tiny booking office at the end of the quay sturdily argued out the question of al additional penny on account of its sig with the clerk, and got it, and then h betook himself to solitary corner o the dock wall and sat down behind
 sugar cask to consider matters.
 Eirst and foxeucsb, ahcuid he Sell hi msshssl Is saAhex tAsaaai aeA sA
Connecticut western news., 1885-03-25
Budd's Very Smart Boy.

In the flush stock times, when W. o. Budd was the idol of the Stock Board and many who are now satisfied with beer and sandwiches could not endure anything but champagne, he had boy in his office who made 8, little turn in speculation and he determined to go on little tour of the State. He got holi- day and started. At last he reached Los Angeles and there he met couple of card speculators, who took the chances, with more or less certainty, at poker. Two days after this meeting Budd re- ceived telegram:
 wv. 0. Budd, San Francisco: Please send me $2OO to pay my debts and ex- penses back"
 MT. Budd did not answer. The young gentleman evidently proceeded to tackle the poker game again, and next day Budd received another telegram:
 "W. O. Budd, San Francisco: Please send me $500 to pay my debts and ex- penses back"
 Still MT. Budd did not reply, and next day came this:
 "Wayman 0. Budd, San Francisco: Send me $400."
 Budd was getting annoyed. So was the clerk apparently, for he telegraphed again:
 "Budd, San Francisco: Send me $500"
 MT. Budd took the money and went and telegraped it to Los Angeles.
 "Why did you do it ?" said friend.
 "I was afraid he'd bust me if didn't stop him. ."-San Francisco Chronicle.
 Ar SarahsviIle, Ohio, two children of man named Dayton were late in re- turning from school, having loitered by the way playing with their mates. Their father, who is man of violent passion, chastised them so severely that the life of one is despaired of. The neighbors were so incensed that they erected 8 post near the centre of the village, to which they tied Dayton, and after strip ping him to the waist thrashed him se- verely. They left the post standing, at the same time giving notice that several notorious characters in the neighbor- hood would be treated the same as Day. ton If they did not at enee cease theix dspsedatienas
Connecticut western news., 1885-03-25

IT is figured that 100000 sermons are annually preached to Americans. And yet insomnia Is prevalent com plaint ia this country.