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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-18
The Same Old Racket.

Chicago Herald.
"There amt no show in this coun-
try no more for an honest man," said
an ill-natured passenger, who looked
like a farmer. "The burned rogues
are running the country now, and
honest folks haven't got no show for
their white alley. What's the matter
with me? Cranky? Not bit of it
stranger, an if you was me you'd be
a-hollerin' too. Your growlin's could
be heard all over a ten-acre lot.
"NoI don't mind tellingyou what's
the matter with me. You see, own
nice farm down the country here a
piece-'bout the best farm in our dee
strict, if do say it myself-and lots
of people have tried to buy it. My
price has alluS been too high for 'em,
though, an nobody took it. Well,
one day last week "a stranger came
along an said he wanted to buy q
right smart farm, an had been recon-
mended to me. He looked the place
all over, inquired about the water an
crops an everything, studied over it
an hour or two, tried to beatme down
on my figures and finallyaccepted my
terms. Then he gave me $50 to bind
the bargain an went away, saying he
had to go to the city, and would be
back again in few days to close up
the bargain. The very next day
another man came along and wanted
to buy the place. He looked it all
over and said it just struck his fancy.
Il don't care for money said he;
this is the place | want and I'll give
you $500 more than the other man
offered you, if you'll let me have it,
'Come round in few days. says l
'an' I'll see what / can do for YOU
Here's $25' says he Just to show you
that Pm in earnest
"Of course wanted that extra $500
if l could get it honorably, an SO
when the first man came back a few
days later l told him that 1 had con-
cluded not to sell and offered him
his money. But he wouldn't take il
and insisted on my living up to the
contract. Il hear you've got another
OFFER says he, 'an' l see you don't
want to sell to me. The other fellow
is crazy to get the place, but Pm
ahead of him, and you must live uE
to your contract or 1 will make
trouble. Here is your receipt and
agreement 1 saw he had me, an
offered him $50 an his money back
to give up the contract. He refused
it. Then 1 offered him a hundred
Still he refused. / KEEP on raisin' or
him till L made it $500 and shook tn,
money under his nose. Then HI
weakened, took the $500 and his owl
$50 back, gave me a receipt and wen
away.
"This was a pretty good bonus, bu
I felt good all the same. Pm 500
ahead anyhow says l AM 5000 aim
made every day on the farm"
"Good stroke of financiering OF
your part, wasn't to"
eyes. The only trouble about i
was,I never heard of the second pur
chaser again. The two scoundrel
, were working the racket together.
Mo IIcn
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-18
No Use.

Kansas Farmer.
There is no use in putting up the
motto, "God bless our home," if the
father is a rough old bear, and the
spirit of discourtesy and rudeness is
taught by parents to the children, and
by the older to the younger. There
is no use in putting up the motto,
"The Lord will provide" while the
parents are shiftless, the boys re-
fuse to work, and the girls busy them
selves over gewgaws and finery. There
is no use putting up the motto, "The
greatest of these is charity" while the
tongue of the backbiter wags in that
family, and silly gossip is dispensed
at the tea table. There is no use in
putting up conspiciously the motto,
"The liberal man deviseth liberal
things" while the money chinks in
the pockets of the "head of the house
hold" groaning to get out to see the
light of day, and there are dollars and
dimes for wines, tobacco and other
luxuries, but positively not one cent
for the church. In how many homes
are these standing-let us say hang
ing sarcasms, which serve only to
point jest and adorn a satire! The
beauty ofquiet lives, of trustful, hope
full, free-handed, free hearted, charit-
able lives is one of surprising lowell
ness, and those lives shed their own
Incompatible fragrance, and the
world knows where to find them
And they shall remain fresh and fade.
less when the colors of pigments and
the worsted and floss have faded, and
the frames have rotted away in theil
joints.
Maud-Yes, l have sent him back
his letters; given him back his ring
Edith-And are you happy? mo
| am miserable" "Then why die
you do it?' "Well, pa and ma were
so pleased with him l was afraid we
weren't suited to each other.n
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-18
Scientific Progress.

In an address to the British Society
of Engineers, P. F. Nausey lately
said: "The facts / have brought be-
fore you also point to the moral and
meterial progress of the world. 'The
bee that hummed its busy hour
through the bowers of PARADISE
wrote Sidney Smith Fashioned its
heXagon with the same mathemati-
cal precision which it does now and
here. Six thousand years have add
ed nothing to the sagacity of the horse
or the intelligence of the dog But
how widely different with man. He
commences as a fire worshipper and
rises to Newton, a Faraday, a Steph-
enson, a Siemens. He tempts the
river in few fragments of bark
dashed together with thongs of raw
hide, and crosses the Atlantic in an
iron steamer of 22,500' tons burden,
he burrows in the earth, and then
builds a city with 100000 inhabi-
tants. He sticks a dried reed into a
lump of fat to light his mud hut, and
carbonizes 9, 200,650 tons of coal per
annum to illuminate London. He
takes weeks to send messages on
sticks to Montezuma from the coasts,
and at last reports in London the de-
tails of battle fought in Soudan the
same morning. He Stays his foe with
a sling and pebble chosen from the
brook, and meets the enemy with a
machine gun firing 600 rounds a min
ute by means of its own recoil. He
lays seige to a city with a balista
throwing fragment of rock, and
finally attackinga fort with a gun
weighing ITO tons, projecting steel
shell of 1900 pounds, with a charge
of 9O6 pounds of gunpowder. These
are the beginnings and endings Of
science, but they are the endings Of
science as regards the present only
They are by no means the final, as
science never stands still. They are
but the landmarks of our time, which,
as Emerson puts it, are "trivial t.
the dull; tokens of noble and majes
tic agents to the wise; the receptacle
in which the past leaves the history
the quarry out of which the genius O
today is building up the future"
Pure rich blood gives us health
long life and "green old age" bu
how few pay any attention to thu
state of their blood? Parsons Purga
tive Pills make new rich blood
and taken one a night for tire,
|, 1 mill oloporo 4I,o blood -, ~,
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-18

1t isn't so much what man has
that makes him happy, as it is what
he doesn'twant.-The Century Maya
zine.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-18

Pure rich blood gives us health,
long life and a "green old age" but
how few pay any attention to the
state of their blood? Parsons Purga-
tive Pills make new rich blood,
and taken one a night for three
months will change the blood in the
entire system.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-30

Ex.Secretary Chandler has taken de-
cided ground. in the United Service
Magazine, against the practice of restor'
ing dismissed officers to the Army and
Navy by special Acts of Congress. He
admits that some officers of great merit
have been restored, but on the special
Acts as a whole he passes this judgment
"They have been grossly injurious to the
military service. Most have r%eappointed
worthless officers, and some of the most
notorious drunkards in the Navy have
been restored, one of them afterward
sinking, while drunk, a naval vessel, and
destroying eleven lives"
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-30
the GERM

NJ. Verneuil, of France, is the latest
scientist to take an advance step for the
benefit OF suffering humanity. He is
now engaged in experimental inquiry
into the possibility OF finding some
method of alternating the virus of
tubercle, with a view to use it prac.
tically for incubation against consump-
ton, or as a cure for the disease. Since
Pasteur has demonstrated what may be
done in a like direction for the proven
ton Of h~ydrophobia, it is not vain to en-
terrain the hope that Verneuif may sue.
coed in his efforts. /. is the doctrine of
Koch that consumption is traceable to
germs. He has found them in the lungs
after death. The aim Of Verneuil is to
take the next natural step beyond, and
ascertain how far the incubation theory
may be justified, by the introduction
into the human system of the cultivated
germ, after a series of ~diminutions, as a
means of terrifying the body against
the assaults of consumption. OF course
nothing can nov be stated as determined
in the inquiry with accuracy, but the
strides of medical science are so immeas'
urable, and its assaults so bold, that we
will not be warranted in manifesting sur
prise if the enthusiastic Frenchman
achieves the success at which he aims.
The Fat failure OF the Spanish doctor in
inoculating for cholera, and the unques
toned triumph of Pasteur in treating
~hydrophobia, leaves Verneuil fairly sus
pended in public'opinion between grave
doubt and great hope.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-30
:. METROPOLizING" PHILADEI.-
PkIYA

A new question is agitating Philadei'
phia-a branch Of that great inquiry that
perpetually agitates the breasts o.; her
citizens, "How shall Philadelphia be
made metropolitan ," Some genius has
discovered that what has made New
York metropolitan is the erection OF
numerous large and splendid hotels IN
advance of any demand for them. These
structures, it is said, have drawn people
to New York to enjoy their gorgeous
hospitality, and so stimulated trade that
the city has grown up to the hotels, as 1t
were-or would have, if new and still
more elegant c-sravansaries were not con-
stantly springing up.
According to this theory, then, all
that Philadelphia has to do in order to
become metropolitan, is to build a hotel
more splendid and more comfortable
than anything of the sort now in exist.
ence. This will draw travellers to Phila-
delphia, who will spend money there and
liven up business. By and by, when
this hotel gets a regular patronage al
most sufficient to pay its running ex-
penses, another should be built, and SO
on indefinitely. This is a beautiful the
DRY. and we hope that wealthy Phila-
delphians who are seeking investment
for their surplus cash. will hereafter, IN.
stead of trying to buy up New York
horse-car lines, turn their attention to
the "metropolizing" of Philadelphia by
building fine hotels.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-30

The friends of Secretary Lamar are
alarmed at his physical condition. From
the best authority it appears the Secre.
tary is in many respects rendered unable
to attend to the duties Of his office. For
the past few days it has been secretly
talked among his friends in Congress Of
the im~possibility to get any business
transacted in the Interior Department,
says a correspondent, so apparently at.
fected is the mind of the Secretary. Nc
one seems to fully comprehend the action
or cause OF his ailment.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-30

The recent official announcement from
Paris that the Government is about to
issue a new loan of $500. 600. 900 for the
consolidation and redemption of the
floating debt has caused considerable
commotion among all those who are in
any way interested in the financial and
commercial prosperity of France. The
new loan involves new taxes, and France
is already the most heavily taxed of all
European nations, paying so per cent
more taxes than either England, Prussia,
Russia or the United States.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-30

craving.

P. STELER takes great pleasure in an
~nouucing to his customers, and the pubhc
generally that no has in bis employ one OF
the very best practical watchmakers and en-
erayers on the Coast. who has bad expert
ence and worked in the very best watch.
makers establishments in Europe and
America, and ia now prepared to do all kinds
of ipewatch work at reasonable prices. aud
satisfaction guaranteed. Also. clocks
cleaned and carefully repaired and war
ranted for one year. New jewelry made to
order and neatly repaired. All work sent
from the country promptly attended to. =
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-30
NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby GIVEN THAT n mt to
IN appointed Simeon WenpAn NY 4 inter
look after and protect the properly sna and
ests of the estate Of J. W. Dean. Gscesssa are
NJ. Fitzgerald to assist him, snd ..sry
authorized 10 take any and all steps nrIN'
for that purpose. IVA w Dean
administrators of the estate or '"
deceased. ois.u
Eureka, Nevada, Oct. IL. 1855.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-30

The Stamford Comet, in order to hoax
some Norwalk newspapers that Were
making too free with its news, started
that story printed the other day of a
Norwalk man who eloped with his wife's
sister, killed his mistress in Missouri,
and then shot himself. 1t now owns M
that the story was a lie pure and simple.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-30
The Chicago Electric lamp.

P. HUI yesterday received a large as
sortment OF the celebrated Chicago Elec-
trio Lamps, and sold them all before
night. He has telegrsphed for q duplicate
consignment, which will arrive here in
abont q week. He has also received u loi
of elegant gilt and elk plush holdings foT
oil paintings, etc.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-30
CuUuty scrip.

For scrip issued at the last meeting o;
the Board OF County Commissioners, we
will pay the following ratee: Fire fund
81 cents; General fund, "a cents; Curren'
Expense fund, 10 cents.
4 TORE & BARBERI.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-30

I'D D." will improve the appetite-a'
Capron's.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-30

The finest cigar in the market is th'
Brio a. Brac, sold only at tine Postoflic'
bookstore.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-30
To Kansas city.

Any one wishing to purchase a frst-clas'
railroad ticket to Kansas City, can get ONT
by making application at this office.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-30

Try the new brand Of Bric-a-Brac cigars,
at the Postoffice bookstore
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-30

"Our Taste Mackerel tho finest fish
brought to this market-can nowbe had AZ
Johnny Lambert's.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-30

". H. Ssowell, druggist and assayer
No 3 Main street.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-30
p 4 | G Z LIS
OF.
IN. WI. LEY.

Cheese, from &c., to zoe. and from Csc. to
10 35c. per pound.
Pioneer Flour, So IS to 81 l2k per 100
pounds.
Crushed, Grannlated and Brown Sugar,
i0k to l24 cents per pound.
Oatmeal. l0-pound sackp. from Use. to 90c.
per sack.
Corn Meal. 10.pound sacks, Coo. to TIC.
pee sack.
Eggs. 28c per doz. 10 3 doz. for 81.
Bacon, lac. to lSc. and zoe. per pound.
Hams, lie. to zoe. per pound.
Butter. from Csc. TO poe. per roll.
Mess Pork, from lie. to lSc. per pound.
Coffee, from Zoe. 10 33e. per pound.
Tea, from 40c. to 81 % per pound.
Rice. from &c. 10 1880. per pound.
Coal Oil, from s. per case to Use. per gal.
Beans. from she. to Sc. per pound.
Crackers, from 12h C. to 2jc. per pound
Eagle Brand Milk, Csc. per can.
Kirk Soap, from &c. to Toe. per bar.
OILS II N. NJ. LEY. South 0: Courthouse.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-30

TAKES PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING TO
Il his customers In Eureka. Ruby HILL and
surrounding country. and the public at large.
that he has made a heavy reduction on his
magnificent stock Of Fine GOLD aud Silver
Watches, Chains. Jewelry, and S~ilverware.
Clocks aud Optical Goods. Ia fact, in every
department.
His Concsve and Convex Lenses. SpActacles
and Eyeglasses, 80 cents to 81 and 81 so. Peb-
bles, 50. Soth Thomas Clocss Nickel one.day
time) 81 10. Seth Thomas Clocks Nickel one
day time with alarm. 20 10, and other goods
in proportion.
Also a great reduction on firstclass work In
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-30
NOTICE.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN hsys
IN Frankie Howard and Ida GRAZ I'm.
formed a cspartnership in running anu iasss
aging the Lyceum Thester. and tue nsms
will hereafter be conducted in the hfI vnanm
and style If the Howard and 6ray 9Rp.
Theater. FRANKIE ho""
IDA GRAY. ~
Eureka. New. January 10. 1886. JA
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-06
Most Excellent.

j. J. Atkins, Chief of police,
Knoxville, Tenn, writes: "My
family and / are beneficiaries of
your most excellent medicine, DR..
Kings New Discovery for consump-
ton; have found it to be all that
you claim for it, desire to testify to
its virtue. My friends to whom l
have recommended it, praise it at
every opportunity" DIR. Kings
new discovery for consumption is
guaranteed to cure coughs, colds,
bronchitis, asthma. Group and
every affection Of Throat, Chest and
Lungs. Trial bottles free at j. S.
Talcotts drug store. Large size 81.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-06

During this month and the month
of September next we hope to make
a settlement with all our subscribers
who are back on subscription. Some
Of these back subscription accounts
have been running about as long as
we feel able to carry them. They
must be settled up in some way
G. F. MALLAHAN.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-06

Messrs. Ross, Fate and Dahl, the
viewers of the Kiplinger ditch are
in the city this week to close up
matters in regard to the ditch, which
is now about completed. The view
ers and County Surveyor Vinson are
figuring up the total expenses in Or
der to make a final levy to pay the
contractors and other necessary ex-
penses. We understand that the
work has been done well and ac-
cording to specifications and when
the water is let in to it from the
slough, it will make quite q flowing
stream. The delay now is waiting
for the railroad company to put in
the bridge where the ditch crosses
their track. When this is done the
water will be let in.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-06
Beggs' Cherry Cough syrup

Will relieve that cough almost in.
stantly and make expectoration easy.
Acts simultaneously on the bowels,
kidneys and liver, thereby relieving
the lungs Of that soreness and pain
and also stopping that tickling SEM
sation in the throat by removing
the cause. One trial Of it will con-
vince any one that it has no equal
on earth for coughs and colds. u.s..
Talcott has secured the sale of it and
will guarantee every bottle to give
satisfaction.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-06

II have taken, within the past
year, several bottles of Ayers sarsa-
parilla, and find it admirably adap-
ted to the needs of an impoverished
system. I am convinced that this
preparation, as blood purifier, is
uneaqualed. &C. c. Dame, Pastor
Congregational church, Andover, Me.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-06
WANTED.

Hay, corn and oats at my farm in
southwest corner of Plymouth coun-
ty, Iowa. l expect to have a free
ferry across the Sioux, in running
order by Oct. 9Th, one mile north of
McCook. ID. H. TALBOT,
Sioux City, Iowa.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-06

In the campaign song published
last week in the second line of the
chorus, the word stripes should
have read strife. The types were
at fault.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-06

Quick relief is just what is wanted
in every case Of cramp collie or dinr-
rhna, Chemberlain'e Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy relieves the
pain promptly and is certain cure,
dose Or two II I'll that il required
for an ordinary case. Recommend
ed, guaranteed md sold BY III. rs.
Talootet
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-06

The Creamery has been closed up
for the season, and VIM. Slaughter
has moved back to the basement
under Hoffman;s block, where he is
prepared to handle all the butter
and eggs brought to him.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-06

The Ponca people were delighted
with the music of the Elk Point
Band and We'd with each other to
make it pleasant for our band boys
during their visit to the Ponca fair
last week.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-06

The Ponca baseball club say they
are willing to play our boys any
time for money or marbles. Our
boys ought to have sand enough to
try them rattle.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-06
Notice Ii Tax-payers.

The tax book for the taxes of 1856
have been delivered to me for collec-
ton, and all parties owing city taxes
are requested to call on me at my
store in Budde's old stand. Main
street, and pay the same. Taxes are
due Oct. LIST, and become delinquent
Jan. 1st. A. Z. ROME,
City Treasurer.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-06

Sherman Thornton, received the
other day lot Of relics from his
fathers estate, among which was an
old scrap-book made up in 1914.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-06

Mrs. Hance Murphey and two
youngest children, went up to Sioux
Falls this morning to visit a week
with J. M. Buswell's family.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-06

The Elk Point band on Friday
morning before the fair opened, took
a ramble around town and treated
the citizens to some of the finest
music heard in this region for many
a day.-Poncn Journal.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-06

"While those deputed to inter the
slain, heap with rising pyramid
the plain. Pope.
Thornton has pyramid Of dishes
heaped from the Aoor almost to the
ceiling.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-06

Rev. J. V. Hines, left Monday
for Chicago, to attend an Episcopal
convention, to be held there this
week.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-06

The w. c. T. u, will hold a pub
lie union meeting on Sunday even
ing, Oct. 10, at the usual hour, in
the M. f. church. The reports of
the past year will be read at this
meeting. All are invited.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-06

VIM. Slaughter, pays the highest
market price in cash for butter and
eggs in the basement under Hoff-
mans block.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-06

Las. Sunday there was not va
cant seat even in the large Catholic
church here. Hence two additional
side affairs and six extra pews are to
be provided before Christmas.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-06

Walter Hines is waiting on GUS
toners behind the counter in Hen
kin's post-office fruit store.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-06

Mitchell, the man arrested and
fined few weeks ago for beating
his wife has been released from the
county Jail, having paid the balance
of the fine not served out.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-06

John Hanson, Esq, of Sphinx
raised leo acres of fine cabbage this
wear.