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The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-10
In GENERAL.
IN A PERlLoUs POSITION.
Whaling Vessels With Their Crews and Catcl
LIKELY To be Lost in the lee

Whaling Vessels With Their Crews and Catch
Likely to be Lost in the lee
SAN Francisco. The whaling bark
Howiana arrived from the Arctic
ocean to-day and reports six New Bed
ford and seven San Francisco whaling
vessels fast in the ice about latitude "a
north, longitude ia west, nea- the place
where the Jeanette was broken up. The
vessels are in an extremely perilous
situation and the prospects OF their
getting out are very poor. There are be
tween 500 and 600 men on the tied up
vessels and unless the ice breaks up soon
shey will not be able to survive as their
provisions cannot held out great length.
of time. Two steamships have even
started to the relief from Fox Island, load
ed with supplies, and the result of this
expedition is awaited with great anxiety.
The valne of the thirteen vessels, includ
ing the seasons catch which they have
aboard. will aggregate over half e million
dollars.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-10
GRIM f..

MAIL pouch was robbed of it's first.
class mail matter somewhere betwee
Boston and Chicago. The anouRt of
money stolen is not known.
A DETAIL of fifty men from the Ken
tucky state militia has been ordered 20
stand guard during the trial of the
KY, next week.
JOE FowLK, the colored man arrested
in Boston for swindiing, says be has $40,
600 buried in various parts Of the couu-
try, and has given tie police directions
where 10 find il.
EpuRAIM MAYKs vas hanged at Edge
field, S. c., recently for the murder OF q
deaf mute year ago. He confessed on
the scahold. His wife and daughter were
sentenced to be hanged for mplicity,
but the Governor patdoned he daughter,
and commuted the wife's sentence 10 life
i'm prisonment.
FAT an Indian dance at Odanah, Wis,
Saturday, two young squaw7, overheariGg
some remarks made by married woman,
Mrs. White Bird, turned upon her and
gave her n terrible beating, and she died
of her in piuries. jealousy was the cause
of the traA edy.
ITHACA, n. Y.-Richard Barber, who was
cor victed last week of murder in the first
degree for gllling Ann Mason, in March,
was sentenced to. day to be hanged De
cember IS. His counsel moved for a new
trial, which was denied. Barber receive
his sentence unmoved.
BEyJAMIN GRATz, Anderson Gratz, L. w.
Jones, Joel Wood and Mr.. Warren, mem
bers OF the firm of Warren, Jones d.
Gratz, of st Louis, have been indicted at
Mem phis, Tenn, fJr conspiring 10 "cor-
ner" the bsgsing market. A requisition
viii be applied for, and Attorney General
Peters promises to prosecute the case
with vigor.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-10
FOREIGN.

REPonT has been received that Henry
NJ. Stanley and all of his expedition ex-
cept two have been massacred.
A REVOLT of conyicts in the prison at
Orbiteio, Italy, resulted in the killing of
| thirty convic.s and keepers.
An epidemic of suicides has broken
out in Paris. At least ten attempts at
self murder are reported every day.
QUEER NATALIE has formally protested
against the granting of divorce to King
Milan.
The plenipotentiaries of all powers in
terested met at Constantinople and sign
ed the Sutz canal convention.
PRESIDENT CARsor, OF France, is the
recognized leader OF male fashions in
that country, and the clubmen copy their
coats and cravais assiduously.
PREsIDRsr CARSoT, of France, has is-
sned decree extending the time for the
registration of foreigners to January /,
1889
THE mine owners in the Lancashire
and Yorkshire collieries of England are
showing signs of yielding to the de-
mauds of their striking employees.
A sARoopHAaus has been discovered at
San Mandrico, near Touloun, which il be-
lieved from the inscription aud effigy TO
be- that of 81. Flavien who was murdered
near there by the Visigoths in IL
RUSSIA ia celebrating tho fiftieth ami.
versary of the entrance into the public
service Of the venerable and sagacious NJ.
De Giers, the disting uished Minister of
Foreign Affairs of that Government.
THREE hundred persons are reported TO
have been killed and 500 wounded during
an insurrection in Port an Prince, Hayti,
some three weeks ago.
The Spanish brig Almogager capsized
in Buttermiik chgnEel off the mouth of
the Atlantic basin, Wednesday. Ir turn
ing over she struck and greatly damaged
passing tug. She carried no ballast.
No lives were lost.
The elections for the Roumanian
chamber of deputies has resulted in IA
great success for the government. The
number of conservatives returned is
equal TO the combined force returned by
all the other groups.
Ir is officially stated that n special com
mission to be composed of seventy per-
sons, and to include represent ltives of all
parties will be appointed to frame new
for Servia. King Milan will
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-10
be president and among it's members will
be Ristics, Gruies and viess.
WASHING TON.

THR court OF claims reassembled in
Washington Monday for the winter SEES
siDn.
rHs five alleged dynamiters of Chicago
have been discharged for want of evil
dence.
IHg United States supreme court has
decided that the licenss tax i'm posed by
any stats upo, commercial tr svelers from
other states is unconstitutional.
In regard to the Lord Sackville blunder
Sec. Bay ard says England WAS promptly
and cfii ,iaily notified ard that the admin
lstratlon mas done MI in its power in re-
gard 10 the matter.
One of the circles formed by the inter
sect on of streets IN the city Of Washing
ton Is to be named Sheridan Circle, in
honor OF the late General. The LOYAL
Legion will erect an equestrian sSatue of
e..General in tho center ofthe circle
AMERICAN merchants having interests
in Hayti have requested the Government
at Was hlngton TO dispatch a var vessel 10
that island for protection, but the Secre-
tary of the Navy replies that he has no
war vessel now available for the purpose.
The crews of dozen wrecked whaling
NSs"e g. ~" UeH' are reported IN imml-
ncnt peril in tie Arctic Ocean. and the
Government n. at Washington has been ap-
pealeG 10 for help. The President will
send naval cruiser 10 their relief.
GEN. CASEY, chief of engineers, says
that the plans tor the congressional
library brilding are being revised under
the direction of Z. j.. Pelz in accordance
with the wish Of congress that the expen-
citure be limited tc S4,000,0o0. he in
tends to follow architecturaIiy the original
Smithmeyer plan. The plans will be sub.
mitted To congress at its next session.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-10
THE REAL WOMAN PROBLEM.

Prof. Lester f. Ward has an article
on the real "Wonan Problem" in the No,
vember Forum, which we heartily com
mend to the attention of the female suf-
fragists. He opens with the interesting
declaration that trne science teaches that
the education of woman is the only sure
road to the evolution of man, and insists
that woman is the race. "Recognizing
heredity as the distinctive attribute of the
female SEX" he says, sit becomes clear
that it must be from tho steady advance
OF woman rather than from the uncertain
fluctuations of man that the sure and
solid progress of the future is to come
Woman, he continues, sis the unchanging
trunk of the great geneaiogio tree, while
man, with all his Wanted superiority, ia
but q branch, a grated scion, az 1t were,
whose acquired qualities die with the in
aividual, while those Of woman are hand
ed on to futarity. Woman ia the race,
and the race can be raised up only as she
is raised up. IL We properly understand
the Professor, his argument is all in the
direction OF the elevation OF woman by
education and by training to the plane
which man occupies. In other words,
woman should be treated as the equal, and
nat the inferior, of man; not his slave
5 his companion. 1t is failure to do
IN - believe, which has given strength
q the woman's suffrage cause. Ifall men
treated women with the same consider
alton they are forced to give to other
man n strong or stronger than them
selves, showing proper regard for their
personal and property rights in the max
inc OF Iaws and acknowledging their ex-
~ equality in the domestic relation, the
raoe 81 stronger minded women would
uoon become extinct.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-10
BRIDES In DENMARK,
How They Have to Work on Their Own Trou

How They Have to Work on Their Own Trous
seaux.
The number of invitations to a Dan
ish wedding vary according to the
means of ths bride's parents, but there are
seldom less than dtty assembled, and
often rs many as 150 old and young, saws
tho Fortnightly Rsview. A day OF two
before the wedding the various guests
send their gif,s-not to the bride, but to
her parents-corsis.ing generally of con-
tributions to ward the expected feast; and
Seyond participating in much revelry and
good cheer, the bride aud bridegroom do
not personally benefit.
One friend contributes, say eight
pounds of golden butter, piled high on a
platter fringed with greenery; another n
score or two of eggs or some chickens,
A lamb, joints of beef, or small eask of
ine October brew, follow in quick sue
cesSion, and in this way the parents ire.
quently reesive more provender than can
be consumed at the festivity and their
sole expense consists in the hiring of
plates and dishes from the nearesr stores
III the Town where the farmer sells his
grain anG buys his wife's groceries and
ribbons.
For months before tho wedding the
bride, with her mother and sisters, have
been hard mt work at the loom, spinning
and weaving all the linen for the person
as well as for the house; which store, to-
gether with couple of young horses, a
couple OF cows and a pair of sheep, in
variabiy form part of her marriage por-
ti9n. Bridal ornaments are not heir
loems as in Norway. The Danish peas
ant girl wears Il simple crown of mytIe
with her national costume--varyiag with
.he district. but always charming-ard
.Nots of myrtle are carefully cherished by
girlish hands through the long winters in
anticipation OF the great event.
Her sole heirloom is the great oaken
dover chest, heavily clamped aud often
finely carved, that holds her goodly store
of linen. At IL O'clock on the wedding
morning all the guests meet at the house
OF the bride, driving up in carts, and
when she is ready the long procession
starts for the church, headed by two out
ridors, who are the best men. Next fol-
lows cart containing the band. three or
fonr brass instruments, and that standing
dish, the village fiddler. After them
comes the cart containing the bride alone,
both parents remaining at home to put
the finishing touches to the festive board
already spread.
Behind the bride comes the bridegroom,
also alone, driven by karle. he sta in
the Uiddle of his vehicle in all the con-
scious glory of new tall hat and vast
cloak with many capes, worn even in the
snmEaer time, much as the lord mayor
wears his robe, as Lending dignity suit
able to tho solemnity and as mark dis.
tlnction. Near the church children strew
flowers, as near the brides old home,
where there is also an archway draped
with lags. Returning from church the
bride and bridegroom sit together, the
band preceding them, heralding their
approach.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-10
HOW A wATERsPOurL LOOKS.
Tearing Up Wharves and Scattering Fishes
and Debris.

Tearing Up Wharves and Scattering Fishes
and Debris.
Eye-wItsesses describe the waters pout
As presenting q most impressive and
beautiful spectacle. 1t formed abou;
half way between Point Clear and Battles
wharf and proceeded slowly toward the
shore, roaring at first with a vsry loud
noise. 1t struck Battles wharf near the
shore end and cut it off as neatly as if it
had been sawed off. The spout sucked
up a great lot of splintered wood and
went dashing inland, carrying with it
mass Of whirling debris, In the midst OF
which hundreds of fish were mingled.
The waters pout proceeded up the lane,
tore off the corner OF a barn, and then
fell to the ground with a loud noise, de-
posting the mass of broken wood and
fist. Capt. l.. Il. Kennerly gives a
graphic account of the phenomenon.
He says that he watched the waters pout
from eginning to the end. There was a
very heavy black cloud in the sky off the
point, and all the clouds in the neighbor
hood were seen moving toward the center
of the black cloud. He knew then that a
waterspout was forming, and called at
ten.ion TO the atmospheric disturbance.
Presently the water of the bay, about one
hundred yards OFF the end of the long
wharf, began to boil aud whirl around
with q loud noise. This whirlpool was di-
rectly beneath the black ciopd. The
black cloud then formed in funnei-shape
and let down point, revolving in a di-
rection contrary TO the whirlpool below.
Soon two bodies OF water Joined in form
ing column about fifty feet in diam
eter in the middle and reaching up about
mile in the air. AS soon Is the juucti
was formed the greater part OF the rush
ing waters ceased. The column stood
apparently motioness for about fifteen
minutes, and had an angle with the hori |
zon of about 60 degrees. The funnel at
top was dead black, but the body Of the
waterspout was slate-colored. At the bot |
tom, where the spout spread into pyra-
mid, the water was green and white. II
was magnificent sight. Then the whole |
mass began moving slowly toward Battles, |
and came majestically along, bending |
more and more as IL advanced. When IL !
reached the shore, just where the wharf |
joins the shore, the spout bent in the |
middle, and report of electric discharge |
and. "a fash Of lightning announced that the !
spout was broken. The greater part of |
the Bater was sucked up in the heavens |
as the spout parted in the middle, and |
the remainder fell with great noise, en-
veloping the wharf and breaking it down
for distance of perhaps fifty feet,
from the shore TO small house
situated out on the wharf. The effects of |
the spout were felt on land slightly. 1t
was only remnant of gyrating water
that hit the house on land, and the dam.
age resulting was small.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-10
THAT SACKyILLg-wESr LETTER.
How 1t is Regarded NJ Washington and New
York,

flow II is Regarded NJ Washington and New
York.
NEW YoRK.-Cong.essman Boutelc, who
came down from Rochester with Mr..
Blaine, speakeng of Minister Vests let
ter said: at is an amazing letter, and
certainly shows decided lack OF diplom-
acy. But aside from the i'm propriety of
a diplomat meddsiDg with ,hs politics of
a country he is accredited to, think the
Minister has gone vel y far in other direc.
tionR. His letter accuses the President of
insihcerity, and rather intimates that his
action in regard TO the retalistion bill was
merely 10 make political capital. Then,
too, he places the Senate III pretty much
the srme category. Suppose our Minis
ter TO England should write letter advo-
eating the election Of Liberal to Office,
or Conservative, would it pass uunotic.
ed? He would be recalled, | think, very
soon, NJ the request of the British Gov
ernment. It looks as if the same rule
should apply here"
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-10
THE LAND SLIDE IN ITALY.
sickening Details of the Horrible Disast

sickening Details of the HoI ribIc Disaster.
Roag.-A dispatch from Potenza says
that there were 400 passengers on
the train which was crushed by land
slide few days age. One hundred and
fifty dead and wounded have been
identified. Many of the veterans
are unknown. Scores continue tn
be unearthed. The soldiers ere workir 4
hard at the wreck. The work 10 impeded
by the cold and snow An entire theatri.
cal company was killed. Several head.
less and ar'nless corpses have been found
in tie neighboriDg river. A mother
who had been driven mad by
the catastrophe refused 10 release
from her embrace her two dead children.
A young priest wGs buried for two hours.
and when extricated it was found that his
hair had turned white. An entire family
consisting of six persons was killed. Two
carriages, in which there were
thirty Gardiner, sustained no damage.
Caribiners were able TO assist in extricat-
ing victims. All officials attached to the
traia were killed. 1t is estimated that
200, 900 cable metres of earth fell upon
the train. Many Of tbs passengers who
escaped with their lives left the scene
Immediately after the accident. It ia
therefore impossible as yet to tell tho ex-
act number of the killed.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-10
YOUNG LADIES SMALL TALK.
Conversation Overheard on a Hotel Piazz

Judge.
What on earth did you do with my
| mes die Lou?"
ut wasn't me. had Lilies. Don't
| pun the floss like thatw
"Can helpitG Do move your chair n
little so can get my feet up"
"Jen's shoes are just like yours!"
"Jen 3 shoes never saw the DAY they'd
| look like miae: nor Jen's feet, neither"
Just see how my hands are tanned.
The sun was blazing on the water
"Yoa had gloves oa."
II hadn't"
you had. too. | saw them.'
What! Yesterday"
'Yes-yestecday.
mo such thipg-not yesterday"
swell, I've got eyes, hope. When We
stood on the pier there, before you got
into the boat you had on those long brown
chamois.'
That was Thursday"
II guess you're thinking of me. wore
old dark ones
I'm positiVe Lii had gloves on when
we stood on the pier any way" -. It
mo, that's mistake. | didn't really.
My brown gloves were in my cray coat
pocket. Honor brightw
"Oh, suppose I've got TO believe Won.
| must have been hallucinated then. for I
certainly saw those gloves"
mo; you saw mine; your brains nll
right so far, Nell. You mistook the
hands, that was ALL"
There goes the Maggie. Who took
her ont this morning?"
That ISM the Maggie"
"Will Manning took her out"
"of couFse it's the Maggie. should
think ought to know the Maggie"
"You ought to, but you don't. That's
the Mystery"
"oh, listen-she Mystery! It's the
Maggie"
ITS the Mystery"
"1ts the Maggie and Will Manning.
He's got those Reilly girls on board.
hope he'll steer them back to their native
isle"
He'd be mighty clever seaman if hs
could, Miss Lii"
81 know I'd be awfally scarce. to go out
with him"
$50 would I'
~, too"
Il wouldn't dare TO go ont with viii
Manning. Would you, Lauras"
"Weil, that's too bad. He wants US all
TO go. he told me to ask my party, and
he'd run us down to Cliff House for
luncn ="
"Oh, my! he didn't. Did he really?n
Yes, he did, and it's the joiliest place
for lunch-iots of Yale boys. But, of
course, If you are all afraid"
"Afraidg"
"Who's afraid?"
There isn't any dangar in the Mag
gle"
"Ili CO."
"lm going"
"The idea OF being afraid, Ineyer
said I was"
Well, he's putting in now"
"Goody! sure'd you live"
Lets 90 down to the pier"
"Oh, let's"
Hustle, scamPer, general stampede and
grateful silence.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-10
N UTAH TERRITORY,
What Gov. West has to Say in His Annua |
Report

What Gov. West has to Say in His Annua |
Report
WAsHIsaToN.-Caleb West, governor
Of Utah, III his annual report to the
secretary OF the interior, estimates
the population of the territory at 100000,
an increase of 66C00 since his last re-
port year ago. The manufacturing in
dustries of the territory ara in ii salts.
factory condition and taken as whole
the year mas beon progressive and pros
porous one for Utah. Owing to the un
usually light rain fall during the
growing seaoon dry farming has not
been success hut irrigated
land has produced abCndantly. In the
course of his remarks upon the Mormon
question the Governor says: Nothing
can justify the despotism OF the Mormon
political sstem to The people who have
known ard appreciate the blessing of
free government. The word of the
priesthood is to the Mormon people the
command of God, not only in matters of
faith and morals, bnt in ell civil, politi
cal and commercial affairs. This priest
hood not only rules the church, but gov
erns the state" Pending set
tlement of tho question of admit
ting Utah into the union the Governor
recommend the appointment by con
gress of u committee with full authority
to make thorough and complete invea-
tigation of the civil as well as of the re.
ligious conditions heretofore ard now
prevailing in the territory. Justice to
the whole country, the governor says, as
well as 70 the Mormon people requires
such an investigation to be made.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-10
Great Is ROYALTY,

The heir of the Russian throne, the
young Grand Duke Nicholas Alexandra
witch, will, this winter, for the fret time,
have his own coCrt separate from that of
his parents. The latter will, as before,
make Gatchina their winter residence. but
the heir TO the throne will probably live
at Xarskoe Seio, the well known little
town with, perhaps, the most splendid of
all the imperial palaces. Zarskoe .Seio is
about ten English miles from st. Peters
burg. and almost As far from Gatchina.
1t Is known for its healthy air and it's ex-
cellent water. The town is lighted by
electricity. Zarskoe-Se.o has rather
large garrison of infantry and cavalry,
Hussars and Cuirassiers of the Guards.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-10

In the speculations of the English
Journals are correct, then they show the
inm ate relation between mental NOR
bidity and crime. It is conceded by
uany of them that the perpetrator of the
Whitechapel murders is q respectable
gentleman during the day time and q
fond al night. In other words that it is
q real case of DIR. Jekyll aud Mr.. IL de
The police have under surveillance n
prominent resident of one OF the fash
iouable localities of London, who has
been discovered to be leading double
life, and who has been tracked on several
occasions to WaitschapeI. The state
ment is made that this person is the VIC
tim of morbid Imagination which has
been thrown further out of gear by CON
tinual perusals of Ssevensons story.
Why may not this theory be correct? The
STORY itself is very outre one, quite
sufficient to demorilize a weak mind
Many persons will remember that crime
is epidemic. A startling murder is like
ly to be followed by other murders which
may be less revolving. There are epidem-
los of suicide as we'll. 4 prominent
suicide is followed by several imitators.
1t may be so in in the case of this White.
chapel fiend. Ii murder itself could so
influence others, why should not the re.
cital of the details of crime do the ssmes
Recollect that the story of DIR. Jekyll and
Mr.. Hyde, though wholly unnatural is
very vivid. There may be something in
this theory.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-10

The women nominated Miss Alice d.
Stockton as candidate of the equal rights
party for governor of Massachusetts.
She IL 26 years of ago.
Judge William X. McAllister, of the
appellate court, one of the most noted
men on the bench in Illinois, died very
suddenly at h:s home in Ravenswood
Monday morning of heart failure.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-10

President Carnot, of France, has be-
come an authority on masculine fashions,
and ths color of his cravats and the style
of his coats are being zealously copied
by the ciubmen of Paris.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-10

The New York Sun is trying TO have the
registrations of Saturday in New York
city thrown out as the registration offices
were kept open all day Saturday in vio-
alton of the s tnrday half-holiday law.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-10

THERE will be n Welsh party in Parlia-
ent next ses sicn To demand attention to
Welsh affairs. The revolt against tithes
has been very lively in Wales, and discs.
the new faation.