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The Daily telegraph., 1886-06-29

tied their horses to trees, came out and
fought on foot.
AS soon as Reno was beaten and
driven back across the river, the
whole force force turned on Custer and
fought him until they destroyed him.
Custer did not reach the river but was
met about half mile up tho ravine,
now called Reno Creek. They fought
soldiers and beat them back, step by
step, until all were killed.
One of Major Ren0's officers confirms
this, saying, cit was probably during
this interval of quiet on Reno's part
that the Indians massed on Custer and
annihilated him.
Ihe Indians ran out Of ammunition
and then use arrows. They fired from
behind their horses. The soldiers got
the shells stuck in their guns and had
to throw them away. They then
fought with little guns (pistols).
Tho Indians were in couples behind
and in front of Custer as he moved,
up the ridge to take his position, and
were just as msny as the grass.
The first two companies (Keogh'i
and Calhoun's) dismounted and fought,
on foot. They never broke, but re-
tired step by step, until forced back
to the ridge upon which all finally
perished.
They were shot down in the line
where they stood. Keogh's company
rallied by company and were all killed
in bunch.
| (This statement seems to be borne
out by facts, as thirty-eight bodies of
Keogh's men were found. piled in a
heap).
The warriors diverted theil special
fire against the trooper who held the
horses while the others fought. AS
soon as the householder was killed, by
waving blankets and great shouting
the horses were stampeded, which
made it impossible for the soldiers to
escape.
Afterward the soldiers fought des-
perately and hard and never surren.
dered. They fought standing. They
fought in line along ridge. As fast
as the men fell the horses were herded
and driven toward the squaws and old
men, who gathered them up.
When Reno attempted to find Gus
ter by throwing out skirmishSline
Custer and all with him were dead.
When the skirmishers reached the
high point overlooking Custer's field
the Indians were galloping around
aud over the wounded, dying and
dead, popping bullets and arrows into
them. When Reno made his attack
at the upper end he killed my two
squaws and three children, which
made my heart bad. then fought
with a hatchet (Which meant of course
mutilating the soldiers bodies.)
The soldiers ran out of ammunition
early in the day. Their supplies of
cartridges were ia the saddle.pockets
of their stampeded horses. The Indi-
ans then ran up to the soldiers and
butchered them with hatchets. A lot of
horses ran away and jumped into the
river, but were caught by the squaws.
Only fOrty,three Indians were killed
The Daily telegraph., 1886-06-29
HON. DANIEL MANNING INTER-
VIEWED

HOT SPRINGS, Va, June 29.-Since
his departure for Washington, the
Hon. Daniel Manning has been rapi d.
ly regaining his old-time vigor and
strength in the quiet seclusion iu one
of the summer resorts of the Old
Dominion way up in the Virginia
bills. AT the springs he is enjoying the
much-needed and well>earned rest
which his physicians deemed advisa-
bic tor him 10 take. But even in this
seclusiOn he does not permit himself
to lose track of what is going on in the
world, but keeps track through the
newspapers and through conversations
with persons who visit him there of
what is going on at home and abroad,
in affairs Of government and politics,
which especially interests him. In a
casual conversation with a gentleman
who spent some hours with him he
expressed himself very freely in re-
gard to the discussion in the House of
Commons of Mr.. Gladstone's home
rule bill. He said that he found great
satisfaction in the sudden, and what
he believed to be, the permanent
growth in England of the American
doctrine OF states rights, and COM
munity independence as opposed to
centralized power, whether in London
or Washington, and as opposed to
centripital tendencies of all govern
ments, the evils of which tendencies
in our government gave him much
solicitude while actively concerned in
the administration of the treasury
OF the pending discussion of home.
rule, he said the discussion of the
future government of Ireland which
80 profoundly Interests those of the
Irish race in America, will tend to re-
vive in our own administration the
memory and the learning Of the Dem.
ocratic statesmen of the earlier days
who believed and taught that our own
experiment of empire on the Ameri-
can continent can only be succe .sful by
the maintenance of local autonomy, the
severance and distribution of IeglsIa-
tive and executive powers over local
affairs and Jealous application among
our own States on the principle of the
remedy proposed by Mr.. Gladstone for
Ireland. l am confident, continued
Mr.. Manning, that the burning issue
over Ireland will tend to promote a
repeal at Washington of the great body
of legislation in regard to the super
vision of elections and other subjects
of purely local concern put upon and
now standing even at this late day in
the Federal statute book, which legis-
lation, in an area of reconstruction
under the influence of sectional pres
judice and passion was placed there by
Republican Congress. 1t was the
canvass of Mr.. Tilden in 1886, he
added, and the result Of that canvass,
Notwithstanding its perversion by the
electoral commission, which cons,rain-
ed Hayes to abstain from the longer
application of unconstitutional military
forces in the Southern States and to
recognize the local autonomy and the
independence of the States, which rec-
ognition Immediately put an end to
the manifestation of hostile feelings
against the North and restored the
Union. II was to perfect the Union in
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-16
A WILLOW FARM.
An intensive and Profitable Plantati
Near Macon, Georgia.

An intensive and Profitable plantation
Near Macon, Georgia.
About a mile below the city of Macon
is the osier willow farm of Mr.. /. G.
Plant. The willow switches, atthe end
OF two years, are from four to seven
feet long, and are cut and gathered
into punches like sheaves of wheat
IN the stripping building they al1
stepped IN water, and the bark at thg
larger end loosened for a couple Of
inches by machinery. The leaves and
bark are then removed by little mal
chine devised by Mr.. Plant. One BY
one the switches + placed in tht|
mechanical strippcr, and with a pair q
piers 7 pulled through with a sudden
jerk: They arc then wiped of with !
wooden cloth, bundled, and laid away
to dry.
All the leaves and bark are dried any
baled. They are used for medicina
purposes, and command a price u
twenty-five cents Il pound. There ar
at present four hundred thousand VIII
lows growing on the farm, and eigh,!I
thousand additional slips have recently
Deen set out. The entire levee is to "
eventually covered with them, whee
SIXTY acres will be devoted to ts
single crop. The average yield is a w.
10 inc acre. When dried, the willow
commmand two hundred dollars p.
Ton, and find a ready market. -Am'
'cam Druggist.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-16
POSTAGE STAMPS.
How These Indispensable Little Articles
Are Made.

The design of the stamp is engraved
on steel, and, in the printing, plates
are used on which 200 stamps have
been engraved. Two men are kept
busy at work covering these with col
ored inks and passing them to a man
and a girl who are equally busy printing
them with large rolling hand presses.
Three of these little squads are m
ployed all the time. After the small
sheets of paper containing 200 printed
stamps have dried enough they are
sent into another room and gummed.
The gum used for this purpose is a
peculiar composition, made of the
powder of dried potatoes and other
vegetables, mixed with water. After
having been again dried, this time on
little racks famed by steam power for
about an hour, they are put between
sheets of pasteboard and pressed in
hydraulic presses capable of applying
a weight Of 1000 tons. The next thing
is to cut the sheets in tow; each sheet,
OF course, when cut, containing 100
stamps. This is done by Il girl, with a
large pair of shears. cutting by hand
being preferred to that done by ma
chinery, which would destroy too man
stamps. They are then passed to an
other squad Of workers, who ]perforate
the paper between the stamps. Next.
they are pressed once more, and then
packed and labeled and slowed
away to be sent out to the various
offices when ordered. If a single stamp
is torn or in any way mutilated. the
whole sheet Of 100 stamps is burned.
Not less than 100000 are said to be
burned every week from this cause.
Inc greatest care is taken in counting
differing by Ae employees, and it IS said
that during the past twenty years not a
single sheet has been lost in this way''
During the process of m~anufacturino
the sheets are counted eleven lines
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-16
CITY.
The P~eculiarlties OF . Somewhat w..
Summer Resort. "

The Peculiarities OF . Somewhat Not.,
Summer Resort. Nea
At the junction, q small collection =.
wooded shanties, where the trayolo.'
waited an hour, they heard much q,
the glories of Atlantic City from w.
postmistress, who was waiting for nv
excursion some time to go there oha
passion for excursions seems to be ,
growing one), and they made the AZ.
quaintancc of a COW tied in the room
next the ticket Office, probably a]so
waiting for a passage to the city by tho
sea.
And y city it is. If many houses.
endless avenues, sand, paint make ,
city, the artist confessed that this Was
one. Everything was on a large scale.
1t covers a large territory, the streets
run at right angles, the avenues to tho
ocean take the names of the States. Il
the town had been made to order and
sawed out by one man it could not
be more beautifully regular and more
satisfactorily monotonous. There is
nothing about it to give the most com.
monplace mind in the world a throb Of I
disturbance. The hotels, the chcap
shops, the cottages, are all of wood,
and, with three or four exceptions in
the thousands, they are all practically
alike, all ornamented with scroll-work,
as if cut out by the jig-saw, all vividlv
painted, all appealing to a primi.|
tive taste just awakening to the|
appreciation of the gaudy chrome and|
the Illuminated and %consoling house,
hold motto. Most of the hotels are inl
the town at considerable distance fronnl
the ocean, and the majestic old sea.
which a be monotonous but never
vulgar, is barricaded from the town by|
five or six miles of stark-naked planH
walk, rows on rows of bath Closets
leagues of tiimsy carpentry-work, ind
the way of cheap-John shops, tin-typo|
booths, peep-shows, go-rounds, shoot
ing galleries, pop-beer and cigar shopsI
restaurants, barber shops, photograph
galleries, summer theaters. Sometimes
the plank walk runs for a mile or twol
on its piles, between rows of thesd
shops and booths, and again it dropd
off down by the waves Here and therd
is a gayly-painted wooden canopy BY
the shore, with chairs where idlers can
sit and watch the frolicking in thd
water, or a space rallied off, where thd
select of the hotels lie or lounge in thd
sand under red umbrellas. The calcul
latfng mind wonders how many milliod
feet Of lumber there are in this unpic}
turesque barricadc, and what giganti{
forests have fallen to make this timbel
front to the sea. But there is one thing
mar can not do. He has made thi}
show to suit himself. He has pushed
out several iron piers into the sea, and
erected, of course, a skating rink OF
the end of one of them. But the sed
itself, untamed. restless, shining, dancl
ing. raging, rolls in from the SOUTH
ward, tossing the white sails on its vasl
expanse, green, blue, leaden, white|
capped, many-colored, never two mini
utes the same, sounding with its eteri
nal voice l know not what rebuke I'd
man.-Charles Dudley Warner, in Harl
por's Magazine.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-16
JAcksoN's COMPLAINT.
A Man Who Was Worthy of the General
Confidence and Friendship.

"A Man VIII Was Worthy of the Generally
Confidence and Friendship.
Even so self-reliant a man as Cen
eral Jackson" said II member of Con-
gress to a reporter, chad his confidant,
whom he freely consulted about every
thing, public as well as private affairs.
This friend was Judge Overton, of Ten
nessee, the Generals law partner. When
Judge Overton was on his death-bedhd
directed his wife to bring him all the
letters he had ever received from Jack
son. They had all been preserved,
even the most uninportant of them.
There were enough to more than ill d
bushel measure, and there, in his pres
ence, while awaiting death, Judge
Ovcrton had them burned. Upon be-
ing demonstrated against destroying
letters that no doubt contained much
of great value to the political history
of the country, he replied that they
also contained d great deal about indi-
viduals and private matters. General
Jackson was then dead, and his old
partisan was unwilling to 1un the risk
of having the confidence of his illus.
trious friend violated. Judge Overton
remarked, by way of excuse for the de-
struction of the letters, that their con-
tents related to the private and public
conduct of many people covering the
period of General Jackson's entire pub
lie service. He said some of the letters
contained charges which the writer
had lived to learn were unfounded and
unjust, and for the valuable public in'|
formation contained in the correspond
ence it would not do to risk an expc|
sure of the personal matters involved
SO the letters were all burned.-W Wash
ington Star.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-16
..v,RruE IS HER OWN REWARD"

.Her own reward" and yet the very noblest
That ever r~eoompensed the souls of men
For all the weight of suffering and of sad
For iii the anguish of tho might have
BEEN"
Each act of virtue is the sure unclasping
OF chains that bind the spirit to the earth,
Tho glorious winning of that proud position
That fits u thing of an immortal birth.
stHer own reward" for earth can find no other
TO offer him who kneels ut that fair shrine.
Behold! her glad Shckinah shines upon him,
And in that light he groweth half divine.
The slaves of earth may claim her paltry
treasures.
What could she gather from her poisonous
sod
As fitting guerdon for that pure endeavor
Whose sweet reward is fellowship with
God?
-A1uru e. Vandyhc, IN Harper's Weekly.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-16
"A Wellington Kan.) paner SAWS

VcITTHSU0H TINd1.J pHpCT sIyB:
Beavers have cut down about one hun
dred trees, large and on Fall Creek,
Bluff County. during the past winter
and built a complete dam across the
stream. They cut some trees eighteen
inches in diameter, and tioated their
logs nearly mile down the stream.
They provide against dry weather by
damming the streams and backing thu
water SO it will net run out.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-16

When Thebaw and his retinue were
landed as prisoners at Madras and
turned over to a burly Scot on duty
there, the officer who had brought them
demanded a receipt. The Scotchmaa
promptly made it out somewhat as fol-
lows: Received of Colonel Willoushbv
one king, two queens, thirteen maids
OF honor, etc, as per invoice"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-16

A nan aged sixty-tive years, who
claims never to have had a tooth, hiss
been brought forward in New London.
Conn.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-16

At 2 recent temperance meeting in
Youngstown, o.. Mrs. Knight, a saloon
keeper, signed the pledge and ut onos
put her faith into works by turnino her
saloon into coffee house.-Gereiaad
Leader
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o EXTRACT"
How 1t Is Used in the Manufacture Of
Wooden Goods and Carpets.

Shoddy is the product of WOODEN
rags torn by machinery into fiber. A
variety made from hard woolens, like
broadcloth, is known as mungo. Manu-
facturers like to designate it as 'twool
extract better than as shoddy, because
the production gained a bad reputation
at the beginning of the war, when un-
scrupulous manufacturers put from
sixty to eighty per cent. of shoddy into
the clothing intended for Uncle Sam.
the result being that in a short time it
faded away like the morning dew. So
the word ''shoddy' became a reproach.
Wooden goods made with skill with not
over thirty-eight per cent. of shoddy are
equal in appearance and for wear to
those made from pure wool. In goods
thus made the finish is generally fine,
as the shorter and medium fibers of the
shoddy mix with the longer ones of the
wool and felt into a closer fabric and
have a better ''pilcn to be raised,
sheared and pressed to a fine face.
Thus it has. rightly used, been the
means of giving consumers as good an
article, practically, AS the Atwood, at
a much less price. Probably without
it the present price of wooden garments
would be at least double, and the low
and medium grade goods would be i'm
possible.
1t is well known how largely the
carpet trade has extended within the
past dozen years and how prices have
come down so that carpets are within
the means of all. This is made posi-
BILE from the fact that old carpets can
be torn up and the length of the tibers
allowing them to be re-spun alone, Ger.
tain colors in the carpets can be made
wholly of this carpet shoddy .-Boston
Globe. ~
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-16

Richard w. Belmont, who wa gong
from Denver to the Pueblo Insane Asy-
lum i'll charge of Sheriff Shrock. sprang
through a car window when the train
was running thirty miles an hour.
When the train was stopped Belmont
was seen running owe the prairie un-
hurt. Shrock, after along chase, recap
turea him.--Chicaqo Maj,
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CHAPTER XIV.



Yes: i was Annie, though for time |
could scarcely believe the evidence of my
own eyes, She was 50 white and thin, so
poorly clad, and living in such a den. Truly
her sun had set, and, as predicted, she was
vending her way home. She cried out at
sight of me, and instead of giving me wei
come she hid her face and mOaned. | felt
no animOsity toward her now; whatever she
had done, she had been bitterly punished. l
took her in my arms and tried to comfort
her.
annie" | said, "my poor Annie, tell me
what has happened to you, that L find you
like thiS?'
But she could not answer me for crying.
Then she fell back, half fainting in chair.
We soon discovered the cause of her weak
ness-it was hunger. The poor thing had
spent her last shilling, and had not eaten a
crust since the morning; and, had we not
found her, she would have spent that night
starving in the streets. 1t was the work of a
few moments for John Rudd to run out and
return with some bread and wine. We dip
ped the bread In the wine, and forced her to
eat and after few mouthfuls, she revived
bit The color came into her wan cheeks,
and her eyes grew bit brighter. now had
leiSuie W oU"ei'o nei i'ioio olVoeiy, anu
was hoirlheu u see 'Iiat the clotliihs she
wore was ol lhe poorest, ,i,ueeu, sue was al
most Ill rags every a'aiiaolo aI'iele having
Deeh pa"neu' w Soo'i ieaiiiou' !" heop hei
nom absolute S'ar'atlon'
"hen sue came "noliy W Herself ssaih
sle looked AZ NE learluiiy-ureaains lest
shoulu question: hel asalil' anu 'ioush' !"
better to let my questions rest
Il - ~, 90 lrtr n
Annie, saiu' W you ieei s'ioiis ehousp
W 70 ho"'
10 go, Hughr' she repeated.
Yes; L must take you with me 70 my
rooms. can't leave you here?'
She was too Ill to offer much resistance;
so, after had paid the few shlllmgs that
she was owing, we iett that miserable zen
togeiher-Annie sui falnt ana very weak,
leaning heavily upon me. AFTER ne haa
Drought IN the bread and wine, john hudd
mad quietly Kept IN the background, thlnK-
ing tnat MS presence might serve 10 turtner
upset Annie. lie now as mobtruslvely TOOK
MS departure, after having whispered In my
ear that he would call for US in tie morning.
took his hint, and determined to act upon
IT,
The night was very cold, and as we left
the houses and passed down the street, FAC
ing the chilly wind, felt Annie tremble
violently, so hurried her along and we soon
reached the house where had taken my
rooms. Had not crept into such good odor
through my acquaintance with honest John
Rudd, should have been almost afraid to
take poor Annie into the house; as 1t was, L
| afterward discovered that Jobn Rndd had
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The 9ailg Eight.
TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1886.
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
g.. H. q 8. A. RAILROAD.

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ONE TRAIN TO NEW ORLEANS DAILY.
Through Express East, Daily.
Leave for New Orleans, Hou ton and Calves
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box Of pills. Find out
about them, and you
will always be thank
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ParsOns'Pllls contain
nothing harmful, are
easy to take, and
cause no inconven-