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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-10
A MAJORITY OF FIVE.
The Republicans Have the Upper
Hand in the Next House.


Hand in the Next House.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-The congress
slonal directory for the present session,
which has just been completed, contains
anunOfficial list:of the members of the
Fifty-first congress. This list was COM
pleted with great care by W. 81. Mich
aels, clerk of the senate committee on
printing, by personal correspondence
with the returning officers of each of
the several states, and with the candi-
dates who have received certificates. 1t
gives the Republicans the house by a
majority of five, the parties, according
to his estimates, standing 165 Republi-
cans to 100 Democrats. Mr.. Michaels
gives each party two members for West
Virginia. The third Tennessee district
he gives to the Republicans. In this
district the governor of the state has
been enjoined from giving certificate
to Mr.. Evans, the Republican candi-
date, who has majority on the face of
the returns. Mr.. Michaels says he has
made careful inquiries in this case, and
believes Mr. Evans will get his seat, but
it is possible certificates may be issued
to both candidates. The story current
on Friday to the effect that recount
in the Fifteenth New York district gave
the seat to Bacon, has been traced to a
facetious assistant doorkeeper of the
hOnSe from New York CITY.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-10
Hurrying appropriations.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-It is the pur-
pose of the military committe OF the
house to have the military academy and
army appropriation bills reported to the
house before the Christmas holidays.
The former bill is about completed and
the latter in shape for consideration by
the subcommittee. Chairman Town
shend was in New York last week for
several days, but gave timely instruc-
tions to the clerk of the committee to
have the bills put in shape for consider
alton at once.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-10
AN Appeal FOR ORDER.
An Address to the People of the
City,

BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 9.-The following
address was issued this morning by
meeting of citizens:
To the Citizens of Birmingham I:ac hor-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-10
TO ACT AS A UNIT.
Southern and Border State Repub-
licans Have a Plan.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Dec. "a movement
is on foot to hold in Washington at an
early day conference of Republican
representatives-elect from the Southern
and border states to talk over matters
with view to casting their votes as a
unit for the candidate for speaker most
likely to favor measures in which their
section claims peculiar interest, and
also to attempt to agree upon slate for
committee places. Their purpose. it is
said, is to act as unit in all matters
touching their section, and thus make
their power felt in congress.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-10
PUSHING THE TARIFF.
The Senate Bill to Be Passed as
Soon as Possible.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-Speaking of
the possibilities of tariff legislation. In
gals said: .'There is no doubt that the
bill will pass the senate, although it
will be amended, think, in accordance
with the wishes of the West. l think
the lumber schedule will be modified
and that the iron schedule will be re-
duced. The West will also ask modi-
fication of the sugar schedule. We will
want a bounty equivalent to the reduc-
tion made by the bill. With the so per
cent reduction which it is now proposed
to make, a cent pound will be sufficient
protection to this young industry. Even
with this bounty, the cost of sugar to
the people will be greatly reduced. for
we cannot hope, for the present at least,
to supply very large proportion of the
sugar consumed in this country"
'.Do you think the bill will pass the
senate before the Christmas holidays?"
'.It is possible" was the reply, ''but
I do not think we can finish it by that
time. We will go ahead with it, how
ever, to the exclusion of other business
until it is disposed of.
"What do you expect the house to do
with it!?''
II believe that it will get into con-
ference and that before the Fiftieth
congress the two houses will have
agreed upon a bill. What sort of a
measure it will be, it would be difficult
now to say, but believe we will come
to some agreement. A great many
Democrats in the house sympathized
with the Republicans in the last ses-
sion, and, now that the election is over.
I believe it will pc impossible to hold
the party together"
Sen tor Ingalls, prediction of the fut-
ure of the tariff measure is significant.
There are two special orders on the SEN
ate calendar for the coming week. One
of them is the Pacific railroad funding
bill. They will give way to the tariff
bill. 1t is not unlikely that caucus of
Republican senators will be held late in
the week to determine upon amend
ments to be proposed to the bill.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-11-17
During tho Siege of Paris.

A recent exhibition of French carica-
lures and comic drawings brought to the
public eye once more the evidences Of the
fact that Partisan gnyety was not to be
suppressed even by the terrible siege that
the capital went through from the Ger
man army. One of these caricatures,
published during the siege, was made TO
represent a fashion plate; various elegant
ladies and gentlemen were pictured going
about wrapped in mattresses, and under
meath the picture was the legend. Fash
ions for the bombardment season Most
of these pleasantries of the siege turned
upon the scarcity Of food-a grim subject
which seemed particularly inspiring to
the caricaturist Of the time. A servant
asks his master: Shall | put the horses
In the carriage today, or In the baroucheY'
HIM" says the master, signing, you
may put them in the oven, pleased" Not
mike this is another c~aricature repre-.
senting a servant making the familiar an
nouncement to his mistress: THE horses
are ready. madame" What Yes,
madame--they are on b tablet" Such
~pleasantries seem scarcely to have beeh Il
laughing matter to the people who went
through those fearful scenes, but the
Parisians must laugh at something, and
these pictures prove that they could not
think of stopping their gayety on account
Of such a passing incident as a siege and
q famine.-The Argonaut.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-11-17
A Library In Siberia

From the house Of the governor l went,
anon his recommendation, to the public
library, an unpretending log house In the
middle of the town, where | found a small
anthropological museum, a comfortable
little reading room supplied with al the
Russian newspapers and magazines. and q
well chosen collection of about 200 books,
among which | was somewhat surprised to
dnd the works of Spencer, Buckle, Lewes,
Hill, Tame, Lubbock. Tylor, Huxley, Oar
win. Lvcll, Tyndall, Alfred Russell Wal
lace. Mackenzie Wallace and Sir Henry
Maine, as well as the novels and stories
af Scott, Dickens, Marryat. George Eliot,
George Macdonald. Anthony Ty)llope,
Justin Mccarthy, Erckmann-C hatrian, Ed
car Allan Poe and Bret Harte. The
library was particularly strong In the de-
partmentso of science and political economy,
and the collection of books. as a whole,
was in the highest degree creditable to
the intelligence and taste OF the people
who made and used it. 1t gave me a
better opinion Of Semipalatinsk than any
thing that | had thus far seen or heard.
Most Of the works of the scientific au-
thors above named were expurgated Rus
sian editions. Almost every chapter OF
Lecky's History Of R~ationalism" had
had been defaced by the censor. and In a
hasty examination of it | found gaps
where from ten to sixty pages had been
cut out bodily. Even in this mutilated
form, and in the remote Siberian town of
Semipalatinsk, the book was such an OBJ
icct Of terror to a cowardly government
/ at it had been quarantined by order OF
he Tsar and could not be issued to q
-eader without special permission from
he minister of the interior. A similar
taboo had been placed upon the works OF
spencer, Mill, Lewes, Lubbock, Huxley
and Lyell, Notwithstanding the fact thai
,he censor had cut out Of them every
thing that seemed to him to have a dan
rerous" or "demoralizing' tendency
George kennan in The Century.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-11-17
The Tcilers OF the Nile,

We are in Nubia, the climate. the differ
mt types Of the negro race. their black
skins displayed with a lavish disregard Of
dress, all remind us that we are indeed in
Africa, for all about us are the very
scenes we used tn see in the geography
pictures when but children. Myself a ma.
tive of the south. and familiar with plan
tation life in half q dozen different states,
before as well as since the civil war, | find
these Africans In their own country a par.
ticularly interesting study. We. have
watched them at their daily toll, and far
too often are they made to work night as
well as day, until exhausted nature could
stand no more. Their food is lentils, a
grain something like barley. but tasting
more like the bean. A coarse, dry bread,
that a we'll bred dog would not eat at
home. Sometimes a few dates as a lux
ury, and this. Is all. We buy a sheep now
and then for the boats crew, and they are
as ravenous over 1t as a pack Of starving
wolves. The crews Of the boats are at
least decently covered, but with a great
number clothing is unknown. We see
these people drawing water from the river,
toiling in the fields and laboring in the
great sugar mills of the Nile.
For my part, | can truly say that slavery
was not understood by me before visiting
Egypt. In Intelligence and responsibility
the average of these people, not simply
Nubians, but those Of Egypt as well, ]
mean, Of course. the felaheen. do not COM
pare with our plantation negroes. The
alleged cataracls are nothing more than
rapids, not as fine as those above Niagara
falls, nor the Lachine Of the st. Lawrence.
We descended the lesser one in a small
row boat, found it exciting. with perhaps,
a spice Of danger in it. It was good sport
to watch the ebony sons Of the desert leap
from the rocky cliff into the seething
waters of the great cataract, then, after a
hard struggle, scamper up the steep bank.
and, by the dozen. make our ears ring
with the din Of the national motto, back
scheash. b~ackscheash," all in chorus
William Y. Hamlin in Detroit Free Press
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-11-17
Cider i'm the MetrODOlfs.

l should imagine that cider had become
as popular a beverage in New York as 1t
Is in Maine. Wherever | go In the hum
bier quarters Of the town l come III cider
shops. They vend buttermilk and pop
beer, too, I believe, but cider is certainly
their chief commodity, and | have never
seen a cider shop in which ! did not also
see people drinking cider, Some fifteen
years ago a speculative individual opened
q cider shop In an Unbiased store on Broad
way. The beverage was advertised as
manufactured or the premises, and in the
window Of the shop was q miniature cider
press, which vas operated by a miserable
big dog that toiled IN a tread mill all day
and half the night through. believe Mr..
Henry Bergh put an end to this estab-
lishment and some others that sprang up
in imitation Of Ii.
Since then the cider industry has evil
IDENTIFY settled on a legitimate basis. That
it has already enjoyed the developing in
Huences of civilization is evidenced by the
fact that In one of the shops on the east
side where l dropped in to satisfy the
cravings of thirst and curiosity at one and
the same time, | read announcements Of
cider and milk" ''spiced cider" 'hot
mulled cider and half a dozen other curl
BUS combinations. The champion combi-
nation of all, however, the immortal and
soul enthralling "stone fence" was, per-
haps fortunately for the patrons, absent
from the list.-Alfred Trumble In New
York News.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-11-17

DhbPoSAsAoh ~ SssSAp
It is trouble, not good, that arises from
old letters. A package has fallen into my
care to re disposed Of as thought best
1t contains letters, bills, receipts, some
papers of value and others worthless. In
order to sort the chaff from the wheat,
they must be carefully examined. All,
what unthought of secrets they disclose
family troubles Of which the world never
dreamed; bitter heartaches where we
thought all was serene; love letters,
sacred for their time and place, ridiculous
now; a whispered suspicion Of SANDER
upon a name we thought was pure as
snow. and We are left to wonder whether
it is true or false. Old letters. What
can they DO good fort Their mission is
ended.
II may like to read them while recov
ering from an illness, says some one
Pshawl as if these would be tonic you
needed at such q time! Better far a
breath Of pure air. We are all prone to
brood toe much at such times, and need
no such help in that direction. Let this
plea for the burning of letters be a strong
one. Business letters should be filed and
labeled. Have a blank book into which
to copy such dates or extracts as may be
of value in the future for references
This can be done when letters are an
swered. Then burn them and see the
ashes. 1t is the SORROWS instead of the
JOYS, that most letters contain. They are
the safety valve for deep feeling from
friend to friend, good in their time, but
sometimes worse han useless in the flu
ture. Every day brings new experiences.
We are constantly changing, and in many
cases would be ashamed Of our own let
tiers written ten years ago.
Garfield said: When you pitch your
tent let it be among the living, not among
the dead. Sarah II. Bailey In The House,
keeper.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-11-17

4. II & 4. VI.
Custer CITY odge, No. &c, A. +. 4 A. NJ, meets
en- Masonic hall in regular communication on
the first and third Wednesdays or each month.
$. M, BOOTH, w. NJ.
v. J. v. RUTKowsKI, Sec,
q. 4. X.
Gen. Steele Post No. "a meets in regular session
on the ist and 3rd Fridays ofeach month at the
Court House Hall at 1850 p. IN, Visiting mem
bers will meet with a hearty Welcome,
s. NJ. BooTH, Commander,
AT FEAY, Adjutant,
". IL. g.
Auxiliary TO the q. A. X. General Steele
Corps No. IS meets in regular session on the first
and third Fridays of each month, AT the court
house, at 7:30 p. IN. All members are requested
to be present,
MRS. ELIzABETH MCLAuGHLIs, Prest.
MRS. BERTHA WOOD, Sec.
4. q. q. r.
Fidelity Lodge OF I. O. q, T, meets nj the
Court. House at 1880 p, m. Saturday evenings.
c.. CARR, w. G. +. G. Z. BoYpEN, W., )
W. Z. r. T..
The Womans Christian Temperance Unior
meets on the LIST and 3rd Thursdays Of eacf
month at 3 O'Clock p. m. in the Methods
Church Ladies are cordially invited 10 attent
car sessions.
Mrs. A. YERKEs, Prest.
Miss ". Z. r.. DENNY, r.. S.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-11-17
NJ. A. No. 430.
APPLICATION FOR A PATENT.

October IL, 1883.
Notice is hereby given that A. J. Van Cleft,
whose postoftice address is Rapid City, Dakota,
has this day filed his application for "A patent for
1877 linear feet of the Sunrise Fraction lode,
mine or vein bearing tin, with surface ground
40 feet to 1874 feet in width, situated In Paine
G,,ch mining district, county of Pennington and
territory of Dakota, and designated by the field
notes and official plat on file III this office as lot
number 63l said lot number 53l being described
as follows, tO-Wit:
BEGINNING at the southeast corner of the claim
marked by a pine post 4x4xGD inches, 2 feet IN
ground protected by a mound Of rocks marked
NJ. G.. 53l on one side and No. l on the opposite
side for corner No. 1, being adjacent to corner
No. M. G. $50 Sunrise lode. From which Z. :.
Loo Monument No. ~ bears south % deg ~ min
east, ilo5 feet distant; Thence The hrst course, a nop,h
course, north Al deg Al min east, GS7 feet thence
third course, north Al deg q min east, SOC feet,
thence fourth course, south 30 deg a. MN east,
26s feet; thence fifth course, south 81 deg o. MN
west, 81 feet: thence sixth course, Al deg III MN
west, 600 feet to the place of beginning. Mag
netic variation Is deg 30 min east. containing
SAL acres.
The location Of this mine Is recorded in the
Recorders office Of Pennington county, Dakota,
IN book i of Location Certincates.u Inc adJoiii-
ing claimants are on the north, Palmer Gnlcn
Placer, on the west Jolly No. 2 lode, on the south
the Sunrise lode, and on the east unknown.
Any and all persons claiming adversely any
portion of said Sunrise Fraction LODE, mine OF
surface ground are required to file their adverse
claims with the register OF the United states
land Office at DeadwOod, I'm the territory or pa
kota, during the sixty days period OF pnblica'loh
JOHN K. WHITEsIDE, Register.
1t is hereby ordered that the foregoing notice
of application for patent bepnDilshed tor tne
period Of sixty days, (ten consecutive weeksl ~
the Custer Chronicle, a weekly newspaper pup
liShed at Custer City, Dakota.
JOHN Il. WHTTEsIDE, Register.
FIRST publication, October .
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-11-17
NJ. A. No. 42s,
APPLICATION FOR A PATENT.
L. s. LAND OFFICE, DEADwooD, OAK,

L. -. LAND OFFICE, DrADNoob, pfN'}
October II, 1888,
Notice Is hereby given that a. J. Van Clett,
whose postonice address /, Rapid CITY, DaKota
territory, has this day filed his application Tor "A
patent for fifteen hundred linear feet OF the Jolly
No. 3 lode, mine or vein bearing tin, with surface
ground three hundred feet In width, situated IN
Palmer Gulch mining district, county OF ZEN,
nington and territory of Dakota, and designated
by the field notes and official plat on file in this
Office as lot number 500; said lot number 529
being described as follows, to-wtt: =,
Beginning at the southeast corner OF said
claim, marked by a square pine post 4XiN0O
inches, . feet ~ the ground ana protected by u
mound Of rock marked NJ. {. 59 on one slde
and Nc. on the opposite side for corner No. !,
being adjacent To corner No. l NJ. {. 527 Joly
NO. / lode, and the southeast corner Of Phoenix
lode. From which L. :. Locating Monument
No. A. bears north 80 deg 46 min east, Coz feet
distant. Thence first course, north 81 deg 40
min west. G05.5 feet: thence second course, north
33 deg A. min west, Ss8 feet; thence tlllid course,
north 10 deg Is min west, 300 feet thence lonith
course. south 80 deg A. min east, sl2.2 leet
thence fifth course, south 81 deg 40 mn east, os2
feet: thence sixth course, north 43 deg Is mn
east, 302. - feet to the place of beginning. Mag
nctic variation 10 deg - min east, containing
1902 acres.
The location Of this mire is recorded In the
Recorders Office of Pennington comfy, Dakota,
in book r Of Location Certificates. Iiie ad)oih'
Ing claimants are on the east Jolly NO. ! ioue'
on the south, west, and north, unknown.
ANY and all persons claiming adversely any
portion Of said Jolly No. 3 lode, mine or surface
ground are required To file their adverse Chains
with the register Of the United states land Once
at Deadwood, in the territory of Dakota, during
the sixty DAYS period Of publication hereof, oi
they wifi be barred by virtue OF the provisions
the statute.
JOHN r. WHITESIDE, Register.
1t is hereby ordered that the foregoing notice
of application for patent be published for tn
| period / Of sixty days, tten consecutive weeks II
the Custer Chronicle, IA weekly newspaper pup
lished al Custer City. Dakota.
JOHN k. WHITESIDE, Register.
| First publication, October ~.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-11-17
The Language of Grasshoppers.

These grasshoppers, as If aware that
their beauty resided in their wings, rise
i'm the air to sing. The noise is made by
rubbing the upper edge Of the true wings
against the under surface Of the wing
covers. | have often waS chcd them while
In this aerial position, II wondered If
the song was always a love call. If be-
havior means anything amorg Rrasshop-
pers, they have at times, especially late
Ia the season, other business aside from
love making. Many times ! have OBJ
served one of these creatures mount up
q few feet above the ground, calling, call
ing, until sometimes half a dozen OF
more would congregGte beneath him,
when he would drop down in tier midst
and touch the Lead Of each as if consult
ing about some grave matter; then the
little flock would dispense and the must
clan, or orator, or whatever he was,
would 30 to another place and call another
crowd, and after the harangue be would
again alight and communicate with each
individual. As far as | could see there
was no love making connected with this
affair.
Entomologists who have made the
brains of insects q study tell us that the
o%rthoptera, especially the Grasshoppers,
have a good development of brain, but not
equal to the ants, or to the social bees
and wasps.
Another class Of grasshoppers remain
on the ground to play. These are the
violinists among the musicians; they use
their hind legs for bows, which they draw
across strings situated In the wing covers.
The Rocky mountain locust (Coloptenus
spretus) belongs to this class. And here
is an instance where an insect ceases to
be insignificant and becomes u great and
mighty power in the land, compelling the
government to supply men and means t.
try aud thwart the vast armies that sweeI
over sections of the west, devouring al
vegetation before them.-Mary Treat in
che Chautauquan.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-11-17
NJ. A. No. AT.
APPLICATION FOR A PATENT.

y. -. La ofFliE 'op' $500
October Il, 1888.
Notice is hereby given that 4: J. Van Cleft,
whose postoliice address Is Rapid CITY, lakola,
has this dan filed his application for a patent Tor
fifteen hundred linear feet Of the Jolly No. ?
lode, mine or vein bearing TN, WIN sutiact
ground three hundred feet in width, situaicn III
Palmer Gulch mining district, county OF aen,
nlngton and territory of Dakota, and designated
by Che field notes and official plat on me IN tnis
Office rs lot number 52s; said lot number oZs
being described as follows, to-Wlt: a..
claim, marked by a square pine post aNiNoo
inches, = feet III ground ana protector ny q
mound of rocks marked NJ. G.. $40 on one side
and No. | on the opposite side Tor corner NO, y
being adjacent 10 corner No. 6 NJ c. 52S Jolly No,
/ lode; also the southwest corner OF the Fhrt
lode. From which L.. :. Locating Molluinehl
No. AZ bears south 81 deg % min east, 1919 lett
distant. Thence first course, north 81 ueg ~
min west, 533 feet: thence second course. hortll
80 deg ~ min west, 900 feet thence third course,
north 43 deg 10 MIN east. 800 ieet, Thence Louili,
course, south 50 deg A. min east. 1886 feet; thence
fifth course. : 81 deg 40 min east. i51 III; Thence
sixth course, south ID deg - min west, ar2. - leel
to the place of beginning. Magnetlc variation
IL deg 80 min east, containing 1000 acres.
The location of this mine Is recorded m the
Recorders office of Pennington county, Dakota
in book L OF Location Ccrthcates., Inc adloil
ing claimants are on the east, EDDY NO. : loue,
| Palmer Gllch Placer, Sunrise FRACTION ano
Sunrise lode, on the south unknown lode, on tlt
west, Jolly No. 1, north, unknown.
ANY and AL persons claiming adversely IN.
portion of said Jolly No. . lode, mine or SURFACE
ground are required to file Their adverse claim
| with the register of the United states land One
at Deadwood, in the territory OF Dakota, durlh'
the sixty days period of publication hereoi, o
they viii be barred by virtue of the provision
of the statute.
JOHN X. WHlTESIDE, Register.
IL is hereby ordered that the foregoing notlc
of application for patent be published Tor IN Y
period OF sixty day, 0en consecutive Weeks, =
| the Custer Chronicle, "A weekly newspaper pun
| lished AT Custer City, Dakota.
JOHN X. WHITESIDE, Register.
First publication, October q.