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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-12-21
THB OFFICIAL FIGURES
Carefully Compiled Tables Giving
Complete Returns Of the
Election.
Vote of the Solid South Com
pared to That of the
Solid North.
Cleveland's Plurality on the Pop.
ular Vote of the Country
lO7,43S.

CHICAGO, Dec. 14.-The following table,
from the official figures in every case, is
correct except for possible errors III
transmission by telegraph; the figures
have been carefully revised and are sufi-
GENTLY accurate for all practical pur-
poses. For purpose of comparison two
tables are given, showing the votes in
the two great sections of the Union. The
total vote of all the states at the Novem-
ber election, 1888, was as follows:
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Ii is stated that the latest is dla-
mond trust. This will be a hard blow
upon the newspaper fraternity.
Now is the Time.

The Bijou Hills Times delivers 4
timely truth when 1T says, Now is the
time to invest in Dakota land. 1t will
never be so cheap again. Evidence is
not wanting to show that Dakota
lands are on the rising tide. The po-
sition that Dakota occupies before the
world is such that she attracts attention.
Her capabilities to feed the world have
been dwelt upon over and over again.
IL has been text upon which thou
sands OF articles have been written
and speeches made. She is advertised
thoroughly, and upon the ground
swell that will! follow admission we
expect to see lands in this ne" s1a1e
easily double in price.
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uan Acre or so Did so and so,

Chamberlain Register: Articles
about Ci as. Mix county volcano have
been going the rounds of our exchang
es. If an acre or so of land did sink
six feet and smoke has been rising
from the spot as alleged, why not dig a
little and see if thele is not a strata
OF coal there on fire? If so the Cham
berlain fire department will come down
and put it out and take pay in coal.
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One Of Many.

Washington special, z: In Fif-
teenth street bank this morning met
a statesman who has served many
years in congress and has long heen a
leader in the republican party. He
had roll of bills in his hand, and,
holding them up to me, said:
"This represents my salary for No
vember, my mileage and my allowance
for stationery, which 1 drew yesterday,
and 1 have come to pay note had to
make last fall to raise money for elec-
tion expenses. 1 have been in public
life good many years. When l was
first elected 1 had some bank stock, l
owned the house in which 1 lived,
clear of indebtedness, and another
piece of property worth from $1,000
to $4,000. Now l have simply my
homestead, and that is mortgaged for
81 900. l live from hand to mouth,
and, as 1 told you, was compelled to
anticipate my salary last September to
pay my election expenses, and they
were not large, either. The campaign
did not cost me more than $1,000. all
told"
Why don't you resign and make
some money?
"What would l do? L am lawyer
by profession. but it has been severa
years since 1 appeared in court. and
would be compelled to hang out shin
gle and wait for clients just as dit
thirty years ago. III the meantime
should starve to death. l have got I,
come to congress to live, and it i
about all am fitted for"
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The Chamberlain Democrat rises to
remark that before the Sioux bill is
again presented to congress the clause
requiring homesteaders to pay for their
land after having completed a five
years. residence thereon should be
stricken from it. tits wise sugges-
tlon and should receive the universal
endorsement of the press.
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w. l.. Thorndyke, the rustling editor
of the ISinball Index, believes in blow
ing his own horn and knows how to
blow it, as his paper amply testilies-
and we will wager few pounds of old
metal that when the administration
comes to make a change in the Kim
ball postot1ice, con account of otfen-
sive partisanship" it will be moved to
one corner Of the Index office and one
of w. LIS. empty ink kegs will be
brought into requisition.
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Do Not believe 1t of the Pope

New YORK, Dec. 14.-The World says
that representative Catholics of this city
discredit the cable dispatch stating that
the pope in refusing to bless certain
medals intended for distribution in Ire
land, said that the people of Ireland
seemed to prefer the gospel of Dillon
and O'Brien to the gospel Of Jesus
Christi
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S. @. Judd, Chicago's latest ex-post-
whose political head was not
severed on account of offensive parti-
sanship" has followed in the footsteps
of Gen, Palmer, defeated candidate for
the governorship of Illinois, and with
drawn from his atliliation with the
Iroquois club. the most powerful pollt-
ical factor of that city.
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Latest advices from the Washington
police cou4. are to the effect that it
costs So for congressman to hit re-
porter. And as that is the only way a
good many congressman can ever get
into public notice, it ought to be worth
the money.
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TERsE AND TIMELY TOPICS.

In Russia last year $4,000 dram shops
were done away with by law.
Col. Hauga, for many years a friend
and associate of Garibaldi, is dead.
John Bright continues to improve.
The doctors say there is now no immedi-
ate danger.
Of the 200 goldbeaters of New York
not one is a woman, while the 900 gold
cutters not one is man.
The Southern Pine company has been
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-12-21

SUAK1Al, Dec. 14.-It is reported here
that Menelik, king of the Abyssinian
state of Shoa, who was recently supplied
with arms and munitions of war by
Italy. has rebelled against King John,
who is his father-in-law. 1t is also
stated that the ruler and people of Abys-
uuence Of Menelik's action.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-12-21

The eyicted Des Moines river settlers
are not wanting in true western grit,
and at a convention held on the 18th
inst. determined to go back to their
lands ami share equally in the expense
incurred by reason of such action.
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Hudson,s Aspirations.

HUDSON, Wis, Dec. 15.-A movement
has been made by the local board of
trade, with every prospect of success,
toward securing one of the projected
railways to Duluth. Such a road will
furnish new transportation line to
Southern points and a competing line to
Duluth.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-12-21
1ndependence for Armenia.

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 14.-The police
in Russia and Armenia have discovered
the existence of a number of secret So
cieties composed Of young Arlnenians Of
education and influence. The object of
the societies is to propagate rebellion
against Russian rule and Establish Ar
menian union and independence.
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WILL Raise Cattle

YANKroN, Dak., Dec. ia company
has been organized here with a capital
stock of 100000, to breed Aberdeen cat
tie and Cottswold sheep. Three farms
have been purchased and importations
will begin next April. English capital
is believed to be at the head of the
Troiect
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-12-21
Executive and judicial Bill

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.-The legisla-
tive, executive and judicial appropria-
ton bill has been completed by the sub
committee, and it is expected that the
full committee will be ready to report
the bill to the house on Friday. 1t diff
fers only in minor details from the bill
of last year.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-12-21

LONDON, Dec. 14.-Lord Randolph
Churchill has signifed his intention to
ask the government in the house Of com
mons on Monday whether Egypt is to
bear the expense of the military opera
tions at Suakim, to aid which English
troops have been sent thither.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-12-21

st. Paul has been compelled to give
up her ice palace for this winter on ac-
count Of the exceeding mildness of the
weather. Why not go in for Mardi
Gras in emulation of New Orleans? She
could send to Dakota and get her ma
+arioJ
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-12-21

The treasurer of Ward county failed
tneomply with the law in reference to
tbe publication of the delinquent tax
LIST and now the delinquents refuse to
nay ;heir taxes and are trying to make
,be treasurer pay them himself.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-12-21
a1ax Yet Live with tho King,

STUTTGART, Dec. 14.-It is reported
that the American f4ends of the king of
Wurtemburg, jackson, Hendry and
Woodcock, will return to royal favor, or
at least to residence in the kingdom,
after the change in the ministry, which
is expected to take place almost immedi-
%,l,
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-12-21
Must Become Russians or Leave. ~

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 14.-The Rus
sian cabinet have decided to consider
that under the new law which will go
into operation with the beginning of
1888, foreigners who have lived in Rus
STA are compelled to become Russian
subjects; otherwise they will be expelled
from the country.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-12-21

rballutchinson Herald will hereaf-
ear nubIish the names of delinquent
snbscrjpers whose papers are returned
farm the postoitice marked, "Uncalled
Car or Party moved away"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-12-21

me st. Paul Globe says:
@sppjnqer is sound That's the
.ro,,b,e He's all sound, and not any
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-12-21

MADISON, Wis. Dec. 15.-o. F. Trudell
was appointed by Gov. Rusk county
judge of Oconto county, vice Judge Rob-
ert Ellis. resigned.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-12-21

After all, president Hill was not
among the Queen City's Manitoba
guests. lit was u sincere disappoint-
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-12-21

yon!;ton is infested with an organ
.i .,aue of burglars, of which She
49,. ,at seem able to rid herself.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-12-21

Aggregate Vote. ,34o,51s
Clevelands Plurality, Observation-Disclosures. 1o7,4ss
By the above it is shown that Harri-
sons plurality in the twenty two North
crn states was 466,850, and Cleveland's in
the sixteen Southern states 1868.
If the old border states-those which
were represented in congress in 1S66-be
put together Harrison has a vote of
4,66G.293, and Cleveland vote of 4 1884, :
es9; Harrison's majority in the old Union
states, 402,079, and by adding Tennessee
and Virginia Harrison still leads by a
majority Of 3s9,267 in the twenty mine
states.
A little more than one-seventh of the
Prohibition vote came from the South
ern states, the Northern states furnish
ing 900, 1865 votes to 36,97S in the South.
The New York labor vote in the table
is combined. In the official figures the
Socialists are given 2,0G8 votes, the
Union Labor 626 votes and the United
Labor 3,66S. But to estimate the Labor
vote of the state the three are combined
and all placed under the head Of Labor
| vote.
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Height 5A inches; Dial, 3]6 inches.)
Please Read This aaofbsT MsS1 week viii app

References:-Felsenthal, Gross Miller. Bankers 10a
Ln Sale ST. Chicago; Mr.. Gross ExS Treasrero OF
Illinois, Chapman Bros, Publishers. 1928 Van Buren ST.,
Chicago; F.R.Stone Esq with Express Co., Chicago
a9-Always mention this paper.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-04-05

Zephyr, Shetland, Germantown
and other yvrns in endless profuslon
at the FARMERS BAZAAR.
Hans Tallackson says he will
see to it thai the straw burner bust
ness gets there. Hans was down IN
Minnesota this winter convincing
them it was a good thing.
For man who is emphatically
in favor of one "Great Big State, "
Gov. Church's recent Arbor Day
proclamation is like the heathen
Chinee, livery peculiar. Nearly a
month between the time of holding
the services in North and South
Dakota. OF course this is because
of the fact that the ground is too
badly frozen in North Dakota to
plant trees on the regular Arbor
Day, but that the difference between
the two sections should be so marked
in this matter, as it is in all Others
is where the gazelle comes in.
Everybody invited to
isit--Deestrick skule
no lat Armory Hall
Friday evening April
13--tickets 25 cents,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-04-05

Buy your seed at the old relia-
bic dealers, Levoy & Co., at the
Blue Front.
Call and look at the immense
stock Of John Norton. No trouble
to show goods.
Golden Hungarian Millet seed,
best in the market, on sale at the
Farmers Bazaar.
What, seeds grown in Dakota?
See Levoy & Cos. new advertise
ment in this issue.
All wool imported dress goods
worth ninety cents for fifty cents at
JOHN NOTIONS.
Great bargains in all depart.
ments of my stock.
john NoRToN.
Call and examine my stock be,
fore buying, as ! defy competition.
,IoHS NORTON.
Go to John Norton's for clothing
and secure the finest goods and low.
est prices ever offered in Dakota.
-Leyoy,& Co. are now showing
beautiful and elegant line of ladies
oloaks and jaekets-the finest ever
shown in this market.
Grass, farm and garden seeds in
any quantity &C the Blue Front.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-04-05

Hungarian Miliet seed at the
Z armer's Bazaar.
Great reduction in prices at
JOHN NoRToN's.
Quick sales and small profits
at John Norton's.
The latest novelty in hats at
Mrs. CHApMAN's.
Remember that j. NJ. BARKER
is closing out at cost.
John Norton's one price store is
the place to buy goods.
We have some good work hors-
es for sale. Day Co. BANK.
Before buying see BARKER's
prices.
Money to loan on real estate.
y. /. PIKE. 29-1m
For SALE OR TRADE. One span
of good work horses, harness, wag-
or, and mule, will sell for cash,
on time or trade for other stock.
Can be seen at my barn.
29tf III. w. BOYD.
Mrs. NJ. i. Chapman having
secured competent '..milliner and
dress maker to take charge of hel
business, viii be pleased to wait on
lall old and new customers. Give
lns call. East side Main street.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-04-05
DEATH OF MRS. CHAPMAN.

Again has death invaded the home
of one of oar citizens and took from
it the prop and stay of the family.
On Sunday last Mrs. G. L. Chap
man breathed her last at the family
home on NJ ain street.
Mrs. Chapman was born in Erie,
Pa, in 1s41, where her girlhood
days were spent. About 1856 her
parents moved to Wisconsin, IN
which state, at Kingston, she was
married to G. L. Chapman on the
22d day of August, 1862. After
the war they moved to Rochester,
Mimi, and from there to Dakota
in 1881, where they have resided
ever since.
Mrs. Chapman was a woman OF
strong will power, force and exc
cutiye ability. During the wal
while her husband was in the field,
she 5rayely encouraged him III hit
patriotic duty and kept up the bat
tie for the good of the soldier al
home, and was an active force in
the community where she lived in
encouraging the patriotism of all
the citizens. For yeas she has held
1 firm faith IN a crucified Redeemer,
and died in the hope of glorious
immortality. During the last three
months she has suffered the most
intense agony at times, but kept .
brave front through 1t all for the
sake of the loved ones at home.
The earnest sympathy of our
citizens goes out to the bereayed
husband and children-the family
circle has peen broken never again
to be reunited this side of the
golden shore. 1t is bitter bereaye-
ment, the grief of which, only time
and the Great Healer can assuage.
She was followed to the tomb oil
Tuesday by large concourse OF
sorrowlng friends who knew and
loved her in life.
Below we give communication from,
the Grand Army boys as Britton:
BRIrToN, OAK, April 2, 1883.
We, the members of Gen. Hendricks
Post, having heard of the death of Mrs
e.. l.. Chapman, wife of our comrade in
the war, and member of Gen. Croker
Post, Webster, OAK, wish to extend G
him and his family our deepest sympa.
thy in their sad bereavement. Another
spirit called to its home. Guardian an.
gels have borne the soul of a precious
wife to its everlasting resting place.
With sympathetic prayers We remain
your comrades,
Attest: GEO. VANDERyEER, Com.
NJ. VINCENT, Adult.
At special meeting of Gen. Croker
Post. No. 20, G. A. R.. Webster, Dakota
on Tuesday afternoon, April Sd. the FOL
lowing preamble and resolutions were
unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS. 1t has pleased an allwist
Creator to remove from our midst Mrs
.. l.. Chapman, wife of tine Commando
of this post, leaving his hearthstone des
olate, therefore.
RESOLVED. That We deeply sympathiz
with Comrade Chapman in the loss of |
companion, who, for twenty five years
has shared his joys. his sorrows an,
troubles. bringing blessings to his homt
and fireside, helpmate indeed, faithful
to all his fortunes-a tender, loving wifi
and mother.
RKsoLAED, That these resolutions b
spread upon the records of Genera
Croker Post, a copy furnished to each o
the city papers, and one to Commando
Chapman.
]. C. ADAMS,
Z. HUNTINGTON, SCommittee
Attest. TuoS A BnNEs
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-04-05
TR CY BROS,

in Shelf and Heavy Hardware, Stoves Tnwae Gallery
Tools Sporting Goods Paints and Oils We prepared
Tn Brass and Copper work in workmanlke
manner We are prepared give bargains everything
all people wanting anything line
Sterling Wagons Grand Deour Little Yankee Su Pows and Nler
Suy and Breaking also handle the Glyden Barb Fence
Wire Painted All goods sold by fully
ranted and satisfaction guaranteed
Remember the place, East Main Street, Webster, Dakota
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-04-05
PINE AND HARD WOOD LUMBER LATH, SHINGLES
Coteau Lumber and Fuel Yard.
CEDAR POSTS! 1000 CEDAR POSTS!

You want a pasture. l have few
Cedar No. 2. Posts such as have be-
fore cost you 15c here, but which /
can sell at 10c in lots. Yet these
are not the cheapest posts to buy in
the end. | have No. l. sawed and
round posts, cut green year ago,
seasoned one year and so in best
possible condition. These I can
sell in lots at a shilling for the
smaller and 15c for the larger.
When quality is considered these
prices can not be beaten. / bought
these posts for cash and must sell
for cash at these prices.
w. G. DICKINSON.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1888-04-14

OF income. There shalt also be exempt
from taxation household property to the
value of five hundred dollars; there shall
also be exempt from taxation and licenes
for a period of twenty years from the
capital, machinery and other property en-
ployed i'll the manufacture of textile fab
rics, leather, shoes, harness, saddiery,
hats, -four machinery, agricultural imple-
ments, manufacture of ice, fertilizers and
chemicals and furniture and other articles
ink and paper. boat building and ad'' checso,,
late; prorided that not less than five hands
are employed in any other factory
In testimony whereof, l have hereunto
affixed my signature and attached thereto
the seal of the State of Louisiana, at the
city of Baton Rouge this 18th day of Janll-
AIRY A. d. 1883.
OSCAR ARROYO,
Secretary of State.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1888-04-14
NO.. 49,.
hat n blizzard In.

A blizzard if simply a strong, cold
| wind moving unchecked over leagues
Of light, unpacked snow. 1t sweeps
up that which has previously fallen,
carries it away in the color of
vast shaken fleece, distributes it so
that almost each atmospheric atom
has its little particle, and drives
along with steady fury. Whether
fresh snow is falling can seldom be
determined by people out in real
blizzard. As far as the eye can see
upward, and that is but q little
space, the hurrying Of minute pei
lest hurling "throughother" acrsss
an unrevealed sky prevails, and the
hurrylng sameness on every side is
varied onl y by occasionally tall and
unbending wraiths where the wind
whirls in sitting columns. A coniu-
sion of senses, comparable to mono
produced otherwise appalls one
submitted to the enormous aud
binding force Of such snow filed
wind, and scarcely a distinct thought
remains expect that the awful cold
forbids crouching down for shelter,
10 our personal knowledge, one in
such q storm keeps with difficulty
upon railway track lifted three
feet above the surrounding prairie,
and may be lost by five steps the
wrong way after stumbling down
from the embankment, which being
white becomes instinctly invisible.
1t iss recorded on good authority
that bands of teamsters hating with
their horses have been showed over
thirty feet deep by billiards., and
have survived By beating out breath.
ing chambers till the cessation of the
storm enabled them to dig them.
selves to upper air. The formation
of drift about a halted man, or
sleigh, is sometimes wonderfully
speedy, aud the drift, once establish.
ed, grows by virtue Of its obstruc.
tiveness. In some well-authenticated
cases lost persons have been found by
the driftsover them and dug out alive,
in others the spring has revealed
corpses still unthawed among the
last white relics of winter. Iu bliz-
yards people have often been unable
to see across the street of q north
west town, and sometimes men lose
their direction in trying to reach
the opposite side of q we'll built way.
Toronto Globe.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1888-04-14
Free Trade I'm England.

The following is taken from the
columns Of Fair Trade, for January
6, 1888, the organ Of the National
Fair Trade League, published at No.
% Cockspur street, London:
There is no district round London
more adversely affected by foreign
imports than Greenwich and Dept.
ford; the following description of
the position there in the Christmas
week, 1887, surely v!es with any
thing that is recorded of suffering
under the old regime. Before Christ
mas the Greenwich workhouse was
full, and now there are no fever
than l400 persons within its walls,
being 800 more than there is really
room for.
The frosty weather of the past
week has thrown an additional mum.
ber Of artisans out of employment.
and in several strests in Deptford
there is scarcely single house whero
every available article of furniture
aud wearing apparel has not gooe
to the pawnshop. In many cases
where the families are seven or eight
in number the children's clothes
have been stripped off their backs
for food, and two persons have ac-
tually died from starvation, one man
being found sitting on a door step
in dying condition. and when re-
moved to the workhouse expired,
An inspection Of some of the poorer
parts Of Deptford and Greenwich
has just been made. and large mum.
bers of families were found, in an
utterly destitute and starving,condi-
ton. An attempt has been made to
get them into the workhouse, but the
general response was they would
rather die than go to the Union. In
two families it was found that for
several days eleven persons had been
snbsisting upon cabbage leaves and
other refuse which had been picked
up in the gutter,