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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-11-07

Sam Jones has done q wonderful
work 10 Durham. Thousands upon
thousands flocked 10 hear him; and
scores upon scores were converted.
Col. w. r. Blackwell was Of this
number. lie has joined the Baptist
church. and We may now expect him
10 throw bis wonderful energies into
new and boiler channels. --Piitsboro
Home.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-11-07

Mr.. J. I. Mallory - In town, look.
Ing bright and happy. He comes
from Sam Jones' meeting q better
and happier man. He has new hopes,
new aspirations, and his tender heart
will lead him In the future 70 nobler
deeds Of charity and lore. -Pissbors
Home. -.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-11-07
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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-01-12
Bob lngersoIrs Fine Rhetoric.

Mrs. Ida Whiting Knowles. wife OF the
Hon. Howard Knowles, late United States
collector at Peoria, H., died in New York
city on Dec. 10. She was an estimable
woman, and leaves a wide circle OF friends
TO mourn her early death. Before her 70
mains were sent to the West Col. Robert
G. lnsersoll delivered the following tribute
TO her memory
Ny friends-Again we stand in the shad-
oE OF the great mystery; a shadow as deep
and dark as when the tears Of the first
mother fell upon the pallid face Of her lie
less bafe-A mystery that has never vet
been solved. We have met in the presence
Of the sacred dead to speak a word o.
praise. OF hone, OF consolation. Another
life OF love il now a blessed memory a
lingering strain OF music. Tho loving
daughter, the pure and consecrated vile,
the sincere friend, WHO win tender faithful
Eess discharged the duties of life, has reach
cd her journey' > end. Drawer, a more serene.
a more ehivalrie spirit-elaspins the loved
and Ly them clasped-never passed from
life to enrich the realm OF death. No field
of war ever witnessed greater fortitude,
more perfect, smiling courage than this
poor, weak and helpless displayed
upon the bed OF pain and death. Her life
was geAtle and her death sublime. She
loved the good and all the good loved her.
But there is this consolation: she can
never suffer more; she can never feel again
the chill OF death; never part again from
those she loves. Her heart can break no
more. Sh0 has shed her last tear,
and upon her stainless brow has been
set the uondrous seal OF everlasting
peace. When the angel of death-the
masked and voieeless-enters the door of
home, there with her all the daugh,
tiers Of compassion. and OF these love and
hope remaia forever. You are about TO
take the dear dust home-to the home OF
her girlhooi and to the place that was
cnce my home. You will lay her with
neighbors that i have loved, that are now
et rest. You will lay her where my father
sleeps. All l can say is:
Lay her in the earth,
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
Let voilets spring
never knew, / never met a hraver spirit
than the one that once inhabited the si-
lent form OF dreamless clay.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-01-12
PIN OF THE NEWS.
News from washington.

The public debt reduced. in round num-
ners, $l4.5SA.000 In December.
Delegate Clifford of Dakots introduces
all his bills in the house In 4 lump.
The coinage az TIE minis during Decem-
Der, 1887, wa IS. 6 6e5. Of which 81
1855 e8 were standard dollars.
Naval circles have been thrown into a
state Of CONSERVATION by reportsfrom Cal
iiornia relative to the discovery of grave
detects N the steel intended 10 be used in
the construction of the cruiser Charleston
o being built in that state.
Washington special The ntw senator
from West Virginia, Mr.. Faulkner. is the
youngest man in the body, being . six
mocths the junior OF his colleague. Mr..
kenna% and nine months younger than Mr..
Spooner Of Wisconsin,. He viii be forty
years old in March
Postmasters commissioned: Dakota
Virgil. Ii. j.. Warren. Minnesota. North
field. J. Z. Kennedy, St Paul. W. Lee;
staple Bay. E. NJ. Halleckscn, Wisconsin:
Brown Deer r. @. Miilbrath; Rochester.
W. i. Hoyt; st. Nathans Us. Chase;
Stockholm. G. F. Hibbard. Fourth class
postmasteIs appointed-Dakota: Dalss-
burg. j. C westburg. Iowa; Resles, EN-.
ma 4. Reel
Tho Appointmen. OF a successor to ex-
Land Commissioner Sparks is q frequent
subject OF conversation among men having
business with the land Office. Very many
express the hope that Acting Commission
sr Stoeksiager viii receive the appoint
mebt. as be has shown n disposition to
push bus mess since he has had charge. and
there is already a great difference in the
way the general land Office Is run
The house had its first bill day on
the 4th. and there was a delugs-s02 pub
lie biis- Ninety-hye per cent Of the hun
dreds entered by the journal clerk are old
acquaintance. In most cases they were
the bills OF last congress. and they viii go
down TO the printer again to be set up and
printed just as they were last year. and at
the end OF this session. or OF the congress-,
the printed bills viii BE eoid as waste pa,
per.
The following pensions have been granted:
Wisconsin. l. Dunkark. N~twtonbnrg;
G. Hamilton. Milwaukee: j. HartiLg.
Dickeyyiile; B. Norman. Coleman. A. Steb-
bins, Melrosec W. Hawke. Plattevilie; W.
Styer, Weston: n. Duquette. Prairie du
CHEN; r. II. Asbury, Victoria; n. Deyor-
eaux. Wankesha; &c. Bertrand, Sparta.
Dakota. w. G.. Kinney, Huron. MinBeso-
t. A. F.. Mcdonald, Minneapolis; G. b.
Stiles FGida; X. Knudtson, Norercss; j.
A. Ammundsen. Wild Rice
The second controller has delivered q
decision IN the case Of Gen. John c. FIRE.
mont. who was lieutenant colonel in the
Mexican war. Fremont WAS tried and
sentenced to be dismissed. The president
approved the sentence. RENTED the pen
atty and ordered the officer to report for
duty. Fremont rendered his resignation
on the ground that he was not conscious
OF having done anything which merited
the sentence. Il Is concluded that Fr-
mont Is entitled to the three months extra
pay for Mexican war service.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-01-12
Grimes and Criminals.

Sleeht. the Wausan. Wiz. murderer, Is
saved from lynching only by a strong
guard.
At Rochester, \. y. assistant Cashier
William Smith OF the German American
bank, is So, 600 short in his accounts and
has absconded.
Georse Williams. a bartender, makes an
unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide In
st. Paul, owing to his being out OF q lob"
on account al high license.
At Herkimer, y. Y. Marcus W. Rosbaeh,
cashier Of the Herkimer National bank,
left Dec. ID aud has not returned. His
prolonged absence led to an Investigation
OF his accounts, which showed a shortage
OF $4,000, which he lost in speculation
in stocks.
DR.. Edward Bert. his wife, seventeen
year.old daughter and servants were
chioroformed while asleep ia their elegant
home on Nernon avenue. Chicago, and IN
aware until they woke with aching heads
that the house had been ransacked from
top to bottom by burglars.
Tim Barrett is found guilty of murder
in Minneapolis Tor the killing OF Tollelson.
the street car driver. and IL Il murder IN
the first degree, whereof the penalty is
death. The noted criminal lawyer Erwin's
Nit and e~loquenee did not confuse the
jurors to any extent. In less than three
hoars they appeared in court with their
d~eath-iealing verdict.
John Mack, alias johnson, a eolored
gambler from Richmond. Ind, being
worsted in a quarrel over a game OF
scraps in a State street saloon, remark
ed earelessiy before leaving the place that
be would Kill some one. After swallowing
a glass OF whisky at the bar Mack pulled
his revolver. and taking deliberate aim at
an inoiiensiye spectator. Frank Ball. col
ored. put a bullet through his heart
A bloody ARRAY occurred at Jefferson
barracks, No. Seven negro soldiers goS
drunk and outraged a white woman. The
officer OF the day ordered a company OF
white soldiers to arrest the negroes. A
company OF negro soldiers proposed to
prevent the arrest. They were disarmed,
but without their arms went to the rescue
OF the seven ravishers. They resisted the
attempts OF the white soldiers to arrest
them, and the result was a fierce hand-to-
hand fght. The negroes were defeated.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-01-12
Rough on Could and Sage.

District Attorney MARITIME OF New York.
filed the following memorandum in the
matter OF the char ges made against Jay
Gould and Russell Sage by the bond hold
ers OF the Kansas Pacific railroad:
This is sn application to present to the
grand jUry a charge OF larceny against
Jay Gould and Russell Sage, under See.54,
OF the Penal Code. In my opinion the
acts, the commission oI which tn, defend.
ants stand charged, constitute a crime.
A possible obstacle to "a successful prose-
eutioE Of the persons complained Of Is the
statute OF limitations. Yet there are
strong reasons Tor believing that this OBJ
staele is not insurmountable. The statute
under which il is sought to prosecute may
be so constructed as to enable the people
to proceed. Observation-Disclosures statute
OF limitations, and such a construction
would have support in reaso and common
sense. The question is so close and the
interests involved here as well of the peo-
pie as OF the defendants are so important
il seems proper to leave the deter mination
OF this question OF law TO the courts, and
in order to effect this result the facts
should be laid before the grand Jury. and
il proven an indictment found and tried.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-01-12
Or. Sam o.sm'th's Farewell Ser.


The First ". +. church OF st. Paul was
filed on New Years day by q congregation
which assembled TO listen to the farewell
sermon OF Rev. S. G.. Smith, who will as.
sumo control Of the independent Peoples
ehruch next Sunday. 1t was not only the
preachers last sermon as pastor Of the
First NJ. f. church. but it was his farewell
to Methodism.
At the close OF his sermon DR.. Smith
made the following remarks:
suppose that / ought to say something
TO you about leaving this church, / cannot
tell you the specific reasons for my going
for ! am here vet as your pastor, and the
pulpit is not the plaeeto speak OF personal
matters. go forth for two generaI-r reasons.
First, | believe that elsewhere / can be more
usetnl; second,I believe that elsewhere lean
bemore happy. Ihave a right to be happy
ii ! can do so while being useful. As to the
experiment | am about to try, the future
alone can tell what it will amount TO. /
do not go because OF any trouble with the
people of this church. During sixteen
years lie as a Methodist preacher L have
had most friendly relations with my peo-
pie. There are not three people in this
congregation that would make trouble here.
Apart from two or three persons in other
churches the Methodists have treated this
matter in n most dignifed way. Some OF
the First church people viii go with me.
and SOM will stay. Whether they go or
stay, / wish to remain friends with them
all. No man or woman can say that, by
word or deed. | have tried to draw any.
body away from this church. Nor do / 90
because of the ". +. church at large. /
am not. nor have | ever been, a candidate
for any Office. aud am not a disappointed
minister. / have received more, honor and
more recognition from the NJ E. church
since | tool this step than ! have de
served.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-01-12
The accord ;, casual,Ies.

An east-bound freight was wrecked about
two miles west Of 81 Cloud Fourteen rars
were ditehed. and eWo cars demolished.
The steamer William Porter was burn,
ed at the mouth OF the Salt river, twenty
eight miles below Louisville. Ky. The yes
sci u cargo was valued at $500
At Kansas City, the establishment oil the
| Stevens & Brace Iron company was
burned. Loss on building $50, 600; bully
insured; on contents, 1000; insured FOL
100000.
A broken Joint in a ess pipe nearly
proves The death Of a house full OF tenants
in New York Even the Waterman is over'
come, but is awakened accidentally ID thu
nick Of time.
At Lima. Ohio. as C.. p. Collins, fireman
on an engine on the Atlantic railroad, was
under his engine cleaning the firebox. the
engineer, not knowing he was there, start.
ed the engine and cut Collins body In two.
A fatal collision oe@urred on the Cana.
dian Pacific at Stewart Station between
two freight trains. IL Is reported that the
engineers and firemen OF both trains have
been killed and others Injured. Railroad
officials are very reticenh aud it Is impos-
sible to get details.
At GAINESVILLE, an explosion OF 4 ksro-
sene lamp in the store Of George Weaver,
on Broadway resulted IN the total de
struction Of the store and contents;
damage about $1,000. The Times Office,
with presses and nearly everything VI the
household furniture, were also destroyed;
loss about 81, 800. Insurance. in t,otb
cases unknown.
fmmanuelP resby terrain church. one ofthe
finest sacred ediiees in Milwaukee. was to-
tally destroyed BY fire. Nothing but the
"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-01-12

Senator Hoar has proposed an
amendment to the constitution max.
ing the term OF the president and Of
congress begin with the thirtieth day
% April, instead of the fourth oil
March. The same amendment was
proposed by Mr.. Hoar in the last con.
gress. and vas promptly passed by
the senate. The house would doubt
less have passed it too, if the press OF
other business at the close of the
short session had not prevented. The
purpose is to change the time
OF the presidents Inauguration,
which is an outdoor ceremony, to a
time when the season is more ad.
vanced and the weather is likely to be
more genial than can be expected Ear.
ly in March. But a more important
advantsee to be gained by the change
is the extention OF the short session
by nearly two months.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-01-12
Items About people.

Judge Franklin Beebe died at his home
in Minneapolis.
Post Quartermaster Sergeant David
Lawson oil Fort Meade, Oak, died at that
post on the Goth nit.
Fremont Cole was elected speaker oil
the New York assembly and Henry r. Low
president OF the enate.
Rev. o. T. Clifford. q prominent Baptist
clergyman Of Boston, is the latest convert
to Henry Georges doctrine.
d. n. BabeocS. the inventor OF the fire
sxtinguisher. died recently in the Fan
Francisco pcorhouse. He once had an in
come Of si20. ooe a year
Gov. A. G.. Swineiorl and wife arrived at
ST. Paul from Sitka, Alaska. They are en-
rocte to Washington and the East on a
purely pleasure trip.
Gen. Fremont has written a letter to the
Bedondo Beach company accepting tine
gift of a lot at Seaside. Cal, where he ez.
poets to reside hereafter.
Traffic Manager Hannaford, OF the
Northern Pacific has so FAR improved since
his attack OF apoplexy that he left with his
family in the Northern Pacific car Glacier
for n prolonged absence alter health and
strength He goes first TO the Hot Springs
where he will take a trip through Texas,
Mexico and California, returning home By
the Mount Shasta route about April
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-01-12

The next president elected will have
quiss a large list OF important mill
tary appointments to make. Owing 70
the progress of time and the conse-
qnent aging of officers, the next presi-
Dental term will see the retirement o.
three general officers and all the gsner.
al staff officers but two. under the law
retiring officers "a years old. This
viii ~necessitate more important mill
tary appointments than a president
has ever had to make in the time OF
peace. Under the law Major General
Terry and Brigadiers General Stanley
and Gibbon step out, and the general
staff officers following suit are Briga-
der General Hoiabird, Quartermas-
ter General; Brigadier General Benet,
Chief OF Ordnance; Brigadier General
Rochester. Paymaster General; Briga-
der General Macfeely. Commissary
General of Subsistence; Brigadier
6enefsi Moore. Surrspn General. and
Brigsdier General Drum, Adjutaut
General. The oaly general officers,
chiefs Of stats, remaining are Judge
Advocate General Swain, on hall
pay. sad General Greedy. Chief OF the
Signal Service. General Baird, In
speStor General, and General Duane,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-01-12
Disastrous Railroad Accidents.

The winter season has opened with sew.
eral very serious railroad accidents,
though without great loss Of life. On Sat
urday Dee. 81, two trains colIided on the
New York, Pennsylvania a Ohio railway
five miles west Of Meadyiile, Pa.
Both trains were over two hours late,
and the express being entitled to the right
Of way. The freight was running without
orders. simply taking 1t for granted that
the express was in. Both engineers and
fremen of the two enlli6ing engines were
crushed between the iron ruins. the man.
gled bodies of Engineer Swan and Fireman
Humes pinned to death, Just as they were
on the point OF leaping from their engines.
The scenes were very horrible. but very
much Ike Others with which every reader
il familiar. The following is n list Of
killed. Engineer r. p Swan. Mead vile. en-.
gineer William Gooee Meadrilie fireman
Arthur Irwin. MeAdville; fireman Edward
Humes, Cambridge. Ohio; William ii. Ste.
phenson, Toledo. Ohio, passenger on the
train. Tbs list of wounded is long. but
none are likely to result fatally.
Two last mail trains tNnfnbes / and q
met whilst running at full speed Saturday,
Dees31st about twelve miles below Somer.
set. and caused a lrightfi easnalty. The
accident was caused b. conductor and en-.
gaeer misrcading their orders. They arr
both amongst the oldest employees. None
Of the passengers we're Inquired. On tbs
sc.ts.eonna train tbs baggage master srd
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-01-12
The crea, soutnorn Soon.

The Manufacturers Record Of Baltimore
publishes its annual review OF the INDUS
trial growth OF the South for 1851 when
1t saws was ia many respects the mpst ~
markahle year in the history oil that sec
ton, as more VAS accomplished ior tne
progress and prosperity Of thewhole south
than ever before ia the sSsne length ..
time. There is scarcely a single Tine OF
manufacturing or mining business IN
which the number OF new enterprises re
ported during 1857 Is not more than twice
as large as in 1856. OF the fourteen Seuth-
ern states there are only four in which me
capital invested in new enterprises Is NOV
double the amount invested last year. IN
cotton manufacturing there has been great
activity, and seyenty-ssven nes mliis haso
her OF new mills ever reported in one year.
The industries OF the South are oeins
greatly diversified. as wen - increased;
This year the mount oil eapltai enipioS1
1SSf
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-01-12
Death of Gen. E. 3. Alexander.

Gen. Il. b. Alexander OF st. Paal, died at
the residence Of his son.in-law. Col G. u.
Lieber, Washington. ID. G.. aged e~ighty-six.
Gen. Edmund b. Alexander was bern in
Virginia in 1890. He entered West Point
military academy Oct 6, ISIS, being ap-
pointed from Kentucky.
He went to Mexico and served with dis
tinction Throughout the entire Mexican
war. April is. 1917. he was breyeted
major for gallant and meritorious con.
duct at the battle OF Cerro Gordo, Mexico,
and again Aug. 90, 1917. he was breveted
lieutenant colonel at the battles of Con.
treras and C~luerubuseo. Mexico. He was
present at nearly all the important bat
ties during the war. including the assault
and capture OF the City OF Mexico.
At the breaking out Of the civil war he
was appointed provost martial general,
superintendent OF the volunteer recruiting
service, and chief mastering and recruiting
ofhcer Tor the state OF Missouri. with head.
quarters at St. Louis 0&{ober is, 1865.
he was brevetted brigadiergsneral for his
excellent work in recruiting the armies Of
the United States. and WAS assigned to the
Tenth infantry az Fort Smelling as com
mander OF tbs regiment, a position he held
until February, 1863, when he aas PLACED
on the retired list. after over as years OF
active service.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-01-12
Foreign News Nuggets.

Daniel Wilson. * President Crews son.
in-law, win hereafter reside in Scotland.
Theodore Triton lives in a remote quar-.
ter Of Paris and lately dresses very shah
billy.
President Carnot of France has one SON
in-law. and with three raarriageable
daughter. a prospect OF thres more.
Preparations for the opening OF the Man.
itoba iegislature on the 18th are being
made The session will be a lively one.
Thomas Sexton. member OF parliament
and lord-mayor elect OF Dublin. who has
been suffering from an attack OF typhoid
fever, has had a relapse, and is again in a
dangerous condition.
A papal encyelical to the Bavarian
bishops urges a better enforcement OF the
~eoreordat. II says The church has OBJ
served her pledges while the state has neg
iected It's pledges 1t is necessary TO guard
the religious education OF youth. Secular
schools are n danger TO the state itself.
The eneyclicai prceedes demands by the
papai nuncio for tho extension oiths rights
OF priests To- regulate schools.
Ottawa Special The recent decision of
the informal revenue commission at Wash.
ington that every bank in the United
States. whether state or national, is liable
to a tax OF 10 per cent on thu amount Of
Canadian bank notes it uses Tor eircuia.
ton. OF Is paid out by IL. has attracted
some attention here. American sii.er
brought into Canada. under the Canadian
law as it stands is liable to duty OF 90
per cent. and this provision may possibly
be more rlgidly enforced in the future than
it has been in the past.
The pope on the Sd granted an interview
to EDeenie Neaillot the distinguished
French writer. and his son.. After speak
ing in high piaise OF their efforts in the
Catholic cause. his holiness expressed re-
grct at the present sad position OF France.
but said he was confident that she would
rise again to her old place in Christendom
and exercise unbounded influences in the
word. The pope then referred to the
state OF Europe. He lamented the revo-
~IstioEary spirit fermenting in many
states. and said be was prepar-
ing Two ~eneyclieals dealing with
socialism. the license q the press ard the
great power of universal suffrage, which he
considers terribly menaeing. He also in
teuded, he said. to define certain points
upon which good Catholics have confused
and dangerous ideas. The land and Irish
questions are believed to be the subjects to
which be alluded. Thu pope gives the iubi-
lee gift money to st. Peters treasury TO be
Expended in propagandism. The artistic ar
ticies win be placed in the museum OF the
vatican and the objects Of worship in the
vestry Of St. Peters. All the rest win be
river 20 the hospitsis;