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The St. Johns herald., 1886-12-16

p<a The Atlantic and Pacific has no more land to sell m Apache county having sold out to the syndicate whose repre- sentatives were in St. Johns several weeks ago.
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The weather is bright and the sun shine warm, but the nights continue sharp and freezing.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-12-16

Monday next is the last day to pay taxes. After that per cent is added. "A word to the wise" etc.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-12-16

Messrs. Gus Zeiger and Ray were in town Wednesday, settling their taxes and attending to other business.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-12-16

E.. s. Stover is convalescing and doing as well as could be expected from the nature of his injury.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-12-16

Sol Earth returned Tuesday from a visit to Winslow.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-12-16

Mir. Henry Tuning is in New York
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*Meal Stations.
 Through tickets to all principle cities east ana west on sale at the following 'ations: Holbrook, WnSlOW, Flagstaff,
 Peach Springs, Kinglnen, Prescott, The Needles, Daggctt Mohave, and AlbuOuer0Iic
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.

TERRITORIAL
 GOVERNOR ..C. Meyer Zulick. .... Prescott SECRETARY. ...James A. Bayard ... Pres ott TKEAsURER. . Thomas J. Butler. PrescOtt SUPT. PUBLIC IEsTRc'H, ..- R. Long, .GlOOe- AUDITOR .--.-.- F.. r, Clark,. PrescOtt ATTORNEY GENERAL, Clark Churchill, Prescott
 . SUPREME COURT. goHx O. SHIELDs Chief JuStice Prescott w. v. PORTER Associate Justice -.. Phoenix N H. BARNES - Associate Justice .. Tucson OWEN ". R0CsE U. $. Dist Attorney Tucson " K NEADE.. U. 5. Marshal Tucson
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COUNTY OFFICIALS.

COUNTY OFFICIALS.
 l II. Tuning. ,......x Ernest Tee. DcAAOo oF SUPERVISORS w. B. Leonard.
 W. T. Dalby, Clerk. Quarterly meetings of the Board will be held first Monday in January, April, July and October SHERIFF, --.J. L. Hubbell. UNDER SHERIFP. P..........-... Frank A. HubDell PROBATE JUDGE, ..........-..------E. F.. C. Bunch. DISTRICT ATToREEY,.-.........C L. Gutterson. RECoRDEk, Alfred RulZ. TKEAsURER ......ST. GEo:GE CREAGHE. ASSESSOR ................ .Serafin Apodaca JUDGE OF THE DISTRICT COURT. John o. Shields. JUDGE OF THE COUNTY COURT ...-...N w. M. Rudd. CLERK oF COURT. .-.--..----.-- -a1Ired htiiL Terms of the District Court, first Mondays in February and August.
 POST OFFICE.
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LOCAL NEWS.

St. Johne. Thureday. Dac. IS.
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NOTICE FOR pr rBLIcArIoN.

LANL -T!CES.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08
A Southern Wedding.

unique performance came of on the
evening Of March "a, at o rough log hut
near our camp. This was nothing less than
a wedding, the ceremony of which was per-
formed by the chaplain of the Sixth, be-
tween gallant young artillery man, at
tached to a regular battery, and fair dam
sci of Isle of Wight County, Va. OF
course she belongto one of the first families
for all Virginians do that have ever met;
though it did strike me little oddly to see
her roll the sweet morsel of tobacco under
her tongue, during the ceremony, and eject
the brown juice with surprising accuracy
into the ample fireplace that occupied
nearly one end of the room. INDUCING in
little conversation at bridal call, made
made next morning, with my wife, VEN
tured 10 suggest that it was we'll for kin
dred souls to be united, to which she re-
piled in the vernacular that I have found
general among Virginians of ali colors:
"Yaas! 1 oilers thought, when gal loved a
Teller, she'd better have him soon's she
could git him!" When the refreshments
were passed at the close of the ceremonies,
was not little taken aback to see that
they consisted of hot -four biscuits "a rare
dish where corn bread is the regular food,
for in Virginia the staff of life is a corn
stalk, and sausages, and sugar candy!
But maugre the oddities of the occasion, the
main thing-the union of two kindred hearts
Though the mudsill was great ways SUI
per!or to the daughter of Virginia)-was at
length consummated, an act typical of
what is now rapidly transpiring-the union
of North and South.
"A union of hearts and q union of hands,
union OF States none can sever
-Chica0O Led0er.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08
Dishing Up Mud.

1t was the 9Th day of April, 1862. Our
regiment, the First U. S. S. S. were march
ing up toward Yorktown and getting pretty
near to the works of the enemy, they COM
menced firing shot and shell. AS they
flew high we noticed their aim was at a COL
lection of officers in our rear, supposed to
be General Porter and staff, but soon our
batteries got into position-think it was
Gri(fth's and Motts-and shot and shell
howled in every direction. Our skirmish
line was in the road, near a mud hole, and
one of our boys, always ready with his
Yankee wit, discovered spur and strap
sticking in the mud, and stopped to get the
treasure, saying, II guess"-but that was
all of that sentence, as shell struck in
that mud hole and plastered him from head
to foot, besides filling mouth eyes. and ears.
AS soon as John K could spit out the
mud and get breath. he coolly remarked,
Il wish they would fill their cursed shells
with oysters; / could relish them better"
We were quite hungry at that time. Cam
not say should like to take oysters in that
shape. But as my mind wanders back to
that scene, cannot help but laugh over
the memory of that incident. as I did at the
time. A CoMRADE.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08
A Nom Combatant in Battle.

II is curious to think how mems thoughts
will assume ludicrous phase, even under
circumstances of great personal danger.
After the first round of fighting was over, I
had just been into the house ("Hollands" },
and. supposing the engagement was ended
for the present, and that our men would lie
on their arms for awhile, was moving a
few rods to the rear, where our hospital
was located, to endeayor to sleep little in
the church, as doubtless "many friend
and brother had done before me-" when
the second volley suddenly burst upon u.s.
fell PROSTATE on my face, some three rods
behind our line Of battle, and finding that
the bullets sang their death song rather
| nearer than was pleasant, l began to devise
some way of lettering my prospects, for
lay on my face. 1t seemed to me that had
chosen an unfortunate position; for the
most prominent part of my body, in that
position, was one on which l could not
| describe the wounds in mixed company
l turned on my back, and then remember
ed that a wound in the bowels is more like
ly to prove fatal than elsewhere, and, be-
sides my head was toward the enemy, and
thus there were two vital presentations; SO
| placed my body parallel with the
line of battle, when 1 suddenly was re-
minded that I was as much worse off than
before, as five feet nine exceed two feet
Place myself as | would, l wished I was
| otherwise and otherwheres, and with a
laugh l could not control, I rose, the bull
let's ploughing the dirt and sounding their
"zmmm" all around me. l made for the
road, and lay under the slight protection
of the bank till the firing subsided.-Chi.
caOo Ledger.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08
Shelling a Brea kfast.

We were back again in our old tents at
Shiloh, from which we We're driven in our
fight OF Sunday. The ground was covered
with shot and shell of every description.
Lieutenant Gregg and myself We're living in
our tent while our company We're getting
breakfast.
About two rods distant from our tent
they had built a fire between two logs of
about twelve feet in length, and on this thew
had their camp kettles, coffee pots, and fry-
ing pans. E. r. Latham, of our company.
placed what he supposed to be cannon
ball under one of the logs, but no sooner
had the ball got hot than it proved itself a
Shell. exploding with great force, and
hosting camp kettles, coffee pots. irving
pans, and breakfast twenty feet into the
air
Worse than this, one piece of the she'll
wounded a comrades leg, another piece cut
on another comrades finger, while about
two-thlrds OF tie shell buried itself in the
ground under the log.
Twenty four years have passed. and vet
believe that ] could go there and find that
piece OF Embedded shell.
t. j. CowMAS.
Prairie City. Iowa.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08
Where Burns Was Born.

Five miles from Kilmarnock is IT.
vine, where Burns made his unfortunate
start as tlax-dresser, and, worse still,
contracted, in the opinions of his biog-
raphers, very many bad habits; and
nine miles in another direction is Ayr,
where in the summertime omnibuses
run regularly to and from the station
to the cottage in which the poet was
born, the monument erected to his
memory, the auld kirk of Alloway, and
the auld brig O. Doon-the three latter
being situated all close to each other,
and about mile to the south of the
former. The struggling High street
reached, one soon finds the inn on the
right, in which Tam and his dear COM
panion Souter Johnny are said to have
got 'fou together" An oil painting
above the door represents the hero re-
luctantly bidding good-by to his com
panions of the evening in
That hour o nights black arch the key stare,
That dreary hour he mounts his beast in;
and gives fair idea, in rude country
way, OF the start for that memorable
ride. The house is plain, substantial
Scotch building, two stor es high, with
matched roof, ana remains very much
what it must have been when, as the
story goes, Dugald Graeme of Shanter
and John Davidson, the drunken shoe
maker, the originals of the poem, used
to go there on market days. The room
upstairs in which Tam was glorious
is still pointed out; but the chairs OF
the Carrick farmer and Souter johnny
have been recently purchased by the
Ayr Burns Club, and placed in the
memorial room in the cottage where he
was born at Alloway. The original
drinking cup, or "caup," of the inn is
now the property of some private in
dividual; but the present landlord
shows fac-simile in a well-executed
piece of dove-tailed wood work, boun:!
together with silver hoop, which ie
lied and emptied by enthusiasts, as
was the old observation-disclosures Maaa-
zine
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08
A Soldiers Experience.

My first gun was a Harpers Ferry mus
ket, altered over, and it would kick worse
than o mule. 1t kicked me on the head, in
the face, in the eye, and on the shoulder,
and all at the one discharge. The last time
l fired it it kicked itself out of my hands
| onto the ground, and there it lay kicking
when the captain put his foot upon it and
made it stop. The right way to fight with
that gun was to send it to the Johnnies,
and there would have been succession of
discouraged soldiers on that side-if not
dead ones. There was one thing certain,
with that gun to carry any soldier would
naturally be ready to sing:
Come, welcome DEATH thou end of kicking,
am ready and willing to 60"
My next gun-the next day-was q
Springfield rihe-a dandy.
In chasing General Price we made a
march of one hundred and nine miles in
three days, with only nine large sized hard
tack for rations. In this march the bows
beat the oldish men. OF our company of
ninety six men. but fourteen were there to
stack arms at the end of three days-of
these twelve were under twenty lone, three
under eighteen, and three under seventeen
years of age, aud l was one of the last
three.
! After all our hard marching Price was
uOI lueIo Wuc1 VIC itI11Neu-ue Quu Oeen
gone six hours. We were six days in
marching back over the same ground
We arrived at Shiloh in time for me to
be detailed to help bury the dead. That is
a duty in connection with army work sell
dom described. The mind dislikes to
dwell upon it. The killing of the man is
an exciting work. There is some excite
ment even in being in line with shot
and bullets-in seeing who gets hit
in feeling that you are yet wholc-but
there is no rcdceming feature in going out
to the field of the dead and gathering the
men like sheayes in a harvestlield and ar
ranging them in a trench and covering
them with earth. There is no other form
of death so sickening as that of we'll and
hearty man killed by the accidents of bat
i tie.
! Hour after hour we worked on at bury
ing the Shiloh dead. ! wish could shut
out the memory of that labor from my
mental vision forever.
At Huntington I was again detailed to
bury the dead, amt there helped to bury
700 as fine-looking soldiers as man ever
saw. Here ended my service in this direc-
ton. as l soon after joined the cavalry and
was put upon a new line of duty.
Waverlv, Kansas. G. T. SMITH.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08

Just after the enemy had been driven
% PACK on the ground he had gained during
the night at Fredericksburg, on December
To- Your humble servant went looking
t, the battle field. There was snow on
ene ground, and was barefoot. l came
acloss l9s supposedly dead Yank, with a
peau'l1ul pair OF No. boots on. Thinks
l., never did take anything from dead
ara t,o, out am barefooted and where you
Will take these. 1 got astriue MS leo and
began to pull. Imagine NV horror fs;s ahu
and how ran for about two hundred rerds
upon his giving me a kick. He was not
hu'1' but lying there in order to be can,nred '
ONE-EYR ONE.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08
Stories OF the Shark.

A French naturalist asserts tina,
shark prefers white men to Olg
which we believe is pretty well kDo,
but he goes on to pay us, as p 9Sst
o curious compliment by saying 1l n'
all persons sharks like Hng1lsI1 a
most. The same gentleman oes Ii
that shark cut open at Malse e.
was found to contain man clau y
NOR in its stomach, while INSIDE - y,
other shark there was found a ".
horse! It is comforting to rsa Nj !
the shark is kind to its young 'a ss
its infant into it's stomach 10 Cav n
danger. One would think su u =. ,ao
Of virtue entirely above shark III III
nature, and that if ever it dld s" 1r
its offspring it would be rather 10 y {,
it than to preserve it.-Lon"'" ''
H9snBI
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08

Like all other articles Of trade. cH
has shown wide variety of quotatl|
During the rebellion it rose FROM
pound to $40, and when the ineVlt1
shrinkage took place q number
operators were ruined. The NAL
has gradually declined until thep
ent low figure, and this decline has
to drop in morphia. The Amen Sl'
population, for instance, has bal
doubled since the opening OF the
war, but the importation of opium
increased nearly seven-fold during
interval. Taking the year lsov,
annual report, made up within II,
months of that date, was {.
pounds. Last year, however, II
All, 276 pounds, or more than 20
this being an increase over the prev
year Of sixty-nine tons. Truly one
ask whittier we are drifting. --ho'
ter Chronicle,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08

flags, to the National Cemetery, and gave
him all the honors of military burial. In
the afternoon of one of the hottest days of
the Southern summer they marched III
procession over the two miles of dusty
road, and as the sun went down fired
farewell shot over the Generals grave.
Then covering it with flowers, they left him
in the peaceful biyouac of the dead.
The deceased soldier was Philadel-
phian, and when the Mayor of Philadelphia
heard of the "brotherly love" of the Mobile
Rifles, he sent them on autograph letter Of
thanks. accompanied by u beautiful foral
tribute.
Surely this little incident is an earnest Of
united interests, and proof that ever and
always
1.-THE bravest are tho tenderest.
The loving arc the daring
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08
The BOldnn Ruko

"The Bolden Buke" is small folio
deposited in the office of the bishops
auditor at Durham, England. In this
ancient record roll" we find the first
tra' of the Washington family, therein
called Ode Wessyngton. "Near the
close OF the twelfth century a
seryey was made, by orders of Bishop
do Pusaz, of all the lands of the see,
held in demesne, or by tenants in vi
lanage," and the. record was in book
called "The Bolden Buke," because
the parish of Bolden occurred first in
alphabetical arrangement.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08

CAPTAIN ALBERT CuTHBERT, of
Prince Albert, N. w. T., Inspector of
mounted police in the Saskatchewan
district, in the northwestern portion of
the Dominion, says the half-breeds do
not feel bitter over Riel's downfall and
execution, but generally rejoice over it,
and say that his punishment was just.
Captain Cuthbert does not think there
will be any more serious uprisings in
tie Northwest.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08
GEN. Phil SHERIDAN delivered the
following speech at the Creston Iowa)

GEN. Phil SHERIDAN delivered the
following speech at the Creston (Iowa)
soldiers reunion:
came here to-day to sec you and talk with
you and shake hands with you, while Col Carr
and Others, you know, came here to mako elo-
quent addresses for you to listen to think
he has bcen too eulogistic of me in his remarks.
1t is true have fought in almost everybody
army, from Pea Ridge to Appomattox, and al
though fought with cavalry and with infant
ry and on every line of operation, and always
had to change and take new men ON new lines,
was very successful. went through all the
grades in tho regular service, and the date OF
every commission that have is the date of u
battle Now, want to say to you, comrades,
this, that am indebted to the private in the
ranks for all this credit that has como to me.
He was the man who did tho fighting, and the
man who carried the muskct is the greatest
hero of the war in my opinion. was nothing
but an agent. knew how to take care of men.
know what soldier was worth, and knew
how to study the country so as to put him in
right l knew how to put HIM in battle
when one occurred, but l WAS simply the
agent to take care of him, and he did the
work Now, comrades, these are common
sense things, and l can't say them in very
! tiowery language; but they are true. ncverthc-
less, and they are true not of ME alone but of
everybody else. 1t is to the common soldier
that we are indebted for any credit that came
to ns. Now, am glad to see you here to-
day, gentlemen, and am glad to be with you
on this occasion. There are many men here
to-day who served i'll the field with me, and il
| has been great pleasure to me to find them
out and they have been very kindly to me in
! their remarks to me- While they were with
me l certainly did all could for them
often laid awake all night planning for thei,
welfare, and l never killed man unneces
sarily. One great trouble with men who com
mand troops is that they kill men unneces.
sarily. Iou may kill as many men as you
please if you give them an equivalent for the
loss. Men do not like to be killed for moth
ing; they do not like to have their heads
ra1nmed against stone wall, unless for gooc
results. Those are the points made during
| the war Whenever l took men into battle
gave them victory as the result of the en-,
gaScment, and that was always satisfactory.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08
A Consolation to the South.

General D. H. Hill contributes to the
Century paper on "The Battle of South
Mountain, or Boonsboro From it we
quote the closing paragraph:
IF we had to be beaten, it was better to
be beaten by former friends. Every true
soldier loves to have a foeman worthy of
his steel Every true man likes to attrib-
ute high qualities TO those who were once
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08
The Cut Killed Him.

well, poor Jones died last ,. n'S']]
"Is it possible? I didn't n, ,a;nt
was sick. What was the comP''r nj
20, he died from the effects OF Ia !. "
"How sad! was it q large cut! II
"No, it was q small cut; Jus
very fatal nature. -
Indeed; pray tell me abou' III hi,ost
1T was small wood-cut OF ~ I'D dai
which was published in one OF w oy
papers. When he saw it ne leu arv, :
at once and died in great ae0'
Lynn Union.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08

SENATOR HEARsT's career ct Wash
ington was not altogether barren. He
introduced q new cocktail from Cali
fornia called "the cowboys dream, {"
which is said to be peculiarly search
ing in its operations on the internal
system of the average Congressman"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08
a Touching Incident.

We find the following incident of gen.
ZINE humanity i'll the correspondence of the
Detroit FIRE Press, and commend it as
touchlngly significant of the good feeling
existing between the military people of the
North and South, occurring recently at
Mobile, Ala. \ General of the United
States army was on his way from Arizona
TO New York, where he pulposed entering
a surgical college to have a difficult opera
ton performed. AS the train bearing him
approached Mobile, his aid saw that he
was rapidly becoming very i'll, and tele-
graphed ahead for assistance to convey
him to hospital. DR.. Hutton, the Medi
cal Superintendent Of the Marine Hospital.
was at the depot with attendants and a car
riage The invalid was comfortably placed
IN it with the gentlest and most assiduous
attention, but he died within sight OF the
building, a stranger in a strange land.
The next day DR.. Hutton, who will be re-
membered as a former Detroiter, tele-
graphed to the family of the dead officer in
Arizona for instructions as to the disposal
OF the remains, and received in reply:
Bury him where he died"
AS soon as the Mobile Rifles had heard
that
"A soldier of the legion
Lay dying in Algers,"
they hastened to his help. But he was
already dead, and it only remained for
them to do honor to his memory. This
they did by taking upon themselves the
performance of the last rites; as though the
dead stranger had been one of their own
comrades. They carried him, draped with
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08

Ar the Mechernich Lead Works in
Germany the tallest chimney in the
world has recently been completed. 1t
is 440 feet high, six feet more than the
famous chimney of the st. Bollox
Chemical Works, Glasgow, Scotland,
which, until the German one was built.
was without rival. The fue of the
Mechernich chimney is eleven and a
half feet in diameter at the bottom, and
ten feet at the top.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08

The late Mr.. Tilden was celebrated
for his ehivalry. One day, shortly be-
fore his last illness, young girl called
to see his nieces. MIR. Tilden came
into the room and insisted upon her re-
naming to dinner. Her seat was beside
the host, and there were several guests
present, all in elaborate dinner cos
tune and adorned with beautiful flow
ers. When Mr.. Tilden noticed that his
young friend had no corsage bouquet,
he quietly gave orders that flowers be
brought. The servant soon appeared
with bunch of exquisite flowers, more
beautiful than any at the table, and Mr..
Tilden handed them to the young girl
with one of the charming speeches for
which he was famous.