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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-05-20
d. Y. COLLINS.
Interesting Statistics From Old Justice
Records,

Interesting Statistics From CID Justice
Records.
Judge Kipiinger. in running over
dockets kept by him while acting in
the capacity of Justice of the Peace
finds these interesting statistics COM
mencipg APRIL 10th, A. d. 1868,
and ending May 18th, A. d. 1885.
Civil actions brought ...............123
Criminal .............143
No. of cases passed on by jury. 81
" arbitrator ........4
the court ......253
No. of subpoenas issued in all 1882
cases.
No. of jurymen ........................66
No. of arbitrators .....................12
He further finds the names Of the
following prominent attorneys who
took part in unrayeling the naughty
questions that came to the justice
during that time:
j.. A. Wallace, Geo. Stiekney,
tTEiah Weston, II. w. Mcneil, Alex.
Hughs, Z. II. Akers. w. L. CAN'T,
A. ID, Keller, ClIas. Erickson, Ira. l..
Nichols, Nm. JOY, C. l.. Wright, c.
r. Marks, Jno. Currier, Judge Pen
dleton, Jno. l.. jollcy, Capt. N. Min
er, d. G. Shull, Gen. VIM. Trip,
Gen. j. B. S. Todd, S. l.. Sphinx, and
others. The outside Or travelling
work was done principally by the
following sheriffs and their assist
ants:
David Benjaman, Capt. L. LeGro,
VIM. Beaumont, J. II. Bryan,s.Alson
Bovce, Jas. A. Smith, and Jerry
Ryan.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-05-20

Call in and get Beggs' prices On
dry goods before you buy, if you
wish to save money.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-05-20

Pure maple sugar at S. G. Thorn
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-05-20
These are solid Facts.

May 10th, 1885,
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-20
IMPROVING A POOR FARM.

Mr.. a. G. Sharp, of the Richmond,
(Mass.) Grange gave in a lecture
some items of experience in reno
waiting worn land, which he says in
wolves, to begin with, "a man chock
full of days works."
Like the old woman who put the
poorest pork in the bottom of the
barrel so as to have the best to eat
first all the way down, l took my
best land first and have manured
heavily as far as l have gone. l do
not believe in plowingup more land
than | can manure heavily every
time. What would be Il light coat
for some lands would be heavy for
Others we must know our soil and
how much it needs. There is little
danger Of putting on too much. 1
began in the middle of my farm and
have cleared on an average two
acres of rocks each year.
81 have put up some new fence
each year, if only very little.
make all the manure / can each
year, using some absorbents-muck,
ten or twelve tons of swamp hay,
dry sifted coal ashes and some forest
leaves, and then buy all the fertili-
ger | dare to besides, or all think
| can use to advantage on crops.
We should grow more soiling crops,
such as sowed corn, Hungarian
grass and millet. For late fall seed
ing sow barley; even after August
LIST this can be done and make a
good green feed for COWS after the
frost has betten the cornstalks.
"The more we can feed out on the
farm the faster we can improve it.
It is not safe to sell hay unless you
draw home some bran or fertilizer
the same day that you sell the hay
on the return trip, for once the
money slips away forsomething else
you are apt to buy the fertilizer.
There is no better fertilizer than
barnyard manure, but when hay is
worth over S12 a ton in the barn
sell it and put every cent of the
money you get for it into the barn
yard manure if you can get that
which has been under cover for $5
per cord delivered.
81 plough in all the barnyard ma
nure | can get every spring, and
never let any manure heat in the
balnyards. / believe if manure is
ploughed in green the land must
get all there is in it, and it is then
out Of the way in hoeing and culti-
waiting. Some may make the mis-
take Of ploughing too deep at first.
This should not be done, but simply
plough an inch deeper every time so
as not to turn up too much clay or
hardpan at one time But do this
gradually, and you can add much
to the value of the land in that way
in few times ploughing."
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-20
BlrOuaC In a German Camp.

Hurrying forward, | reached our
bivouac just as the troop was falling
in for the evening prayer, although
no tattoo had been beaten there, we
being too near the enemy, and the
music might have betrayed our
whereabouts. Quietly our lit
tie force moved up in front of the
fires, the guard standing to their
arms. "Halt ! Richt, euch !" and
they stood there motionless in one
solid block, relieved strong against
the bright light Of the fires, and col
ums Of smoke and sparks rising al
most straight upward to the black
heavens. Out of the darkness came
short word of command "Caps
off for prayer !" and in solemn sill
ence, with uncovered heads, the
rough soldiers rendered thanks to
the Almighty for His mercies.
Lighted candles, stuck in bottles or
fastened to rough-hewn blocks of
wood, were cleaning brightly on
the plain pine boards of the impro-
vised table under the mems tent,
when, the men having been dismiss
ed, the officers sat down for an hour,
chat and smoke before turning in,
and although our seats varied in
shape and size from a mess chest to
folding camp chair, and the table
appointments were of simplest de-
scription, it would have been diff
cult to have found a merrier or more
comfortable set of men than that 70
which our little party was compos-
ed A handsome, soldierly lot of
gentlemen, these German officers,
treating one with freedom of the
camp, but with the wcll-bred cOur-
tesy Of their class, and full of eager
hospitality to the stranger from far.
off America. Many were the qucs-
tions asked about the land beyond
the sea, where so many Of their
coutrymen and their descendants
had their homes about France
where | had been living for u long
time, and about Paris, where l still
resided about the French Army,
their life and their habits. Then
the yarns about the late war between
the two countries, the suffering, the
hardships, the fun and fighting, the
good wines and fair women of sun
ny France-yarns that made the
yOunstcrs of the mess envious of
their elders and anxious to take part
some day in like, to them, glorious
struggle. There was no hoasting,
no cXaltation Of the victor over the
vanquished, but the natural talk of
4 soldiers over the adventures of a
campaign the like of which has sell
dom been met with in history. So
the evening wore away in pleasant
chat until the Major, our command
ant, gave the signal for us to dis
perse, and we sought our beds.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-20
THE PATAGONIAN GIANTS.

The tales Of their gigantic stature,
so often told and as frequently de-
MED, are thoroughly investigated in
this memoir, and with result
which will be interesting to anthro-
biologists.
Careful measurements have been
made in recent times, by different
observers, of many individuals in
various parts Of Patagonia. The re-
suit is that the mean stature of
adults (of both sexes, it would ap-
pear) is found to be about LIS
metres, or five feet ten inches Eng
lish. "This mean," remarks the
author, may seem rather low but
if we compare it with France, which
is only 1.65 metres (about five feet
five inches), and if we consider that
for all humankind the statistics give
only 10 metres (rather less than
five feet seven inches), we shall per-
ceive that this figure represents in
reality very lofty stature, and
makes the Patagonians the tallest
race Of men now existing" Men of
six feet French (six feet three and a
half inches English) are common
among them; and occasionally one
is found who reaches two metres, or
six feet six and half inches.
This, however, is not all. The
Patagonian, in the upper part of his
body, is Of huge build. His trunk
and head are large, his chest broad,
his arms long and muscular. On
horseback, he seems far above
the ordinary size of man.-
When he dismounts, however, it is
seen that his legs are disproportion-
ately short and slender; they fire.
quently bend outward. His walk is
heavy and numbering. These are
the well-known peculiaritics which
are found in the Tartars, and in all
races Of men who spend most Of
their time, like the Patagonians, on
horseback. But it is only a little
over two centuries since the horse
was introduced into this region.
The natives who were first seen
chased the swift guanaco and ostrich
over their immense plains on foot.
Such activity required long, straight
and muscular legs. 1t is not too
much to suppose that the total
change in their habits of life, which
has occurred since they became a
nation of horsemen, has detracted
at least two inches from their sta
turc. Adding these lost inches to
their present height, we recover the
giants who astonished the compan-
ions of Magellan, and vindicate the
narrative which later writers have
discrcditcd. We gain also II notable
evidence Of the influence Of natural
causes in modifying the physical
charact ristics of men-Science.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-20
Is the Color of the Sun Blue ?

1t may be asked, What suggested
the idea that the sun may be blue
rather than any other color ? My
own attention was first directed this
way many years ago, when measur-
ing the heat and light from different
parts of the suns disk. 1t is known
that the sun has an atmosphere of
its own, which tempers its heat, and
by cutting off certain radiations, and
not others, produces the spectral
lines we are all familiarwith. These
lines we customarily study in con-
nection with the absorbing vapors
of sodium, iron, and so forth, which
produces them but my own at
tention, was particularly given to
the regions Of absorption, or to the
color it caused ; and | found that
the suns body must be deeply
blush, and that it would shed blue
light, except for this apparently
colorless solar atmosphere which
really plays the part of a reddish
veil, letting Il little of the blue APP
pear on the centre of the suns disk
whore it is thinncst, and staining
the edge red, so that to delicate tests
the centre Of the sun is Il pale aqua,
marine, ana its edge garnet. The
effect | found to be so importan
that, if this all but Il third part, tn,
temperature of the British Islands
would rise above that of the torric
zone ; and this directed my atten
ton TO the great practical import
ance of studying the action of ou
own terrestrial atmosphere ON tn
sun, and the antecedent probabilit,
that our own air was also and indie
pendcntly making the really blu
sun into an apparently white one
Prof. Langley, in Science.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-20
The Use Of Nlagarla Fall as Source Of
Power.

1t is not safe to assume that, if |
this large scheme of utilizing Ma
CARA Falls could be made successful |
business enterprise would already |
have moved in this direction for
capital, it is extremely conservative. |
The true reason that large source of
water-power have not been utilized
for electric lighting on large scale
is due to the fact that the small de-
tails, and what are called the small
items, assume great proportions, and
and bid fair to consume all profits.
which come from Il saving of coal.
Thus the city of Buflolo could have
been lighted by the utilization of
the watcr-power along Niagara
River and we cannot believe that
the failure to do so has been due
either to the opposition of the gas
companies or to the lack Of imagin-
alton of capitalists. In short, the
facility with which energy in shape
Of coal can be transported from
place to place counterbalances at
present the cheapness of very re-
mote source of energy in the shape
of waterfall
The reasons for and against the
utilization of the energy of Niagara
Falls as Il source OF light apply also
to the question of electrical trans
mission of power has not reached
even the perfection which systems
of electric lighting have attained
Prof. John Trowbridgc, in Science.
Pretty Teacher-Now Johnny
Wells, can you tell me what is
meant by Il miracle Johnny
Yes, teacher. Mother says if you
don't marry the ncw parson twill
be a miracle.
The countryman who travelled ;
hundred miles to see "thc invisible
girl, returned home mad as Il hor
net because he got into the room
where she was, and tho darncd
thing wasn't in sight.
The advent of the scvcntccn-yca
locust will furnish new topic 10
conversation this year, but ii shout
be remembered that it is not cti
quettc to ask a lady how many time
she remembers the insects.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-20

The farmer can be the very best
liver in the land just MS easily as
not, and he should be. He has his
choice of the worlds produce. He
holds first mortgage on the herds
and focks. The crops and fruits of
the earth are his to begin with, and
he should ''lare sumptuously every
day" Why not? He will be all
the better man and better farmer
for it, and it is his duty as well as
his privilege. The only reason that
he docs not is that he has permitted
himself and his family to get into a
rut of beef and cabbage, pork and
potatoes, that he finds it difficult to
get out Of This is all wrong from
every point of view. He should get
out, he must get out, if he would
make the most of himself and his
family, and now is the time to make
a beginning. Here's summer, with
all its gardening opportunities. I'm
prove them. Enlarge the boundaries
of the garden, and enlarge your
ideas of gardening at the same time.
Plan with liberal hand. Is the old
garden cramped? Turn it over to
the women for the herbs and Il
"poscy bed" and 60 out to the near
est side of the corn field, and make
Il garden big enough in which to
spread yourself Make the rows as
long as the field is wide, as far apart
as will admit your cultivator ol
horseshoe, and some to spare, and
in them plant something besides
onions and cabbage. Take the cat,
alogue Of the best scotsman yor
know, and let the whole list of vege
tables, from artichokcs to turnips b,
represented by one or two of til,
best sorts. Plant every third roy
with some of the "small fruits" Civ
ing it an extra share of snacc. No,
give this side of the corn field lii
tie extra attention during the sea
r son. Let it be the first when yo
begin to cultivate" the last whc
| you finish up. You will never mis-
= the time, and you will live bette
5 than you have ever lived bcfore.-
lOur Country Home.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-20
midsummer.

NIideunmcr orcntirgi
The rod SIM ia rlowiny
And pointinr thn bill-tons
With crimson and gold.
Inc cock IN the harn-yard
Is Justify growing
The young lambs are skipping
Away from the fold.
Tho cows copn o-Iowing
From ont their green pastures
Tba rosy cbnol, r,iIl,-moid
,r, 20 ~ W. ~ P',.'
'''' "o" .'oy 10 "i'''S'ii'S
q 'une III ,''e rori'-'ie'"'
il"I rlNaiS '''c cl'nruS
vi iopii' Ut qu''ii'
\ midsummer greeting!
The poppies are showing
Their bright scarlet faces
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The daisies are nodding
Across the green by-way,
The purple-eyed pansy
llidet under the trees.
And the columbine saucily
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-20

The giraffe has never been known
to utter Il sound. In this respect
it resembles young lady in Il street
car when Il gentleman gives her his
seat.
A student ofinternational circum-
stances says that England has had
her last king. He chould have said
that she has made her last "bluf."
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-20

WHERE KISSING Is UNKNowN.-As
Il sign of affection, kissing was un-
known to the Australians, the New
Zealandcrs, the Papuans, the Esqui-
mauX and other races. The Poly
ncsians and the Malays always sit
down when speaking to Il superior.
The inhabitants of Mallicoio, an
island in the Pacific Ocean, show
their admiration by Kissing; the
EsquimauX pull Il persons nose as
n compliment; Chinaman puts on
his hat whore we should take it off,
and among the same curious people
u coffin is considered us neat and
appropriate present for an aged per-
son, especially if in bad health.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-20
A Wifc'S Expenses.

Many married men blunder in the
management ofhome expenses, al
though not one bridegroom in a
thousand, standing proudly at the
altar with the woman of his choice,
would believe the thing possible
were some truth telling prophet to
whisper to him. "In one, or two
or in five years, your wife will want
money for needfnl expenses, per-
sonal to herself, or for your common
advantage and comfort, and will
shrink from asking you for it, lest
youshould upbraid her for extraxa-
gancc or chidc her for folly" What
blush would mount the cheek of
an ingenious, wcll-mcaning young
man mt such an aspiration He is
quick to resent it. Nevertheless, in
half the homes in the country, be-
cause the husband holds the funds
and the wife must ask for her share,
there is exasperlion, there is false
shame, there is undreamed of dis
trcss. And the trouble springs not
out of the greed Of penurious men
(for men are usually open handed,
generous, and anxious to treat their
wives and daughter with liberality),
but has its genesis in a mistaken
principle at the beginning. Indul-
gencc, liberality and generosity are
terms wholly inapplicable to the
situation when we are speaking OF
the relations of huspand and wife,
The one does not dispense an aims;
the other does not accepta charity.
They are partners in the business OF
life. 1t is his part to do the pro.
viding, and hers to look after the
use of the provisions. He attends
to the outdoor economy she tc
that ofthe interior economy being
taken in its root-sense of systematic
government. "In true marriage lie!
no equal nor unequal )" yet therC
can be nothing but the farce OF
equality where the wife must ac,
count to the husband for every dim,
and the husband forgetful of tn
consideration due his wife, allow
her to be frctted and worried, worl
to shreds, and subject to petty MOI
tifications, because five days out q
seven she is the pOsessOrof an emp
ty purse. Entire opcnness anC
confidence as to the resources o
the firm, n definite and exaC
method of keeping household nc
counts, and recognition Of the fac
that a certain npproXimating amt
al expense must he proportioned t
the position the family occupies i
the community, would so far brin
ina millennium in American home
WHERE KISSING Is UNKNowN.-A
a sign of affection, kissing was III
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-01-20

Ii our memory serves use ami we think Z
do y Mr. Hamilton Disston, Florida four mir
lions of acres man, subscribed ten thousand do.
lars las he well might to have the State properly
represented at New Orleans; and the Dlsston
papers blew tremendous trumpet blast there
upon. Now, what the public would like TO
know is why an opportunity is not given t. Mr.
Dission TO pay over TO the Florida Commits
soner his ten thousand dollar subscription. We
do not permit ourselves to doubt that this great
land-holder would promptly respond aud so
leave the surplus in the treasury to be applied,
we think it should go. 10 building mansion
for Governor Perry and his successors, and to en-
downing our two State semnaries. Economist
Jan. 17M, 1885,
Editors Floridian In reply to the above
would say that not, to my knowledge, has Mr..
Disston ever offered to give $4,000 to the Stale
for the Exposition. OF one thing am sure, he
has never giuen a cent Mr.. Disston made and
gave to the State a. twenty. foot crosscut
saw. which is at Leesburg, Florida This saw
is all l have ever received from Mr. Disston, or
any one else. am, truly M
w. H. SRBRING.
Fla COm'r
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-01-20
Tenth Annual State EXP osition

The Florida Fruit Growers Associa.
ton is working in accord with the State
Park Association to make the State Elk.
position at Jacksonville great success
this year. The grounds and premises
generally have been improved at large
expense, and the premiums offered are
double the amount of those heretofore,
and aggregate $4,000. This money is
mostly contributed by the wholesale mer.
chants of Jacksonville, whose business
extends through much OF the State, and
there is ample guarantee that the pre-
miums will be fairly awarded. A main
object Of the offer of large premiums is
to attract superior exhibit that will he
shipped to the New Orleans Exposition
after the Fair, and will arrive there be-
fore " Florida Day." thus aiding the effort
to carry off the Premium of States as
Florida did ct Atlanta and at Louisville.
Among the inducements to attend the
Fair will be races on four days, tourna-
ment, and q military display, superin.
tended by General J. E. Yonge, of Pen
sacola, with Major Young, of Jackson.
vile, as assistant superintendent There
will be prize drills for prizes of 500,
$50 and $25; also prize drill of cadet
con,non;as
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-01-20
Fla. Com'r.

The appointment of Hon. George g. Nc
Whorter to the Office of Chief Justice seems to
have given general satisfaction throughout The
State His knowledge of the law and his fan,li.
arity with its practice renders him emineuily
fitted for the place, and Governor Perry has
shown his usual sound judgment in selecting
him for this important Office. That COL Nc.
Whorter will fill the place with honor to himself
and with satisfaction to the people is a foregont
conclusion, and we congratulate Santa Rnsa
county on being able to flrn a gentleman OF
such superior qualifications and marked ability
for Chicf-Jus'ice ofthe State of Florida.-Saaaa
Rosa News 4.
Among the prophecies of the Ocala
Banner ten days ago were the following |;
That Mr.. Foster is to succeed Judge Cocks,
That Senator Call will meet with no oppoAi.i
ton. AZ
That Speaker Davis's next step will be L.
wards Congress.
- Hon. David A. Wells addressed the New
York Free Trade Club few days ago on tie
work done for tariff reform 10 the late campaiGSs
and on the outlook of free trade in this country.
He showed that candidates were usually sucS
cessful in whose distsicts the reform was moot
strongly urged, not only in the West, but L,
New England, and predicted for New Enelana
that as soon as the people understood the sui,
ject revolution would be worked, and tfln
power of protection would be forever gone. Fl
The inaugural address of Governor Perry,
which appears on our first page. Is just such I
document ~ was expected from that hon.
ored gentleman. 1t 10 short, pointed and sensi.
ble and will meet with popular favor, regard.
less Of partisan bias. He has assumed the rel u
Of government under extraordinary favorabls
and his conceded independence. .
decision Of character aud executive ability. influs
ences the conviction, that he will guide the shil,
Of State In such manner, that after four
years voyage, 1t will be surrendered to his suc.a
,cssor in as admirable condition as when he took
command. More than this the people have nd
light 10 expect.-Montieeuo Csnssitus;on.