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Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-09-24
A Resolution

the construction of a sidewalk on the east
side OF broadway from Sixth street to the
Broadway bridge across the Rhine creek, in
front Of and along lots !, 2, 8, 4. 3. 9, Z, 3 and 0,
in block SO, and lots 2, 8, 40, 6, Z, 8 and 8, in
block a, Todd's Yankton. and thence north
in front of land owned by .,.... ......, to
the SAID Broadway bridge.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-09-24

tured Chief Joseph
and the Nez Perces
in their fig h t
through Montana
after they had sue
cessfully I o ii G h t
and evaded other
generals. He also
captured the hostile !;
Cheyennes, who are
now living in peace,
as farmers, on the
Rosebud, in Mon
t,~a All ti,,. -.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-09-24
CEN. MILES.

es %A DbS 49, ~ pEs4N +hIJAE.S. -g.".
accomplished after much fierce fighting. To
him must be given the credit of having
brought to end the carser of Sitting Bull and
the finals submission of his thousands of say,
age followers.
Gen. Miles is a Bostonian by birth, and in
his 4Sth year. He began his career as a mer-
chant, but in 1861 he entered the army az
captain of the Twerty-second Massachusetts,
infantry. He has not laid down his arms since.
He married a niece of Gen. and Senator
Sherman.
In answer to a request from Secretary En-
dicott, Gen. Miles furnished the following
reasons why the Apaches should be removed
from Arizona. The reply is worthy Of the
man and of the occasion. Here is u portion
Of 1t:
You ask me why I desire the removal Of the
Arsciaes fro;a the territory? ! will tell yon in as
few words as possible. Task it la the name of the
territory whose prospects and progress have been
blasted and retarded by the fiendish cruelties OF
those Indians. / ask it In the name and on behalf
Of the widows and fatherless children whose lives
have been wrecked aud whose future has been
darkened by the Numbering raids of these iends.
l ask it in the name of the thousands of lives that
have been offered up as a sacrifice to the reserva.
ton system. Finally, / ask it In the name of
civilization, which can never advance in this terri
tory so long as the Indians are allowed periodically
TO terrorize the country.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-09-24

THE ANTI-sALooN REPUBLICANS ON RE.
3 2ECoRD.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-09-24
a Resolution

Providing for the extension of n wnter mali
on WGidnt street from Third street tx
Second street,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-07
Answers to Correspondents.

j. S., ST. JoHNsBURY.-The cadets
at West Point and Annapolis receive a
salary of SIG week. This is expected
to pay their expenses.
Il. II. c., WATERBURY.-Your claim
for bounty has been allowed, but cannot
be paid until the next session of con-
gress makes an appropriation, there
being now no money available for the
payment of such claims.
A. c., WARREN.-If your bill for
taking care of a deceased pensioner eX-
ceeds the amount of pension due her
at the date of death, it will not be paid
in full. The government will only pay
the accrued pension in any case. If
the pensioner left money or property
sufficient to pay such expenses, you
will not be paid any part of the pension.
C. E. N, NEwBURY.-After the act
of July 4th, 1884, you executed con-
tract to allow your attorney fee of
$25, but when your pension was granted
this contract was overlooked and he
was only paid the fee allowed before
the new law was passed, so. After
wards the pension office discovered the
mistake and paid the attorney the bal
ance of the S25 and deducted it from
your last payment of pension. Such
mistakes are of frequent occurrence at
the pension office.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-07
The Hoe Apprentice System.

The death of Mr.. Richard NJ Hoe, to
whom the world is indebted for all that
has been valuable in the production
and development of rapid printing ma
chinery, brings to mind the apprentice
system which has been long in opera
ton at the Hoe establishment in New
York, probably the best appointed
manufacturing establishment in the
country, if not in the world. The bust
ness of making printing presses requires
such eXactness and such perfect knowl-
edge of the combined art of engineer
ing and the machinist trade that the
Hoe establishment has need of men
who, beginning early, devote their
whole lives to the acquisition of master
full skill, specialized by selection and
supported by. intellectual training. A
great number of boys-two or three
hundred in all-are required as appren-
tees in the Hoe establishment, and
these are carefully selected with refer
ence to capacity and disposition. The
effort is to secure only those who de-
sire to make the business in some of
its departments their life-work-who
will look to it as their career and seek
advancement in it, not out of it. Hav-
ing accepted boy, the next step is to
educate him, and two agencies are en-
ployed to that end. During the day he
is trained by work; in the evening he is
trained in school, where the very i'm
perfect and phenomenally impractical
teachings of the public schools are sup
plemented and corrected by teachers
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-07
He Paid for the Cow.

In the fall of 1864 a soldier belonging
to Wisconsin battery on duty in the
garrison in Chattanooga married q
woman living a few miles from town
who already had a husband living, he
being rebel and prisoner at Camp
Chase, Ohio. The Union soldier went
to Wisconsin, was mustered out of the
service, and Immediately returned to
Chattanooga to live with his wife. Not
long afterwards the rebel husband, who
had taken the oath of allegiance, re-
turned home, and on going to what he
believed to be his own house was sur
prised to find Yankee in possession
both of his wife and property. He en-
deavored to GUST the Yankee and enter
into his own once more, but was unable
to effect anything, as his wife took sides
with her Yankee husband and refused
to leave him. The affair eliminated in
suit brought by the rebel to recover
the value of a COW, which he claimed
he had left at home when he went into
the army. The court tried to make her
understand that her first husband was
her legal spouse, but she didn't care for
that. To every argument she an
swered: Yes, but like the Yankee
the best" Finding that it was of no
avail to try to induce his wife to return
to his bed and board, the rebel husband,
determined to save something from
the wreck of his fortunes, said to the
Yankee: "Well, you may keep the
woman if you will pay me S25 for the
cow" "I'll pay it," responded the
other, and the bargain was concluded
on the spot After the payment the
trio departed from the courtroom, each
apparently well satisfied with the result.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-07
Colonel L. Il. Ransom.

The life-size picture of Colonel Ran
som which has hung in the adjutant-
generals office at the state-house for
some years has been removed to Nor
witch University, Mortified. Colonel
Truman b. Ransom was pupil of the
noted Captain Alden Partridge, founder
of the Military Academy at Norwich,
and in 1S43 he was chosen president of
the Norwich University, in which po-
sition he was deservedly popular
Upon the raising of the new regi-
ments for the Mexican war, President
Ransom was appointed major of the
Ninth United States Regiment Feb
ruary 16, 1S47, and upon the promotion
of Colonel Franklin Pierce, Major Ran
som was appointed colonel of the
Ninth Regiment March 16, 1S47. He
led his regiment in the battles of Con-
treras and Churubusco, and won the
praise of all as brave, skillful and ac-
complished officer. Leading his regi-
ment and urging on his soldiers at the
storming of Chepultepec, dressed in
superb uniform, as for gala or review
day, he was too conspicuous mark fol
the Mexican sharpshooters and fell
while cheering on his brave fellows to
victory. His death was deeply la
mented throughout the country. We
find the following mention of his name
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-07
A Boy Grown Up.

Young people rarely realize, when
criticising their elders, that the traits or
habits that seem to them obnoxious
were formed in early life. If their
manners are rude, if they lack tact, if
they are not well informed, tits because
they have not made use of their oppor-
tunltles. Manners are the truest indi-
cations of character. A discourteous
person is both careless and selfish, for
the best manners are but the express
sion of the Golden Rule; they are the
card of introduction to strangers. A
friend can introduce you to good society,
but he cannot keep you there; that de-
ponds on yourself. A boy of kindly
nature is rarely rude. A boy of selfish
nature is polite only when his own de-
sires are not interfered with. Every
man is the result of his own boyhood
and youth. If he has read good books,
kept himself informed of passing
events, he becomes what the world
terms well-informed, intelligent man.
If he has wasted his time in trifing
conversation, read only sensational
books and papers, neglected to develop
the talent which he surely possesses,
he becomes superficial, tiresome, if
not wicked, man. Ii as boy he has
not cultivated the graces and amenities
of life, he cannot expect to become
that most delightful of men, polished
gentleman. If as boy he has not
studied to avoid collisions with those
about him, has not recognized the rights
of others, has not cultivated desire to
lead men to higher motives, to give to
others the benefit of his own opportun-
tiles, he becomes that most unfortu-
nate person, a tactless mana nuisance
wherever people are brought together.
One of the lessons every boy can learn
is to watch those men who arouse adj
verse criticism and carefully avoid their
habits both of mind and body. Re-
member the old adage, ''By others
faults correct your own."-ChriStian
Union.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-07
Roger Williams.

1t seems that Roger Williams, when
he and his companions settled Provi-
dence, built his house just off the present
Rowland street. He is supposed to have
been buried near Benefit street, " in the
rear of the house of the late Sullivan
Dorr, few feet from the stable door,"
which spot is now covered by the fin
ished cap of heavy stone pillar. This
grave was opened March %, 1860. OF
what was found there r. A. G.. says, in a
recent issue of the Providence Journal:
a singular incident was discovered on
uncovering the bottom of Roger Will
iams' grave. The root of an apple-tree
had turned out of its way to enter it at
the head. Following the position of the
body to the thighs, it divided and fol-
lowed each leg to the feet, tender fibers
shooting out in various directions. BY
natures prompting it had sought and
taken up the chemical deposits of the
body and turned them into blossoms
and fruit. These roots now form
part of the collection in the museum of
Brown University. An account of the
grave and its opening was given by Mr..
Allen in a paper read before the Rhode
Island Historical Society May Is, 1860.
This root has occasioned much discus
sion. AS the apples which grew on
this tree were doubtless eaten by peo-
pie in adjoining houses, and by ma
rauding boys, as is their custom, it fol-
lows naturally that the essences of
Roger Williams must have been alb
sorbed by multitude of people. The
conundrum has been propounded in the
past, therefore, by various local philos-
ophers: Who ate Roger Williams?'
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-07

who know what is wanted to fit tn,
boys for life. "This school is one
the most interesting educational insti
tutions in New York." says the Com
mercidI Advertiser, "and yet so modl
estly is ii conducted that scarcely any
body in New York knows even of lid
existence. II is a night school, OF
course, because its pupils must work
for their living during the day. 1t is
supported entirely by the firm, Wild
provide school-rooms, teachers, books
materials and ALL it is absolutely free
and attendance upon it is compulsory.
Its exercises are thoroughly practical
from first to last. The bows are trained
in mathematics and mechanical draw
ing chiefly, but defects in their general
education are carefully repaired by|
other studies. Each boys special ca
pacity or tendency is considered in de-
termining his particular course. If he|
has gift for mechanical drawing, it isl
especially cultivated to fit him for work.
in the designing department, and sol
with other faculties. The aim is in|
every case so to train each lad that he
shall have chance to make the best
and most of himself in his own interest
and in that of the house that employs
him.. The same principle governs as
signments to work and promotions.
There is no rule, no fixed order, no
time requirement. Each boy and man
is assigned to the work for which he is
best fit, and each must make himself
absolute master of each thing before
advancing to another. When that is
done, whether it requires a week or a
year, he is fit for promotion and is pro-
noted, but never before Naturally
the school hours are short, in order that
no boy may be overtasked by study after
work; but every moment is profitable
employment. Most of the boys live
too far from the factory to 90 home to
supper and then return to the school,
and to meet this difficulty the firm, by
contract with an eating house proprie-
tor in the neighborhood, has a plain,
plentiful and wholesome supper spread
for all, to which they sit down as soon
as they have washed themselves after
the work of the day is done. School
follows supper, and when it begins
every boy is in his place."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-07
Left to Die.

Congressman Stone of Kentucky,
says a Washington letter-writer, who
walks about the house and up and down
the avenue on Notwithstanding lost a
leg in the confederate service-is ex-
| pecting his wife to arrive here shortly
from her Kentucky home. The story
of Stones marriage is strange and
interesting one, and proves again there
are as interesting incidents in real life
as are told in story-books. Stone was
confederate soldier, and at battle in
Cynthiana, Ky, was badly wounded.
AS he fell his hat went one way and his
musket another, and he found himself
unable to move to regain either. 1t
was scorching summer day, and he
was obliged to lie on that hillside, ex-
posed to the intense heat of the blazing
sun, unable even to protect his face
except by throwing his arm across his
eyes. His life-blood was rapidly run
ming away, and he became weaker and
weaker, and soon was unable to speak
or move. The blazing sun which fell
on his head and face was adding
untold suffering, in his enfeebled con-
dition. After the fight he was left with
the dead and dying, for it was supposed
he could not live more than a few
minutes or hours. After the troops
had withdrawn, some of the people
living in the vicinity of the battlefield
passed over it, relieving the necessi-
ties of the wounded as far as possible.
AS they passed near where Stone lay
suffering in the hot sun, unable to speak,
a young lady in the party noticed him
and the suffering the sun must produce
If he were still conscious. Telling her
companions she believed he will still
live, she procured the ramrods from
four muskets lying near by, and, stick
ing them into the ground near his head,
fastened over the top scarf from her
shoulders to break the rays of the sun.
When the wounded were gathered from
the field it was found that Stone was
still living, and he was sent to the hos
pital. There was long struggle
between life and death, but he finally
rallied and slowly regained strength,
after the amputation of his right leg.
The residents of the town and vicinity
did all they could for the sufferers in
the hospital, sending them food and
day, after he had gained sufficient
strength to speak and notice those who
visited the hospital, he saw among the
visitors the young lady who had prob
ably saved his life by her kindness
when he lay helpless and speechless
on the battlefield. When opportunity
offered, he spoke to her of the oc-
currence and thanked her for her kind
ness. The acquaintance thus begun
ripened into love, and she is now his
wife.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-07
Stray Shots.

THE President has vetoed fifty more
private pension bills.
AN appropriation of 100000 has
been made in Pennsylvania to establish
Soldiers Home.
ILLINOIS has Just selected site for
Soldiers Home at Quincy. The sum
of 100000 will be used in connection
with its erection. One hundred forty
acres of land, which, with its improve
ments, is worth 100000, was donated
for the purpose of securing its location
at Quincy.
The house has passed bill granting
an honorable discharge to Lieutenant
Harrison Dewey of Company E, Second
Vermont Regiment, who, in October,
1862, was dismissed from the service
for absence without leave. He was at
the time sick of fever in hospital at
Washington and did not know of his
dismissal until he returned to his regi-
ment for duty.
COMMISSIONER BLACK has refused
the application of the mother of a
colored soldier for pension on the
ground that at the time of his enlist
ment she was a slave, and consequently
she could not be dependent upon her
son. The son enlisted in August, 1868,
months after the issue of the emancipa-
ton proclamation. He was killed in bat
tie. 1t is rather early to set aside the
emancipation proclamation.
On motion of Senator Edmunds. the
senate passed bill last week granting
pension of 800 month to the widow
of General Stannard. In making the
motion, Senator Edmunds said: "This
lady, Mrs. Stannard, has been for years
totally helpless person, so that she
cannot lift her hands to her face, and
her family are absolutely destitute, too
proud to accept charity and too poor to
live without the provision that her hus-
band had and which she now wants"
JOHN E. ROLLINS of Barre was
granted small pension on an injury
of knee, and applied for an increase of
pension and was granted S24 month.
His case was investigated by a special
examiner of the pension Office and his
name dropped from the pension roll.
1t appeared that Rollins received a
slight injury to his knee while in the
United States service, which troubled
him after his discharge until about
1868, when he had rheumatic fever,
which caused the knee-joint to become
stiff. Since his pension was stopped
he has applied to congress to have it
restored by special act, but the house
committee on pensions has reported
against the passage of the bill.
NAHUM B. DwINELL of Arlington
was granted pension last week of 81
month and 1915 arrears on an APP
plication made to the pension Office in
1875 on disability of injury of index
finger of left hand received while in
camp at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in
December, 1862. He was a musician
in the Fourth Vermont Regiment. He
cracked the shell of his drum near the
top and in cutting it down and making
it shorter with knife he cut his
finger, inficting the injury for which
he was pensioned. His claim was once
rejected in the pension Office on the
ground that the records of the war de-
partment do not furnish any evidence
to establish the claim, and claimant has
alleged that he is unable to furnish the
medical evidence required"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-07
A Relic of the War.

An ugly war relic was rather unex-
pectedly brought to light last week in a
saw-mill at Paducah, Ky. In cutting a
huge cypress log, which was culled
from raft of timber just outside of the
Tennessee river, the saw grated upon
some substance which threatened to
demolish it before the machinery could
be stopped. Investigation found an
eighteen-pound loaded bomb-shell en-
bedded in the log, in which the sharp
teeth of the saw had traced cut a third
of an inch deep. Nothing outside of
the log indicated where the shell had
entered, probably twenty-five years
ago, the bark remaining smooth and
undisturbed. The lettering and figur-
ing on the leaden plug to the shell,
through which the fuse passed are still
as plain as ever, and show that the fuse
was clipped to burst the bomb at 200
wards.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-07

81 WOULD not live Away" No;
not if disease is to make my life daily
burden. But it need not, good friend
and will not if you will be wise in time.
How many of our loved ones are mould
ering in the dust who might have been
spared for years. The slight cough
was unheeded, the many symptoms of
disease that lurked within were sighted
and death came. DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery" cannot recall the
dead, though it has snatched numbers
from the verge of the grave and will
cure consumption in its earlier stages.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-07
Selett dflistellamp.
The Name Upon the window.Pane.

In the old Scottish inn we met
motley group from every land,
Scholar and artist peer and priest
And many traveller Drowned and tanned
All pilgrims waiting for an hour,
Chatting in idle courtesy,
And yet amid the drifting talk
A little message came TO me.
1t happened thus; A restless boy
Unto the dripping window went,
Whose glass. Scared with a thousand names
His mind to the same fancy bent
He sought and found a vacant spot,
And took the diamond from his hand,
But ere letter had been formed
A voice accustomed to command
Cried Philip, stop, before you write,
Consider well what you're about"
Father, why should hesitate2"
" Because you cannot rub 1t out"
These words fell on my idle ear;
said them DER and DER again,
And asked myself, o, who would choose
All they have written to remain"
Unto "A loving mother oft
We all have sent, without doubt,
Full many hard and careless word
That now we never can rub out;
For cruel words cut deeper far
Than diamond on the window-pane;
And oft recalled in after years.
They wound her DER and DER again.
So in our daily walk and life
We write and do and say the thing
We never can undo nor stay
With any future sorrowing.
We carve ourselves OH beating hearts,
All then, how wise to pause and doubt
To blend with love and thought our words,
Because we cannot rub them out
-Hdfpers Veeklv
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-07

in an official report made soon after his
death. " The brave Ransom, who stood
in the front at Contreras, who was
first at Cburubusco, whose voice was
heard at Chepultepec above the thunder
of the battle, and whose gallant and
manly bearing, whether it be in the
more accomplished graces or in the
dark hour of danger, would do honor to
a Marshal Ney or Murat, was no
more. He fell about half way up the
heights, shot dead through the head
with q musket-ball."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-07
Gbe Soloiers' 8uoget.
Pensions Granted.

To John @. Silver, Mortified, ga a
month and 5000 arrears; Newell II.
Farnham, Williamstown, SO a month
and 81 900 arrears; Nahum b. Dwinell,
East Arlington, 50 a month and $3.50
arrears; Morris F. Hunt, Barre, an in
crease from "a to Sc month; Albert
Wiley, Moretown, an increase from "a
to $40 month; Otis G.. Miles, Mont
pelier, an increase from So to so a
month; Timothy Blanchard, East Rox-
bury, an increase from "a to 50 a
month.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-07

A sKEPTIC, who was trying to con-
fuse Christian colored man by contra
dctory passages in the Bible, asked
how it could be that we are in the spirit
and the Spirit in us. He received the
following reply: " Oh, dar's no puzzle
bout dat It's like dat poker. puts
it in de fire till it gets red-hot. Now,
de poker's in de fire, and de fires in de
noker
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-07

HARSH purgative remedies are fast
giving way to the gentle action and
mild effects of Carter's Little Liver
Pills. If you try them they will GER
tainly please you.