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The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-22
Letter from Gen. w. t. sherman.

ST.. LOUIS, Jan. 12.-Tc Rev. George Nor
rison, Baltimore-Dear Sir: | have re-
ceived your letter OF the 7th with news
paper enclosed. OF course Ihave read care
fully the first volume OF Gen. Grants
memoirs, and regard it as admirable in
every sense, and now await the second
volume, which / doubt not win be equally
valuable and interesting. From the day |
reported to him from Paducah, till his
death, our relations were as brothers
rather than as commander and com
manded, and it is utterly impossible
that | could have written the words as
quoted in the December number OF
the North American Review. | have a
very large correspondence, and converse
freely with thousands OF people, and at IS
natural, as we often speculate, that l
should have considered what might have
been had Gen. Grant gone to the rear and
C.. +. Smith fought the battle OF Shiloh;
what might have been had Washington &C
cepted his warrant in the English navy,
etc: but that | could have written the pos
tive expression hat had G. +.
Smith lived Gen. Grant would have dis
appeared from history is an im~possibility.
Personally ! want to live in peace and
avoid all controversy; but am confident
that in good time we shall learn on what
authority or heresay this publication IL
based. / enclose with this a slip contain
ing my last public utterance about Gen
Grant when / announced his death to his
old comrades to the army ofthe Tennessee
/ don't believe any man living or dead has
borne more willing testimony to Gen
Grants qualities. especially as ~demonstrat'
| ed at Henry, Donelson, Shiloh and Vicks
burg, than myself.
Yours truly, w. L. SHERMAN.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-22

SENATR-A bill regulating interstate com
merce was reported. A resolution to ad-
NIT Senator.elect Moody of Dakota to the
fOor of the senate was objected to and
went over. The bill increasing the salaries
OF United States district court judges to
$4,000 passed.
Mr.. Eustis spoke on silver, assailing the
policy OF President Cleveland.
Mr.. Voorhees, introduced Il bill for the adj
mission Of MOntanN as a state. n bill was
introduced to rcOrganize the steamboat in
spection service.
Senator Henderson introduced in the
senate n bill providing for the appoint
ment OF hospital stewards, [. S. A, and
to fix their pay and allowances.
Senator CockrelI's bill abOlishes the office
OF supervising inspector general OF steam
vessels, and reduces the compensation OF
the ten supervising inspectors from $4,000
to 81, 500.
HOUsE-Bills were introduced for the adj
mission OF Montana; repeating the statutes
imposing taxes on state bank notes; to
create an interstate commerce commission;
to encourage the merchant marine employ
ed in the fisheries; to repeal the taxes on
domestic tobacco; declaring forfeited GER
tain lands granted the Northern Pacific;
giving shareholders the right to vote at
national bank elections.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-22

Eight months ago 225 men were
thrown out of employment in Bay
View, Milwaukee, by a strike OF the
nail mill operators against a reduc-
ton in pay from 81 to II cents, card
rates. Both sides refrm and neither
will make concessions toward an ad-
iustment of the trouble, and the strike
has gone on record as one OF the most
stubborn in the history OF labor
trouble in the country.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-22
Mr.. Gladstone's Irish Bill.

London Special: 1t has transpired
that Mr.. Gladstone's consultations with
leading colleagues have resulted in an
agreement on the general features OF the
Irish measure. Mr.. Gladstone's bill as
finally drafted will run largely OF the lines
of the state legislature Of America. 1t gives
Ireland a real II OF q phantom, national as
semblv. There will be q real ministry,
with absolute control over public offices,
public revenues and public service. The
legislature will be invested with the law
making authority. Ireland will have her
own elections and elect her own legislature,
which will pass its own laws, run its own
revenue and spend its own money. The
imperial functions will be similar TO
those of the federal cOngress-name-
w., control over army, navy, external
relations, customs and internal revenue
The question OF Irish representation IN the
immortal parliament is undecided, but Mr..
Gladstone is stated to be in favor Of lOcaI
and federal representation, as i'll America.
He does not share Mr.. 7. =. O'Connor's
apprehensions OF Irish difficulties in the I'M
Derial parliament. Pelooks with confidence
to the restraining influence Of parties in
Irish national assembly tosafely guardna'
tiOnal and imperial interests. The bill pro-
yides FOR q redistribution OF Irish seats. 1t
viii be seen that Mr.. Parnells Grattar
parliament scheme and Mr.. 7. 2. OCon'
nor's colonial plan are alike rejected in ia
vor Of a modification OF the American leg
~islative system adapted to geographical
and chronological conditions. The Dublin
castle bureaucracy is to be swept away
and leave no trace. One part OF OCon
| nor's colonial plan is likely TO be adopted
namely, the appointment oil a Viceroy'
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-22
rne square Inch

The Massachusetts civil servicec com
mission regulates the appointments
to more than $500 positions in the
public service, and has removed them
from the control of partisan or per-
sonal favoritism, and vacancies are
filed either by appointment Or pro-
motion for ascertained merit without
regard to party attachments or SER
vice. The peculiar feature Of the Mas
sachusetts law is adapted to the Sc
lection OF common and unskilled La
borers in some of the municipal de-
partment. The notion OF making it
apply to laborers on the streets OF
sewers has sometimes been considered
impracticable; but now it appears TIC
be demonstrated that it is as valuable
III making selectionsfor such places Of
forany place. OF course the examma
ton is not of the same character fol
q payer as for . copyist; but it il
equally just in determining his fines:
for employment and equally certain
il securing q preference OF the steady
and ccmpetenz over the drunken ant
incompetent, md in securing al
Against the portability and corruption
<f partisan influence.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-22

Fm;orant rates from New York to Chicar
20 have been reduced to 81.
Robin q Co, oil Halifax, the largest nsn
merchants in the world, have Jailed.
Brown Il Anderstone, brokers az Ns"
York. failed with liabilities OF $4,000.
Prof. Fowler. the phrenologist, was q,
rested at Buffalo for practiclng meuioane
illegally.
Andrew Thompson, at Grand rorns'
feeling the disgrace oil being sent 10 JAN, -
tempted TO kill himself.
Canada's fisheries exhibit win DO packed
up and shipped to London, ior 'u'
colonial and Indian exhibition.
The Canadian Pacific Railway company
has presented a claim OF $700,O0u 20 sno
Rebellion claims commission at Ottawa Ior
transportation services during the War.
The city police win henceiorth NAYS
charge Of Riverside Park and Gen. CRAM
tomb. Thirteen patrolmen and TWO
mounted police have been stationed cneI7'
John s. Emery a CO., an extensive dry
goods firm at st. Joseph, Mo-, have exc
cuted o deed OF trust in favor OF credicors
| 10 the amount Of $50, 600. The frm's ~
| abilities amount to that sum-. The asSeV'
| are $50, 600.
The national convention 81 journeyme,A
| bakers at Pittsburg adjourned alter auopt-
| ing a resolution to boycott oil proprieboto
| who refuse to reduce the hours OF o "
| twelve houra q day. The next convention
win be held in Chicago, Jan. 10, 1857.
Al sensation was created in Omaha by
the institution OF divorce suit againso
Hon. J.. C. Hascoll. Mrs. Hascoll charges
him, with adultery with various women
and also cruelty. Mr.. Hascoll,. on tno
othcr hand, charges his wife with inudeuty
and cruelty.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-22
INDUSTRIAL BRiEFLETS.
Winter Dairying and Other Items Of
General Interest.

General Interest.
Luther Witt, of Plymouth, Wis, re-
ported to the Horticultural society of
that state that he had formerly suffered
the loss of a good many hundred BUSH
els of apples by the apple ~curculio. But
he had found an efficient remedy. The
swine were turned in about the last of
May, and they carefully hunted for ev-
erything that fell from the trees. They
had the run of the orchard till transfer
red to winter quarters. Mr.. W. said
that since he had adopted this practice,
for the past three years, he had not seen
a mark of these insects, nor a wormy
apple. This is the treatment which has
been successfully adopted in plum or
chards at the east, for the plum curcu-
Ito, for the past sixty years. Sheep
have been found better than swine, re-
curing no ringing Of the noses, and
both rendering necessary some protec-
ton of the stems of young trees with
thorns or barb-wires, or board boxes,
but none for large trees.
1t is stated that 'the Jersey cow,
since the very earliest period of which
we have any knowledge of her, has
been subjected to the most intimate and
intense our Of breeding known to
the record of mating animals. The
narrow confines of territory of her
island home, together with the prohib-
itory measures instituted to preserve the
blood pure, made this close breeding a
necessity. No evil consequences OF
note seem to have developed SO far as
we have any account. The cattle. in
their native home. are rugged and
healthy, increasing rapidly in numbers;
each succeeding generation being an
improvement on the preceding one, SC
far as symmetry of form and beauty o.
outline is concerned. The carcass has
obtained about nominal proportions
very little lessening in size having oc-
Cured. -
Dairy Commissioner Rice says tina
dairying in Minnesota was never assum
ing such prominence as tins season
One reason for it Is, the farmers ses
that the wheat crop Is not always heavy
and they are taking to other branche
! of farming. The investigation 70
] facilities for dairying in different states
! made in New York o year or more age
] and the high rank that Minnesota took
together with the results at the Ne,
, Orleans exposition, also leads farmer
! to turn their attention IN this direction.
The famous Lcrillard farm in Ne
? Jersey contains 1000 acres The bar
has stalls for IS horses; 40 hands .
!, 10 teams ara employed in the worl
!, In one building are 200 ssalls for cattl'
I The pigpen is 400 feet long and hold
. 800 hogs The corn-crib holds 1000
bushels Of shellod corn The stable
which the yearlings are housed contain
9 6S box stalls, and the center Of the tire
) sections OF the building i covered wit
glass. and affords q dry place where Il
= colts can exercise ia wet weather
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-22

The postal telegraph bill introduced
by Senator Dawes provides for the
establishment of telegraph Offices in
all postofices, and for the transmits
sion of kilograms by contract with ex-
existing lines. Rates are fixed at 20
sents for 500 miles, and five cents ad-
iitional for every $50 miles, for 20
word messages, provided that no rate
shall exceed Is cents.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-22
Casualty Record.

The Beaver Falls, Pa, Car works foun-
dry and machine shops were burned, to-
pether With the Chinese headquarters and
every building in the square. The loss will
be $250,000.
Henry Jones, ThoisNs johnson and
Richard Brown, OF Dinwiddie county. Va,
attended q dance recently, which kept up
until a late hour. when they started on
their return home. Benumbed with cold,
the three sought shelter ia d stable, where
they were found frozen TO death.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-22

compensation, and when in foreign ports
shall receive and transport any mails Tor
the United States that may be offered
them. Adjourned till Monday.
HorsE.-In the house Mr.. Nelson pre-
scented a p~etition of c. II. Beaulieu, pro-
testing against the lew requiring a mixed
blood Indian to get II permit to trade with
Indians; also a petition of G. H. Beaulieu,
protesting against the action OF Indian
Agent Luxe in e~iecting Beaulieu from there
servation,
The senate bill providing for the presl
Aential succession was debated.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-22

1t is stated that Keene, the actor,
who suffered q stroke OF paralysis at
Omaha, and was obliged TO to cancel
al his engagements, was in the habit
of smoking from twelve to fifteen
black cigars each day.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-22
sExArE-Not in session.

HousE-A bill was introduced repeating
80 much Of the act of June 3, 1872, Rs pro
vides for the exchange and redemption o
subsidiary coin.
The debate on the Hoar presidential sue.
cession bill was concluded, and the bill
passed in the same shape in which it came
from the s~enate-1S3 to II.
The negative vote was cast by Republic
cans and by Messrs. Bennett and Green.
The following named Republicans voted
with the Democrats in the affirmative
Messrs. Allen, Atkinson, Baker, Browne.
(Ind. )Butterworth Cutcheon, Ely, Gallinger
Hayden, Herman, Hiestand, Hiscock, HIT,
James, Johnson N. W, KetCham, La
Toilette, Long, Markham, McComas, Moi
fit, Negley, Payne, Pettibone, Price, Rock.
well, Scranton, Steele, Strait, Struble
~Swinburne, Symes, Wade, Wakefield
Warner (Mo.) and Weaver (Neb).
Adjourned till Monday.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-02-18
Protection Of Water-Pipes.

A device has been brought forward
for protecting water-pipes against freez-
ing, the arrangement being based upon
the fact that water in motion will re-
main liquid at lower temperature
than water at rest. One end of cop
per rod, placed outside of the building,
is secured to bracket, and the other
end is attached to the arm of weight
ed elbow lever; to the other arm of the
lever is secured a rod which passes into
the building and operates a valve in
the water-pipe. BY means of turn
buckles the length of the copper rod
can be adjusted so that before tire tenn
perature reaches the point at which
there would be danger of the water in
the pipes freezing, the valve will be
opened to allow flow of water; De-
yond this point the valve opening will
increase and the flow become more
rapid as the cold becomes more intense,
and as the temperature rises the valve
is closed. This plan sets up current
in the pipes, which replaces the water
as it grows cold by the warmer water
from the main. Whether the valve be
opened or closed the service-pipes are
always in working order.-N. Y. Sun.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-02-18
HINDOO PILGRIMS.
Scenes at Allahabad at the Time of thu
Annual Pilgrimage.

Scenes at Allahabad at the Time Of the
Annual Pilgrimage.
Allahabad is the holy place of the
Hindoos, the city of God. Its halo of
sanctity arises from its location at the
union of the Jumma and the Ganges,
the two sacred streams of India. The
tongue of sandy land at the junction
is the hallowed spot, and here myriads
of the devout resort, like pilgrims to
Jordan, to purify the soul by bathing
and prayer. This custom takes the
form of an annual festival, lasting q
month, when the lOwland at the con-
fiuence becomes vast encampment.
As the HindOo religion works on a cash
basis, these occasions are embraced for
purposes of gain as well as of worship.
Owners of various portable shrines hold
forth their efficacy; Brahmins read the
Shasters in return for piOus offerings;
the makers of gods are present to sell
their wares, and groups of Nautch girls
find an abundant harvest. Traders
erect booths or bazars, and the traffic
in merchandise reminds one of the
great Russian fair of Mini Novgorod.
Every twelfth year, when Jupiter
enters certain sign of the zodiac. oc-
ours the great Mela, as the pilgrimage
is called, when the cOncourse some
times reaches millions. The last took
place in 1882. The holy mendicants al
ways attend the Mela in great num-
bers, begging or exacting food and
money from the great masses. Under
the pretense of sanctity they almost dis
pense with clothing, allow their hair
and beard to grow wild and twist coil
of gray rope about their heads, or else
wear nothing, while they smear face,
breast and limbs with ashes from the
funeral pyres, relieved with daubs of
Ocher and vermillion. During Mela
they inflict a variety of tortures upon
themselves. One, for example, will
bury himself in the ground until only
his nose and mouth are exposed, and
feign to remain several days without
eating getting up in the night, like
the knave he is, and stealing the ma
terial for q hearty meal.-Boston
Herald.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-02-18
EXPOSURE OF STOCK.
Why Batter e Harder In Winter Than -
Summer.

Why Batter e Harder In Winter Than -
Summer.
Why butter is harder in winter than
IN summer depends on seversl causes.
One of the causes is attributed to the
greater combustion of the softer varie-
ties of fat in cold weather. 1t 10 nOto-
rious that all kinds offat are burned up
in the bodies of animals to sustain AMI
NAL heat. and it is equally well known
that the softest and most volatile ones
burn the most rapidly. In the winter.
therefore, when the combustion of fat
in the bodies of animals is greatest, the
heaviest drafts are made upon the most
combustible varieties. and as these are
tile softest, there is left relatively more
hard fat than soft to be secreted in
milk, which makes the butter harder.
We have seen this fact many times con-
firmed by tests of milk from COWS ex.
posed to the cold as compared with
milk from the same COW in more CONF
Portable condition. The more cow is
exposed to the cold, the poorer and
harder her butter. The more comfort
able she is kept, the softer and higher
favored her butter and the more of it.
when all other conditions are equal.
The amount of fat. and flesh also,
burned up in the bodies of cows, and
other cattle as well. in the great West
and Northwest, to restore the heat car
ried away by exposure to the strong.
cold winds of that vast territory, is
enormous, and most of it needless, and
would be obviated if appreciated. The
length of winter and intensity of cold
in all such high ATTITUDES make this
draft SO severe upon stock not well
housed, as to go far toward making
the farmer as well as his butter poor.
There is usually quite wide differ
ence in the density of fat in the sum-
mer and winter food of cows. The fat
in grass yields, on analysis, sixty
per cent. of high-colored and soft, and
forty per cent. pale and hard. When
that grass has become matured and
made into hay, the above proportions
are reversed. There is wider differ.
ence still between the young heritage
of grain and the ripened straw of the
same plant, and the same may be said
of corn slower. As the fat in the food
of COW re-appears in her milk, the
hard, pale fat in her customary winter
food contributes largely to the harder
consistency of the butter made from
her winter milk. Other influences, as
nearing the close of the milking
season and the approach of maternity,
have some effect, but the principal
causes are in the food and exposure to
cold. The treatment of milk and
cream in the manufacture of butter
must be varied to meet these varying
influences if we would be successful in
getting best results. Lice
Stock Journal.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-02-18
A DESPERATE CASE.
The Experiments of n Man Who Deserve
Public Sympathy.

The Experiments of Man Who Deserves
Public Sympathy.
A melancholy man entered a Sixth
avenue toy store the other day, and
YEARLY seated himself on a stool.
Anything 1 can do for you, sill"
asked the clerk.
"Yes," sighed the man; Il want to
die. l am tired of life. want to
commit suicide"
Il don't think 1 can do anything for
Jou," responded the clerk; 1--WE don't
keep poison or firearms here"
Il don't want either. l have tried
them. l have tried everything. This
dependency came on me month or
so ago, and since then 1 have done
nothing but search for death.
went to skating-rink, got over
heated and then went out
doors without my overcoat. Instead
of killing me, this cured chronic case
of bronchitis l have had for ten years.
Next called the biggest man knew a
liar. He admitted the fact without a
struggle. Then ! refused to buy my
wife a seal-skin sacque, and she didn't
whimper. A few days later, maddened
by repeated failures, drank quart of
whisky at one pull, on wager of one
hundred dollars. l won the money
without turning hair. You see how
l have sufrered?"
'.You have had hard time, it is
true" sympathized the clerk.
THAT isn't ALL" continued the suf-
ferer, with sigh: 1.-The other day l
went hunting. and pulled my shot
gun after me over a rail-fence. 1t was
no good. Then blew into the muzzle
to see whether it was loaded. didn't
even snap cap. next tried heroic
methods. 1 got friend of mine to
point pistol at me that he thought
wasn't loaded. The ball missed me by
half-an-inch, and broke a seventy-five
dollar pier-glass. Oh! I'm wretched."
'Well, what can 1 do for you?"
asked the clerk.
II am tired of temporizing any
longer" said the unhappy man; II am
going to make sure job of it this
time"
"How can I assist you?"
Il want to buy a toy-pistol, and if
that doesn't do the work, / shall swal-
low a pound of dynamite, and sit down
on banana-peel If this fails me,
shall move into an absolutely fire. proof
building. and light the kitchen fire
with nOn-explosive kerosene. Good
bye!-Puck.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-02-18
SMOOTH SHOES.
A Terrible Strain to Horses When Roads
Are slippery.


When the roads are icy or the hard
beaten snow becomes slippery, it Is a
cruelty to animals to drive them with
smooth shoes. They are not only
strained by every false step and SUBJ
jected to severe and injurious falls,
but the fear excited by the danger is
torture. The streets of large towns
and cities offer many scenes of this
kind which produce commiseration
for the wretched horses in the minds
of farmers who may happen to view
them. But country jewellers too often
see the same thing happen about them.
There are many ways of avoiding the
evil. 70 preserve the spongy frog of
the horses foot from the too eager
knife of the blacksmith, and leave it
to remain projecting as safety-cush-
ion for the foot as nature intended it,
is one way, and it should never be
neglected, although other precautions
may be taken-such as to use steel
shoes grooved all around and having
sharp edge, and which are made of
steel bars rolled for the purpose; or to
use screw calks of steel which can be
removed when the need for them
ceases; or to adopt the common plan
of sharpening the toe calks, which,
however, is the least desirable and
most costly of all.-N Y. Times.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-02-18
Carnivora in Finland.

How great are still the numbers of
carnivora in Finland may be seen from
the following figures given in the last
issue of the Statistical Year Book" for
Finland. In 1882 not less than 81 bears,
.28 wolves, 4O7 lynxes, 4.OO5 foxes, 76
gluttons. 240 river offers, 14S martens,
1858 ermines and 3, 947carnivorous birds
were killed, for which an aggregate of
FL ,646 was paid in premiums by the
Government. The ravages occasioned
by carnivora the same year were i'm
mense; they are estimateda at 274 horses,
846 horned cattle, 5,246 sheep, l64 pigs,
119 goats, 1851 reindeer and 1856 do
nestle fowls. The greatest number of
bears were killed in Viborg and Ulea-
borg respectively SO and 3O), while
most wolves were killed in the more
densely peopled Government Of Tavas-
tehuus.-N Y Post.