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The new North-west., 1888-10-19
A STATUE OF LoNcFel NV
1t Was Recently Unveiled at III. r..,
Place, Portland Ma

was recently Unveiled at His Na4,v.
flace, Portland, Me.
~ Inc native city Of Longfellow, Portland
mo, mas statue Of the poet which ha. re'
Gently been unveiled. Longfellow wa. MT
only born in Portland, but lived thera dnrin.
ms childhood and youth, and there fan in
1ose with his first WIFE There the honsa in
wnicn ne was born still stands-a largo threa
story dwelling, now reduced from the birth.
place OF a poet to tenement house
Mr. FRANKLIN Simmons, the designer Of the
statue, is native Of Maine, who has studio
In Rome. The monument consists of pedes.
tai OF granite, which supports a bronze statue
OF the poet. Tho opening lines to Mr.. George
=. b. Jacksons prelude give poetic descrip-
tlon OF the statue:
The sculptured form.
'Tis but the scmbiance,
And still it's he!
Amid tho busy throng
Calmly he sits;
OF oil that pass along
Needless Is he
His gaze is fixed toward home:
He loved it we'll
Aud yet he secth naught:
His ears attent
TO catch the rustling leaves
Of behring's woods,
But still he heareth noti
Wen hath the sculptor wrought,
Making the seeming real,
The fiction fact,
And in enduring bronze
His very form hath caught.
Longfellow was poet of the people, Tho
people don't read Shelley, or Browning, or
even Byron, except certain limited class,
but any one can understand and appreciate
Longfellow. He appeals to the heart and to
the highest moral sense. No short poem is
better known today than his "Psalm Of Life"
which has doubtless had more wholesome
effect upon the masses of the American
people than a thousand sermons. Children
can read Longfellow, and about his poems
there is a peacefulness, q hopefulness soothing
to old people who have lived to time of life
when they like to be assured that
The grave is not its goal.
The English, that people whose limo Of
brilliant poets is LONGER and mora truly ROYAL
The new North-west., 1888-10-19

WHERE THE MURDERS WERE PERPETRATED
noted French marquis Of two centuries ago,
who is said to have killed 200 females of all
ages, of the French medical student who con-
fessed to killing seventeen women, of Jesse
Pomeroy, the boy murderer, and many others
Alienists are unanimous in the opinion
that the murderer is q lnonomaniac with
homicidal turn; and many add that he Is
what medical science calls 'tsexual per-
vert'-that is, man in whom the natural
instincts have been changed by disease or
excess into blind hatred and desire to kill
and mangle. Such cases are not so uncom-
mon es the unlearned would suppose. In
the notorious Bender murders in Labette
county, Kan. in 1873, all the victims were men
except that the little daughter of one man,
travelling with her father, was killed with
him; and in each case the mutilations wera
unmentionable. As none Of the portions of
the bodies removed were found, the people
concluded that Kato Bender, the directing
genius of the gang, who claimed wonderful
healing powers and converse with extra
human agencies, had used them in the vile
incantations she practiced. It is not easy
for the healthy mind to conceive Of such de-
graded creatures; yet medical history records
many similar cases, nearly all men. Women
murderers nearly always resort to poison, as
even the most depraved retain their natural
horror of blood; but with men the exact op-
posite is true. The homicidal man maniac
takes wild joy in seeing the flow Of blood,
i'll looking on the ghastly wounds and the
writings Of his victim.
Tho London police have been completely at
sea, and some of the theories put forth by
their chief are too absurd for ones patience.
One, for instance, was that an American
medical student did the deeds because
he wanted to collect number of ana
tomical specimens! The most reasonable
theory is that the monomaniac hes been in-
jured, or thinks he has, by one of these
women, and is wreaking his vengeance on
tho class. His cunning is wcnderful-not an
uncommon thing in momonaniacs. Or. Will
The new North-west., 1888-10-19
WHOLE NO. 1905.
ROBERT ]. BuRDETrE.
How the Humor,st, Now ordainc,,

How the Humorist, Now Ordained o
Preacher. Began to Write Humor.
Robert j. Burdette-Bob-has just been
Licensed to preach by the Lower Merton Bap-
tist church, Of the Philadelphia Baptist asso-
citation, and will soon leave the lecture field.
He says he preached his first sermon one
summer Sunday while he was spending his
vacation in some mountain retreat The
little church there was without pastor, and
he took the pulpit at tho earnest solicitation
Of its members
The story Of Burdette's touching devotion
to his wife, now dead, IS familiar to every one.
The new North-west., 1888-10-19
JAPANESE ERUPTI0NS,
SOMETHING OF A MOST APPALLING
CONFUSION OF NATURE,

Was Not Inconsfdcrable It Was by No
Means Commensurate with tho Extent
OF the Disaster.
For weeks past the reports concerning the
great eruption in Japan have been slowly
coming in, and now that complete details
and pictures are received two curious facts
are prominent-it was the most extraordinary
eruption Of which we have any record, and
yet caused the smallest loss Of life in propor-
The new North-west., 1888-10-19

An assemblage Of men is an accumulation
Of lEolian harps, whose notes are d:scordant
or harmonious, according to the way the
wind blows.-Carman sylvia.
The new North-west., 1888-10-19
Electrical Study in Japan.

It is reported from Japan that an electrical
society has been formed there, and that its
membership is no less than 500 at the start.
We hardly know how to receive this piece of
intelligence If it be true it would indicate,
first, that Japan had gone much further in
electrical study and development than had
been supposed, and, next, that admission to
the society Is based on very liberal rules and
regulations. At the present time the ranks
Of our American engineers are largely and
valuably REINFORCED from England and the
continent Of Europe, but here we have the
intimation that, perhaps, before long Japan
will also be supplying us with experts for our
parent and local companies in oil lines of
work. We are glad to see that such society
has been formed in Japan, and we trust that
It will be growingly useful and prosperous.-
Electrical World,
The new North-west., 1888-10-19


town has its railway and travel car route to
Bilboa, but no steam ferry or bridge exists to
establish communication across the stream.
One difficulty as to bridge has been the
great expense, having in view the arrange
ment of the proper grade. The problem,
however, has been lately solved by NJ Al
berto Palacio, a talented architect, who has
designed rather novel movable bridge.
The structure is on the suspension prin-
ciple. At the dock line on each side Of the
river are two iron piers, on which the bridge
cables are supported. The towers and cables
need only have strength enough to support
themselves and a suspension platform or car
on which the traffic is carried. Hence the
construction is much lighter and less costly
than an ordinary bridge would be. Between
the towers two pairs Of rails are arranged,
on which runs truck, pendant from which,
by means Of skeleton frame and guy ropes,
IS platform for passengers, carriages, horses
and carts, etc. This platform Is hauled back
and forth across the river by means Of an
endless cable worked by steam engine at the
base Of one of the towers The platform
moves on a level with the street grade on
either side Of the river, and is therefore very
convenient of access for all kinds Of traffic.
The height Of the bridge at the center Of
the span is about $50 feet above high water,
thus allowing plenty of clearance for vessels
The bridge will cost 81, ,O00
The United States government is anxious
to develop high speed in its new war vessels,
and has offered bonus Of $4,000 for every
''knot, !" or nautical mile, gained over nineteen
knots an hour. Col T. T. Woodruff, Of
palace car fame, thinks he has gained the re-
quired point by means of his invention, here
figured. His plan is to place two screws on
each side of the vessel, instead Of single or
double screw at the stern, and he believes the
contrivance will enable ship to make thirty
The new North-west., 1888-10-19

With duns the wealthy need not cope,
Their life Is all serene;
The happy man who has the '.soap"
Himself from debt keeps clean.
~ Boston Courier.
The new North-west., 1888-10-19
preparation

II wish to be remembered" as the cripple
said to the dealer in artificial imbs-Pitts-
burg Bulletin.
The new North-west., 1888-10-19

PoRTLANDs STATUE OF LoNGFELLow.
than its line Of kings, gave Longfellow the
place to which he is entitled among English
poets by placing his bust in Westminster
abbey. These honors arc just, but as one Of
shS closing stanzas of the prelude says:
The poet needs no monument
In lasting bronze or stone;
So long as man shall live
His silver words alone
Shall keep his memory green!
The new North-west., 1888-10-19

VOTING CHART or TIE UNITED STATES.
lima, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisi-
ana and Arkansas, in the south. Some Of the
changes in the popular vote have been extra
ordinary, that between 1872 and 1876 amount
ing to 9s3, 600 votes. It is scarcely necessary
to add that the most hotly contested states
are the same this year as in 188O,and 1884,
viz: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,
Indiana and California
The new North-west., 1888-10-19
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no,.h Dinnie. the Scotch athlete, has been
.,oe;no - : Melbourne sculptor for statue
Of Wa M..M ~.M....
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-11

They Finally Agrees

Washington, Sept. S-The oonferees
on the Qualifications appropriation bill
have reached an agreement and expect
to report it Monday. The board pro.
posed by the senate has been accepted,
with an amendment providing for one
ordnance officer, instead of two, in Its
composition; for harbor torpedo defense,
$500, 900 instead of 100000, as proposed
by the senate; for twelve Inch mortars,
$3.50. 900 instead OF $500. 600. as proposed
by the house; for Watervliet arsenal,
100000 instead of $3.50, 900, as proposed
by the house, and $3.50. 900 by the senate;
for the completion of the
guns now being fabricated
$500 900. instead of the divided appro-
p~riations of $l58. 600 and $500 600 pro
posed by the house; for pneumatic
dynamite guns 500 900 "a house item
dropped by the senate); tor steel forg.
ings for eight, ten and twelve-inch guns
ST 500 coo, instead of $4,000, 600 pro-
posedi by the senate. The conferees
also authorize the expenditure OF Sc 800
600 for competition in gun making, with
q limitation of the annual expenditure
to So ,U00, 900 The aggregate amount OF
the appropriation carried by the bill as
it comes from conference ia So, 972. 600,
which is $247 600 more than the house
bill and $650,000 less than as it passed
the senate.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-11
How to Admit Dakota.

Fargo Argus: There is talk .about-"a
new bill for the admission of south Ds-
kota when Matthews gets in" With
the election of Harrison in November-a
foregone conoluslon-it being now o
question of msjorisies-this is the waY
the Argus Sizes 1t up: Let the legisla-
ture authorize q state convention for
north end for south Dakota. The CON
y%entions formulate a state constitution,
call an election for state officers, con
gresham and legislatures. Let the
legislatures elect %sepatorb Let the
senators go to Washington
with the governors certificates and
present themselves for admission.
Some senator will rise t. n question
privilege-the highest question known
to parliamentary law-snd the four
senators will be admitted. The presl-
dent will issue his proclamation and
the question is forever settled. In this
way the bosh about an enabling
aot-democratic tilbusterina to prevent
sits" being taken out of the calender
and-the like-is overcome and the two
Dakotas get there. The whole matter
rests with the reople OF Dakota and the
two states can be working in harmony
with the rest of mRnkind-if the people
elect q legislature with gumption and
ability to do the proper work-all within
the law and in accordance with the en-
~lightenment of the times.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-11
Personal.

Berney S Woolley returned last night
from Sioux City.
Prof. o. II. Taylor went west on bust
ness this morning.
E. s. end J. W. Foley, of Bismarck,
are guests at the Merchants.
Viii t. Burns came in from Fargo
this morning for Q weeks visit.
Mrs. 7. s. Devol came home last night
from a visit of a week in Vermillion.
Miss Minnie Watrous went to Sioux
City this afternoon Tor a weeks visit.
Mayor j. 81. Teller took this after
moons Milwaukee passenger for the east.
Miss Catherine r. Weeker, of Monroe,
Illinois, was 8 guest at the Merchants
last night,
". Il. Hsrwood and wife, of Des
Moines, Iowa, were guests at the Nor
sison last night.
Will Edgerton, OF Mitchell, who has
Deer E. G. EdRerton's guest for a month,
went home to-day.
Miss Annette Bruce went 90 Vermil-
lion this afternoon, there TO spend the
winter studying music.
DR.. Otto zardetti left this morning
for Webster, Dakota, where he will
dedicate g new Catholic church.
Mrs. j. r. Gamble and children leave
Ynnkton tomorrow for Fox Lake, Wis
consin, there to make an extended visit.
Mrs, S. s. Turner and sons, family of
DR.. s.. s.. Turner, formerly residents of
Ysnkton, are guests at the Merchants.
Mrs. M. s. Parker and daughter, Miss
Helen, who have been Miss Nellie Burns
guests for some time. left for home this
afternoon.
Miss Celeste Coughllp, of Mitchell,
who visited i'll Yankton for two months
and who went to Sioux City for a visit q
week ago, returned last evening to Yank.
ton aud will go to Mitchell tomorrow.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-11
One Dozen.
One Dozen.
Fine cabinet photographs al Janousek's
for $500. For three days only.
Tried to steal nHorse.

Sunday evening last, 81. E. Goodrich,
George Goodrich and Will Paul were
passing down Third street on their way
to 81, e. Goodrich's home and when ct
the alley near Fred Donaldson's store
they saw a man bestrlde a gray horse and
ride out of the alley, and start up Third
street. II. E. Goodrich recognized the
horse as belonging to Charles Edgar, @
resident of that portion of the city, but
he did not know the rider. Upon in
vestigation Mr., Goodrich found that Mr..
Edgar knew nothing about the horses
absence and preparations were i'm.
mediately made to find the animal and
his abduotor. MIR. Edgar and another
man went out toward the James river;
while Fl. e. Goodrich and Mr.. Paul took
a buggy and started north. AT the fair
grounds they overlook the man end
horse and Mr.. Goodrich alighted and
jerked the rider from his seat. He at
tempted to SECURE the man and bring
him back to the city, but the thief. for
such be proved to be. was too heavy and
he escaped in the darkness. The horse
was returned to Its stable.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-11
county tax. The oouaoil also received .

county tax. The council also received .
petition from F, 8hageF asking for a
rebate OF license money. which petition
wes referred to the committee On finance
and taxation.
An epidemic among the cattle of this
vicinity has recently come 20 light snd
although its ravsgee ere nov entirely
checked. 1t appeared at n time that 1t
would become very general. 1t is An
affection OF the second stomach, and
causes death suddenly and surely. The
mich COW at the hospital contracted
the disease and before an alternating
remedy was found ten of them died.
a serious accident wss avoided OF the
electric light house on Saturday eve-
ming. The new engine had been at
tached to the dynamos aud steam turned
on. The engine ran backwards, much
to the surprise of everybody, and the
electric current was forced down the
we'll hole in pails.full. What the result
OF en- over charge of electricity in a hole
like that can better be imagined than
described, but the electrician by prompt
action shus off the steam and the our
rent was stopped with q suddeness which
was plainly apparent in the arc lights
down town, which promptly went out.
Engines that runs backwards are bad
things to fool with.
Yankton is now face to face with q
proposition from the Manitoba railroad
company-somethinQ Yankton has long
labored to secure. Upon this basis the
matter should be broughE to o focus.
The proposition is for immediate work
and that will make the coming winter
more cheerful to ell of ug. Ysnkton
needs the stimulus OF u new railroad
enterprise and one which is to give us a
bridge across the Missouri is the very
best we could plan or scheme for. We
could hope for noshing better than this
It involves a heavy peouniary pull, but
the emergency should be met with grim
business determination and with q united
front. This Is our opportunity. It is
either up or down now.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-11
IN

ResoiUt'o uS In Honor of General Sheri-
dan Adopted by Ii Hearney Post.
G.. "A, II.
Headquarters Phil KeaEney post, No.
7,LG. A. r. department. OF Dakota, Ysnk-
ton. Dakots-Whereas the greet COM
mandeE OF the universe has called from
this to q higher life, the general OF the
army. Phillip Il. Sheridan the honored
and trusted leader the ideal soldier who
never lost a battle and never turned his
back to the enemy. Beloved and
honored by ell he possessed certain
qualifications that made him q con-
spicuous figure among all others and by
which he won some of the most brilliant
victories of the war. The great services
rendered by him to the country in it's
hour of peril have so endeared him in
the hearts of his country men that there
ia mourning in every household in the
land.
Therefore be it resolved, hat Phil
Kearney post No. 7, department of Da-
kots, G.. A. r. has In b death OF Cen
eral Sheridan sustained the loss of q
comrsde whose brilliant career lllumes
the brightest pages OF military history.
Resol0ed. That the sympathies of this
post are hereby rendered to Mrs. Sheri-
dan and family IN this their hour Of
bereavement In the loss of d kind hus,
band and father to the army in the loss
Of its gallant and trusted commander
and the nation in the loss OF a great de-
fender.
Res0loea, that Phil Kearney memorial
ball be draped in mourning for thirty
days that a copy OF these resolutions be
forwarded TO the family OF deceased that
they be spread on the records of this
post and that they be published in the
city paper, A. M. ENGLISH, Adlt.
Fl. B. MURPHY, Commander.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-11
G AAACetRECs

The woman's guild of Christ church
will meet with Mrs. L. Piles Thuredsy
afternoon at 2 O'Clock.
DR.. Potter, chairman of the republican
county committee, is preparing to call
the county nominating convention.
Irresponsible newspaper correspond
ents who telegraph abroad gross mis-
representations do our city no good and
may do it damage.
Mr.. Goodwin says the brick work on
the central school building will be- COM
pleted to morrow. Work has been much
delayed by the prevailing scarcity of
brick.
School furniture is being placed in the
city hall building for the temporary use
of pupils who will have no school habi-
tatIon until the new central building is
completed.
The Harrison and Morton club has
rented the store Dom in the Sawyer
block next west of l. Piles store IS q
club headquarters and the first meeting
will OCCUR therein tomorrow night.
Corn is doing splendidly. Most of it
is now safe and tardy fields are. maturing
with astonishing rapidity. It's q good
corn country where a seasons crop
makes up more than q month OF lost
time.
Frank Wells, who has just returned
from Michigan, says: They are ell re-
pablicsns there-except an occasional
prohibitionist. isaw no democrats and
it does not appear that there are any in
the state"
Last nights meeting at the city hall
was largely attended. An adjournment
was taken until this evening, when on
other meeting will be held at the same
place. Every man pecuniarily interested
ia Yankton should be there.
The steamer Rosebud, from Bismarck
passed Yankton yesterday, going down
the river. She was four hours aground
lust opposite this city and her stay at
the Dakota bank was very brief. She
goes to st. Louis for winter quarters.
A meeting of the directors OF the
building and loan ASSOCIATION was held
this morning, at which it was decided
that the Bohn property or college hill
slope be cold to satisfy the associations
claims. See advertisement for bids in
another column.
1t will not be questioned that the
new railroad is an absolute necessity
How to meet the demands OF the hour il
the problem for the solution of our WISE
men. The first requisite is %unsnlmity
A pull all together will bring q heavy
load out of o deep hole.
Samples OF the Hackensack and Elmer
cid green brands OF cantelope, which
were produced on ii. l.. P. OhIene'
farm, we're left at this office yesterday
The reporter, assisted by the counting
room devil end q tramp printer, found
the fruit very toothsome, and these TIVE
styles are recommended to the meloI
eating public.
A special meeting of the city council
was held last evening for the purpose o
making the annual tax levy. The financ
committee presented a report whiet
created the tax levy as follows: Oh
general fund, s mile; DE- sinking fund
4mills; on school fund. u mills. Thi
is o reduction of 2 mills on the levy o
last year. The report was adopted. Whel
reckoaed with the reduction in th,
county levy the whole is reduction o
ia mills on the combined city an
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-11
Republican County Committee.

There will be a meeting of tine repub-
lican county committee at the court
house in Yaukton on Wednesday the
10th day OF September 1888, at 2lo'clock
D. M. for the purpose of fixing the rep
~rasentution OF the several precincts OF
the county, and Tor calling csuouses and
convention for nominating q county
ticket and delegates for legislative ticket.
j. A. POTTER, Chairman of Committee.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-11
N. M, HILLS, Go. Supt.
For Sale.

By the Yankton building and loan as
ISOLATION. The two lots and house
as the Bonn property. Title per
feet and terms easy. Bids will be re-
celved by the undersigned.
T.. NJ. PURDY.
f. j. KAHN.
w. H. MUNRoE.
Finance Commute,
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-11
Teachers Wanted.

Office OF superintendent of Pablo
Schools, Yankton County, Dakota. Ysnk.
ton, Dakota, Sept. 8, 188S-Ten male
teachers of good scholarship, unques-
tiorable moral character and unexcep-
tionaole habits are wanted to fill posi-
tions in the public schools OF Yankton
county.
N. M, HILLS, Go. Supt.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-11
Carpenters Wanted.

Two or three good carpenters wanted
to work at Santee Agency, Neb., with
| probability of work as long as weather
permits. Apply to
Wilcox LUMBER Co,
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-11

Buggy for sale-A buggy that
cost $125 and has been run but three
months for $50. Inquire eS the Morrison
house.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-11
One Dozen.
Fine cabinet photographs for $2.0C b
anousek's. For three days.

Lost-A small bill book containing
some notes of no value to anyone but
the owner. A suitable reward will be
given for it's return to this office.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-11

We have At pieces of silks and satins
ranging in cost from rs cents to $l.10,
we offer this week at 40 cents. Come
quick for choice. BRUCE BROS.