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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-18

WANTED TO BUY-House of eight
w rooms for cash; must be bargain
and near English Parochial Catholic school.
Address b IA, Globe. 1873
100 FOOT FRONT on East Fourth ST..
IOO between Maria and Bates avs. with
house and stables. W. F. Fiield Room l.
Schoch's Block, corner Seventh and Broad
way. l25-l39
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-18

a FFICEiVORK-Ay young lady desires a
~ situation in an Office or confectionery
store; good reference given. Address 80.
Globe =
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-18
miscellaneous.
NsESGEE.E.ANEOES.

CLEANING-WaH paper cleaning; most
~ for your money in house cleaning line.
Apply II. r.. go Carroll ST. I39
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-17

who was taken down very sick q short
time after we got into active service.
He was bedfast for long time, and
finally convalesced. While he did not
get very stout, he looked quite robust,
and would answer to the sick call ev-
cry day. Finally the Doctor thought
there was not much ailing him, and or
dered his Captain to put him on duty.
The Captain ordered me to issue him
his gun and accouterments. When I
took them to him he pleaded like
good fellow his inability to do duty. 1
told him that it was so ordered by the
doctors, and that he would be COM
PEELED to obey. "Well," said he, II
will try"
All went we'll with him until we were
on the march to Fredericksburg, Va.
He came to me and wanted to deliver
up his gun and accouterments, plead
ing that he was SO weak he was not
able to carry them. told him that I
had orders not to take them, but that
I would intercede with the Captain for
him. I did so, but the Captain said the
order from the Doctor was imperative,
and he could not disobey it. ex-
planned it to him, and told him he
might possibly get on the good side of
some of the transfers and get to ride,
which he did. We went into the fight
at Fredericksburg, Va, on Saturday
afternoon and advanced almost to the
brow of hill or plain, where, by ~
ing fiat the enemy could not hit us
with their shots, but if we raised upon
our knees we were sure to receive COM
pliment from the enemy. We lay in
this position all day Sunday, with no
fighting except desultory picket firing.
The day was quite cold and raw, and
the sick man slowly rose to his feet
and started to the rear to pick some
blankets from the dead, as he said they
did not need them and we did. He had
Just reached the first one when the
enemy began to fire at him. He turn
ed and fronted them sauarely, and
sang out as loud as he could:
SIRE away, boys; I've only once to
die land might as we'll die now as any
time"
BY the time he said this they had
ceased firing at him; he still stood
looking at them. He watched them for
short time, then turned and gathered
q lot OF blankets; also some religious
tracts that had been dropped by some
one, and when he came back he dis
tributed them along the line, saying:
"Boys, these blankets will do you
more good than they will dead mon.
You can read these tracts; perhaps
they may do you some good also"
Then he lay down in his place.
He served out the remainder of his
time, and believe was in all the en-
gagements that the regiment was in
after that, never receiving scratch.
He was discharged when his time ex-
pired, and arrived at his home, where
he died few days afterward.
S. S. MCFARLAND,
Late Sergeant Co. H, 62d T. v.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-17

buffalo "howdy-do!" The march was
pleasant enough till the boys that had
acquired the habit began to be short Of
tobacco. Finally there was not a
crumb Of the precious material to be
found. For several miles the weeds
and grass was used as q substitute; then
we come to a new, box-looking house,
with cracks in it through which we
could see some groceries. We found
the door locked with huge paddock;
also huge English bulldog inside,
fastened with chain just long enough
to allow him to walk over the vacant
part of the floor. We could see the
empty tobacco boxes around. We had
starved for the tobacco so long that we
could inhale it's odor through the crew.
ices of the store. Where there's will
there's way. 1t was not long till by
the means of hook we chained Mr..
Doggie close to the wall, pried open
the paddock by way of slant, and
found tobacco enough to satisfy our
immediate wants.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-17

Every soldier knows what the hi.
monthly muster and payroll of the
company or battery is. 1t has the
name OF every member of the organic
atlon, when last paid, whether present
or absent, and all the data and par
tlculars necessary to guide the paw
master i'll discharging the indebted-
ness of the United States to its soi-
diers. They were made on ponderous
ruled and printed blanks, each of
which was large enough, when spread,
70 &c, cover the table at which write.
The Confederates adopted the same
system, very naturally, for their Ad-
lutant General, Samuel Cooper,
was formerly in the United States
army, In the same department. Near
the end of the blank there was q large
space headed, Record of events that
may be necessary or useful for future
reference at the War Department, or
for present information. Such o
record, OF course, was intended to be
strictly official; but on one occasion q
Georgia Captain made this aRecord"
the vehicle for expressing his great
disgust with the service. The roll
was among the property captured by
our army at Cedar Creek, October Is,
1864. [ obtained o copy of this
"record" at the time, and present it
here verbatim.
"The 1st July found us near Wood
stock, Va; 4th of July at Harper's
Ferry; 9th of July at Frederick City,
Nd; 18th and 10Th of July near Wash
ington City, d. c.; 18th Of July, bat
tie of Smokers Ferry.
I'VE have marched up and down the
lower part of this valley so much that
/ am unable to record the property;
company and regimental officers having
been denied any transportation for
company and regimental books and
private clothing. Am unable to keep
a full and correct date of all events,
and am often compelled to suffer from
the presence of body-guard, known
as body-lice. A remedy-plenty of
soap, but our money can't purchase it
here. New clothes-they are not to be
had. Transportation that, too,
cannot be obtained. Suferingly yours,
u. A. WH1rEs1DE,
captain commanding Co. E, 18th
| Georgia Regiment"
Brave Captain Whiteside! Your
record" made fun enough among us
that winter. The griefs you complained
of were common to us also during that
stirring campaign; but we never dared
to speak out quite as plainly as you
did. trust that the Confederate Ad-
jutant General at Richmond received
the copy of the roll that you forwarded
to him; that he carefully read the
Record" and then that he waited on
the Secretary of War and the President
of the Southern Confederacy, and that
the three together vera able to under
stand your mysterious illusions to the
"body-guard."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-17

handed them back with the remark:
"They appear to be. all right, and I
suppose you are ct liberty to proceed
with the search"
The deputy, with groan which
plainly ind cated "another niger lost,
said: "Y-a-a-s, but what is the use
now?"
He went out the back door and
through the mess tent and found him
self in front of the sallyport of the fort.
before which two very innocent-looking
soldiers from the State of Indiana were
leisurely walking back and forth. No
"nigger" was visible to the naked eye.
1t was afteward learned that the fugi-
tive had been admitted into the fort,
and for fear that the Sheriff would be
permitted to go inside,. some of the
guard mad slipped tne negro into the
magazine, whore he was cared for by
the other darkies several days until the
slave-hunter had left. Then some of
the boys got up pass, to which-by
mistake, of course-the name of q
major general was signed, and Aaron
visited Cincinnati for lis health and
comfort.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-17
Captain commanding Co. I
Georpia Repiment.
He Got Away.

During the summer of 1868, among
the troops composing the command Of
Colonel Graham, commandant of the
post at Glasgow, KY, was the Elgin
Battery, Illinois Artillery. A darky
had joined the battery, and was doing
duty as cook to the officers mess. Aaron
soon became favoriIe with the battery
and other soldiers. There were rumors
in camp that he was runaway chattel,
absent from his "Old Kentucky Home
without leave"
One day Lieutenant L. G.. Jeffers was
in command of the battery, the other
officers being out of camp. He was
lounging in his tent, when in rushed
Aaron, apparently in too great haste to
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-17

stand upon the order of his coming, or
going either. He dashed through and
disappeared at the back door, his eyes
the size of the bottom of teacup. The
Lieutenant, rs by instinct, took in the
situation. Within two minutes after
the negro disappeared the form of q
stalwart Kentuckian darkened the front
entrance. Evidently he had seen the
"boy" enter, and was in about as much
haste to get through as he had been.
When lie had got we'll inside Lieutenant
LETTERS sprung at a bound in his front,
and, with look Of terribly affronted
dignity, said:
"Who the dickens are you, sir, who
presume to enter my tent SO unceremo-
niously?"
"Why, a-a-nigger ju-just this
minute went through here.
";Nell, sir, what business have you to
question the movements of my servant?'
"To me-to me-a-an officer"
"You an officer! Where is your uni
form?"
ooh, sir; I-I-Im deputy sheriff. Z"
"a civil officer, are you. What
brings you here?"
"I'm after that niger"
slave YOU any authority to rush
into nv tent after that nigger?"
aYes-yes," glancing nervously to-
ward the rear of the tent. his desire be-
mo- evident to proceed in that direc-
ton. give got the papers. ;"
LET me see them?"
He fumbled nervously for minute
or two. and at last held out the papers.
sThere. sir; you see it's all right"
The lieutenant took the papers, and
after wiping and adjusting his glasses
leisurely examined the papers one after
another. After five terrible minutes to
the Deputy Sheriff he folded them
with great '-Ss precision and
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-17
not VIBRANT the charge-that the stores

not warrant the charge-that the stores
dispense more liquor than was formerly
dispensed by the saloons.
Prohibition in Iowa is as much of sue
cess rs, under all the circumstances, we
could expect. The application of the law
reveals some defects, as matter of course.
of legislation, reaohing in 60 many ways as
this law does, which was perfect at the
start? Besides, the law finds here and
there injudicious officers to enforce it; I'M
friendly judges to interpret it; unfriendly
juries to give verdicts under it. 1t is too
soon to say. "Tbe evidence is all in. The
case is before the court" The people will
not welcome the saloon to cities it has left.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-17
KANSAS PROHIBIToRY LAW.
A Druggist is Not Liable for Refusing tn
Fill Prescription for Whisky.

Topeka (Kan) telegram
Judge Guthrie to-day decided a case Of
great interest, inasmuch as the point raised
is a new one growing outof the enforcement
of the prohibition law, and has never be-
fore been passed upon. Michael Trehey
alleges that on June A.. 1887, being inflicted
with o disease of the kidneys, he applied
to physician, for prescription, and the
physician prescribed gin for the plaintiff,
to be used by him for his sickness. Trehey
being then and there, greatly Frustrated
and sick with said disease, he presented
the prescription TOT. E. Holiday, drug
gist, and requested. him to. fill it, being
then and there ready to take the oath and
make the affidavit provided by law for all
persons who apply for Intoxicating liquors
for medicinal purposes. Holiday refused
to fill the prescription on the ground that
the physician who gave the prescription to
plaintiff was not a. customer and never was
in the habit Of dealing at the drug store.
Holidays defense was that he refused to
sell to T,ehey because he knew him to be
an habitual drinking man. and he believed
his claim Of kidney disease was only an ex-
cuse. Trehey brought suit asking tor $500
damages. The case was decided IN favor of
the druggist The Judge says the provisions
of the statute make 1.-THE duty Of the druggist
to. exercise the highest degree of diligence
duu Cdl0' LII ouo ohAc VI AAAOAAS"AAAE AAIuOAS
to. those making application to purchase
the same. If the law has imposed the
duty on the druggist not to sell intoxicat-
ing liquors to any person whom he believes
desires them,to. be used as beverage, OF
where he has reason to believe the liquor
is not for the ailment desired. in the affi
davit made by the applicant, then it fol-
lows logically that the judgment or deter
mination of a, druggist, though he may BE-
mistaken, must be final 1t would seem
that where a, druggist is charged with this
duty he shoulder resolve every doubt in. IA
vor of the law and against the applicant.
Where the question arises whether a drug
gist shall accommodate. an applicant with
sale of Intoxicating Liquor or risk the COM
mission OF an otfense against the laws of
the State, his path OF duty is clear and I'M
mistakable, and it would make 40 differ
ence that the druggist gave to the applicant
an illogical or unsatisfact reason fop re-
fusing to sell the Intoxicating liquor. The
first duty the druggist owes Is to the State.
Whether the law is wise OF unwise the drug
gist must not consider. He must follow
ths law and execute it with fidelity. If he
does moi do SO, and makes sale forbidden
by the law, neither his peanut from the
| Probate Judge nor the applicants affidavit,
nor both, will protect him from. the penal
/, ties of the law.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-17
No NJ 1I z Z ANIANTa
Late Sergeant Co. 81, G2d 2. V.

There are fewer widows in Missouri
than in any other State in the Union.
The reason of this is probably that no
Missouri man ever dies, none resign,
and when shooting bee begins he
seeks immediate safety in the coal cell
,lar.-Gra,ad Rapids Telegraph.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-17

My son, they are not called grass
widows because they are so green; it's
because they are so fresh. And then,
besides, she's not exactly in the moved.
Savvy, son ?-BaIrdette,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-17
A Fighting Sick Man.

N reading over your
war memories I Of
ten come across q
sketch which re-
minds me of o SINH
lar incident. The
one entitled "The
Doctor Didn't Know
He Was Sick" recall
ed to my memory one
IF NV old conradaa
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-17
A Little Girl an Hab,tual Drunkard.

Lizzie Degnan, only ten years old, was
arraigued in the Jetfeason Market Police
Court as an habitual drunkard. Last
week she went to school so intoxicated that
the teacher was compelled to send her
home. Her fatheS James Degnan, went
to the police coura this morning to secure
her release, but was himself SO drunk that
he was arrested and committed for ten
days. The child was sent to the Sisters of
st. Dominick.-Ne,r York dispatch.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-17
THE IsIsEWERIES.

Prohibition Seems to Prohibit Them
Iowa-Only Fourteen Left.
Chicago speoial.l
An Iowa correspondent Of the Chicago
Tribune writes an account of the present
extent and value of the brewing business
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-17
So Near and Yet So Far.

OMETIME in April,
1868, we were Or
dered from Leaven-
worth, Kansas, to
m o r c h southwest.
We didn't know our
destination when we
started, but knew If
we kept in that d.
rection long we
would hid tho wild
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-17
up u was profoundly affecting. Here

,T is hard 10, ,or You uns to live in camps,
mis- ms h hard Tor You uns to fight the Yanks.
~, IN nard Tor We uns md you uns to mart
cor you uns has stolen We uns heart go
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-17

MAKE your home Prohibition primary
school.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-17

o,oo 70 vet'ran Boys in Blue. and holp US sing
the song!
ain Ms sing us loyal sons. the vanquishors Of
~, w,s sing rs if we were hundred thousand
While We are camping together.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-29
Let Newspaper Croakers Read This.
Prof. Josiah Royce.

A newspaper approaches the ideal in
proportion as it lets its community see,
honestly and accurately, just what the
real life of the moment is; that is, in
proportion as it makes its readers act
ually conscious of the present world of
passion, of suffering, of effort and of joy,
In which, as in an ocean, they pass
their lives.
The ideal newspaper tells the whole
significant truth about the daily life of
its community, the honest and essen
tial truth. But its truth is confessedly
the truth of to-day. It's outlook is not
of eternity, but "a hours; and it must
needs be interested in many things
that will hereafter appear trivial and
empty. But the test is, whether the
news reporter has told what for the
moment is worth knowing, as an evil
dence of the actually significant human
passion of the day.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-29
That Highway of Nations,

The broad Atlantic, is ever stormy thorough
fare. Yet blow the winds fercey. and
ride the waves ever so loftily, seamen must
man the good ships, tourists will brave the pas
sage, and commercial travellers and buyers must
visit the centers of foreign trade and manufacture
That atroc1ous malady, seasickness, together with
colicky pains and much inward uneasiness is
often endured when Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
would have fortified the voyagers against them.
Sea captains, and in fact all old salts and veter-
an travellers are acquainted with the protective
value of this estin able preventive and remedy,
and are rarely unprovided with it. Emigrants
to the far West should it safeguard against
malaria. Seek the aid of the Bitters Tor dyspep-
STA, constipation, liver complaint. kidney trou-
bles, and all ailments that impair the harmoni-
Gus and vigorous action of the vital poYers
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-29
Peculiar COnnubiaIity.

Bostonians are peculiar people-yery
peculiar. Il know an odd couple here III
Boston" says ''Taverner" in Boston
Post, whose married life is conducted
on new and original principles. They
quite sufficient for their wants, ana
spending all their time in rational pur-
suits and in amusements which are eth
er intellectual or healtn-giving. There
is nothing strange in this, but their pc
cullarity Is that they live as if they were
ordinary acquaintance.
"They always breakfast separately,
very seldom meet at lunch, but usually
dine together. Once in a while the
husband invites the wife to ride or drive
with him OF an afternoon; and she, IN
turn, sometimes takes him with her In
her coupe. Each have a separate libra
ry or sitting room; and | fancy thaL
monsieur would hardly present himself
unannOunced In madame's drawing.
room. There is not the slightest lack OF
affection between them, but their idea
is that no two human beings can thor
oughly enjoy each others society II they
are togetherco instantly. They wish to
preserve the charm OF novelty. Have
you read such and such book 2 l
once heard this unusual husband in
quire of his extraordinary wife. No.
was the reply; Il am curious to see it. ;
We'll, said he, suppose [ drop into
your library tonight and bring it with
me. should like to talk it over with
you This proposal was graciously ac-
cepted, and doubtless the couple spent
very agreeable evening together"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-29
Progressive Dinner Party.
From the Atlanta Constitution.

GIOm Tue AIldutd OOnSGllut1Ou.
After the soup had been served, and
just prior to serving the next course,
the host gave his signal and rose from
his seat, as did every other gentleman
at the table, all the ladies remaining
seated. Each gentleman then moved to
the next gentIeman's seat to his right.
When this was first done he ladies, not
being let into the secret, were very
much surprised, but when they gath
cred its full intent it was decidedly
gratifying to note the. merriment with
which they received the innovation.
Just prior to the commencement of the
next course the host gave his signal
again, and each gentleman again moved
one gentleman's seat to his right, and
SO on, The entire setting of the courses
was so tremendously arranged that at
the close of the dinner each gentleman
had visited for short space every lady
at the table, and had at. last returned
to her whom he had escorted in to dim
nef.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-29
Mrs. Holmes.

Speaking of the wife of DR.. Oliver
Wendell Homes, who died in
Boston on Monday, the Boston
Post says: 1T was one of her
special efforts to save to the man of
genius his time-to prevent him from
being deprived of it by well meaning
but inconsiderate people who, when he
became famous, claimed his attention
by letter and in person upon every
ceivable pretext. For many yeal t
was her habit to examine his yolumIn
GUS correspondence tor him and sepa-
rate from it that which being let alone
would answer itself. or could as well be
answered by another hand. The world
undoubtedly owes to her Jealous pres
ervation of his me and serenity much
OF the treasure of prose and poetry with
which the Doctor has made it glad
Mrs Holmes was not what is known as
literary woman, but was highly ac-
c1mpliShed
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-29
The Exiles of Russia.
A Writer in the Springfield Republican

a WTlteT III Ine SpFluSuelu htpuDllCdu
The ST. Petersburg Listok states
that in the government of Yakutsk and
Yeneseisk, according to the official re-
turns, there are over 10000 exiles. or
rather supposed to be. By an actual
census of the government there are
only $4,000 in actual confinement and
10000 who have been released to work
and abide as colonists under police
supervision; $4,000, 45 per cent. OF the
total number of persons eXiled to that
part of Siberia, have disappeared. Some
may have escaped; of the others nothing
is known. In Western Siberia the per
cent. of the missing is even greater, as
SO per. cent. only can be found in the
body by the taker Of the census and 81
per cent. are unaccounted for.
What must be the system under which
there is no record since 1880 of a single
person being permitted to return free
man, and live outside of Muscovy to tell
the tale of imprisonment? There is not
a country in the world besides but can
point to a number of persons who have
endured their sentences, returned to
their homes and been permitted to leave
their country and relate their expe-
riences. Why is Russia thus an excep-
ion?