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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06

A sUBTERRANEAN river has just been
discovered in the Department of Lot,
France. The discoveries worked their
way down stream for couple of miles
through q succession of wonderful
grottoes sparkling with stalactites
They found seven lakes on their way,
and had to shoot thirty-seven cascades
or rapids.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06

OVER 1o7, 1000 people in New York
City attend no church on Sundays.
And yet the religious conventions in
that city are moving heaven and earth
to get all the missionaries sent to the
other side Of the globe as soon as pos
sible.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06

ACCORDING to Sir Edwin Arno1d's
testimony, there are more happy mar
riages in India than in any other coun-
try, and yet they are uniformly az
ranged by the parents of the interest
ed parties. All this may be true, but
Sir Edwin will have hard work making
romantic young men and women,
wherever found, believe it.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06

EMILE DE LAvELEY, the European
publicist, says that hundred years
hence, leaving China out of the ques-
ton, there will be two colossal powers
In the world beside which Germany.
England, France and Italy will be
as pigmies-the United States and
Russia.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06

The French are now able to put in
the field seven armies. of q total
e'ienS I'll VI I,ovv,vvv men, vau,rp.a a.
prolonged campaign, and supported
by an ample reserve. This is five
times the force that Napoleon III.
could muster in 1870.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06

WHILE sitting at his desk in the IL
brary of the White House q few DAYS
ago the President was surprised at the
intrusion of big gray rat, who DELHI
erately crawled upon side table and
dragged off piece of fruit which had
tempted him from his hiding place.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06

A PITTSBURGH genius has invented
an attachment to opera-glasses to en-
able them to be used with comfort by
persons afflicted with spectacles. 1t
fills long-felt want, and the inventor,
shrewd business man that he is, has
already refused $40, 900 for the patent.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06

The Government monopoly articles
of Honduras are gunpowder, tobacco,
cigars and liquor. 1t retains COM
plete and absolute control of the
liquor traffic.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06

CALIFORNIA engineers have accom-
plished the difficult task of lifting the
Feather River, a fast flowing stream,
fifty feet and carrying it for more than
half mile in an artificial bed at that
height above its old channel. 1t has
been accomplished in little less than
a year. The object was to drain the
river near Oroville in order to reach
the very rich gold depasits believed to
exist in its bed. The promoters of the
great enterprise are chiefly English
men,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06

JUDGE LEEpER once owned 16O acres
of land near Pierre the new capital of
South Dakota. The land would now
be worth $250,000, but the Judge sold
it for $4,000, and is now shoveling
coal for living.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06

SEVERAL thousand Jews who have
been expelled from Russia and have
taken temporary refuge in England in
tend to go out as colonists to the Ar
gentine Republic.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06

SAN SALVADOR is the first of the
Genital American republics to estab
lish telei hone service throughout its
ferritory
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06

A WESTERN ONO editor apologies
for the latcness of his paper by saying
ave were unable to give proper atten-
ton to work owing to our wives ill
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06

H. D. GnEGG, once Gen Sheridan's
private secretary and connected with
prom inent men, has been sent to a
Kansas jail for horse stealing.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06

GREATNESS has its annoyances, too.
Mr.. Edison is called "Cld Macaroni"
by the Menlo Park boys, who have
heard that he has been made Count.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06

FEMALE telegraph clerks in Russia
are not allowed to marry any one but
telegraph officials, and there is, conse-
quently, bitter ssa isfaction.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06


The London Times declines to be-
ieve that King Alexander, of Servia,
INDUCES in any hysterical grief because
he is not allowed to see his mother. It
should be remembered, says the Times,
that the King is not a mere child, but
q full-grown boy of thirteen, and, in
deed, SO precociously developed that
he looks like English boys at fifteen.
He is of calm disposition, and Ger.
family would never ask any favor with
crying or wringing of hands. He is
old enough to understand that his
mothers conduct may do him, politi-
cally, a serious injury.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06

IT is said that Queen Victoria has
profitable real-estat investments in
New York.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06

SINCE the failure of the Panama
Company, the towns of Panama and
Colon have entirely changed appear
ance. Front street in Colon, or AS
pinwall, as the Americans have always
called it, in honor of the father of the
Panama Railroad, used to be lined
with large stores of all descriptions,
from which the various towns on the
line of the canal used to get their sup
plies. These stores, the trade no longer
existing, have all disappeared, and
their places are taken by small Chinese
shops.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06

SIR EDWIN ARNOLD, lecturing up
on the "Mahabharata," said: "This is
the great epic poem of India. Tt con-
tains over 100000 lines, besides sup
plement of $4,000 lines; enough to
make eight times as much as the .Iliad'
and Odyssey combined, with several
'Nlrgils' thrown in. Some philologists
have derived its name from words
meaning book of weight indicating
that the gods preferred it above all
others; but this is fanciful, and its real
origin is from words meaning great
war of Bharata.' The poem is highly
yalued-it might almost be said wor-
shiped-throughout India. The ma
tlves consider that even to have heard
it is sanctifying, and to have read it
through frees one from SIM
Gid you note that old tavern we
just passed." said fellow traveller to
al Albany Express writer, as they
passed a low frame structure near
karner's Station, on the line of the
New York Central Railroad. "That
once belonged, he continued "to the
father Of United States Senator L leland
Stanford. It was far back of the DAVIS
OF 40 when the father of Leland STAN
ford took the contract for building the
embankment for the bed of the old
strap-rail railroad which connected AL
bany with Schenectady. Just after
he had completed raising the embank
ment series of very heavy lains came
and washed away q large portion OF
the earth he had piled up. By the
terms OF his contract Stanford was
obliged to repair such damages. and.
though it nearly ruined Linn, he was
loyal to his agreement, and, by selling
his property, a good-sized farm, he Sc
cured ready money enough to continue
his work on the road-bed. When
this transaction was ended he had
little ready money left, and with it he
purchased the property we have Just
passed"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06

OF long ago Il man walking
along one Of the busiest OF
Chicago's streets was sud
denly projected several leet
into the air. This sin ular
Occurrence. accomp MED as
1t was by u loud report. re-
vived Memories OF the
dreadful anarchist bomb OF
May 9TH. 1856, and caused
quito IL sensation n the
neiehborhood. But h i g
soon subsided when it was
discov red thatthe man was
not Sc iousls injured. and
that the explosion had not
been occa>ioneds by dyna-
nliie. but by the bursting
opcn OF q "man-hole" pro-
-an.N,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06

Mrs. "SToNEwALL" JACKSON Is
writing her husbands biography.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06
He Wanted to know 1e'

Tie WtlHIcH 70 :.
Jack-Say, Tom, were J
tened that name?
Tom-Of course | was. ,,o,.
blackwell, what do ln ne;
Thomas for on the pay shees :,
Tom-Don't know; slp l.o,,
same reason the boys cali you
Rochester Balaye.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06
BENEATH TIE STREETS
a sIBrEHRANEAN WORLD OF MAR,
Vicious INTEREST.

Chicago Fairly Honeycombed with Tun-
ncls, Conluits and Sewers Where Dens
If Vice Abound -How the Great Water
system Has Been Built Up.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06

JHEN MD NUN'
He was q man of some nrcollnt
And we'll among his neitlboF5
For any reasonable amount
His name was good.
He took to drink, and soon his no
Assumed q tint Us red rs blooi'
And now Us far Us credit goes,
His name is Dennis.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-06-28
"LetUs Tell the Tru,h.n

Rev. NJ. j. Savage, the eminent Boston
in our politics, but he has no sympathy with
that backward looking spirit which sees all
political virtue embodied in the men Of the
past and none of it in the men of today
In letter to the Boston Herald the other
day he said
In your editorial of this morning, headed
The Standard of Washington" you miss
entirely the purpose had in mind in what
| said at the meeting of the Norfolk club on
Saturday. | would not lower the standard
of political motive or action and no one is
more DESTROYS Of seeing the civil service
taken out of politics" But there is Ger
tain set of reformers perpetually crying
down the age in which they live, as though
1t were the worst one the world ever saw.
1t has always been so from the dawn of
civilization. And vet the world has been
slowly growing better from the first Now
have two objections to this business of
croaking-
l. 1t is not true. 1t is unjust in its com
parsons.
? 1t tends to discourage effort and u
keep the best people out Of politics.
If it is true as croakers say, that the
world is worse in every age than it was III
the preceding, then what is the use Of try
ing If the drift of the universe is against
US we might a. we'll give it up
Let Washington be kept clearly in mind
as our standard but let us tell the truth
aud say that the average moral level is to
day higher than ever before in the history
of mankind This is the plain fact. Let u,
also recognize another fact-that there ar,
rs many tor more good and true men il
political life today as there ever were ii
our history. So let US encourage our hes
men to take up public life, and 20 on an,
make things better still
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-06-28
Death of Mrs. Hayes.

Mrs. Lucy Webb Hayes, the wife of ex-
at the family home in Fremont, Ohio. She
was stricken with apoplexy last Friday, and
failed gradually until the end came. She
was a native of Ohio, born in 1881, and
was married to Rutherford B. Hayes in
1852. She was the mother of eight chill
dren, five of whom are living. During the
war Mrs. Hayes was devoted to the care of
sick and wounded soldiers, and twice visit
ed her husband at the front. She was a
woman of rarely attractive personality, of
sound intellectual endowment, and of in
dependent and fearless convictions. She
was best known before the country, per
haps, because of her strenuous temperance
principles, which she did not relinquish in
the least when she became mistress of the
White House, but carried them to the point
of banishing wine from the White House
table, even at official dinners. Her social
duties were performed with dignity and
grace which won the admiration of all who
were brought in contact with her. She
was warmly devoted to charitable and phil
anthropic work to the end of her life, and
had been for several years president of the
woman's home missionary society of the
Methodist Episcopal church. Since Mr.
Hayes's retirement from the presidency, tbs
family had lived a quiet, happy, generous
and dignifed life on farm in the outskirts
of Framont which he inheritad from al
uncle.
Many Windham county people felt thu
charm of Mrs. Hayess presence during he
short visit to Brattleboro, West Brattlebor
and Newfane with her husband, the Presi
dent, in August 1877, and the sincere sym
pathy of all goes out to Mr.. Hayes in tn
loss which he has sustained in her death il
the prime of her powers and when SO lttl
past middle life.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-06-28
MINOR NOTES.

The Western New Hampshire Music As
sociation holds its annual festival at Glare
mont from Aug. Goth to the 30th
The President has appointed Fred A
Field postmaster at Rutland, in place of l..
w. Redngton, resigned
Joseph H. Marley, Mr.. Blaine's first
friend, gets the Augusta, Ne, post Office in
place of L. B. Fowler, removed.
The President and Mrs. Harrison will
spend the summer at Deer Park Md,
pleasant place on the main line of the Bal
timore x Ohio railroad, and about 200 miles
west of Washington.
Reports of the commencement exercises
at Williston seminary, Easthampton, Mass,
mention the increased efficiency of the
school and an increased attendance under
the charge of Principal Gallagher besides
marked Improvements in the buildings by
way of repairs and remodeling.
Henry c. Bowen of the Independent is
in high feather over his this years Fourth
of-July celebration at Woodstock, Conn.
President and Mrs. Harrison will attend,
and Justice Miller Of the United States su
preme court, Senators Allison, Hawley and
Hiscock, Gov. Buckley, Congressman Nc
Kinley, and other men Of note, have prom
Used to be present.
Rev. William Henry Beecher, eldest son
of DR.. Lyman Beecher, has died at Chicago
in his SSth year. He had little of the dis
tinctve Beecher qualities in his makeup,
but lived the life of plain, hard working
and faithful Christian minister
The Ohio Republicans renominated Gov.
Foraker on the second ballot at their state
convention Wednesday
The University of Vermont made Rev.
L. g. Ware of Burlington LID, and d.
H. Thompson of Irasbdrg an A. NJ. at
Wednesdays commencement.
A large and brilliant company attended
the silver wedding anniversary of Mr. and
Mrs. Hiram Atkins last evening.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-06-28
HOME NEWS.
ms,ser.Isrlenl record.
Announcement.

H. A. Wadsworth is an expert In fitting trusses,
aud makes "A truss on a different principle from
others. It fits many who have tried Boston and
home Sundays and Mondays and sometimes 9th.
er days In the week Residence at the north end
Of Oak street.
Etchings and Engravings at Clapp & Jones's.
Artistic Picture Framing at Clapp & Jones's.
Buy Picture Frames Of Geddis.
Picture framing Of all kinds at Clapp q Jones's
Picture frames In variety at A. +. Wider's
laundry building, Flat st. Open evenings, 10 g.
DON'T TRAVEL without Accident Insurance
when it costs only - cents per day for S3OOO and
Sl5 per week Insure in the TRAVELLERS with
CUDwORTH & CHILDs, Agents.
To RESr-A small tenement; price S. In
quire at Cedar street
Croquet Of every description at Clapp & Jones's
TAxIDERMY Mrs Frank Powers has resumed
her former work in taxidermy, and is ready to
mount birds mammals, snakes, etc, at lowest
prices. Residence, No. :, Western avenue.
Having leased the room over Pratt Wright q
Cos, store, shall open Office for the practice
of dentistry on Or about August list
@. f. BARRIER, ID. d. $.
Prof CLARK, the optician now with Ranger &
Thompson. will close his present visit here Satur
day night Of this week, 2Hh So all that have
not had their eyes attended TO should call at once,
they will not have another opportunity for sew
eral months
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-06-28

been Disseminated against in this paper is
untrue If, as he says the contrary can
be shown, 90 we hereby ask for a bill Of par
ticuars as to items refused.
From Mr. Newton's declarations in pub
lie and in private, and from the attempt
which he now makes 10 prove that this pa
per is unfriendly 10 the grange, il is evident
that he has conceived a prejudice against
The Phoenix, aud has set himself the task
Of putting the paper in IA false position be
fore the grange. We don't know his rea-
son for this Perhaps it is suggested in
his account Of the origin Of the Maple Sugar
Exchange. Perhaps in his catechism he
has erased the usual answer to the question
"Who made the world !" and has substi-
tuted for it The Editor of the Reformer. "
His claim is that he wanted column in
one of the county papers, and that he would
have preferred The Phoenix, but in the same
breath he told us he didn't expect to get
space in The Phoenix, and had already
| spoken IN tie RetOrmer chen he came here.
This done, he went into the Dummerston
grange, made his statement that we had
"no room for the grange and himself in
troduced or suggested the wording Of the
boycotting resolution. Next day he went
into the County grange and followed the
same tactics there These facts show his
animus and speak for themselves on the
question of personal dictation.' We
don't wonder that Mr.. Newton wishes to
deny the facts regarding our first inter
view, for it is his only possible way out of
the unfortunate predcament in which he
has involved himself
We refuse to have further controversy
with Mr.. Newton, and we certainly have
none with the oranges We shall continue
to work for their interests in the future as
we have in the past, but it would be as
much out of place for us to attempt Il
push them in any special way in a paper
for the general public as to push" thu
Freemasons, the Grand Army of the Re
public, or any particular church or demon
nation of christendom.
Our issue is with the resolutions printed
last week, and on the question whether thu
oranges which passed them under the cir
cumstances we have described intend 10 al
low them to stand as an expression o
grange sentiment and grange methods.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-06-28

Last Friday Mrs Mary Smith, a widow,
who works in Robertson x Coles paper
mill, had the misfortune To cut off the ends
OF three fingers of one hand while tending
the paper cutter.
On Friday evening last, as Rev Mr..
Douglas was returning from a ride his
horse became unmanageable and ran, and
IN turning into q. II. Whites yard Mr..
Douglas was thrown to the ground, causing
"a bad fracture and dislocatiun of his shout
der, also receiving IA severe blow upon the
head, and it was feared other injuries.
The popular drama, Ten nights in bar
room will be presented by the Sons of
Temperance in the town hall Wednesday
evening, July ID. The Putney brass band
will furnish music.
The number of children of school age in
district No. l, by enumeration, is SO.
The school in district No l, taught hy
Marion b. Hall Of Jacksonville, closed a
successful term last Friday, aud the teacher
aud pupils had picnic in the afternoon.
School in district No. . taught by Mrs.
Geo. H. Walker, closed this week Mednes-
day. Average attendance during the term
was "a, Pupils neither absent or tardy f.
Eva Priest, Cora aud Willie johnson,
George Hannum, Frank Lewis and Reggie
Powell, Lue Sanderson, George Hanuum,
Katie Booth and Ralph Houghton averaged
over 30 per cent in their examinations dur
ing the term. The teacher extends thanks
To the pupils for their kindness and atten
ton.
At the annual school meeting of district
No. l, last Tuesday evening, j. w. Stowell
was chosen moderator f. NJ. Wilson,
clerk l.. p Bailey, prudential committee /:
q. A Stowell, treasurer, and H. l.. Pierce,
collector II was voted TO have 80 weeks
school the present year, and TO raise 30
cents ON the dollar of the grand list TO de
| fray expenses.
n. Il. Priest and family will soon move
into the town hall building. W.
Don't forget the celebration July 4th,
and all Join in having fine time. Dinner,
supper and ice cream served at the town
hall. See posters for particulars.
Names of pupils in district No s having
neither absent or tardy marks during the
term ending June 9lst Mary Austin, Ger.
trude and Jessie Woodburn, Cora Upham,
Alice Ware and Julia Aiken Cora Upham
has attended school 0 . l2 successive terms,
during which time of 20 weeks she has been