The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-04-10
DANCE AT THE EXPOSITION.

of January. 1t would be otherwise,
but the impression has gone abroad
that the exposition is not yet in order.
The educators who are here now will
go home in a few days, and they will
confirm this report. This will tend to
keep the average attend ance low for
January.
The following statistics regarding
the attendance at former worlds fairs
and expositions may be of interest in
this connection
In point of attendance on the first
day of former expositions, the Phila-
delphia centennial exposition, which
opened May 10, 1876, was the greatest
the world has ever seen, the number
of visitors being 76,172 cash.; 1lO,5OO
free. On the 10Th of May it was only
1906, and the average for the month
1926. In June the average was &c.
1855, in July 24,4S1, in August 33.655,
in September 81, 1851, in October &c.
789, in November 115, 900. The state
day celebrations at the Philadelphia
exposition were the best paying
days. The admissions on these
days were: New Jersey, 67,O52 /;
Connecticut, 1904; Massachusetts,
81, 1868; New York, 134,5sS; Pennsyl-
vania. 74,91O; Rhode Island, 100, GAG;
New Hampshire, 1892; Maryland
and Delaware, 176, 4O7; Ohio, 1875, 1861.
In point of attendance the Philadel-
phia exposition was also the greatest
the world has'ever seen, the number of
visitors being 9,789, 1872. Paris, in 1867,
zones second, with $500, 500; then
Vienna, in 1878, with 1884, 687; Lon
don, 1862, 6,211, 103; London, 1851,
6,039, 1876; Paris, in 1855, 6,162, $50.
The average daily attendance of these
was 41,24l, and the Philadelphia CEN
tennial SO, 900.
A BULL FIGHT.
1t has been thirty years since a bull
fight was witnessed in New Orleans; it
was a common amusement here fifty
years ago. A few days since a con-
tract was entered into between a MIR.
j. H. Scott of this city, and Ponciano
Diarz, a Mexican bull fighter. with a
view of having this class of amuse-
ments here this winter. Tho place Sc
lected is St. Bernard parish, on the
shell beach road a short distance from
the city. The lumber for the con-
struction of the amphitheater is now
on the ground and work will soon be
commenced. Diarz has gone to Texas
in search of some of the widest bulls
that can be found, and is expected to
return in time for the first performance
to take place early in January.
Last August Mr.. Scott sent 8 petit
ton to the mayor and council of New
Orleans asking, ''that he be permitted
to erect the necessary buildings, and
to give, during the continuance of the
exposition, q series of Spanish bull
fights within the limits of the city of
New Orleans, subject to all the neces-
sary police regulations" This petit
ton was not sent to the authorities as
it became to be known that they would
oppose the measure. St. Bernard par
ish was petitioned with the result
above stated. And the parties who
are managing this matter are sure Of
a large patronage. 1t will be 4 novel
spectacle, and on the day the first
fight takes place the exposition will
have to divide the attendance with the
Spanish entertainment.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
Last Tuesday night the limited At
lanta express en- the New Orleans &
Northeastern road was plunging along
at the rate of t%hirty-fve miles an hour
when she struck an obstruction, and
the engine was thrown from the track
and turned on her side. The air
brakes worked well and the train was
saved. Ill engineer and fireman
were jammed by the tender against
the boiler head. and scalded and
roasted to death. Heavy spikes had
been driven in a cross-tie and then
bent over the rail. Suspicion rested
upon a man named John Barker, and
he and his son were arrested by the
officers of the law. A mob of about
100 men was DOR collected, and they
proceeded at once to take possession of
the prisoners. They denied their
guilt, but the son, a mere boy, was
tortured by burning his hands almost
off, when he confessed that himself
and father had wrecked the train,
through malice to the road. When he
had finished his statement his hands
were withdrawn from the stove and he
fell fainting on the floor. The red
hot handouts fell Gathering to the
floor. The angry mob, seeing the boy
was manned for life, decided to spare
him, but tied his father to a tree and
in the presence of the tortured boy
shot him to death, literally Kidding
him with balls. The mob did its
bloody work OF Friday, and the corpse
was yet tied to the tree, and was seen
by the passengers who arrived in New
Orleans over the Northeastern road
Saturday morning.
The crime of throwing a passenger
train from the track should be met
with the severest punishment, but it is
a shame that men will suffer them
selves to become fiends and ruth
lessly trample upon law, while pre-
tending to mete out just law to others.
THE CREoLES
A "Creole" in this country is under
stood to be n born in a French or
Spanish possession, and Of European
parents. Itisnot at all necessary that
there be any adraixture of colored
blood in the individual. In fact it is
necessary that there should not be. ]
believe this is about the meaning Web
ster gives to the word. We used to
hear of Creole negroes, ''Creole cat
tic, ""Creolc corn "Creole horses"
Creole eggs and Creole chickens"
meaning anything born or producedin
Louisiana, but such expressions are
seldom heard any more. The wealthy
old Creole families, the Knickcrbock-
ers of Louisiana, have passed away,
and their descendants are about the
only Creoles there are in this country.