The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-09-01
MISSING LINKS.


During the recent cyclone in Missis-
sippi negro boy was blown off his
mule into n creek.
Colonel Cash, of South Carolina, had
seven duels arranged for when he sud-
denly fell i'll and died.
There died the other day Mt Chilli,
Ind, pony of the mustang variety
that was foalcd in 1887.
Even the Chinese have caught the
base ball fever, and they have organ
lied club ut Marysvillc, Cal.
A st. Louis doctor says that cocaine
not only destroys the will power. but
will make villain out of the honestest
man in the world.
Roam Dog, the big medicine man of
the Sioux, finding his mother dead and
his reputation gone, sent a bullet
through his heart last week.
The phylloxera is spreading in the
vineyards of California. Another dis
ease called root rot has also appeared
to aid in the work of destruction.
Joseph Pinion, of Temple, Ala,
found rock about twenty miles from
that place in 1868 that would cut iron,
and he says there is great deal of it.
A man in New Jersey, who was in
very destitute circumstances. applied
to the town for help. He asked for
some money and pair of patent leath-
er slippers.
AT Hamilton, Ont, man who bor-
rowed an umbrella and did not return
it has just been sentenced to jail for
one year. A timely warning to the
wise is sufficient.
The most common stock expression
in the language is probably "Well,n
used rs an interjection. 1t may be
given more meanings than any other
meaningless word of few letters,
Just before water was reached in the
new artesian well at Montezuma, Ga,
some strange articles came from it,
consisting of Jumps of coal, fish scales
and bone, clear amber-colored rosin and
bits of soft wood.
There has been long search for n
sunken rock in the Red Sea upon which
two British steamers foundered. 1t has
Mt last been found 1t is a very small
coral patch with only fifteen feet of
water over 1t.
The French are acknowledged to
have the finest guns and projectiles in
Europe. Their Ferminy shell has been
shot through an armor plate twenty
inches thick, and come out with its
steel point uniniured.
In the old church of San Miguel,
Santa Fe, N. NJ, is bell that was cast
In Spain in the year 1856. 1t was
brought to Mexico by Cortez. and af-
ter the fall of Montezuma Indian slaves
carried it to New Mexico.
Americans are becoming more and
more popular in Paris. As in London,
they are the fashion. The spread-eagle
citizen il less conspicuous, and the
present quiet, observing tourist is well
coined with admiration.
Ivy planting and tree planting make
college commencements the true time
of "arbor days Some love for trees
may be the result of the ceremonies,
and arbor day orators may be produced
from the graduating classes.
An arly portrait of the poet Brown
ing, soon to be published in coliec-
ton of his poems, is said to represent
youngish man, with dark hair, rather
ill-shaped whiskers, and n decidedly
Hebraic cast of countenance.
A well-known London firm of re-
freshment contractors recently adver-
tised for 1000 additional walters, md
10000 applications were received in re-
sponse, the whole of the candidates
claiming to have had experience.
The largest single check ever given
was by John ID. Taylor, treasurer of
the Pennsylvania Company. 1t was
drawn payable to order of Lee Living
ston Il Co, for S14, 256, 1876 on the Ma
National Bank of Commerce, of New
York City.
The lumber from which the rallows
was constructed on which John Brown
was executed is owned by resident of
Harper's Ferry, who is waiting for
some relic hunter to come and take il
oil his hands. The modest sum of ST.
500 is asked for it,
One of the finest collections of coins
in the South is owned by Captain Bas-
com Myrick, of Americus, Ga. He
started il a number of years ago from n
bag of old Spanish and French coins
that he received over the counter while
cashier of a bank in Forsyth.
There is quite colony of well-to-do
colored men in Atlanta, Ga. numbers
of whom have made small fortunes
since the close of the war. The ma
Jority OF them were slaves and started |
life poor, but pluck and persistence |
have given them 4 firm standing finan-
cially.
A moccasin was killed near Smith
vile, Ca. and out of curiosity the boys |
made n post-mortem examination of |
his body. To their amazemcnt they |
discovered that he had swallowed a
snake of length nearly equal TO his
own, less the head, which had been
chewed off.
A cordial farmer who is preparing
10 receive city visitors, says: .Our poor
relations have written to say that they
want to inhale the country air for
about three months. Wen. If they can
i've on it let them come. We can lodge
.hp last one af tham n we hova ,Inrty |