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Connecticut western news., 1885-01-21

decided her right to bring suit against the individual occupants of her prop erty. The number was great. She pressed the one against the city of New Orleans, and it was determined, in 1883, that the city was indebted to her in the sum of $2.00O,00O. The long fight, however, wore her life out, and on Fri day night she died.
 In the course of the fifty years of liti- gation in which she was engaged such men as Daniel Webster, Caleb Cushing. Charles O'Conor, Judah P. Benjamin, and others of the ablest lawyers of the age were employed in the case. Mrs. Gaines once argued her own case before the United States Supreme CGurtagainst Daniel Webster, and won. She is de- scribed as slender little woman. with brilliant eyes and vivaSiods manners, ana was at once witty and eloquent in conversation. The great wealth to which she established her title will go to heirs who will, it is believed, accept compromises which she rejected, and thus end celebrated case in American jurisprudence.
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-21
NEW ENGLAND FISHERIES.
The Trade an Unprontable One ut Present.


 One of the representative men of Gloucester, engaged in the fisheries, says "There is not profit enough in the fishing business at present to keep men from starving. A schooner usually makes from ten to twelve trips from the middle of January to the middle of November. We send from Gloucester about 150 ves- sells to the Georges. It costs to rig yes- sel from the hull about S3,000. A trip usually lasts three weeks, and sometimes longer. The provisions for a trip cost about S100, the bait about $i50 more, and the general outfit $275. Last sea son was good, and the Georges men averaged 10000 pound catches of cod, for which they received 2 cents pound. The crew has half of the proceeds. and has to pay for bait, ice, and also has to hire a cook. The Yankee fishermen keep a record of the number of fish in- dividually caught, and share out of the half of the trip in proportion to their catch. Sometimes the high line of a trip is S30 and the low line SIS. To average it up and see what the wages of the fishermen are at present, calculate that the average result is S20 a man, each trip. Ten trips in season gives him the princely sum of S200. He has to pay for his existence, and if he has a family, to support it for 365 days, and o1I Fro,o 4bok conn JUhap tha art;n, were on our business was fairly prosper ous. After the Washington Treaty for a while the business was good until the last two years. The provincials have built large fleet of vessels and to many of the fishing towns with which they have been in direct competition with the cod fisheries it has been extremely dis astrous. Gloucester does not rely on the cod fishing alone. Her catches and fares are varied. In our halibut fisheries, the provincials do not compete, but in the mackerel and cod fisheries, the Canadian competition has been disastrous. The tariff which goes into effect next July, places fresh fish on the free list" The report of w. A. Wilcox. the manager of the American Fish Bureau, Gloucester. shows that the total catch of mackerel by the New England fleet for the past year is 476,659 barrels against 226. .6s5 barrels for 1883, an increase of 249, ,974 barrels or more than 100 per cent. oI | this amount Massachusetts is credited | sar IT, ,080 barrels. The fleet consisted ol 364 vessels, including 265 sail from Mas sachusetts and 89 sail from Maine. O the entire fleet only 91 went to the Nortl Bay and most of these did not catcl enough to pay expenses. The total bay catch was 20, 35s barrels. As previousI, stated only about 100, 900 barrels of tn, entire catch remain at the out ports ol here.
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-21
So Near and Yet SO Far.

The papers are telling story of a handsome Ohio girl, who, twenty years ago, in order to hide an error which society does not easily overlook, left her father, and was sought for in vain. A few weeks since a skeleton was found in an old stone quarry, by the path which she took when she left her home. Her father, now over 80 years of age, and who had never given up hope of see- ing her again, was bitterly disappointed and overcome with grief at this discovery. The account of it was published in the papers, when shortly after came letter from his daughter, saying that she was alive and we'll and could be found on an island in the creek only six miles from home, where she had been living in complete seclusion for 20 years. With her was her daughter now grown to wom- anhood. The story of her fathers grief and his disappointment touched her so deeply that she resolved to reveal her. self, feeling confident doubtless that her long probation and exile had expiated her youthful fault.
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-21

late; the flames of the candle had entered it and dense smoke began to fill the room, and tongues of flame be- gan to issue from the bed
 "My God, the house will be on fire. How can escape, how, how?"
 He tried to beat out the fire, but to no use; the flames of the burning tick caught the dry door and wood paneling of the room and a heap of old rags in one corner, and three minutes after the room was one cell of flame and smoke and burning wood.
 Tells of agony, curses on curses and maledictions came from the suffocating wretch, as he battered at the walls in hopeless despair and terror at the fear full fate which threatened him.
 Denser became the smoke, fiercer the flames, and louder shrieked the up- fortunate Ralph. The room was now one sheet of raging flame, which began to communicate with the other apart ments of the old house. A terrible cry of agony, shriek of despair and pain, Ralph Langly fell backward into the raging sea of fire, with his dark soul heavy with sin.
 For three hours afterward the fire continued, with fury unabated, nor did it cease till every piece of timber of the old house had burned to ashes, and left naught but black, smoking pile to show where it had once stood.
 Four days after. the charred bones of Ralph Langly were found amid the ruins.
 All we have to add is, that Marian Mandrake's joy at Robert Grantly's re- turn. was unbounded. as was also her indignation toward Langly, when she heard of her lover's imprisonment by that now dead man. And so they were married in the spring.
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-21
On the TObOggan.

Every toboggan carries a lady, and there is just enough danger to make it delightfully."- exciting, says a Canadian correspondent.
 The lady takes her seat on the soft cushions, her feet firmly braced against the foot piece, which curls over and covers them, her hands grssping the rail at either side, the body slightly thrown backward. All will go we'll if she does not move, but woe betide the girl who stirs an inch to the right or left
 The steerer takes his place behind. His position is optional, but the general mode is to lie on the left side, propped on one arm, with the right leg extended, which is used for steering.
 "Our invariable rule, said friend, lis to hold on to your girl, and there are critical moments when a very tight hold is absolutely necessary"
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-21
The Uses of Glucose.

At the request of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue of the United States a committee of the National Academy of Sciences was appointed, consisting of professors of University of Philadelphia. Yale College, Columbia College. Har- yard College, and Johns Hopkins Uni versity, the purpose being to scientifical- ly investigate the various products known as glucose, grape sugar, maltese, etc. The committee found that glucose is made from many things besides starch and potatoes, such as from leaves, straw, rags, chips, twigs and residues from breweries, distille-ies," etc. Beth glucose and grape sugar find extensive applications for great variety of pur- poses as substitutes for cane sugar or for barley.
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-21
Local News a Speciality.
THE FORTUNA TIE ISLES.
BY JOAQUIN MILLER.

You sail and you seek for the Fortunate Isles; The Old Greek Isles of the yellow birds
 song2 Then steer straight on through the watery
 miles,
 Straight on straight on, and you can't go
 wrong. Nay, not to the left nay, not to the right, But on, straight on, and the Isles are in sight, The Fortunate Isles where the yellow birds
 sing And life lies girt with golden ring. These Fortunate Isles they are not so far, They lie within reach of the lowliest door; You can see them gleam by the twilight star, You can hear them sing by the moons white
 shore. Nay, never look back These Ievelled grave
 stones They were landing steps; they were steps unto
 thrones Of glory for souls that have sailed before And have set white feet on the fortunate shore And what are the names of the Fortunate
 Isles?
 Why, Duty and Love and large Content. To these are the Isles of the watery miles That God let down from the Armament Lo, Duty and Love, and true mans trust; Your forehead to God and your feet in the
 dust; Lo, Duty, and Love, and a sweet babe's smiles, And these, Oh, friend, are the Fortunate Ises
 The Current
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-21
Criminal Negligence.

Nothing, to the minds of careful people, is so astonishing as the reckless way in which some people care for the necessary poisons which are kept in every house. Instead of these being in a separate closet, or even on a separate shelf, from the simple remedies in the family pharmacy, they stand side by side, in bottles. of similar shape, with the most harmless drugs. The result is that at short intervals the daily papers record verdicts of accidental poison ing" Not long since, a woman of intelligence and position took, in mis- take for a mineral water which she was in the habit of taking each morning, a deadly poison, and died in agony in a few hours. The poison had been put in bottle which had formerly contained the mineral water. A nurse gave a three months old baby corrosive subli- mate for potash, and the baby died after hours of intense suffering. A mother gave 8 daughter carbolic acid for a medicine left by physician. and only by almost superhuman efforts was her life saved. In all the cases the suffering and deaths were caused by the criminal carelessHess of the mother in allowing poisons in places to which all of the family had access.
 Last week woman took a paper oi potash for sugar from a closet, and put it into the cups of coffee for her family. They all drank enough oi coffee to be made seriously ill. "Mis. takes occur in the best-regulated fam ilies," but no excuse can be offered for the carelessness that allows poisons in places where they are of easy access Give them a special place under locE and key. Christian Uaion-
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-21
A Governors Story.

Senator Groome, of Maryland, recently narrated the following romantic incident in his career:
 Several years ago when I was candidate for Governor of my State, a gentleman in a neighboring town, where I chanced to be, said that he would oppose me on the ground that was bachelor. He was older than was, not the best looking man in the world, and had never been married; so to silence him, said in jest that I would bet him hat that l could find a lady inside of three years who would marry me and that was better, was sure, than he could do. I succeeded in backing him down, but I got into an- other difficulty. One of these news paper chaps somehow or other got hold of what I had said-or, rather, what hadn't said-a the first thing that I knew was published as offer ing to bet that I would be married within three years. A scribe in Balti- more, to get ahead of his fellows, ventured to give the name of the lady in that city to whom was engaged. From my green and salad days to that time had not thought of getting married, much less of making a wife ofthe lady mentioned. I happened to meet her, however, day or two after ward-for knew her-and asked her what she thought of the rumor. She told me laughingly that if it would aid in my election she would not condradict it until after I became Governor. I believe that it was never contradicted, and as subsequently, married the lady, it is now too late to deny it. That newspaper reporters fertile imagination secured for me the best wife in the world"
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-21

LEFr-Mrs. Tom Thumb recently started show on her own account, acting as her own manager. The show disbanded out in New London Satur- day night, the little widow having lost $1, 100. She returns to her home ir Middlebury, satisfied that running a show Is not her forte,
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-21

SMOKED our.-A despsrado in Alla- paha, da., a few days ago took refuge
 the chimney to elude arrest by a posse of officers who were making a search of the premises for him. The officers, however, bound not to be foiled, started a fire, when the prisoner, half smothered, dropped to the hearth and w1s captured,
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-21

A DISTINCTIVE WESTERN VIEw.-The St. Louis Republican says When a "bear wells out from the pit of a board of trade, "Pll sell 5000 February wheat" and "bull" responds, take it." that is a species of modern com merce. When a man, neither "buu |" nor a "bear," says, "Tll open that pot for S10," that is a species of gambling both ancient and modern.
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-21

Ralph Langly, gaining consciousness, looked around for some opening of escape ere his late victim returned with the officers, as he had threatened to do. The tables were turned on him now.
 A small air opening, just over the bed tick, presented itself and he went to gain it by standing the stiff tick against the wall and then getting upon it that he might reach the air-opening.
 He had got to the top of the tick and had grasped the edge of the opening above, when the straw tick bent beneath him and fell over on the large lantern where the candle was burning, and he, losing hold of the edge of the opening, fell back into the secret room with a curse.
 His first act was to drag the straw tick from the lantern. but he was too
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1885-06-27
Mrs. MARY 4. BLACK.

The gentlemen whom Sully coun-
ty will send As delegates to the Con
stitutional Convention ut Sioux Falls,
Messrs. Henry +. Pendlcton and Cas-
sius NJ. Reed, Esq, the nominees of
the Republican convention of Wed.
ncsday, are already too well known to
need any introduction at our hands.
Mr. Reed, rs Chief Clerk of one branch
of the Legislature the past winter,
made for himself Il reputation and ac-
quaintance which will mt once give
him prominent position in this con-
ing Constitutional body while Mr..
Pendleton, rs County Commissioner,
has developed keen disccrnment and Il
standard Of integrity which has won
for him the confidence of all. The peo-
pie of Sully county can rest assured
that their delegates will countenance
nothing in the framing of Il constitu-
ton which they do not consider for
their best interest. We speak of them
rs practically elected because ut this
writing We hear of no opposition, and
there probably will be none.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1885-06-27
Tc the Ladies CT Sully County 4:

You are cordially invited to attend
a Carpct-Rag Sewing Mt the Christian
College, Thursday next, July lst, for
the purpose of sewing rags for Il carpet
for the Dormitory, If any one has any
carpet rags To donate to this carpet
they will he gratefully received. This
invitation is extended to all who see
or hear Of this notice
Respectfully,
Mrs. MARY 4. BLACK.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1885-06-27
July 4th at Clifton.

y number of the people of the Will
age and country have decided to unite
in basket picnic and social gathering
ut the Christian College, Clifton, July
lth, and Il cordial invitation is extend
ed to everybody. Come and have Il
good time.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1885-06-27
THE svllY COUNTY WA7.ENAy,
Published Every Saturday,
CLIFTON OAK
WALTER & GROPENGIESER.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF SULLY COUNTY.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
TERRITORIAL.

TERRITORIAL.
Delegate in Congress-. i. Raymond
GOvcrnOr-G. 4. Pierce.
Secrctary-J II. Teller.
rrcasurer-W. II. McNav
-Auditor-ticorge l.. Ordway.
Surveyor Gcncral-CortcZ :. Fcsscndcn.
Superintendent of Public Instruction
". II. II. Bradlc.
Chief Justice of Supreme Court-AlOnzo
J. Edgcrton.
Associate Justices of the Supreme Court
VIM. +. J. Church. e. ;. Palmer, =. i.
Hudson.
United States District Attorncy-Huyh
J. Campbell
United States Mnrshal-llarrison Allen
SULLY COUNTY.
Commissioners e. W. Eakin. Chair.
man; II. +. kimmcl and II +. Pcndlcton.
Rcgistcrof Deeds and EN- Oiticio County
Clerk. J. \. Mcloon.
Clerk of Court-H w. Edgcrton.
Sncriir-LuciuS II. Bruncr.
Judge of Prohatc-M. j. McCann.
Trcnsurcr-William Toomry.
Survcyor-MurcuS l.. French
AsScssor-Frank Lillihridgc.
COrOncr--E. J. Loughlcn.
Superintendent of SchOols-L. u. Carr.
District Attorneys. II. Neal.
Justices of the Pcncc-A. J. WaSgatt.
W. :. Hainrs, G. w. Evcrts. ID. +. Sweet
land.
Constablcs-A J. Darr. Thomas Brown.
q Ii. PcaSc. =. y. Roper.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1885-06-27
CLIFTON SUILY COUNTY, DAKOTA SATURDAY,

j. NJ Moore is in town to-day
taking the census.
-Roscoc Stinson and G. T. Black
visited Blunt, Yesterday.
Tom Phillips and Charlie Ianchctt
took in Blunt, yesterday
ATTY. :. Ii. Neal and Judge NJ. J.
McCann done Pierre this week.
The Programme of the Normal
Teachers Institute will be published
next week.
Mrs. Bruner is building comfort
able residence on the creek some b
miles below Clifton.
Joseph kokesh, the blacksmith,
struck out for Chicago, Thursday, to
spend the summer.
-Chas. Howell and family have
moved into |. 5. Rickerts house, and
put up an addition thereto.
Don't fail to see the Strobridge
Broadcast Sceder at Glcckler &
McCIure's, Pierre and Blunt. 40
Clifton offers particularly good
opening for Il physiton and II black
smith, having neither ut present.
-Barnis Otis, who has located some
three miles east of town, expects his
family on from New York ere long.
-Rcv Henry 4. Barlen made us
pleasant call, Wednesday. He seems
pleased to get back to his farm, three
miles south.
j. W. Johnston, of ll4-S0, com
mcnccd dining on new potatoes last
Sunday, June 2lst. This will do for
a country where, rs they tell you back
East, spring does not open until July.
-FoR SALE.-Span of good work
horses, weighing from 300 to 2,4O0
pounds, for sale cheap.
j. VI. MAY,
Mile South of Clifton.
The new postal law goes into eff.
feet next Wednesday, and You can
then send II letter weighing an ounce
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1885-06-27
HOME HAPPENINGS.

first of the week.
One of r. {. Echard's $ stage horses
cut Il cash in its leg, Wednesday night
on projecting nail.
j. NJ. Elcy and J. A. Buck left
for Pierre and elsewhere, Yesterday.
on spcculating tour.
j. Il. Watson. editor of the Fair
bank Tribune, made our prntcry n
pleasant call, Wednesday.
Elmer Brod"s is fencing in n por-
ton of John Shea tree claim just be-
low town, and Ed Ferrill is breaking
on the same.
Elder +. VI. Collins, who was to
have preached at the College last Sun
day. was called East by the serious i'll
ness of near relative.
Rev. II. 4. Barden will hold ser
vices ut the school house in the Gay
lord and Warncke neighborhood. five
miles south. at il o'clock tomorrow
Henry Bosler brought IN Il bunch
of J. ". Carpenters wheat, the first of
the week which measured ; feet and 3
inches, and was just beginning to head
out
-G. VI. Henry has been sick at the
Clifton House for some days. but we
are pleased to know that he is improI-
ing, and hopes to he out in Il day or
| two.
Miss frankie Winter. of Clifton.
finished the spring term Of her school
in llJ-IS, Yesterday. The patrons of
the school give Miss Winter IN excel
lent reputation.
In noticing the marriage Of G.. \.
Armantrout. last week. we were misin-
formed in regard to the nalac of the
partner of his JOYS. 1t should have
been Miss Belle White, instead of
Wright
''N ~
Va '"'' W.
cality the Casaday Sulky plow now has
all the trade. You can buy these cclc-
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>''> " ~
-iie''rS ioI'eF ms 'ra''cu MS team
vi 'i'a'che' ponies 10 W. H. burton iof
H"Ae vi c"'lie' I'LL" Sol" Ile ca''ie 10
'"'"'a o'''' WHO recently "rl''eo rom
Ne" h"rN state ana mas located about
uiiee iiiicS eaSl oi 'o"A'
The expense of tuition and board
ut the Normal Teachers Institute. to
he held at the Christian College, Cliff,
ton, July Goth, has been placed at the
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which IA. animals wers co,f,od -
lr;ra ,h. moso,;,oos o,t and s,n,o.
al ,ha, ho had ox,;,r,;.hoa :. tac,
ra,i,,,., Inn, I,,ror,n, s,or,,. sn.,,l
until the thatched roof to the sod |
stable was reached and the animals
killed-sattocatc by the smoke and |
overcome by the heat, as they were
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1885-06-27
FIR TERNITIES.

T. O. o. F.
DE-ECHO LODGE, No. II. |. .. q. r, meet on
il saturday evening al O'Clock. Visiting mem
Der, cor iiai.y invited 20 attend.
J. II. GROPENGIE~E2, y. G..
u W. En,EETnN. I:er. Srr.
, 1885-06-05

RI
DISPATCHES from Washington havean-
nounced that the president and his secre-
taries, while in New York City lately. had
taken such action in regard to federal of
fees there as would enable the Democratic
party of New York 10 present u united
front to the enemy at the fall election.
This is all stuff and nonsense. It is no
part of the duty of the president and his
cabinet 70 NEEDLE with the politics of New
York or any other city. President Arthur
and Secretary Folger tried their hands at
it several years ago, and the blunder they
made brought about a change in the
administration. All that the president
and secretary of the treasury have to do,
is to select from the number of those who
have given Democratic platform and
its candidates an answering support from
6rsrto last, a capable, upright and eff
cient man for the collector of the port Of
New York and to make similar selections
for naval officer and surveyor. This is
their duty, as well to the country as to
those who placed a distinctiyely Demo
cratic administration in power. Having
discharged themselves Of this responsible
ity. they can afford to leave the politics Of
the state to its voters. with a calm conf
dence that the people will do what is right
and best for al.
, 1885-06-05

-" 1872.
AT first sight it appears incredible
that AN occurrence OF 2i5 years ago
could be reported with but one link be-
tween the person who tells you and the
actual witness. Such, however, is the
fact. The narrator in question was the
venerable rector of Bushey, Eey. W.
Falconer, just deceased at the age of "a.
He Ind heard his grandfather, the cele.
brated Dr. Falconer of Bath, say that
he had been told by his grandmother
that she could remember being held up
TO the window to see Halley's comet,
which appeared in 1859. She was then
@ years old. DR.. Falconer, the inter
veneer, wa born in f744 and died in
1924. Assuming him to have been at
least 9 years of age When this story was
told him, his grandmother must have
been 90. l
But the wonder mig hit DO increased,
for if DR.. Falconer told the story in the
last year Of his life (1s3D TO a child OF
0 years, il might be passed on to the
next century with only one link between
tho witness and the narrator. Comment
ing ON this an English editor says:
WAITER all We arc not so dependent on
writing as we somstimes assume our
selves to be. " rI BOO Hsr. mir.
, 1885-06-05

One sweetly solemn thought seems to
como to our Republican contemporaries
in these days, that President Cleveland,
in the reforms which he is carrying out,
is only putting in practice principles
which have been enumerated in Republi-
eau platforms year after year" At first
sight, this looks rather symmetrical and.
imposing; but when the awkward inquiry
is poked at our Republican friends, why
in all these years did the Republicans
neve put their principles into practice2r
the solemnity of the occasion is dissipated.