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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-02-04
Condensed General News.
AToRY DEFEAT.


The Salisbury Government Defeated 5
10 s2e, in n Test Vote I'm the House of
Commons.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beaoh, the Conservative
leader. gave notice in the house oil commons
Tuesday afternoon the 26th inst, that
the government would introduce on Thurs
day a bin to suppress the Irish National
eague and other dangerous societies, to
prevent intimidation, to protect lie and
property and maintain public order in Ire
land. This -nounceme Was greeted
with loud cheers. Sir Michaelsaid hewould
ask the house to give the bill precedence.
The notice given by the Conservative
leader of the governments intention to in.
trodlee. a bill TO suppress the National
league was greeted by the Parrellite mem
bers with cries OF "CowardstP "Shame!' and
%ironieal laughter, the uproar c~ontinuingfor
some moments. Mr.. Ceilings moved his
amendment to the address on the subject Of
allotments. Mr.. Gladstone strongly sup
ported Mr.. Ceilings amendment, and the
marquis oil Harrington opposed it. Sir
Michael Hicks Beach said the government
would willingly accept the decision Of the
house. a they had assumed Office with
reluctance and would resign without regret,
The amendment was adopted by a vote of
329 to ESQ, the government thus being de.
feated. The result was received by the
Irish members with derisiye cheers and
cries OF ''Boycotted!" The house, at the
suggestion OF Sir Michael-Hi Beach, adj
journed. Lord Harrington, Mr.. Groschen
Mr.. Courtney, Sir John Lubbock, and other
moderate Liberals, vosed with the Con-
servatiyes. Mr.. Gladstone, Mr.. Chamber
lain, Sir Charles Dixie, Mr.. Treyelyan, Mr..
Labouchere, Mr.. Bradlaugh, Lord Rich
ard Grosvenor and all the Parnellites
voted against the government.
The Morning Post says that the r~esigna-
ton OF the government will be announced
on Thursday.
Thomas Power o'Connor, in an inter-
view, said:
The proposed introduction in parlia-
ment OF coercive measures for Ireland was
a party trick based upon the hope OF Wing
support-a rope that Wouio propaDly
prove decisive. The anti-Irish feeling in
England was not so great as the govern
ment supposed it to be. The ministry would
certainly DO defeated, and Mr.. Gladstone
would form a home rule ministry which
would have the full support of the liberals
and the Parnellites. Mr.. o'Connor charac-
terized the action Of 1.-THE government as "dire
frenzy
William oHBrien, member Of parliament
from MalloS and editor of United Ireland,
suppressing the nationalleague wa absurd.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-02-04
Washington Gossip.


A bill covering the Fitz John Porter case,
win be iavorably reported to the house.
The important treasury nominations
now unconfirmed are those ofMr. Kimball,
the director of the mint, and Fourth Audi
tor Shelley.
Ex-Congressman s.. f. Barr OF Pennsyi.
vania, q political sage, says the presiden-
tial fight for 1883 is already narrowed
down between John Sherman and Gen.
Logan.
Postmasters commissioned: Wisconsin,
Fillmore, II. Braatz; Footville, j. Meehan;
Friestadt, J. p. Schoenhals; Hancock, f.
f. Goss; Rockbridge, j. III. Kock; Two
Rivers, Ella F. Connie.
The house committee on invalid pensions
had under consideration a proposition to
extend the limit OF arrears OF the pension
act to 1883. Estimates were submitted
from the pension office, showing that if
the bill were passed it would require S75,.
600, 600 to pay claims already on file.
The remains OF the late Representative
Joseph Rankin left Washington for Wis
eonsin on a special train. They were ac-
eompanied by Senators Sawyer, Black
burn, and Jones OF Arkansas, and Repre-.
sentatives, Bragg, Van Shaick, Stevenson,
Guenther, Carleton, Henderson, and John
son.
What are known as the California rail-
road TAI cases have come up before the
supreme court for argument. The chief
grounds alleged b the corporations as rea.
sons for escaping taxation are that the
revenue system adopted by the constitu.
ton and the laws ofCalifornia, is, to them,
violation OF the 18th amendment of the
onstitution OF the United States, be cause
first, it deprives them OF their property
without due process OF law, aad second, it
deprives them OF the equal protection Of
the laws.
Judge Moody has been heard by the
House committee on territories upon the
proposition to divide the territory of Da-
kota. He followed the same line OF argu.
ment pursued by him at his previous hear.
ing. He diselaimed any personal interest
in the division OF the territory on the 18th
parallel, and charged that Mr.. L. johnson,
who accused him ofdesiring such a division
in order that he might be returned to the
Senate, was not a citizen OF Dakota but
illinois. lie said that Mr.. johnson was a
land SPECTATOR, who wanted a division
north and south in order to bring his
lands neal the capital of the new state ana
thus enhance their value. MIR. Mcdonald,
banker of Pierre, Oak, spoke a few mia
utes in support OF tine views expressed by
Judge Moody.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-02-04
Crimes and Criminals.

Tom Mace, who shot and killed Charles
Johnson in Sioux city was captured a few
miles west OF hat place. Heis now behind
the bars OF the county jail.
Ex-City Treasurer Letter OF Butte, Mon.
recently arrested in Butte, admits that he
is S7O0 short m his accounts. He was city
treasurer from May, 1883, to May, 1884,
DR.. De Leon of Chicago married Miss
Emma Rose Of that city at Davenport,
Iowa, and deserted her on their return to
Chicago, t~hirty-six hours later. De Leon
has disappeared, and the girl has gone
home.
former an Indian and the latter a Mexican,
both convicted murderers, were taken out
Of Jail at ~Susanville, CAL, and hanged to
the beams in the woodshed in tan court
house yard by a mob.
A United States marshal arrived at the
Joliet prison with b. T. o. Hubbard, the
cashier OF the First National Bank Onion.
mouth, ILL.,, who is under a seven years
sentence to the penitentiary for deirauding
the bank out Of nearly $500, 600.
Another severe rain and sleet storm isre-
ported raging west ofthe Rocky mountains.
Telegraphic communications was again
practically severed between the East ard
California. Incessant rains nave caused
all the streams to overflow, and one-hali
the town of Fresno, Cal, is inundated. The
damage is already estimated at $780, 600.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-02-04
Ingersoll on Lincoln.

Under the singular caption of Mot
ley and Monarch" Colonel Robert G..
Ingersoll contributes to the December
| North american ReUicW a genuine
'.prose-poem' on Abraham Lincoln,
who is summed up and photographed
in a single paragraph, thus:
Strange mingiing ofmirth and tears,
of the tragic and grotesque, of cap and
crown, of Socrates and Rahelais, Of
Esop and Marcus Aurelius, of all that
is gentle and just, humorous and hon
est, mereiful, wise, laughable, lovable,
and divine, and all consecrated to the
use of man; while through all, and over
all, an overwhelming sense OF obligation,
of chivalric loyalty to truth, and upon
all the shadow of the tragic end"
And here are some more of the dia-
monds glearning incidently in Colonel
Ingersolls superb cluster.
Nearly all the great historic charac-
tiers are impossible monsters, dispropor-
toned by tfattery, or by calumny de-
formed. We know nothing of their
peculiaritics, or nothing but their pecu-
liarities.
Washington is now only a steel en-.
craving. About the real man who lived
and loved and hated and schemed we
know but little.
Hundreds of people are now engaged
in smoothing out the lines of Lincoln's
face-forcing all features to the common
mold-so that he may be known, not as
he really was, but, according to their
poor standard, as he should heve been.
Lincoln never finished his education.
To the nigh. of his death he vas a pupil,
a learner, an inquirer. a seeker after
knowledge. You have no idea how
many men are spoiled by what is called
education. For the most part colleges
are places where pebbles are polished
and diamonds are dimmcd. If Shake
speare had graduated at Oxford. he
might have been Il ~quibbling attorney
or a hypocritical parson.
Nothing disclo5es real character like
the use of power. 1t is easy for the
weak to be gentle. Most people can
bear adversely. But if you wish to know
what a man really is, give him power.
This is the supreme test. 1t is the
glory of Lincoln that, having almost
absolute power, he ever abused it, ex-
cept upon the side OF mercy.
He was patient as destiny, whose
undecipherable hioroglyphs were so
deeply craven on his sad and tragic
face. =
Lincoln was the grandest figure of
the ~fiercest civil war. He is the gen.
TEST memory of our world.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-02-04

The Assistant Treasurer OF the Unit.
ed States, who has charge of the Sub.
treasury at New York, has good deal
of manual labor to perform, in add,
zion TT the vast responsibility impos-
ed upon him in other directions. He
is Obliged to sign his name over one
thousand times each day. Treasurer
Acton had rather long sieges of it dur,
ing his occupancy of the Office. In
1882, when the 5-20-loan was refund.
ed into three-per-eent he had to spend
three weeks signinghi III name to receipts
for the old bonds, and TO the regular
daily business of the Office. The siege
was renewed shortly afterward, when
the issue OF gold certificates was begun,
and he had to sign for a very large
proportion of $500, 0oo, 0o0-some OF
the certificates for as small an amount
- $50 The government has hereto
fore been fortunate in securing the
right men for Imposition of Assistant
Ireasurer-men who are not afraid oil
rssponsibility or hard work, and
whose integrity needed no othei
guarantee than personal character.
ghs present Treasurer is Mr.. Charles
3. canda.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-02-04
Personal = AntiOn.

1t is believed that Archbishop Gibbons
viii be the next American cardinal.
1t is understood in New York that Lii
Ian Russell and her Solomon have had a
fatal quarrel and viii separate.
Rev. Father Powers, who for sixteen
yeaIs has been tie pastor OF ST. Patriek's
church in Joliet, Ill., died aged ffty-ive
years.
Andrew Smith who died at Ballston, N.
Y, was one of the Smith Brothers, bank
ers in New Orleans, whose $50, 900 in gold
Gen. Butler seized during the wal and was
aiterward compelled tc restore inpart.
Rev. Summer Ellis died in Chicago. The
disease which carried off the eminent Uni
versalist divine was typhoid pneumonia,
the result Of a cold contracted recently.
The remains were taken to Massachusetts
for burial.
Henry L. Wilkins died suddenly in Bos.
ton. He is the Omaha man who created
such a sensation II few days ago in a lead.
ing Boston hotel during an attack OF insan.
ity, said to have been caused by spiritual.
ism. He was subdued in the hotel by Par,
son Downs.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-02-04
A Minneapolis Joker.

saw, says n writer in the Minneapo-
lis Tribune, a practical joke played the
other day which was worthy of Sidney
Smith in his happiest days. A well
known gentleman of this city, who has
something Of a reputation as a wag, was
my companion, and we were passing a.
large dry goods store which fronts on
Nicollet avenue. There, drawn up were
three or four teams and among them a
closed brougham, with the driver fast
asleep on the box. Evidently the mis-
tress was inside the store. Without a
word the wag stole quickly up, and OPP
ening the carriage door carefully, slam
med it suddenly to. In a moment the
coachman Strengthened up and gazed
down the avenue at the electric light
mast as if he had never seen anything
so interesting in his life. Then he stole
a look over his shoulder at the wag
standing, hasin hand, apparently talk
ing to some one inside the carriage.
Thank you; yes; good day." said the
wag, and bowed himself gracefully
away from the door-turning as he did
to look up at the driver and say one
word-"Home." YES, sir! tell get.
up" And off went the brougham-I
''home." Where that ''home" was. or
who the mistress Of the carriage was. or
what she did when she came out Of the
store, or what the coachman did when
he stopped at the door of ''homen and
found the carriage empty-all that only
the eoachman and lady know.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-02-04
General News Notes.

Philadelphia raised in one day So, 500
for Pnrnell.
The late d. P. Morgan Of New York city
left a fortune OF $40, 00o, 900.
Nevada paid last year S54, 600 for the
rent Of armories for the militia.
The Iowa legislature viii investigate the
reinstatement Of Auditor Brown.
The jury in the Dickey case at Yankton
brought in a verdict of manslaughter.
A water famine prevails in Helena, Mont,
caused by leakage from the reservoir.
The Mississippi is blocked with ice from
st. Louis to the mouth OF the Illinois.
The New York stock exchange contem.
plates spending Sc, 900, 900 for new build
ing.
Gov. Murray vetoes the bill passed by
the Utah legislature giving absolute right
OF bail to convicts pending appeal.
Notwithstanding the Florida freeze,
Jacksonville reports a large influx oil
Northern visitors to the usually sunny
peninsula.
The Toboggan Clubs of st. Paul, number
ing / 1900 went to Mankato, Faribault and
Litchfield, recently, and each party had a
jolly time.
After discussing the matter for about q
week the board OF directors Of the Milwau-
kee & st. Paul voted to go ahead with the
Kansas City extention.
j.. j. Lighthall, a quack doctor and pat
ent medicine vender who had worked
Texas greenhorns out OF $50, 900 has died
Of smallpox, aged thirty years.
The Tryner Jewelry company OF Denver
has assigned. Liabilities, S35, 900, all OF
which except $500 is due to a New York
house. Assets, s45, 900 to $4,000.
The trustees of the Sharon estate in San
Francisco have determined to use the $50
900 bequest to the Golden Gate Park in
constructing a magnificent gateway to that
place.
Gov. Halo of Wyoming ~pardoned Frank
Smith, a convict serving Six years in the
penitentiary. Smith is the son OF a prom
inent merchant in Detroit, but turned cow
boy, and went wrong.
The personal property taxpayers OF Aus
tin who pay over 500 are as follows:
Thomas II. Armstrong, S203.32; d. H..
Brown & CO., $1S6.63; w. w, Johnson
S102.24; Ransom Brothers, $124,66.
The strikers at Mount Pleasant, Pa, at.
tacksd the house of Emery Cavahas, who
refused to join the strike. Several shots
were fred into the house, and the window.
were broken with stone. No one was in
iured.
A computation made on the basis of the
Hoar bill, extending the payment L. the
Pacific railway indebtedness, shows. that
the Union Pacific, including the Kansas
branch, would berequired topay annually,
il the time for final payments could be
fixed at sixty years, 81, 1905 74; if fixed at
seventy years, $1,595, OPT; IL fixed at
seventy-fiv years, 81, 8 il fixed at
ninety years, Si,417, sos; and if fixed at
one hundred years, $3.50, 303.
A report was received at the City of Mex
leo of an engagement that occurred about
the 10th inst, in the mountains ofSonora,
between a party OF Mexicans and a small
detachment of Gen. Crooks cavalry, under
Capt. Crawford. The parties met while in
search of the renegade Apashes, and the
Mexicans fired on Crawford while he was
waving a flag OF truce, inflicting wounds |
from which he has since died. The troops |
ratproad fha ffrs,, k,U;nn Az Nfa~.
tain AID tout Of his men.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-02-04
Going to School.

There's an army that musters its legions
And marches to r~Oll-caIl each day;
And happy and blest are the regions
Which lie in the army's bright way.
They troop over hillock and hollow,
They spring across brOoklct and pool,
And gayly and CHEEKY follow
The summon which bids them to school
By thousands the army is numbered,
Its soldiers are fresh as the morn;
Not one is by sorrow encountered,
Not N is by care overborne.
At decimals sometimes they stumbled,
And sometimes by verbs are perplexed;
And the ~proudest grows saddened and hum
blcd
When a question is passed 10 the next.
But forgot at the briefcst vacation
Are problems and puzzles and prose,
The grief of the stern conjugation,
That late was a fountain of woes;
And the army goes back to its duty
The hour that play time is done,
Resplendcd in love and in beauty,
Unmatched meath the light % the sun.
They gather, this wonderful army,
In field and in grove and in street;
Their voices are music to charm me,
So ringing and eager and sweet.
Their checks are as red as a cherry,
Their eyes are as pure as the day,
And the sound of their marching is merry,
Whenever they pass on their way.
There are people forever assigning
And saving the world is all wrong:
But somehow their dorbts take to flying
At the sight of this wonderful throng.
The world may be clOuded and weary,
Of trouble and toll may be full.
But at last there is hope where the cheery,
Dear children are going to school.
lra Rnrnnrpt 4 Sfnrstcr
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-02-04


The Presidential succession, having
been duly provided for by law, there
remains a question Of the gravest i'm.
rortance, rs the national experience
has shown, as to the counting OF the
electoral votes OF the States. No pa.
triot of either of the grSkt political
parties wishes to e again the excite.
mentas3sAsar the danger which follow.
ed tile Presidential election of 1876.
CongvAssought at this session to pass
some measure of this kind. 1t would
afiokaigsnat relief from alhxieties in
the saDro way that the passage of the
presidential succession bill mas done.
The htstion is as liable to anarchy on
account Of the want OF any well un.
derstood legal process of counting the
electoral vote as on account of any
other existing lack In our system.
The whole business should be dispos.
ed of before the Congress is elected
which viii have the counting of the
next electoral vote, and before ascer-
tained partisan conditions can be influ.
entail in consideration of the ques.
ton.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-02-04

OF farmers losses in sheep, hogs and cattle
duringthe late freezc. Some sheep men lost
500 sheep; hogs were found piled uptogeth-
er frozen sofidly.
south bound-passenger train or. the
Southern division Of the Illinois Central
railroad was wrecked thirty miles below
Cairo. The locomotive and all the cars ex-
cept two sleepers were ditehed and Engi-
neer A. L. Ruffin was instantly killed.
A fire in Whee!er's block, one OF tie larg-
est business structures at Burlington, Vt,
completely Quilted the building. The Eyarts
house, Just south, and the business block
north and several buildings in the rear
were also damaged. Loss, $4,000; insur'
ane, $4,000.
Philadelphia had a large fire with losses
amounting to half a millSn. The individ.
ual sufferers, are Monroe Bros. e. Co.,
shoes; Lehman & Bolton, photographers;
st. Cloud hotel and furniture; w. III. But
Ter, photographer; T. Gutkunst, photog.
rapher; May &Bro., millinery; Schroeder
& Hillary, gloves; George Harris q Sons,
printers; London house; A. Rice, millinery;
Gallagher & Casey, leather goods; Five
small dwellings.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-02-04
The Fan.

Love never was a hidden god,
And spite of what the ancients say,
Twas he who sought to see the maid;
He told me so-belieye who mayi
Eros loved Psyche; while she slept,
Spying the virgin he admired,
At sight Of such loveliness,
His heart was thrilled, his senses fred,
And as he bent, IL rapture lost,
The oil fell on her where she lay;
Startled, she awokc; and seeing Lon,
At cnce took wing and few away.
Vainly since then the lovc-Iorn boy
Has sought the maid with azure wings:
No form of such soft beauty tame
To cheer him in his wanderiDgS.
At length one day, as sad he strobe,
By paths made sweet with April dew,
He spicd a butterfly that paused
On a large rosebud, full in view.
"'Tis Psyche" said he; Surely this
Must be the wings that went and came
About her shoulder, when she fed
With flush of rOsy-cOlOred shamel'
Gould I but seize it," and he sprang
Like a rash lover, and his lip
With the wild cctasy Of love
Closed on its futtering azure tip.
And as he held the broken limb,
And wondered to what purpose coy
He now should turn the bcauteous thing;
I'm make Of it fair woman's toyr'
So fashioning quick, with dexterous art,
At her shield and yataghan;
SEQ, hutter now fOrcvermOre ="
Said Eros-and he made the Fan.
-oJlGn Aicard
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-02-04

SENATE.-A resolution was introduced
providing for the consideration ofexecutive
nominations in open session. The bin to
divide the Sioux reservation in Dakota
was discussed.
Mr.. Logan said hat if his tMr. Logan'sl
proposition of ten years ago in this senate
had been agreed to there would have been
no indian wars after that time. His prop
osition then was that it made it a penal
offense for anybody to sell a gun or powder
or bullets to an Indian. That was what
was the trouble in our Indian affairs.
Mr.. Vest of No.. made a long speech on
the Dakota bill, in which he paid his re-
spects to Dakota editors and others for al
legged abuse of him. Mr.. Vest said he would
hereafter submit IA proposition to divide
the territory by a line running north and
south on the 101st parallel of longitude,
so as 70 provide Tor the keeping OF the un-
settled western side in a territorial condi-
ton.
Senator ingalls, introduced a bill in the
senate to amend the Revised Statutes SO
as to make the Eighth judicial circuit OF
the United States consist of the States OF
Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas, and Color
ado, instead OF Minnesota, Iowa and Mis-
sour, as at present, and to make the latter
states compose the Ninth circuit. Ad-
iourned to Monday.
HousE.-The day was devoted to the o
sideration OF bills on the private calendar,
and an evening session was held, at which
several private pension bills were passed.
Adioarned till Monday.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-02-04

A contract which has just been
awarded to the Roanoke Machine
Works. OF Roanoke, Va, by the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Rail-
road Company is an exceedingly in
teresting and gratifying indication OF
the industrial progress that is being
made south of Mason and Dixon'sline.
This contract is for five hundred
t~wenty-ton freight cars, and it was Sc
cured by this establishment over
neutrality-suspicious.. Intwoyears,
under the stimulus Of tho machine
works, Roanoke has increased from
00tfto 5000 in population, and as it
hes certain advantages both as the
center of rich coal and iron region
aad az the place OF junction of the
.Norfork and Western and Shenan-
doah Valley Railroads, there is every
prospect that before many years it
viii become one OF the most impor-
tant manufacturing towns of the
South.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-02-04
Foreign Gossip.

Valuable placer gold mines are said to
have been discovered in Honduras.
The trial OF the divorce suit arising from
the Dixie scandal, in London, has been fixed
for Feb. 4.
Lieut.. Borden, who al arrested in Spain
for publicly vilifying the queen, has been
sentenced to eight years confinement in a
military prison. Lieut.. Borden was com.
mander OF the palace guard, and is a cous.
in OF the late King Alfonso.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-02-04
An eastern statistician,

al edeStSfh 5sdtioIicisHt "ho hdo
been out west, Publishes some promis-
ing figures relative to thematrimonial
market. He declares that a woman's
chances for marriage increase ten per
cent. when she passes the Alleghanies,
and fifty per cent. when she c~rossestne
Mississippi. The line Of minimum per
cent. appears to be the western merid-
ian of Massachusetts. This far moro
than Offsets Horace Greeley's famous
advice to the young men.