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Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

James Allan, formerly a clerk with
Booth & Webster Of this city. who has
for several months been suffering from
heart disease, left w. ]. Thornby's
ranch, near Hermosa, where he has
been stopping for the past three weeks,
for his home in TROY, New York, on
Wednesday. Very little hope Of his
recovery was entertained at the time of
his departure, az he had been failing
rapidly for a number Of days. His de.
parture under the circumstances will be
deeply regretted by his many friends in
this place By whom he was held in the
highest esteem.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

A few months since the Hot Springs
Company, through their secretary, in
closed two season bath tickets, III an
envelope and by mistake addressed
them to a brother of the editor of this
paper at Custer. Our infant brother
being at that .ime absent in Ohio, we
forwarded the letter to him, which he
recently returned TO us, with the tickets,
recommending the CHRONICLE force to
proceed to the springs and wash up,
which we shall probably do in the sweet
bye and bye. Thanks.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

A few days ago, Mr., Burgess, an
electrician, while in the act Of testing
the electric lights at Rapid, accidentally
let his hand come in contact with a
heavily charged wire, resulting in Civ
ing him a VIOLENT shock, which knocked
him senseless for an hour or two, after
having received no serious injury. The
effect of the fluid in the Republican
office, and the Park Hotel Is said TO have
been more serious III its effects.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13
New fall stock just opened at
Booth K Webster's.

A special from Count Fallover, Of
Turnover, Russia, is withheld out Of
pure regard for our readers jaws, which
might result in dislocation in the fruit
less effort to grasp pronunciative ac-
curacy on the word "subranje."
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13
Coming Back.

We are pleased to learn that Mr..
Odo Reder, Of Hill City, who has some
time since sold his property at that
place to the Harvey Peak Tin Company,
has recently purchased from Il. Witke,
three lots on Seventh street in this city,
upon which he has decided to erect II
fine residence early next spring. Mr..
Reder formerly resided in Custer City,
and is thoroughly familiar with the
peculiar advantages the place offers TO
those seeking "a permanent location.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

The official canvass of the vote Of the
county for the Office Of treasurer shows
a remarkably close run, +. II. Flynn
having received barely one vote in ex-
cess Of the number cast for his com
petitor, j. b. Dickover. This is proba.
bly, the closest contest for a county office
that occurred in any Of the Black Hills
counties.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

u. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor II. II.
White Of the Northern Hills, arrived in
this city on Wednesday. The object of
Mr.. Whites mission to this section is
the making of complete surveys of a
number of mining claims, prominent
among which is the Climax, mica and
Spruce Bend gold lodes.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13
PERSONAL.

K. Coats of Hill City was in town on
Saturday.
Pat Lynch Of the Gap called on Custer
On Monday.
w. II. Slaughter Of the Y T. ranch
came i'm on Thursday.
w. ii. Beadle of Oelrichs was a Gus
ter visitor on Saturday.
j. S. White was in from the Missing
Link tin group Oh Sunday.
Gilbert Tower came in from Noun
tain Meadow on Monday.
n. Fredrickson of Box Elder was a
visitor in Custer on Monday.
&. l.. Conger Of Buffalo Gap made
Custer a brief visit on Sunday.
&c. Spencer wac a visitor in the city
from the l. \ Il ranch Oh Monday.
w. n. Walker and wife of Hermosa
were registered at the Vienna on Sun
day.
p. Duff, Paul Pierce and B. Allan Of
Buffalo Gap came in from that place OH
Thursday.
j. 4. Barnes and James Young of
French creek were in the city on bust
ness on Monday.
A. X Davidson of Chicago was holding
commercial interviews with Custer mer-
chants on Monday.
q. A. Turner and Geo. Bullion of Fall
River county were kleemann House
guests on Tuesday.
T.. j. Stumpf was interviewing our
business men on Thursday in the inter
ests of a st. Joe firm.
Bruce Moore, James Mccoy and Chas.
Soyter, of S%undance, were at the klee-
mann House on Saturday.
NJ. II. Barry, one Of Chicago's numer-
GUS commercial representatives, made
Custer a business call on Tuesday.
T. w. Webster came in from the I A
X rnnch on Saturday, and will remain
in this place with his family during the
winter.
jeff McDermott and wife, f. G. Hunt,
j. 7. Foran, James McConn, and John
Truax came in from the Avondale Mig
gerville) hydraulic mines on Saturday.
Mr.. ID. Wolzmuth Of Salt creek re-
turned to this place from Buffalo Gap
on Thursday, with his wife and two
children, who had just arrived from the
east.
Mrs. Belle Dewitt, Of Carrollton,
Iowa, a daughter of II. 2. Blevins, of
Lightning creek, near this place, arriv-
ed, in this city on Thursday. Mrs. De
| Witt left on the same day with her
father for his homo on Lightning creek,
where she will probably spend the
winter.
F.. II. Flynn, J. B. Dickover, and w.
II. Frye, of Buffalo Gap, the former the
treasurer elect of Custer county, the in
termediate, his late opponent, and
almost elected, and the latter the sue
~cessful candidate for prosecuting attor-
ney in the late campaign, arrived in
this city on Monday, the two former for
the ostensible purpose Of reaching more
definite conclusions relative to the
mutability Of late political events, and
the latter to arrange certain legal mat
ters, made necessary by the near ap-
proach Of the fall term Of the district
court.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13
Married.

In Rapid City on the 9th inst. by Rev.
Father Rosen, of Lead City, Mr.. Paul
Rewman to Miss Frances Beuter, all OF
Deadwood.
Hello, Paul! The CuRoNICLE congrat-
ulates you on the happy event.
AT Hermosa, on the eth inst. Mr.. w.
y. Walker to Mrs. May Wilson, both of
that place.
The CHRONICLE wishes them unalloyed
happiness.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

The Park Hotel in Rapid has again
changed landlords, Professor Bailey
having withdrawn, j. w. Zollers has
taken possession, and as he is reported
as being a very successful hotel man, it
is possible that he may make the house
pay.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

G. f. Bishop has been succeeded by
John p. McManus as editor of the Rapid
Republican. We infer from n very UNI
favorable mention of the retiring editor
in that paper, that he has returned to
his former home in New York.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

A rumor is current indicating the in
auguration of extensive operations in
the near future on one of the prominent
tin mines in Warren's gulch. We hope
to give further particulars in our next
issue.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13
Ten Cent Literary Social and Musical En-
tertainment.

The ladies of the w. G.. I. L. will give
a ten cent l.. :. and VI. Entertainment
at the Congregational Church on Thurs.
day evening, November 18th. Vocal
and instrumental music, select readings
and dialogues will be leading features
Of the entertainment, which will be of
a social character, ignoring the usual
formality. The entertainment will be
well worth the nominal sum charged
for admission.
The Committee.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

We present in this Issue the official
vote of Custer county, which slightly
changes the unofficial table appearing
in our last issue. This table may be
relied upon as being absolutely cor
rect.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

A very pleasant dancing party trans
pired at the court house hall in this city
on Monday evening, which was inn
provised in behalf Of W.. N. Walker, of
Hermosa, and Hy Monheim, Of Dead
wood. who were visitors in this place.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

The Ladies Of the Congregational
Society will serve dinner and Supper at
Haserodt's hall. on south side Of Custer
Avenue, on Thanksgiving day. The
patronage of the public is respectfully
solicited. Meals 50 cts each.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

Iron has been laid on the Cheyenne
Northern Railroad forty miles north
from Cheyenne. 1t is expected that the
road will be completed to Bordeaux
this fall.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

The Battle River Pilot has changed
the course of the craft a point to wind
ward, and We wonld not be surprised,
[barring the breakers] if she anchored
permanently in a republican harbor at
no distant day.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

The year 1886 will be long remem-
bered in this locality, for its even
temperature, delightful weather, and
%infrequent of storms.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

1t is a noticeable fact that the words
take something" are less frequently
used since the late election, and that,
the average citizen must now largely
depend upon his individual resources to
secure life's liquid luxuries.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

Eggs are quoted at ten cents a dozen
in the states, while in Custer they are
an unknown quantity at 50. We will
have ours fried and turned over-when
we have them.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

The fall term Of the district court con-
vened in Rapid on Tuesday, and it is
reported that court will convene in this
place on the 23d inst.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

L. Fish came in from Hill City on
Thursday for the purpose Of procuring
additional men to work on the Tin
Reef
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

The president has issued the custom
airy proclamation designating Thursday,
November 25th, rs a day of ~thanksgiv-
ING.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

The largest stock of groceries, dry
goods, and general merchandise in the
Southern Hills at Booth * Webster's.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

For fresh candy, genuine HAVANA
cigars, all kinds of pipes, go to Cochran's
where they sell cheap.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

A night shift was put on at the Tin
Reef on the 18th.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

4 full car Of the celebrated Rushford
wagons, the best wagon made, at T. v.
Garlock's.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

The Farmers Daughter is a cook
stove, the best stove made. 1t is sold at
j. Cochran's.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

Charleston is still experiencing period
ical tremors, quite a severe shake &C.
cnrred there On the 9Th inst.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

| am prepared to ship Venison and
Antelope in any quantity, and can guar.
antee as good a price as the market will
warrant.
A. Il. Van Devort, Buff..,o Gap.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

Cochran's for groceries and hardware,
the cheapest house in the Hills, and the
best goods in the market.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

The Western Union completed THEN
telegraph line to Deadwood on Satur
day.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

The largest stock Of groceries, dry
goods, and general merchandise in the
Southern Hills at Booth & Webster's.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

The ladies Of the w. G.. T. U. have
recently opened a reading room a
Rapid.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

Monday, November 18th, will be pay
day on the Tin Reef and Missing Link,
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

The Rapid water works have recently
been submitted to a thorough test, and
pronounced perfect.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

Sewing machines repaired at
Z. V. Garlock's.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

New fall stock just opened at
Booth & Webster's.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

Silver was quoted at 99J in New York
on the 9Th.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

Buy the New Home sewing machine,
for sale by r. V. Garlock
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13
For Sale.

1000 bushels of oats. 1000 bushels
potatoes. Forty tons Of hay. Fifteen
head of steers, ranging from two to four
years old five head Of COWS, from two
to six years old. For further particu-
lars apply to
G. II. GREEN & Sons,
at their ranch, three miles southwest of
Custer City.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

Rapid is doing the wind work on the
erection Of "A ?0-ton smelter.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

If you want a good partner get the
Farmers Daughter.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

Get an honest partner, the Rushford
wagon, at Il. V. Garlock's.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

A car load of apples to arrive at
Hitchcoek's; TO be sold cheap.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

Mark ID. Scott has retired from a posi-
ton on the Lead City Tribune.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

Fresh home made candies at Wheeler's
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

No. 7 cook stoves, $500; No. 8, $1,000.
A. Il. Van Devort, Buffalo Gap.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

Assaying done at Booth d Webster's
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

Assaying done at Booth & Webster's.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-01-28
EDUCATION IN THE SOUTH.

The reconstruction policy that followed
the late civil war extended suffrage to mil
lion or more of freedmen who were entirely
uneducated as class and entirely untrain-
ed in any of the responsible duties of citi-
zenship. There was every reason why the
Southern States should deny education to a
servie race, as education could only endan-
ger the tranquility of slavery, and it is not
Surprising that the poorer class of whites in
the South present larger percentage of
lliteracy than is found in the North, where
free schools have been established for half
a century. 1t is too late to inquire into the
wisdom of enfranchising the colored men
who were freed from bondnge and clothed
with all the prerogatives of citizenship.
That has been done and it will not be un-
done. There is special force in the argu-
ment, now that the passions of sectional strife
have perished, that suffrage should have
been limited to the standard of intelligence,
but it is too late. The South has the power
to practically disfranchise the colored citi-
zens, but it will not be done, because the
limitation of voters would be followed by
a corresponding limitation in representa-
tive power in the popular branch of Con-
gress and in the Electoral College.
Universal suffrage, regardless of race,
condition or property, is now the irrevoca-
BILE policy of the Republic, and that COM
pels us to look squarely in the face the ap
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-01-28

palling fact that ninety per cent. of the
whole colored vote of the South cannot read
the ballots they vote, and tWenty-four per
cent. of the white voters of the same Sec
tion are equally ignorant. In South Caro-
lima more than one-half of all the voters,
| white and black united, cannot read their
ballots, and in Mississippi, Louisiana and
Georgia, only small fraction more than
one-half of all the voters can tell, from their
tickets, for whom they cast their votes:
These statistics are furnished by the official
census reports of 1880.
1t must not be assumed that the South
ern States have been remiss in enlarging
facilities for popular education since the
war. On the contrary, considering their
resources and their extreme necessities,
they have greatly surpassed the North in
their efforts for the education Of both races.
The good work was hindered by the pro-
tligacy of carpet-bag rule, that collected
school taxes and promised education to the
colored race, but wasted or stole most OF the
school revenues. Since the reconstructed
States have been allowed home rule they
have made marvellous strides in popular
education. South Carolina, where war left
its legacies in direst vengeance and desola-
ton, pays nearly half as much for free
schools as does Pennsylvania, and employs
more colored teachers than are employed IN
all the Northern States combined, while
Mississippi, the only other Southern State
in which the colored race predominates,
offers better advantages to colored pupils
for higher education at the cost of the State
than does Pennsylvania.
The plain duty of the nation is to give its
voters, with whom are lodged the sover-
eign powers of the Government, the highest
possible standard of intelligence, for only
in intelligence and virtue is there safety for
free government. How the problem is to be
solved how education can be so diffused
as to rescue the supreme power OF great
States from the domination of ignorance,
is question of the gravest moment. Earn
est men have proposed q comprehensive
scheme of education by the General Gov
ernment, but the country halts at the scores
of millions necessary to carry it into effect,
and many hesitate at any system of govern
mental power in the South that could be
prostituted to partisan ends; but the facts
that full million and quarter Of voters
in the South are unable to read their bal
lots that the whole nation has pledged its
faith to the improvement of the freedmen,
and that every intelligent citizen of every
section is Immediately interested in eleva-
ting the standard of intelligence among
those who may control the destiny. Of our
larged educational facilities in the Southern
States. They have done their part gene
rously, and will doubtless multiply and ex-
tend their schools as rapidly as their re-
sources shall be increased; but they are un-
equal to the great work, and the nation
should extend helping hand in justice to
itself as the eXemplar of popular govern
ment among the peoples of the earth.-FhH-
tdelohia Times
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-01-28

TooMBs AND HALE.-While a member
of the United States Senate Robert Toombs'
style of oratory and arguments is repre-
sented to have been such that his opponents
were wary in in attacking him. The late
Hon. John. p. Hale, of New Hampshire,
who is reputed to have possessed the facul-
ty Of apt and good-natured repartee, on one
occasion entered the lists with the Southern
Senator, and certainly was not Worsted by
the encounter. Soon after Hales admis-
sion to the the Senate he delivered a speech
on the slavery question, and was answered
by Mr.. Toombs, who said that, Judging
from the tenor of speech of the gentleman
from New Hampshire, he must be the char
acter of whom Shakespeare spoke
Hail horrors hail ="
"However this might be-" replied Hale,
"there was no question but the gentleman
from Georgia was the one to whom Watts
refers when he says
'Hark! from the Toombs a doleful sound,
Mine ears attend the cry"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-01-28

TEMPERANCE IN THE SOUTH.-Among
the encouraging signs of the times is the
rapidly-increasing interest in the cause of
temperance of late in the Southern States.
The State of Georgia leads the way, but
in nearly all the Southern States there ex-
lists an active and rapidly-extending agita-
tion for the suppression of the liquor traf.
large breweres and distilleries are features
of the situation i'll The South which explain
in large part the relatively more rapid prog
ress in that part of the country.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-01-28

MEXICAN SILVER MoNEY.-San Fran
cisco, it is believed, is the only city in the
United States in which the exchange of
Mexican dollars is extensively conducted,
and is one of the only two cities in the
world where the business is largely trans
acted-the other being London. The Mexi-
can dollar is an ugly ill-stamped, badly
milled silver disk of grains, but it has been
accepted as the standard coin of China for
nearly thirty years and has steadily grown
in use and favor, notwithstanding the anus
ing episode of the trade dollar, with its
APO grains and English die-sinker.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-01-28
TAX RETURNS FOR Iss5.s6.
OFFICE OF COUNTY AUDITOR,


|
YORK COUNTY.
YORKvILLE, S. c., November 30th 1885.
TN compliance with law, the TAX BOOKS OF
/ YORK COUNTY, for fiscal year 1856, will
open on the FIRST DAY OF JANUARY, 1886,
and CLOSE ON THE GOTH OF FEBRUARY,
1856, after which time penalty of fifty per cent.
will be added to the property of such taxpayers
who fail to make returns in the time prescribed
above. This applies as we'll to REAL ESTATE
as to PERSONAL PROPERTY. There will be
a RE-ASSESSMENT Of real property by the
township boards. For the convenience Of tax
payers will attend at the following places and
the times stated, for the purpose Of receiving
the returns Of taxpayers:
At Rock Hill, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednes-
day, Thursday and Friday, January 18th, 10Th,
9th, 2Sth and 10Th, 1886.
At Coates Tavern, on Saturday, January 3Oth,
1886.
At Fort Mill, on Monday, Tuesday and We'd
nesday, February 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 1886.
And at Yorkvile, from February 4th to Feb
ruary Goth, 1885, inclusive.
I request taxpayers to meet me in their re-
spective townships, and thus avoid the usual rush
at the office in Yorkville.
w. B. WILLIAMS,
Auditor York County.
December3 40 If