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The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-12-01
WASHINGTON.

CONGRESSMAN Perry Belmont has been
appointed minister TO Spain and has ao-
cepted.
WAsHIsGroN.-The Inauguration com
mittee estimates that n a1arter of mil
lion people from outside Of Washington
will attend the inauguration ceremonies,
aud that facilities will be had for the en-
tire number.
WAsHlNoToN.-The superintendent of
the dead letter office, in his annual report
says there were received at his Office dur
iog the year 6,217,S76 pieces of original
dead mail matter, an increase of SS2 sis
pieces over last year.
The annual report of first assistan.
postmaster General Stephenson shows
that during the last fiscal year II ,2SS
fourth class postmasters we're appointed,
curing the year 1,645 postoffices were
discontinued and the whole number of
postoffices increased 2,229.
The Chamberlaiu-Endic wedding
occurred a. st. Johns Episcopal church
at O'Clock Thursday afternoon. The
President and Mrs. Cleveland and rem
bers of the cabinet and their families and
representatives of the foreign legations
and relatives of the bride attended. Ex-
Minister West was not present. There
we're no bride smaids. The party left by
the afternoon train for New York.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-12-01
Wearing Mourning.

DOUBTLESS there are many who con-
ceive themselves comrorteu by Grape
and bombazine and their feelings ought
creatures of habit. Among the He
brews the conventional expressions
of grief consisted in tearing gar
ments. cutting the hair and beard and
going about bareheaded and barefoot
ed, weeping and shifting the breast.
The Greeks kept themselves secluded,
wore coarse black garments and
walled bitterly. During the empire
women wore white mourning in place
of black, cheerful custom, ut least.
Among barbarians mourning rites are
horrible, including burning and am
putation.
The Chinese more hopeful than the
Caucasians, believe their friends are
alive and happy in some distant cline
and so use white instead of black.
Even the Turkish mourning is ccruean,
to represent the sky to which their
loved have flown, while the Ethiopians
typify the dust of which they are made
By the brown they don on funeral oc-
casions. Everywhere it is conventions
nj and more or less barbaric. How
unlike true conception of that 'other
world" of Mrs. Stowe:
Sweet hearts around us throb and beat,
Sweet helping hands are stirred,
And palpiiates the vail between
With breathings almost heard,
In multitudes of cases families put
into pompous funeral ceremonies and
costly mourning enough to save them
from impending want. Who can sup.
pose that the departed would desire
such trappings, when no one is bene'
fitted and no real respect shown by the
unwisdom? Modern oblations take q
different form but amount TO the same
thing as the ancient. A sacrifice upon
the altar of show and ceremony is Il
sacrifice still. Where the wealthy in
dulge, the poor certainty will. 4
costly casket, long line of carriages
Haunting Grape and an empty larder
debts, anxiety and wretchedness. No
can they abatc one jot the pangs o
separation, which can only be assuaged
| by trust in that Providence which
comprehends all we can ever know o
deathless and exalted affection.-Goot
| HoUSeLeeDtnq.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-12-01
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL FISK had one vote in South
Carolina.
Mrs HARRIET BEEoHEE SIowE appears
almost well again.
THE republican plurality in the city of
st. Louis il 10,66i
Mns. HARRIsos wears hustle and il a
firm believer in the practical value of
that article.
The steamship Schiedan for the safety
of which some fears were felt, arrived al
New York Wednesday morning.
MARGARET DELAND, the author os John
Ward, Preacher" is Pennsylvania lady
of about 30.
Mrs. PHILIP Sheridan's friends have
undertaken the work of raising her
benefit fund of SlC0,0oO.
AMELrcRISEs CHASLER has set the fash
ION of wearing at afternoon teas kid
shoes made like glove, with separate
com partnents for each toe.
DEs Morsrs.-The official returns from
every county in the otate give Harrison
1882; Cleveland 179,s09. Harrison's
plurality, 1888.
THE salmon season on Puget sound is
now about closed. The total packing of
the season is "a 400 cases, being the
largest ever made on the sound.
In a suit brought by Mrs. Ellen Harts-
horn, of Ohio, at Troy, n. Y, to recover
Sc 600 due her father, Sherman Eddy, the
latter, who was thought to be dead, walk
ed into the court room and the case col
lapsed.
NEW YoRK.-The official count of the
vote for the presidential electors has
oeen completed, in 45 oct of GO counties,
in this state. The official count from
these counties and reliable estimates
from the remaining 15 show the plurality
for Harrison electors will be $4,000.
The complete official returns of the
recent election il. Pennsylvania show a
total popular vote of 997 ,224, being an
increase of nearly 100000 over the total
vote Of four years ago. Harrison and
Mortop's plurality over Cleveland and
Thurman is 1851; their majority over
all competitors is 54,959. The third
party Prohibition vote was 20,74s, being
an increase of 5000 in four years.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-12-01
How Noyeiist's Lose Plots.

met novelist not long ago, writes
Arlo Bates in the Book Buyer, who put
into words. albeit, somewhat whimsi-
cally, 4 feeling | confess to sharing.
81 have lost beautiful plot" he
said. Il can't be reconciled to giving
it up.h
Lost it?" l asked. "How have you
lost it?"
why, was the reply, 'you know
have undertaken to do so and so, and
that will take me at least six months.
BY that time somebody else will have
thought of my plot and used it. You
never can keep those things. They are
in the air."
Yes" | said. 1.-The year left col
lege | wrote out the plot of story OF
which the motive was so nearly identi-
cal with that of Robert Elsmcre' that,
if | published it to-day, it would be
called the most barefaccd plagiarism.
Everything is thought by the world,
and the man who is quickest in getting
anything on paper is called the origi-
nator."
"Thats Just my idca.n he assented.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-12-01
CRIME.

The time during which the heirs of the
late millionaire Smell will pay $4,000
for the arrest of Tascott, Smells murder
er, has been extended to January 18th.
W. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of the Moline
(Ill.) Wagon Company, Is reported to be
missing. dispatch alleges that his ac-
counts are several thousand dollars short.
JOSEPH GORDON. OF Tipton, Ind, sold
some cattle Saturday and received in pay
mant three $50 bills. He afterward
learned that each had been raised from
$40. One man in Clinton county was
victimized thus to the extent OF $500.
f. MOORE, Northern Pacific employe,
of Tacoma, w. T., who fed with $4,000
of the pany's funds, has been arrested
in British Columbia and nearly al! the
money recovered.
FouR of the striking locomotive en-
gineers of the Chicago, Burlington ana
Quincy Railroad have been indicted by
the Grand Jury at GaleRburg, ILL.,, on the
charge of conspiracy to destroy life and
property with dynamite.
HERMAN j. EMERsoS. the policy dealer
at New York, in whose place the forger
Bedell lost in one year $4,000, was We'd
nesday sentenced TO one year IN the pen
itentiary and fined $1,000.
AT Rochester, N. Y, Tuesday night,
John Van Korff, engineer of the Steam
Gauge and Lantern Works, by the burn
ing of which last Friday night over forty
persons lost their lives, was arrested for
setting fire to the building. Mysterious
fires in several places where Van korff
had been employed led to the suspicion
that he also burned the works above men
toned.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-12-01

ters started for England yesterday.
by tho Emperor.
EMrERog WILLIAM has written letter
to Burgonaster Forckenbeck expressing
his cordial thanks for the municipal ad
dresses of welcome and for the memorial
fountain.
LONDON. dispatch from Zanzibar
says the Italian flag has again been boist-
ed on the Italian consulate, and saluted
by direction of the sultan.
Mr.. STURGEON, the great London divine
is troubled so badly with the gout that
he will not be able to do any preaching
for some months. He has gone to the
south of France.
AT q recent sitting of the Serviau re-
vision commission King Milan declared
that he would as little tolerate the Rus.
sian eagle at Constantinople as the Aus
trian eagle at Salonica.
NINE hundred lives are reported lost b
the foundering of coastipg steamer
plying between Clutch ana Bombay in the
East Indies.
The Post advises German capitalists to
redeem Russian bonds of 1877 for cash in
the event of the success of the proposed
conversion loan.
The London Times regrets that Min
lister Phelps is to return to this country.
1t ia said that he has made many friends
in England and no enemies.
Cry OF MExIco.-It is stated that
United States Minister Foster presented
the claims of the estate of Charles But
terfield against Mexico. The claims are
for war material and ships of war, and
amounts to over $20,O0o,o00.
UNDER the laws of France a person re-
ported dead by tho police must remain
dead, no matter how much he wants to
come to life. If he wants to stay in
France he must take a new name.
MucH damage is reported by recent
violent gales on the west coast of Great
Britain. At the city of Glasgow, where
the storm assumed the force of hurr;-
cane, the Exhibition Building was partly
wrecked.
Born tbs Kreuz Yeitupg and the Post
consider the redistribution of the westerL
portion of the Russian army as implying
a serious advance. They say that the
Russian garrisons on the frontier have
been strengthened by two, and in some
cases three divisions, which are alsu
available for an advance.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-12-01
Going Down Hill.

There are more ways than one OF going down
hill. Besides rolling over precipice, rushing
down n toboggan slide and other methods you
may, IL you neglect to rectify an erratic diges
ton, discipline rebellious liver, and restore a
regular habit OF the bowels, rapidly descr'd an
incline whose bottom Is the grave. \ Il IN
vigor Impairment OF appetite, trouh,- =i.ep,
loss OF flesh and mental energy 49, these tie
inIalble indications that show decay, ana ous sht
To suggest repair The finest, sures, pleasaute~
means OF repairing physical energy is Hostciter'S
-tomach Bitters. Where the mineral p0isons
aud weak appetiaers fail this potent botanic IN
vigorant succeeds. Whether feebleness Is tn
attendant of disease Inherent in the constitu-
ton or the companion OF convalescence, often
very slow after wasting maladies. the Bitters has
proved reliable means of remehying IT,
through the medium OF improved digestion. The
Bitters cure malarial complaints rheumatism.
constipation and kidney troubles.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-12-01

Editor in Chief lin n whispcr)-'S-h!
Don't speak so loud. M.-Why not!
E.-Thc baseball reporter is writing
his report in the next room and he has
Just given me orders that he Is not to
be disturbed either by callers or by
noises. .-BoSton Courier.
Maud-And you arc really engaged
to Mr.. Hawkins, Ethel? Ethel-fes,
/ hardly know whether | love him or
not. but he was so earnest that some
how | could not refuse him. Maud
Yes, | know. When | refused hlm
last summer he told me he was going
to marry somebody or bust before
Christmas -7erre Hdwtc Express.
Visitor Ito convicD Why, what
brought YOU here, Uncle Rastus? Un-
Gle Rastus-'Cessive hospitality, sab.
visitor-Excessive hospitality? Uncle
Rastus-Ycs, sab. Yer see, sab, in
yited the minister to n Sunday dinner,
and when / got home late Saturday
night dc old 'ooman fo'med me dar
wasn't chicken in de housc.-New
York Sun.
Yes" said Smith, lit is Il cherries
thing to be left alone in the world.
was left an orphan and without SIM
gle relation to whom j could look tor
sympathy in afiliction. But the world is
brighter now. | have seven sisters. y
Seven sisters!" exclaimed Jones. 81
thought YOU said you hadn't a single
relation in the world" II hadn't a
few years ago, but have seven sisters
now. I've been rejected by seven
girls. "-BOSton Courier.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-12-01
EARTHQUAKE IN CALIFORNIA.
A sharpsShock Experienced Throughout the
State-Obseryations Taken.

A sharpfShock Experienced Throughout the
State-0bseryation Taken.
SAN FRAScIsc "a shock of earthq uake
that was sharp enough to cause many
people in hotels and private houses to
run into the street was felt here recently.
The direction YVES north west to southwest.
The duration was ten secondc. Tele-
grams says the shock was felt throughout
Central California. Observations on the
movements of the earthquake taken at
the universities at Oakland aud Alameda
show the motion and direction to be vir-
tually the same as in this city. The Uni
versity of California reports the shock
to be the seversst since 1871. In sume
places children are reported to have been
rolled out of their cradles. The shock
was followed by rumbling sound, which
was distinctly audible.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-12-01
Bad Luck.

Mrs. De Winks-"Why, how happy
you look!"
Lovely Daughter-"Such news! 1
put in claim for $3.50 for my trunk,
and the railroad official said it would
probably be paid shortly"
Mrs. De Winks Ga week later)-
"Mercy! What's happened?"
Daughter-"O, do feel SO misera-
BILE wish | could die. Everything
goes wrong"
Dear me! Has the company re-
fused TO pay that claim?"
mo. They found the trunk!"-Phss-
ddelphia Record
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-12-01

THE war against the car stove, which
was begun two winters ago, has brought
many tangible results; but the progress
toward other systems of heating passen-
ger trains is not as rapid as it should be
The Railroad Gazette has collected Infor.
nation as to the prevalence of steam
heating among the roads in the country.
While many are still experimenting, only
q few have equipped all trains. Among
the latter are the Boston and Albany,
whose entire passenger outfit is providsd
with a steam heating system; most OF the
Vanderbilt roads, including the New York
Central, West Shore, Michigan Central
and Lake Shore. which are either now or
will be tais winter we'll rid of the car
stove; and the Burlington, Cedar Rapids
and Northern, Fitchburg, Connecticut
River, Maine Central aud Portland and
oydensburg. Several important lines
are providing a steam heating equipment
as rapidly as possible, including the
htchinson, st. Paul, Rock Island, Cleve-
land. Columbus, Cincinnati aud Indian
anolis. Lackawanna and Western, Della
sara and Hudson, Lake Erie aud Western
and Wisconsin Central. Experiments are
,e,np conducted more or less Indifferent.
= nm various other roads. The Boston
and Albany and Vanderbilt roads use the
Martin system; the sewali comes next in
;muortance; while great number of the
o.a. ara dsyising q system of their own.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-12-01
Characters Shown by Features.

Memory of Events. This is shown
by wide, full forehead in the center.
Reasoning Power.-A high, long,
and well-deiined nose and broad face
exhibits this faculty.
Moral Courage.-Thisf faculty mani
tests itself by wide nostrils, short neck,
and eyes set directly in front.
Language. This faculty is exhibited
i'll many parts of the face, particularly
by large mouth, and large, full eyes,
opened wide.
Self-Esteem. This fact shows itself
in long or deep upper lip. Large
self-esteem gives one dignity, self-con-
troll, and perfect independence.
Firmness.-The presence of this fac
ulty, when very large, is indicated by
n long, broad chin. Firmness is synon-
ymous with wilfulness, persever-
ance, and stability.
Perception of Character.-Thisis is in
dicated by a long, high nose at the
lower end or tip. This faculty is very
useful, if not indispensable, to a Judge
in the exercise of the functions of his
office.
Power of Obscrvation.-Thc situa-
ton of this faculty is in the face Just
above the top of the nose, filing out
the forehead to n level with the parts
on each side of the nose. 1t is n facul-
ty which enables one To concentrate
the mind upon the subject being dis
cussed.
Conscientiousness.- is shown
in the face by a square jaw, 'bony
chin, prominent cheek bones, and a
general squareness of the features OF
the entire face. To be conscientious
means that one has Il sense of Justice,
honesty of purpose, rectitude of char.
acter, and moral courage. PitSbura
DiSDatch
Cigarettes Superseding Cigars.
It is fact which will astonish n
great many people that cigar-smok-
ing is on the decline in New York.
The Cigar Makers journal saws that
during the month of August the num-
ber of cigars manufactured here was
GO, 1885, ,437, against "A, 433. 100 during
the same month of 1887, Il decrease ot
5,247 .663 cigars. Since Jan. /, 1888,
sos, l1S,0l9 cigars have been made :,
New York, decrease of 1922, ,5S7,
compared with the output for the same
length of time in 1887. The sad truth
is brought to light that the popularity
of cigarettes is on the increase, while
, cigars are slowly giving way before
their pernicious rivals.-PhiladeipAio
Record.
At country picnic in Massachus
etts an old gentleman of seventy-si,
had lively waltz with an old lady o.
eighty-one. Another couple dancet
together whose combined ages wer,
161.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-12-01

THE labor question has been receiving
in Belgium the attention of royal COM
mission, which had been invesSig ating
the condition of the laboring classes, and
devising remedies for existing evils. Its
zee omm sndations involve general
scheme of industrial legislation, such as
in part Germany has had ir force-the
establishment of building associations
accident insurance companies, savings
banks, mutual aid societies, industrial
schools, sanitary inspection boards and
and boards of arbitration. In the mat
ter of the hours of labor the commission
does not interfere, only commencing
that women and children be gradually ex
cluded from the mines; the fret step be
.ag to prohibit the employment there of
boys under IL and girls under IA years of
age, and of women in factories and mines
at night. Where it is possible these re-
pommendat:ops are to be carried out
under tho authority and supervision of
government. This is the way many of
the countries of Europe are Just now ap
preaching the labor problem. 1t lies
in direct line towa-d state socialism
whether the theorists hold that ws eur.
selves, under the stress of existing con
ditions, are also tending.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-12-01
DAKOTA.

FouR Thousand boxer Of California
raisins, sent this fall to Lond on brought
better prices than the famous layers from
Malaga, and, as happy consequence, or
ders have co me co California from Am
sterdam. Vienna and Australia.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-12-01

OF the libraries Of Germany the largest
is that of Berlin, with 100000 volumes
and $4,000 manuscript; then comes
Dresden, $4,000 volumes and 1000 manu-
scripts; Darmstadt, $4,000 volumes and
5000 manuscripts, and Leipsic, tn uni
versity library, $4,000 volumes and 1000
manuscripts.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-12-01
FOREIGN.

JAPAN has an army of l50. 900 men and
talks of increasing 1t to 100000.
Ex EMpREss FREDKRIcK and her daugh-
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-12-01

neury Schultz, of Chippewa Falls, aud
NJ. Danks, of Cadott. shot q doe that was
perfectly white, with white eyes and yell
low pupils. The pretty creature was fol-
o wing a large elk.
According to Texas paper, the per-
centage of deaths from attacks of yellow
fever will be about 10 per cent. this year.
Twenty-Five or thirty years ago accord.
ing to the same authority, the deaths
were equal to not less than one-half or
one third of the cases. This would seem
at indicate that more scientific nursing
ond doctoring were having a good effect
ven upon this terrible soourge.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-12-01

THE Mormons in idaho resorted to a
dubious device IN their ea0erness to elect
a delegate TO Congress. The Law of the
territory is that no Mormon shall vote
IL was discovered come weeks age that
the Mormous were sending in letters
withdrawing from the church. The bish-
op would promptly note his acceptance
upon these documents, which became
evidence of the holders qualificasion as
voters. The device, however, did not
prevail. The Mormons were ousvoted,
and they can now burn their letters. This
instance of political manenvering is 10
teresting as it throws light upon the an
ti.polygamy constitution promulgated
in Utah as the price of statehood. Nor
mons who will withdraw from the church
long enough to vote will no. stand on the
phraseology of the constitution if they
can only wheedIe Congress into admit
ting Utah into the Union.
THE war cloud of Europe lie always with
US, and the moment the general news runs
riot, the foreign correspondent turns 20
this subject, knowing that he is ssre of
sensation, There is a peculiar conjunc-
ton of incidents that serve as material
for scare at present. Emperor William
returns from his grand tour with an ex,
pen se account of 5000, 900 and very little
to show for it. After being kissed by
monarchs from st. Petersburg tn Rome
and after trying on a number OF foreign
military uniforms, the fast dawns on
William that the powers are more dispos-
ed to add to than reduce their armaments
Austria and Italy keep at their task
perfecsing their military appurtenasces,
end the latest is that Russia has arranged
to strengthen her forces upon the west
ern frontier to 100000 reckoned on a
"peace footing" The czar, meantime, is
asked by young William to meet the Aus
trian emperor at Berlin, but Francis
Joseph compl;cates matters by making it
q condition of visit that the czar reduce
his frontier army. Ii he can persuade
Austria that her soldiers are merely on q
Sunday-school picnic, the Berlin meeting
may come off. Otherwise the still hunt
for military position will continue in cen.
tral Europe.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-12-01

Ths religious meetings of the modern
Qaakers do not differ materially from
those of other denominations. A gentle
man remembers attending a Quaker
meeting in town sixty years ago and
thus describes the meeting: The
preacher arose and said: "ihere is n
balm in Gilead," repeating the same
three times, and soou after sat down,
keeping silence for about half an hour,
after which the audience dispersed. There
was more pith in this than in many u
longer sermon.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-12-01

STRAIsHTES your old boots and shoes with
Lyons Heel Suffeners. and wear them again
little French Canadian boy In Oldtown is
credited with one of the shortest and most com
prshensiye compositions on record. The teacher
told him to write about anything he could see,
anu this was the result: THE Stove. She be
cracked. ~