The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-07
General News.

The mercury was at 9S in New York on
Saturday 10Th.
The total OF the Bmtholdi pedestal fund
at the New York World office is now $685..
OGl.74.
The pictorial daily newspapers have pre-.
scented their readers with some fearful pict.
urCs III Gen. GRAFT.
Fifty-thrce ont of siXty-eirht New Hamp.
shire banks hold many Western farm mort
gage loan Investments.
Mai. Edwards, in charge OF the Dakota
census, claims hat the population OF that
territory exceeds 800, 900.
The Pennsylvania road has abandoned
its 81 emisrant rate. and the Baltimore &
ONO at once another.
At Syracuse Babcock & Andrews. the
proprietors OF the bigbucket shop, probably
the most extensive in New York, failed for
100000 or more.
Charles Wilde, OF kimball, Oak. is miss
ing under singular circumstances, and eli.
forts are making to trace him at Omaha
and Council Bluffs.
Charles II. Clark, for many years deputy
collector. OF internal revenue and secretary
of the Minneapolis Fair association, was
stricken with paralysis.
Pat DOMAIN has written a wild, frcnzied
epistle to the New York Sun on the hot
weather and on the advantage ofrollins in a
blanket at Devil Lake to keep out the per-
~sistent frost.
Rev. DIR. W. Il. Davis (colored), pastor of
the Zion Baptist church in Louisville, KY,
resigned by request OF his congregation. who
complained that he did not preach loud
enough and did not raise them to that
pitch OF fcrvor which makes them so happy.
Mr.. Davis is a graduate Of Harvard and at
one time was president OF the colored Ken
lucky State university.
Gen. w. w. Belknap. as counsel for the
Baltimore " Ohio, made an argument be-
fore Judge Maynard, second controller OF
the treasury, in favor al rcopeIIiug the ac-
counts of his accompany, from 1SG2 To 1865,
for the transportation OF troops and mill
tary stores. The Baltimore & Ohio claim
thatupon areadj% ustnent OF those ]ccounts
several hundred thousand dollars would be
found to be due the companyfrom thegov-
eminent. The controller reserved his deci.
sion.
London Gable: Mr.. Phelps the American
minister, and a large number ofothcr Amer.
leans We're present sunday ut the service in
DR.. Newman Halls church at Lambeth.
DR.. Halls sermon was devoted to Gen.
Grant. Special reference to Grants death
WAS made in many churches in London and
elsewhere, and the Dead March, " from
Saul, was played in II number oi places as
a part pf the service. All the shipping
decks were heavily draped in Grape, and All
the flags were placed at half-nast.
Fourteen Cinnamon OF st. Paul, accom-
panied by Sunday school teachers. made
the tour OF Lake M~innetonkn. Before
strangers in the cars and on the steamboat
they were very quiet but having arrived at
the picnic grounds they entered into the
spirit OF the occasion, f~rolicing under the
trees and chattering in the Chinese tongue
ut n great rate. The Celestials were in full
dress. They We're as dcaaure as kittens the
whole day. Others complained OF the heat.
but the philosophical Cinnamon made no
murmur.
John NJ. Durham, G. w. c. T, Of the or.
der OF Good Templars in Minnesota, and a
veracioUs gentleman withal, has lust re.
turned from n protracted visit in the State
Of Maine. In regard to tie operations OF
the celcbrrted temperance law otthat state,
Mr.. Durham says that it may lave limited
the sale of liquors to young people to 4
certain extent, but there is no Disgusting the
fact that liquor may he obtained without
difficulty at any oftle towns. In the coun-
try districts the law is enforced, so lar as
he was able to observe.
s. U. Pinney OF Madison, as counsel for
the Manitoba road. made an arsumen: be-
fore Land Commissioner Sparks in regard
to the status OF thelands OF tine road affect
cd by the recent order withdrawing indenl.
nifty limits. Tie act authorizing the Man.
itoba grant. Mr.. Pinne said. make the in.
demnity reserve absolute; the conditions
were wholly unlike the others. Gen. Sparks
too the question undee consideration. say.
ing he was not disposedfto make a decision
until it came before himyin an actual case.
1t is understood that thf recent order bears
the same on the Manitoba lands as on
others.