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Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-18

1t is now announced upon authority
so conclusive that the announcement
goes for the truth that Attorney General
Engle was IN Yankton last week for the
purpose OF enquiring into the acts of
the trustees OF the, southern insane
hospital and that o contract for one
hundred cords of soft wood was made
the special object of investigation by
thet official. What the attorney general
ascertained is not known to the public.
It is known that an affidavit was fur
nished him by j. ]. Felber, wood dealer,
but its purport is yet official property.
In connection with this movement
there is Significance in the unusual
activity of three members of the board OF
insane asylum trustees and their friends
in setting up the pins for the coming
republican legislative ticket for this
district. They labored assiduously
along with the old gang to bring about
the nomination of their friends for
legislative positions and may be said in
advance of the convention to have suc-
| oeeded. The combination has been
successful in the three counties of this
legislative district and the final act Of
Parker tomorrow will be merely per-
funetory. The slate will be ratified
through the usual medium of packed
caueuses, and if there Is anything in the
| alleged causes which induced the in,
vestigation by the attorney general. the
election OF the candidates presented by
the Parker legislative convention il
liable to culminate in whitewashine
| process.
| Legislative matters in this district
have fallen into the control of an off
cial combination which seeks not the
interests of the people, but rather the
interests of individuals. and these indi
viduals put forth desperate efforts il
their own behalf, employing such a
yield upquestioned allegiance to thei
methods and repudiating all who fail t.
accord complete subservience to thei
dictation. 1t is under conditions of thi
nature that those who favor politica
purity and the good of the public ar
inclined to rebel against the DONNA
tion OF faction 80 selfish, and that thei
traditional loyalty to party receives
check.
The representatives of the combins
ton will meet in Parker tomorrow an
in the name of republicanism will plac
before the voters of the second distris
a ticket long ago arranged in the
J secret conclaves and studiously keE
: from public inspection pending th
extraordinary struggle for its success
A superfine quality Of bossism We
jaxhihited in the Yankton county r,
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-18
Legislative District Republican
Convention,

A Republican Legislative District Convan-
ton will be held at Parkec, Turner county, on
tuesday, October 10, 1885. at 10 o'clock a. m. to
and three members of the house of represen-
tatiyes for the. second Legislative district OF
Dakota counties to be entitled to the follow
delegates. Hutchinson county ten delegates.
Turner county ten delegates. BY order Of the
Legislative District Central ComHittee.
b. b. WILLIAMS, Chm,
Yankton, D. T., Sep. q, 1885
Smyrna times., 1886-07-21
Fruit ExChange-CIaytOn
Branch.

Another meeting of the Branch
last Monday afternoon. held at
a. q. Cummins' office. Bylaws
for the government of the Branch
were adopted. New members.
added Some desire to have the
EXchange-the main Office at
ClaytOn-was manifested.
a prediction was made that it
would be brought to Clayton next
yearly one that ought to know.
The subject of the Telephone
was under consideration. 1t IS
admitted by all that it is necces-
sary to connect Clayton with'
Wyoming by Telephone, in order
to transact the peach business
properly. Some one pointed out
the advantages of bringing the
Western buyers on here to con-
stltute a home market, particu-
larly at this period of the unset
tied condition of labor and the
probability of strikes among the
railroad employees in and around
Philadelphia But it is not neces-
sary for any one to point out the
advantages of the Marrow-Bone'
This Phosphate is already on the
tongues of leading farmers, Tar
and near.
Smyrna times., 1886-07-21

ISN'T the following paragraph from
the american of Philadelphia, more of a
hit at Delaware because of her diminu-
tive size than its statesman who has
the honor of being the Premier of Mr..
Cleveland's cabinet:
1t becomes more and more evident
that the selection Of Mr.. Bayard for
the office Of Secretary of the State was
mistake of the first magnitude on Mr..
Cleveland's part. There are other
members of the Cabinet who have been
the subject Of annoying scandals, but
there is not one more incompetent for
the high duties to whose discharge he
was assigned. 1t is true that Mr..
Bayard's position as Mr.. Cleveland's
chief competitor for the Democratic
nomination gave him some claim to
the place. But this is a bad tradition
which the President would have done
himself honor by breaking. The truth
is that Mr.. Bayard is essentially an un-
American statesman. His exceptional
position as the Senator from pocket
borough has lifted him above all sense
OF public responsibility for his acts :
and at the head of the State Depart
ment he acts as though the United
States were also his pocket borough. s"
Smyrna times., 1886-07-21
Poor Returns.

This has been very unsatisfactory
year to the growers of small fruits
probably from their abundance owing
to the continued seasOnable weather.
Last week hundreds of quarts of Della
ware blackberries and raspberries were
sold in the New York city markets at
prices that ranged from two and a-half
to six cents a quart, while the growers
were paying from one and a quarter to
two cents u quart for having them
picked. r. NJ. Cooper, who is one of
our largest growers, finds by neat
calculation that his net results for last
weeks shipments outside of the pick
ing was 1.63 cents per quart. This is
better than many have done. There
is money in the crop, but this year it
has gone to the pickers and the rail-
roads. Fruit growers do not remem-
ber a year when Strawberries and
blackberries have paid so poorly. The
New York Times, of Monday, says:
Blackberries were never better
than last week, nor never before as
cheap. 1t is believed that upward of
$50 carloads, or more than 2,000,0 900 of
quarts, of these berries, sent here from
Maryland ana OeldWdFc, were sofa aJ
a loss to the growers. The prices real
lied for them were not sufficient to
pay cost of picking, freighting and
carting Many thousand quarts in
good condition were sold for so low as
% cents per quart, and some of the
best berries sent here from South Jer-
sey were sold for as low as cents per
quart. The fruit growers are much
depressed, Us the season has been quite
disastrous to them. 1t would have
been more profitable for many of the
Peninsular growers had there been no
fruit whatever on their farms.
Smyrna times., 1886-07-21
A ADelawarean KILLED.

A heroic attempt was made on Fri
day morning at Elizabeth, New Jersey,
by jesse J. Catlin, yard master of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, to rescue Annie
WyckOtf, a highly respected young
girl of Elizabeth, from death at the
South Elizabeth Railroad Station.
The girl was on her way to Railway.
While standing on the East bound
track waiting for the 720 train a
through EastbOund passenger train
was sighted. Passengers at the depot
called to Miss Wyckoff to get off the
track, but she evidently did not hear
them.
On came the train. Catlin jumped
to her side and was dragging her out OF
harms way when both were struck by
the East bound passenger train. Miss
WyckOf was hurled many feet from the
scene of the accident and her body was
horribly mangled. Death must have
been instantaneous. Mr.. Catlin was
thrown a long distance and also killed.
Both bodies were taken charge of by
County Physician Green, who held
an inquest
Mr.. Catlin was the son of Jonathan
Catlin, who was a resident OF this town
some thirty years ago, building and
residing in the house now the home OF
Col. Geo. H. Raymond. The unfortu-
nate young man, if not born in SMYRNA
spent several years of his boyhoOd
here.
Smyrna times., 1886-07-21

On the first of the present month
there was a prize fight in Wilmington
ON the Wilmington & Northern railroad
pier between two Philadelphia slug
gers, Golden and McReary, ending in
the defeat of the latter on the eleventh
round. The party dispersed, having
conducted their affair so secretly as
not to claim the attention of the police.
As a usual thing, when not arrested on
the spot they go scot free, but not so
IN this case. Chief of Police Dougherty.
in conjunction with Mayor Rhoads
have been conducting quiet inquiry
into the affair ever since. On Monday
by the cooperation of the PHILADELPHIA
police, the two principals, a second and
a referee were captured and held.
awaiting a requisition from the Cover
nor of this State. The Euery Ereninq.
says:
There are no precedents, so far as
known, for cases of this kind in New
Castle county. Prize fights have been
broken up, but there have been no ar
rests heretofore for participation in a
light which lasted to a finish. The
laws OF the State under which these
cases come prohibit fighting for a stake
or wager under penalty of $500 fine.
ana Imprisonment of not less than one
year or more than 10, at the discretion
of the court.
Smyrna times., 1886-07-21

THE Prohibitionists of New Jersey
like their brothers in Delaware, took
the initiative in political organization,
and SO bold and aggressive are their
movements that the two other parties
are standing off waiting to see what
will turn up next. They are particu-
larly energetic in and about Newark
where there are a score or more of
breweries. More than two hundred
speakers have signified their desire to
talk prohibition to the people of the
State, and vigorous campaign is as
sured. The Prohibitionists of Delaware
are far from having the same abun-
dance of material to work with, but
down in the hearts of the people the
same spirit of revolution is at work
here that has come to the surface with
such force in New Jersey.
Smyrna times., 1886-07-21

The editor of the DeIawarean meets
our honest endeavor, which we could
only offer in the way of suggestion
ior him to get thorough knowledge
OF silver production and coinage nv
charging us with objectionable ipno-
rance on the subject of the trade dol
lar. 1t is way certain men have Of
getting out Of fix which they cannot
argue out to save their lives. In bis
mania for unlimited silver coinage and
putting the Standard dollar Of 412l
grains ahead of every thing else and
giving it purchasing value aouol to
gold, the editor lost his head. In This
state of mind, it is no wonder he mt
the Standard dollar on a higher scale Of
intrinsic value than the Trade dollar
and no wonder that he would trv and
make subsidiary coin Of equal yalue
10 gold that is the. standard of value
throughout the world. If there Is apv-
thing IN fdt value which he SO much
approves for the standard dollar and
which was only worth 88 cents when
tne United States silver compulsory
coinage bill was enacted in 1878, why
IS II that it has steadily declined in the
London market until it is now only
worth 74I cents, and only S37, 900, ,OOC
out OF a coinage of 1920, 1000, 900 has
oeen driven into the channels Of
trade?
Smyrna times., 1886-07-21

\ HUGE METEOR.-W WIwdukee. His.
July 20th.-People in the vicinity of
Grafton, Ozankee county, are very
much excited over the fall of meteor
near that place. While a party of har-
vesters were at work one afternoon in
a barley field on the farm of Henry
Diederick, mile and a-half south of
the village, they were suddenly startled
by loud and strange sounding noise
not unlike the roar of long train of
cars. The noise increased in volume
to such degree during the space of
only few seconds as to become al
most deafening. The unusual sound
seemed to come from the heavens. and
gazing upwards the spectators saw
what appeared to be huge ball of
smoke rapidly descending to the earth.
What they took to be n strange visitor
from some neighboring world was a
meteor 1t struck the earth with in a
few rods from where the men We're
ground.
The news spread rapidly throughout
lhe township and county, since which
time Mr. Diederick's barley field has
been visited by hundreds of people. in
Guiding many scientific men. The
hole in the ground is three or four feet
IN circumference. Its depth is un-
known.
All attempts to find bottom by in
serting long poles having, it is said.
proved futile, Mr.. Diederick is now en-
gagged in excavating the earth around
the spot where the meteor lies imbed-
ded, and intends to bring the latter
TO the surface if it takes. all summer.
Smyrna times., 1886-07-21
Not So Bad AS 1t Appears.

The PeniasuLQr NeaUs thinks that the
present low price of wheat is not so
bad as it appears to be to the farmers
when the cost of production between
now and some years ago is taken into
account, and gives the following in
stance to prove it:
Eighteen years ago a certain farmer
near Milford gave nearly two dollars
per bushel for his seed wheat and $55
per ton for his phosphate, sowing 40
acres. At harvest he paid $3.50 per
day for Graders, and $3.50 for binders
and his harvesting bill was S100. He
raised 500 bushels, and paid six cents
per bushel for threshing, which requir-
ed two days. Last fall the same farmer
drilled % acres in wheat in three days,
used 35 bushels of seed at 80 cents per
bushel, phosphate at 500 per ton. He
harvested it with a self-binder worked
by two boys-one sixteen and the 9TH
er ten. He raised 525 bushels and
threshed it in half a day paying three
cents per bushel for the use of the ma
Cline"
Smyrna times., 1886-07-21
Personal.

Miss May Elliott, of Williamsport,
Pa, is visiting Mrs. G. Z. Peterson at
Belmont"
Rev. II. S. Thompson and daughter
May, of Easton, Nd, are visiting Mr..
L. IS mother.
Miss c. Alberta HOfiecker, of Middle
town, is visiting Miss Bertha Hofecker
of this town.
Frank Raymond and family, of Phila-
delphia, came down on Saturday for a
three weeks visit to relatives, and re-
new old friendship in this town.
d. w. Trumpeller and wife, of Jack
sOnville, Fla, came to Smyrna last
week to spend the Summer.
Mrs. J. F. Clement, Mrs. Il. d. Hof-
fecker and Miss Minnie Clement left
on Monday for the Delaware Water
Gap, Pa.
Miss Gertie Bunnell, of Philadelphia.
we'll known to our people as a popular
elOcutiOnist, is spending a week or two
in Smyrna with her relative, Miss Ella
Buckmaster.
Masters Ralph Hoffecker and Irving
Cooper are visiting relatives in Balti-
more.
Miss Lizzie Mcdowell, is spending
a month at Clifton Springs, N. Y.
Miss Emma Newcomb, of Millville,
n. j., is on visit to her sister. Mrs
John P. Hudson.
Mrs. Elizabeth Reynolds, of this town,
is spending week or two with friends
in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Katie Fallows, VIM. B. Cahoon
and S. Edgar Wright, of PHILADELPHIA.
are on visit to the Misses Wright.
Mrs. Geo. NJ. Stevenson is visiting
her father, Capt. John Cosden. near
Chesterville, Nd.
Masters Edwin FAIRIES and Willard
Weldon, are spending several weeks at
Salisbury, Md, with friends.
Mrs. John w. Stephenson and son,
Ellwood, of near Chesterville, Md, are
visiting friends in Smyrna and vicinity.
Misses Susie E. Wyatt and NJ. Della
ware lippincOtt are visiting in Salem,
M.
Misses Mary and Alice Lippincott
are spending several days at Hare's
Corner, Del.
Miss Cora Foreman, of Baltimore, is
visiting Mrs ]. S. Gearhart.
Mrs. Frances Crouch and daughter
Ethel, of Millington, Md, are visiting
| friends in town.
Miss Mable Conner, of FELTON,, is
visiting Mrs. DIR. Clifton.
Miss Emma Richards is spending
several days at Kits Hammock.
Miss Belle Vanneman, of Port De-
posit. is visiting Mrs. L. M. Price and
Misses Florence Gerry and Maggie
Vanneman, of the same place, are Vis-
iting Miss Bertha Smithers.
Miss Mamie Borden, of Philadel-
phia, is visiting Miss Name Heitshu.
Misses Carrie Brown, Maggie Mil
Ter, Emma Gagenheimer, Carrie Ga
genheimer and Agnes Leinberger, all
of Philadelphia, are visiting the FINN.
lily of Jacob Leinberger.
Miss Emma Ingram, of AIiddletown
Is visiting friends IN town.
Miss Emma Rainey and Robert
Boyer, both Of Philadelphia, arc
guests Of l. X. Shortman.
Smyrna times., 1886-07-21
Wheat Outlook.

The Wheat crop is now settled with
in certain limits which seem to make a
larger supply than last year. The
Winter wheat States, stretching from
Pennsylvania to Kansas, grow 9O,OOO,-
600 bushels more than last wear.
Winter wheat, including California,
exceeding 30O,OOO,OOO bushels against
2l2,O0O,COO last year. Spring wheat in
the Northwest falls in the aggregate
from 145, 100000 in 1885 to about 100
100000 now. California and the Pa
cific Coast bid fair to have the largest
export on record from a surplus placed
at 60,0O0,0O0 bushels. This supply as
directly reduces the foreign demand on
wheat grown in the interior which
passes over the Atlantic coast as the
supply from India. Unless there is a
very perceptible falling off in the Eu-
rOpean wheat crop there will be very
little prospect of any increase in prices
paid for wheat. Wheat exports for the
past year have fallen off about 100000
OOO bushels from previous years. Not
since 76-7 has so little been exported
and never at so low a price. Thus
with total crop of 100000 bushels
and surplus of over 50,000,000 from
last year, the United States conld ex-
port 15O,OOO,000 the next year, but
there seems very little probability OF
so doing. The next two months will
decide, and until the yield in France
and England is known the cOndi.
tions in the United States favor low
prices.
Smyrna times., 1886-07-21
Look Out For Him.

George Ayres, Jr., agent for reapers
and binders, writes from Philadelphia
to EUery EUcning: ga swindler by the
assumed name of Alfred Smith, claim
ing to be from Buffalo, Essex and
Hyde Park, N. Y, is going the rounds
claiming to be on the hunt for bust
ness stand, trying to buy out drug
stores, clothing stores, jewelry stores,
&c. His plan is to get into the conf
dence of his victims, then present a
check signed by his firm, Alfred A.
Smith & Co., Essex, N. Y, get it cashed,
as he says, to pay fare, as he came of
with but little money. He is now off
for OnancOck, Va, so 1 casually learn
ed, and intends visiting Smyrna, Har-
ringtOn, Frankford and other places,
He is a man of about feet, 10 inches
in hight, about % years old, side whis-
kers, red hair, scar on left cheek,
wears a bicycle watch charm, claims to
be a jeweler by trade, avoids hotels
and stops at private boarding houses"
Mr.. Ayres adds that he narrowly es-
capped being bitten by this man to the
tune Of$48, but happening to have
some knowledge of Essex, n. Y, did
not remember such a firm there" and
he has since learned from friends at
Essex that there is no such firm there
Every Evening.
Smyrna times., 1886-07-21

tiOn. The Gladstonians have no diff
Guilty in finding plausible reasons for
defeat The most loyal of them say
that the Grand Old Man was in too
great a hurry, trusted too much in his
own personal authority and was misled
by Mr. SchandhOrst, who was himself
misled by the Liberal Associations.
He gave his party too little time for edu-
cation. What Mr.. Bright said was
true: there was a want of frankness in
Mr.. Gladstone's declarations. The
country was mystified and could not
understand what Mr. Gladstone really
meant, what provisions of the late bill
he meant to retain and what TO reject,
nor whether land purchase was alive or
dead. They saw nearly every eminent
Liberal against him. They hesitated
to give him the absolute discretion
which he asked. Scores and thousands
abstained from voting from nero be-
wilderment. Other scores, having to
choose between Mr.. Gladstone on one
side and Lord Harrington, Mr.. Bright,
Mr. Goschen, Mr.. Chamberlain and Sir
George Trevelyan on the other side,
went with a majority of the Liberal
leaders. They accepted Mr.. Bright's
theory that Mr.. Gladstone had surren-
dered to Mr.. Parnell and that Mr.. Par
nell was the head of a conspiracy
against the Empire. Mr.. Gladstone
relied on his appeals to the English
sense of justice and on enthusiasm.
He failed to rouse enthusiasm. He
failed to convince a minority of his
party that justice was on the side of
Home Rule.
The Conservatives believe or profess
to believe that the experiment can
never again be made under equally
favorable conditions. They insist that
their victory is decisive. They deny
that England wishes Home Rule. They
attribute the support of Liberals to
what they call GladstOnolatry and ex-
ult in having shattered that idol. They
insist that they have developed a feel
ing for union which will be permanent.
They declare that they have broken
the force of the plea for selfgovern-
ment by demonstrating that there are
two Irelands, minority of two-fifths
being passiOnately attached to the
union.
I" Mr.. GladstOne's last word is a very
practical one: We have Scotland,
Wales, Ireland, Yorkshire, and hope
the North, and we have with us the
the civilized world"
Smyrna times., 1886-07-21

The elections OF Great Britain are
practically over, defeating the Glad
stone party with a majority against
Home Rule on the popular vote of
about 10000. Mr.. Gladstone it is be-
heved intends to resign before the re-
opening of Parliament with the inten-
tion Of fighting the new Ministry with
all his force, as he and Parnell have a
pretty respectable backing. The situa-
ton in England is thus stated by a
London correspondent
The feature of the situation is the
confidence and courage of the defeated
Home Rule party. The victors find
themselves face to face with perplexi-
ties. The vanquished accept defeat as
temporary and look forward with un-
diminished hope to future triumph.
Mr.. Giadstone's letter to Mr.. Kitson
expresses not only his own conviction
hut the conviction Of his followers.
One Of them writes to me It's all
SIGHT. Wemay have to wait for Home
Anle but 10 win come.
There are two views Of the situa-
Smyrna times., 1886-07-21

MR.. BAYARD as Secretary of State it
is reported from Washington has con-
cluded a new extradition treaty with
England (unoficially prOmulgated)
allowing the arrest of anarchists, dyna-
miters, &c. Wilhelm the treaty business,
wouldn't it be in order to negotiate one
covering those fishing troubles?
Smyrna times., 1886-07-21

PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's orders to
the Federal Office holders to keep their
hands out of politics (party manage
ment) will set hard with the party
managers and especially with some in
this State. To take back seat and
simply look on will seem exceedingly
strange to Collector of Revenue Causey
and his deputy Comegys, the pOstmas-
ters of Wilmington, Smyrna, Dover,
Milford, &c.
Smyrna times., 1886-07-21
$4,000 GRAPE VINES
OF ALL THE CHOICE VARIETIES.
Apple, Pear, Ounce, Cherry, Damson.
Shade and Ornamental Trees.
j. D. SCOUT,
Smyrna Nursery, Smyrna, Delaware

Inc south and the West voted to-
gg9IheT III the House and put through
MI Morrlson's finance resolution over
tne votes Of the North and Fast
IhIs IS a good sign. Now let the south
and am West combine to reform the tariff
Ihey have the votes to checkmate
New York, Pennsylvania and New
england, for whose benefit our tariff
legislation has specially Injured for the
Past twenty years, to the injury of the
Star. N"A"' }
Smyrna times., 1886-07-21

FRANK LEsLIE's POPULAR MONTHLY
FOR AUGUsT.-This is not the weather
for heavy or very Serious reading but
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly adapts
itself to all seasons. The August nun
Der gives most attractive sketch nv
George Makepeace Towle of "Tbe
;NIestor of Europe" the Emperor VIII
liam OF Germany. If that is not LIGHT
enough, Daudet's sketch of Tartarin
IN the Alps" and stories like Towner,s
" Hermon brakes Ashes" BoutelIe,s
" The Lost Lady" "An Unknown
Name, A Scrap of Paper" will GER
talnly tempt readers. Laura C. HolIo-
way gives a very readable account of
Lady Burdett COutts, the phiianthro-
plst; Lucy II. Hooper, queen of cor
respondents, tells of the "Water Sup
ply of Paris"