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The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-09-03
Destructive Earthquake in Greece.

Greece has again been visited by an earth
quake which has been most disastrous in
the Morea and in which the loss OF life, ac-
cording to the best information reaches
300. The village OF Pyrgo and town OF
Philatria, both situated on the western
coast OF the Morea, were the chief sufferers,
and these furnish, it is believed, all that
have persisted. In Pyrgo not a house is
left standing, while Philatria is almost
swept from the lace ofthe globe, swallowed
up in the commissions of the earth.
The shocks were experienced through
out Greece in a greater or less degree. In
the town OF Zante every house was dam.
aged, and the inhabitants. fled in terror to
the ~opeMcountry. Several towns in Italy
were also visited by the earthquake, but
not to any serious extent.
An active earthquake shock was expert
enced at Athens at midnight. Advicea
from Zante say that excessive heat, dead
Gains, and unusually high tides forewarn-
ed the inhabitants. TIL cables and tele-
graph wires are broken, and no news has
been received from the interior. The cathee
dral at Pyrgo a destroyed.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-09-03
The Crop Disaster in Marshall County,
MINI.

Mai. Landberg, OF the Minneapolis police
force, who, with Mai. Pond OF st. Paul has
been in Marshall county investigating the
extent OF the damage inflicted by the ter.
rife hail storm OF July "a, report ITO fans
lies reduced to a state OF complete dcsti
tuition. All but a very small percentage Of
these people have nearly everything
mortgaged. The total number OF
families affected by the storm was
234, representing TAI people. The
stock is suffering for want OF care. In
the devastated territory there are 387
horses, 222 cows, and 80 oxen. There are
now 46S children who are dependent Oh
public charity.
After a careful computation the commits
sioners say that there were 1873 acres
OF crops destroyed. The force oft storm
is described as terrific. The shower OF i'm
mense hail stones drove the grain and 9th
err crops into the ground. One farmer had
seventeen hogs killed in the storm. All his
chickens that were exposed were killed,
and a couple OF calves persisted. The great
force with which the great hail stones de-
scended may be imagined when it is known
that one OF them broke through the gal
vanized iron ball on the spire OF a church
at Argyle.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-09-03


Mr.. r. B. Dorsey, lately read a pa
per before the American Society Of
Civil Engineers, showing the superior
ity OF American locomotives as COM
pared with those made and in use ia
Great Britain. He showed that the
cost Of transporting one passenger or
one ton per mile has remained prac-
tically the same on oil roads IN
Great Britain during the past thirty
years, while on all New York roads
i has been decreased 81 per cent, aud
on the Pennsylvania Railroad rs Der
cent, from 1856 to 1884. Comparing
the London q Northwestern, the
greatest Of the English roads. With the
pennsylvania road, it IS seen that the
cost Of transporting one ton or one
passenger M mile on the English
road is about double what ii is inth;s
country. 1.-THE English locomotives
sould be made to work as economical.
~ as American engines on the Pennsvl.
wanna Railroad, the saving in repairs
md renewals of locomotives alone On
The London & Northwestern road.
With its 2.476 locomotives, would
amount to $4,000 a year.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-09-03

Some timid person who is frighten-
ed at the doings of the anarchists, re-
members that more than thirty years
ago Carlyle said that america, too,
will have to strain its energies, to
crack it's sinews, and all but break its
heart, as the rest of us have had to
do, in thousand-fold wrestles with Ply
thons and mud~demOns before it can
become ahabitation for the gods"
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-09-03

Continued dry weather near Dan
vile, ILL.,, led Samuel White to dig a
well. He bored twelve feet and
struck water that flowed so freely
that the dry bed of a creek near by
has been converted into a fine
stream. Farmers come from long
distances to see what seems to them
very much like a miracle-a stream
of cold water flowing through lands
that are parched and brown with
the drought.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-09-03

The money and the acctn ats at the Phil
adelphia subtreasury balance to a penny.
The experts counted about SGT 600, 600,
OF which $15, 600, 600 was in silver.
The federal government has expended
$5,515,o 45 in Washington Territory since
its organization.
M. w. May bee. boot and shoe dealer OF
Buffalo, n. Y, has failed.
Gov. Zulick, OF Arizona, has arrived in
Newark, N. j., on a visit to his family.
He will remain until October, when he will
remove his family to the West.
Sister Eulalie, the Lady Superior OF the
Immaculate Academy at Newport, KyY
was Accidentally burned to death.
At Willis Station, Mich, a farmer nam
eel Wells cut his wife's throat.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes has volumes
containing his English experiences already
on the stocks.
Adeputy marshal has left Bismarck to
arrest Sewers, a soldier at Fort Yates,
charged with numbering Corporal Hobart.
The town OF Bayou Sara, East Feliciana
parish, La., is burned. Incendiary.
John Taylor committed suicide near
Huron, OAK.
The number OF failures in the United
States for the week ending 2Sth was 100,
against 13S the previous week, 146 the
same week last year. Canada had 90 last
week, against IA the week before and 5 the
same week last year.
An order was issued at the war depart
ment retiring Gen. Newton from active SER
vice at his own request and by the direc-
ton OF the president. He has been ordered
home, which means that he is at liberty to
come and 90 as he likes. There is little
doubt that Col. j. p. Duane viii be his sue
cessor as chief OF engineers, Col. Stewart
has already asked to be placed on the retir-
ed list. having served forty years and beingin
iH.fealth. Col. Blunt WILDE liable to retire
ment next February, so that Col. Duane
falls into the place. Heis a democrat.
Information comes from Glendale that
the Hecla company's iron mines at Nor
wood (Soap Gulch) Mont, will be closed
down indefinitely Aug 81.
George Il. Yaple, the fusion candidate for
governor Of Michigan, and Prof. Dickle,
Pro hibition nominee for the same Office,
were classmates in the same college.
Frederick Douglass, accompanied by his
wife, will sail for Europe Sept. Id
The movement Of wool from Oregon and
Idaho this yaas s:!l-s-a10 900, 600
pounds.
The N. Y. Sun says Commodore Kilt
son again announces his intention OF with
drawing from the turf, but he will continue
to breed race horses on the famocs Chest
nut Hill farm.
Congressional nominations: Charles III.
Gibson, Democrat, First Md; Geo. G.
Christian. Prohibition, First III. James w.
Lee. Prohibition, Second ILL.,; J. !. Whit
lock, Prohibition, Third ILL.,; DR.. Gray,
Prohibition, Fourth Ill.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-09-03


Gen. r. p. Ransom. a prominent citizen
II Lexington; KY, and formerly general
manager OF the Kentucky Central railroad.
lied there. 1t is supposed that he commit.
led suicide with morphine.
Tom Hughes OF Rugby will visit the
United States this fall as the guest OF DR..
Holmes.
The suit OF Helen Morrill, Carroll against
5en. s. s. Carroll for divorce has created
aot a little sensation in Washington.
shiefy on account Of the somewhatro.
mantle history of the parties. Gen. Car
oil came originally from Norwalk, Ohio.
ina during the war was colonel osthe
eighth Ohio infantry. He was an excep-
aonaiiy daring soldier. He was'woundedi ia
W different engagements and was nro.
noted to the rank OF brigadier general for
allantry on the field. At the close 81 the
var he entered the regular service and
vas made lieutenant colonel Of the Tenth
nIantry In 1867. In 1869 he was retired
With the rank OF major general.
A dispatch from New York saws that be.
ore Oct. / some Of the ans rehists~-~--.
|rtes Of Herr Most will probably ioin him
n the penitentiary, Tor participation Ia
;he meeting at Irving hall where the con.
Iiction Of the Chicago anarchists was con
temned. The indications are that at least
'nree II not more OF those who took an act
70 part IN the meeting will be indicted
sy the September grand jury. The men
tre herman Hottie, a printer, who was
chairman Of the meeting. August Scherr. a
;ompositor on the Allgemeine Zeitunc. who
vas vice chairman, and hefollowing sneak.
srs at the meeting. August Schlaac. Charles
5chultze, Jacob Faistr, Paul Witake. Ern.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-09-03
Explosion Of : Powder Magazine in Chi

W
At 9:15 o'clock Aug. 29th, in the midst
OF q heavy thunder storm, the powder
magazine belonging to the Latin Rand
Powder company of Chicago was struck
by lightning. An explosion followed which
destroyed property valued at $75,0 00. be.
sides killing n person instantly, fatally
iniuring four and inflicting painful injuries
on nearly twenty-five others. The COM
binedSeforts OF a hard-fought battle, a cy-
clone and the witheriug influence Of light
ming could not have presented q picture
81 more abject desolation and destruction
than did the country for a half a mile in
all d directions from the exploded magazine.
The scene Of the catastrophe is about two
miles from the extreme southwestern edge
OF the city, near where Archer avenue set
ties dow into a conventional country
highway. Just preceding the explosion q
long vivid electric flame seemed TO burst
rom a cloud directly over the Lafjn. Rand
Magazine. In an instant the air was filed
with flying Missiles Masses or brick and
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-09-03

The bulk of Mr.. Tilden's property
was bequeathed to thepublic, through
libraries, ETC., and for atime there was
great dissatisfaction and talk on the
part of some Of the heirs about con
testing the will. 1t is said that
the dissatisfied heirs now have
abandoned any idea they may
have entertained OF obtaining
a redistribution of the property
through the courts. They must have
discovered that public sentiment
strongly disapproved OF the plan,
and it is possible that as they con.
sidered The terms of the will more
carefully they were impressed with
the shrewdness of the man who de-
signed it and the formidable nature
OF the precautions taken. The
clause which said that any contes-
tant should forfeit his legacy was
not very conducive to litigation.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-09-03
Suicide of a Beeckar.

At Elmira, N. Y, Rev. L. B. Beecher,
brother OF Henry Ward Beecher, while
;onversing on the piazza OF a hotel, he
suddenly vent to his room, and taking a
rifle placed the muzzle OF it in his mouth
and fred, killing him instantly. Mr..
Beecher was ffty-nine years old, and was
The youngest son OF DIR. Lyman Reecher.
He was graduated from Dartmouth college
and Andover seminary. He was chaplain
of the Seamans' Bethel in China, chaplain OF
the Brooklyn regiment during the war, be-
anne a colonel and was mustered out as a
oreyet brigadier general. He was pastor
81 Congregational churches at Oswego and
Poughkeepsie, and also had charge OF the
Bethel mission OF Brooklyn. OF late years
re has lived or a farm in Ulster county.
de had been partially insane for some
lime.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-09-03
President Cleveland's total vote rec
ord is 1O2, against 100 for all proceed
ing presidents.

There appeared recently in theoblt-
uary columns ofthe Philadelphia Ledg'
er notices OF the deaths of twenty-one
persons, sever men and fourteen wom-
en-, who had lived to or beyond the
age OF so years.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
4 Healthy Growth.

TNHE SUGGEST IL CAREER OF
l. the Mutual Reserve Fund Life ASsO-
citation is marvellous in the annals of life
insurance enterprise. Its name has be-
come tower Of strength, and has been
well earned by the mtiring devotion of
President Harper and his associates. Its
astonishing prosperity has provoked attach
which are best rcpellcd by frank and full
exhibit of its greatly increasing line of
business. Up to July /, 1857 this shows Il
gain of no less than SIS 2l4, $50 over that
of the corresponding period last year.
In June alone its mOrtuary receipts eX-
cecded $3.50, coo, of which over SEQ, 900 went
into the Reserve Fund-that triple buttreSs
upon which the association justly pridcS
itself. This reserve now amounts 70 $685.
600, and is employed for three purposes
only-to pay death claims, if any should
occur in excess of the American Experience
Mortality Tables; to make good any posS.
ible deficiency in the Death Fund Account,
and to bc apportioned among those who
have been members of the Association fif-
teen years. etc. AS the first and second
contingencies named arc not likely to arise,
the third object is the one upon which the
fund is practically expended. 1t is full of
other good points, among which may be
mentioned the economical salary list--less
than $50, 1000 for carrying on the whole work
of the vast institution-and payments to
widcws and orphans at the rate of over
1000 cash cash day.-From the old and
conservative New York Daily Journal of
Commerce, July 10. 1885.
With the Annual Report of the above
Company is attached a large number of
Death claims paid from February 1882 to
February 1st 1856, representing all parts Of
the Union, amounting to ST. 6S5, 2Oo. .OO from,
this list we take claims in South Carolina
which have been paid
Valentine Il. Jordan, West Wateree. 81
600.
.Ino. S. Small, Grahams. $3.50.
Henry l.. krausr, Port Royal, $3.50.
j. f. Todd. Due West $500.
Vim. II. Whildcn. Jacksonboro'. $1,000.
Z. Parker, Abbeville, $1,000.
4. 5. Barns, Waterford, $500.
Emil NchcmiaS, Beaufort. $1,000.
J.S. ALBERGOTTI. Agent.
Feb. 2i-6nlS.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
HAMILTON'S INSURANCE AGENCY
LICENSE.

COLUMBIA, S. c., April l.. 1885.
7 certify that Mr.. John a. Hamilton OF
i Orangeburg S. c., Agent Of tile NORTH
BRITISH and MERCANTILE, QUEEN,
WESTERN ASSURANCE, ROCHESTER
Insurance Companies of North
America. HOME INSURANCE of New
York. CRESCENT, and FACTORS and
TRADERS of New Orleans, has complied
with the rcquistitions Of the Act Of the
General Assembly entitled An Act to regu-
late the Agencies of Insurance Companies
not incorporated in the State of South Caro-
lima, and | hereby license the said JOHN
\. HAMILTON Agent aforesaid, to take
risks and transactal business Of insurance
in this State in the County of Orangcburg
for and in behalf Of said ComnanicS. En-
pirrs March HlSt. iSS,i. ". T. STONEI,
Comptroller General.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
School Commissioners Report,
1854 and 1855.

TO THE PRESIDING JUDGE COURT OF GEN
ERAL SESSIONS, ORASGEBuRG COUNTY:
The following is correct list of all claims
approved and ordered paid by the School
Commissioner OF Orangeburg County dur
ing the fiscal year commencing November
lst, 1854, and ending October 31st, 1885.
Respectfully Submitted.
STILES r. MELLICHAMP,
School Commissioner Orangeburg County.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
TO tfsc Public.

TAKE. PLEA ST j l.. y \ n
i nuuncin. that will nln the Ice Busi-
Hes, from May l>t, 1SSG. Customers please
reserve your orders and "hli.e.
Yours truly.
Jan IS. CHARLES L. BRUNSON.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-04

\ full line Of fancy and staple Gro
cerieS low down ut Jas. Van TaSSelS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-10-08
Small Fruits for Market.

In the October number of Popular
Gardening, Mr.. A. M. Purdy, one of the
largest growers of small fruits in Western
New York, answers the question,
whether or not it will pay to grow small
fruits for Market" by saying: I'm a
general way we can sum up an answer,
based on long experience at point some
distance from the large markets, as fol-
flows:
LIST. If you can be sure of getting at
least to cts. per quart for straw berries,
5 cts. 70, blac.. and cts. for red rasp-
berries, and the last figure for black
berries, you can make it pay, providing
you are in sections where these stand the
winter. All that can be realized over
these prices You can count on as clear
profit.
Black raspberries win succeed on any
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-10-08

ing. She wears her hair short. and her
features are not so delicate that she would
not pass for a love of dude if nature had so
blessed. her sex. she went own to Montesano
one Saturday evening, with her father and
little brother. That is the evening Young
men go down from the city, and as the ten
forlorn maidens were all eagerness to receive
them, they did not notice the young lady.
But the latter wac in for fun. She heard of
the condition of affairs, on week days; and
put up a job. When her father returned to
the city, Monday, she remained behind with
her little brother for a week.
She did more. She blossomed forth in her
brothers best suit of cl ,thes and male him
wear his every day apparel. The other men
gone. he Cor she) attracted the immediate at
tention of the ten females, who saw before
them a man, who youthful and dude-like as
he seemed. would serve to relieve the monot-
ony. They made his immediate acquaint-
aDce; lowered around him like butterflies
about honeysuckle, and made remarks about
his soft checks, lovely mouth and (hnrrnrs)
his promising moustache. All went lovely
that dav. and before retiring that night, he
Tor she) had kissed more than one He
(she) was a grand success. and the week be-
fore him (her) wore hilarious aspect
Next dav the maihens took him (her)
walking To a neiRhboring spring BY an
unlucEy chance they espied a birds nest
perched in he top Of scrubby oak tree
they wanted it, and he (she) .purred bv the
desperate ntct ssity of seeming manly. scram-
bled up into the branches After a painful
climb he (she) got the nest and started
groundward. A Shaggy limb was encoun
tered; it caught the slack of his (her)
trousers and he Chez hung there powerless
man would have strugpled IN 0et ioosa
But being only a woman. after all. our hero
did just whs. all women would do-screamed
for help. The disguise was cast off. the de-
ceived maidens fed with anger and indigna-
ton.
Let the curtain be drawn | will not even
say whether the rash young lady got loose.
But the story did, and these ten young ladies
will never hear the last of 1t st Louis
Sayings.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-10-08
She Had Some Fun.
Bur GOT HERSELF INTO SERIOUS TROUBLE
AS is OFTEN THE CASE

There was lots of fun at Montesano
Springs for two consecutive days" said .
gentleman who frequently goes down there
Saturday nights, land although it is dead
secret among the victims, | got it, There
were ten lovely young ladies quartered at a
hotel, but not young man; not even a
featherweight dude to serve as substitute,
so you can readily imagine how a single party
of the male sex would be welcomed and
hattered and loved and made silly by thes.
ten unprovided females, for what are women
at summer resort without man?
Now, there is in the city, residing off
Dickson street, young lady who has seen
few winters of society, and what she does
not know about Irritation 10 not worth know.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-10-08
Borrowing.

Ben Perley Poore in the American Gull
tiyator has the following to say about the
common habit of borrowing among coun-
try neighbors:
Borrowing is one of the nuisances of
country life. One often has neighbors in
every other way estimable people. who are
too parsimonious to purchase, but borrow
tools, harness and other articles which are
in frequent use on the farm. know one {
this class who, rather than buy grind
stone, used to 90 nearly quarter of a
mile to neighbours whenever he wanted
to sharpen tool. If, as Franklin said,
time is money!" it would be amusing to
calculate how many grindstones the time
would purchase which this man had spent
in the course of ten years, in going from
his own to his neighbsr's premises to
sharpen his tools. Yet this man was the
possessor of an unencumbered estate
valued at $1,000. If there is any sort OF
ECONOMY in such policy, it must be of a
piece with that of Saving at the spigot
and letting out at the bung."
The practice of borrowing articles for
which one has frequent use is indefensible
and he ought not to forfeit the name of
being obliging and neighborly who should
take firm stand against it, and refuse to
lend except in cases where the propriety
is obvious.
1t needs all the philosophy and equa-
nimity of temper of an Uncle Toby to
bear without growing" the constant an
noyance of some borrowers. Articles
even which they could make themselves
at their leisure, without the outlay of a
copper of their dearly loved cash. they
frequently depend upon their neighbors
for. A neighbor to one of this class once
told me an expedient he adopted to get
rid of his annoyance. The borrower IN
question had occasion for frequent use OF
a tube-tunnel Tor filling casks. and for this
simple convenience he had for years de-
pended upon his neighbor; and the article
not infrequenily came home (on being
sent for) in somewhat worse condition
than when it was taken. The lender bore
this till forbearance ceased to be a virtue.
and to put a stopto il as easily as he could
q quote his words) he sent three times a
week for the aforesaid borrowers shaving
apparatus, stating that his own was out OF
repair. and he invariably kept it till the
owner sent for it. This so provoked the
latter that he finally refused to loan it
again, and, in consequence. there was no
interchange CT civililies between the two
neighbors for some time. In the mean
while the borrower aforesaid made tun-
Del tor his own nse, and his former friend
the lender, having learned the fact, sought
an interview with his offended neighbor;
explanations were mutually given, and
their former friendship was renewed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-10-08

soil suited to corn and potatoes; over
richness is not desirable. The same may
be said of such red raspberries as Turner,
Hansell, Crimson Beauty, HerstineSb randy-
wine and Cuthbert. The Crimson Beauty
and Hansell are the earliest of all. and
the Cuthbert the latest. The last IS
marvel for large crops and hardness.
In sections where the peach will not
stand it is not safe to plant blackberries
like the Kittatiny, Lawton, Early Wilson
and Dorchester. but only such sorts as
Snyder, Taylor's Prolific, Stones Hardy.
Wachusett. Western Triomphe and
Wallace. The Gregg raspberry is little
tender in such localities, while the Tyler
and Ohio are perfectly hardy.
I'd. One i'm portant item towards success
is to be sure you can get plenty OF pickers.
Another Plant hardy, we'll tried sorts,
like those named
Sd. Don't go in too heavy at first.
As to time of setting, ii the ground is
high and drv we prefer fall, as we then
have more time to do it well-covering
each hill with forktul of coarse litter,
to remain on through the winter. That
to fall setting for all kinds of small fruit
but strawberries, which we always advise
to set in the spring, unless few tor family
use. OF course, if they canrot be set in
the fall, then set in the spring-as soon
as frost is out and the ground well settled.
4th. Our plan of setting raspberries
and blackberries is to prepare ground
we'll, then take corn marker and mark
out one way or 81 feet apart. and with
a one-h horse pillow make burrows 6 or Z
feet apart the other way and set plants in
these burrows wherever they cross the
commanders marks. By this plan we
can cultivate them both ways the first
year and thus save great amount of hard
backaching work in hOeing."