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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-02
A SPLENDID ACQUISITION.

Archbishop Ireland Comes Out Sguareiy
for Prohibition and Urges the Catholics
to Fight tho Saloon.
The annual State convention of the
Minnesota Catholic Tota: Abstinence
Union was lseld at Minneapolis re-
Gently. Archbishop Ireland was pres
ent and took q very prominent part il,
inc Work OF the convention. The Arch,
blshop has been for years the leader of
his church in all matters relating to tenn
perance, and has been an ardent advocate
of high license. But he has seen his
mistake and now declares uncompromis-
ingly for Prohibition, Us will be seen by
the following extract from his eloquent
speech at the convention:
We thought we meant business years;
ago III this warfare, but I hope God will
forgive us for our weakness, for we went
into The battlefield without sufficient reso-
luton. We labored under the fatal mis-
take that we could argue out the question
with the liquor sellers. We imagined
that when We would show them the evil
OF their ways they would abandon the
traffic. We have seen there is no hope Of
improving in any shape or form the LIQUOR
traffic.
There is nothing now to be done but
to wipe it out completely. [Applause.l
have lost too much of my time striving
in the past to repair the fearful evils
wrought by the liquor traffic. I have
lost too much time in speaking of total
abstinence in hall and pulpit to men
who while listening were with me, but
who out in the streets would be invited
by the saloon-keeper to come and take
drink and forget their resolutions. Well,
some OF us are growing old, and do not
intend to be throwing away our time in
arguing with people who will not be con-
verted, and 1 for one am going to go in
with terrific earnestness in the future in
this war against liquor in all shapes. 1
mean business this time.
Now, in order to succeed, 1 wish to
enroll every man. We Catholics will
unite with our fellow-citizens of all
classes and all denominations to do away
with that terrible shame, sin, and dis
grace of the saloon. All those who vio-i
late the law and disgrace US go into the!
saloon first, and would we be patriots,
would We be Americans, if we did not
turn round and meet with our whole
strength the spring of crime, the accurseG:
saloon?
$50 come and say to your friends thas
you have enlisted for war, but meaning.
business this time, clean out the wholes
institution of dram-selling. We arc
blessed in every way. There is not il;
the world country equal to our own and
what we have to fear is intemperance, the.
one curse in country or city,"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-02
He Has Lived Under Every President from
WasllinytO., to Harrison.

ZIG Has Lived Under Every President from
Washington to Harrison.
On January 26, l7SS, Elihu Stevens
was born in the State of Maine. town
OF Belgade, known then as Dearborn
Plantation, now as Readtield. At the
age OF twenty-four he enlisted in the
war OF 1912, and now draws pension.
In health he is q igorous-looking man,
and to stranger would pass fer about
seventy-five years old. About nine
months ago he walked two miles to
visit grandchild, returning the same
day. He has been married three
times, and had twenty-t three children
by these marriages. Twenty of them
lived to be men and women; thirteen
Of them are still living. One year ago
his children, grandchildren great
grandchildren and great-great-grand
children numbered 3l9. Five genera
tions Of the family are now living, and
his children are scattered between
Maine and California. Up to the time
of Andrew jackson he was Democrat,
but when the Republican party was
formed he joined it's ranks, and since
Fremont's nomination has voted for
every Republican presidential nominee,
and he enjoys telling the fact that he
and his descendants cast forty-tive
votes for Harrison and Morton. For
the past twenty years Mr.. Stevens has
done scarcely any work, but previous
to that his life had been spent in farm
ing, and his good health is now attrib-
utable to the fact that he would always
rest when he felt weary. He prides
himself upon being born before the Con-
stitution Of the United States was
adopted, and that he has lived under
every President from Washington to
Harrison. He is very temperate, shun-
ming the use of liquor and tobacco,
never having been intoxicated but
once, and that was in the olden time
when rum and molasses" We're domes-
tic fixtures in every house. He speaks
of that as the time when he was hold.
ing on to the OK bow and had to ster
high to keep the ground from hitting
him. A very retentive memory is his
and we'll he remembers the first lani
plowed in Readfeld, and says it wa
the place where the late L. M. Morrill,
was born. in early life he united wit
the Free Will Baptist Church, an,
still remains an honored member. To
day he is hale and hearty.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-02
Saloonkeepers Challenged.

U. S. Anderson, Clerk OF the District
Court of Dickinson County. Kansas. writes:
"Ihave proposition to make to those who
say prohibition does not prohibit. We
have u county of $4,000 population; county
seat $500; with other towns of various
sizes, and not an open saloon in all the
county. and quite ,. large foreign population:
glibly about the failure of prohibition. just
como out here and open a saloon"
Abilene. Kan. .. .
We invite saloonkeepers who declare pro-
hibition to be failure. and who are finding
fault to the above glorious opportunity Of
establishing an extensive business In
State where they will not be obliged to pay
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-02
Prohibition in the Pacific Islands.

The following regulation shows the &C.
ton Of England in forbidding her sub.
jects to make profits out Of the sale of
liquors to the natives of the Pacific ISL
ands 1t is relief to our conscience to
find that one Christian nation, at least,
has taken the stand for right even while
it sees the greedy American and German
plying their vicious trades with these
missionaried islands. England was the
first to free her slaves. Will old conserv-
alive, merry England be the first after all
to adopt Prohibition?
A REGULATION
To Prohibit the supply Of Intoxicating
liquors to Natives OF the Wester' Pacific
Islands.
/. Regulations Nos. 1, 2, 3. and 4. of 1879
prohibiting the supply of Intoxicating
liquors to natives OF certain islands of the
Western Pacific are hereby repealed.
g In this regulation the expression
Western Pacific Islands" shall mean and
include any of the following Islands or
places, namely:
The groups of islands known as
The Friendly Islands.
The Navigator's Islands,
The Union Islands.
The Phoenix Islands.
The Elliot Islands.
The Gilbert Islands.
The Solomon Islands.
The New Hebrides Islands.
The Santa Cruz Islands;
All other islands in the Western Pacific
Ocean not being within the limits Of the
colonies Of FIJI. Queensland, New South
Wales or New Guinea. and not being within
the jurisdiction of any civilized power.
Native" shall mean and include IN It's
reference every person in the Western Pa
cifc not of European descent ~
Intoxicating Liquor" shall include al
sprituous compounds. and all fermente :,
liquors and any mixture part whereof Is
sprituous or which contains termented
liquors and mixture or preparation contain
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-02
The JOINT Committees.

D',,%
! laIH' MN session of the commission on
d. 3 ss ausseomplished nothing. The south
81 several efforts to arrive at basis,
(ssf,om.s t the north has kept all resolu-
The san becoming effective. The report
b vas s.Setares on bonds and indebted
lsa 4, A. made, which should have estab-
y aaprDaa sls. The question of the capital
b sh;s, III u. the deal. The railroad taxes,
Eisota. Avn = litigation is pending in North
Etota dave nSe been brought in. South
|apiss sbe1n not feel as if questions of
bog The sn 1 be Brought in when consid-
die each n'asnitude of the job on hand.
Fa,es, AN session brings the commission
Tie il; o;' aSSreement is still far away.
tdton,, AM commission for division of
property between states at work
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-02

any license whatever and where urohibi-;
no! ton ls Il complete failure. 4 city Of $500
inhabitants, and a county of $4,000. without
pay. would furnish the grandest possible
onening for your business and Il certainty
OF getting rich in u lew short montLs--Yhs
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-02
. The Wrong Measure.

"You four drunken loafers, get out
Of here, OF stop that dancing around"
"Why, we're only trying the new
march dance. 1t has four beats to a
measure, and man has to have three
feet to try it alone; and, you see, only
milking stool has three feet"
$50 has this yard-stick, and I'll use
it if you don't get out! -Four beats to
measure-it would take a gallon
measure for one of you beats"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-02

HAS not science distinctly told US that
alcohol is poison? Should it ever be
question at all whether there should be
poison offered at the sacramental tablet
Rev DR.. Rutherford.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-02
Why the Joint Committee Work Has
InYyAll.

Jagged.
The first difficulty encountered by the
JOINT committee was the absence of mem
GERS or the North Dakota commissio n,
who We're either out of the city or engaged
IN committee work, and no joint sessions
were heid until late each afternoon. Ques-
tlohs We're discussed at these meetings
looking toward basis of settlement. but
until Saturdays session no agreement was
reached. This was on the matter of records
ana archives. In most cases the records
WI have to be transcribed, each of the
two states bearing half of such expense.
The question of the division of the pub
ilc institutions and the indebtedness has
not yet been decided. The secretaries
prepared careful report on tie money
used by North and South Dakota out Of
the general fund for these institutions, and
the report shows the south to have used
about S22.OO0 more than the norm. Fol-
lowing this report came the long discus
sion On what should be the basis Of settle
ment. Ire southern members claimed
that their buildings were older and depre-
ciated IN value during the joint use more
than $4,000. During this discussion the
members from the north Inadvertently
showed their hand BY dropping the
thought that of the $4,000 capital bonds
sAS"sSNe ~ LIEU VI 1cluuulLS warrants over
$50. 600 WIS for interest which the south
would be asked to help pay. They went
even farther than this and said that the re-
fusal of the Northern Pacific road to paw
its taxes on land grant lands, resulting in
tax sales, has involved the territory in liti-
CATION, which, if decided adversely. would
cause large expense to North Dakota.
and the south is asked to chip in" and
stand its chances. If an agreement on
this is reached, the south will do doubt
insist on division of the proceeds if the
suits go against the road.
great many peculiar questions arise in
this division Of property, Indebtedness
and institutions that were lite thought of
at the time the South Dakota commission
was appointed. Issues of Importance and
no importance are sprung at every Joint
session, where hours are spent arguing,
followed by adjournment with no corcl1-
sion reached. Thus days go by. The
proposition to the north that each section
take its property and pay it's debts was
not accepted, but resulted in long debate
and delay for investigation. In the end,
at least touching public institutions, the
conclusions will be about that proposed
by the south. 1t would be as nearly fair
as any result reached by figuring will bring
it. How near settlement is at hand is
yet an enigma. There are many impor-
tant question to be settled that may cause
serious delays or may be quickly disposed
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-02

SAN FRANCISCO, with its one criminal
to every twenty-three citizens, one liquor
saloon to every sixteen voters, four thou
sand grog shops, and ten thousand women
Of ill-repute, is sorry advertisement of
the wine and liquor business.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-02

EVERY family of the United States has
at present to pay an average of $65 year
to enjoy the privilege of abundant facili-
ties for being poisoned.-Felir NJ. Os-
aCGLl,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-02

EVERY beer saloon is primary school
in intemperance; every gilded drinking
hell is an academy wherein men graduate
in this vice.-Toledo Blade.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-02

The Pawtucket, R. l., Young Woman's
Christian Temperance Union has OBJ
tanned permission to distribute tobacco
leaflets in all the public schools.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-02

IHAvE prescribed no form of alcoholic
drink, fermented or distilled, for internal
use in the treatment of disease for forty
years, and find no need for any.-Dr. N.
g Duola
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-02

IT may be deemed wrong for the rum
interest to defend itself, but still there
should be no surprise felt that it does so.
Charleston Neacs (Dene.).
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-02

IT may be q glorious thing to pull
drunken man out of hole. But it is an
infinitely more glorious thing to plug up
the hole.-1aj0r Hilton.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-02

Two girls under the age of nineteen are
sole proprietors of q newspaper published
in New Orleans to the inter-
ests ct women.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-02
n1yC TWO STATES.
.s or THE coSsT1rU-
I.pins,r rsvIoSs IN DAKOTA.

,..,,,. r, ON Day to Day in Both
a I'd. of tho Joint Committees
If Proprrty-siie Notes.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-02

on books discovered that insts,, ~ NJ. A.,
Of Ja tSa having received more money out
S,M. f Ha FUNDS than South Dakota.
t sou. Dakota has received So. 900 more
South Dakota proposed TINT a,.b sto+o
m TAKE its institutions and nay their bonds a.ss
Tow ~ pako,a demands she be given credit
r ros me oyerdraft by the South. The daily
;s anen are very short, as North Dakota
1t has been agree that the matter Of
,,;e,n ana archieves be first taken up and
disposed of. On this point the commis-
S'9 M Is agreed and no trouble will result.
mission on the Goth. Tie subject con-
s 81, was the disposition of records
absent. AAeA'1Det' were
Nothing was accomplished in the Joint
session on the ed. There was really
no session, not enough North Dakota
members being present to make quorum.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-02
sltion was defeated and the convention
Will make an apportionment for the two

The judiciary committee reported to The
convention on the 81 h. The committee
r. o1nmends that the supreme court have
three judges; six judicial districts with as
many Judges, and that the present system
OF justices of the peace be retained. ] he
committee favors holding all terms of the
supreme court ut the capital, terms of the
judges of the supreme court to be six
Years.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-02
NEW ENGLAND'S OLDEST MAN.

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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-07-25
He Stands Corrected.

In our last issue we published an
item, furnished us by two of our most
reputable citizens, anent Il recent rev
enue raid in this county, and stating
that ID. Davis, IAN alleged eX-block-
er of Middle Fork township and a
notorious radical, acted as IL pilot
for the raiding party.
Last Friday Mr.. Davis, accOmpan-
led by brother of his, walked into
THE SENTINEL office and ''demanded'
the name of our informant.
He was coolly told that he couldn't
get it by any such mode of proceed
ure; that if he would put his ''de-
mand in the form of a polite and re-
spectful request we might be disposed
to listen to him. He thereupon
adopted our suggestion in very be-
| coming manner.
We have been in the newspaper
business for ten years, and we have
had various and sundry individuals
'sdemand" things of us before, but we
have never complied with one yet
We profess to be gentlemen in this
office, and we will not knowingly dc
| any one an injury. If we do Il man
| an injustice and he approaches us il
a gentlemanly manner, we always
stand ready to make any PREPARATION
in our power. But the man who
comes to us in a spirit of bravado
and demands" things of us is not
likely to get satisfaction, in the way
of retraction.
Mr.. Davis says, that although he
was with the raiding party, he die
not do any plotting" Wegive hin
| the benefit of the denial.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-07-25
MORTGAGE SALE.

BY VIRTUE of Mortgage executed to
S. +. Allen by j. +. Miller and wife, NJ. J.
Miller, dated 18th day of JANUARY, 1889, l
will proceed 10 sell to the highest bidder,
for cash, at the Court House door in Win
ston, on Saturday, the 24,h day OF August,
1889. AT one o'clock p. m, the following de-
SERTED tract of land, lying and being in the
county of Forsyth and State of North Caro-
lima, adjoining the lands OF Charles Mem
,lenhall, j. j Dillon and j. +. Miller, and
known as lhe Miller Shop tract, containing
one AMI ), quarter acres. For fuller descrip-
ton sc Book 6. page 129, &e. IN Registers
Office fhe said ian.i has good tuiIding
on il worth two or ,itee hant:resi dollars.
L j. WILLIAM
July 25th, 'S9-4t. Attorney.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-07-25
Rev. T. H. Pegram Robbed.

A negro boy, about ten days ago,
entered the residence of the above
named gentleman, who resides in
North Winston liberty and stole a
watch. On Monday of this week he
went into the same house and stole
about $25. from the pants pockets
of Mr.. Pegram
1t appears that Mr.. p. had gone
into his garden to do some work.
changing his pants before doing SO
and leaving the money in the pair he
had taken off. There were several
lady members of the family in the
house when the negro entered it, but
they were in other rooms and did not
see him. He was seen, however, by
several merchants in the neighbor
hood where he made trifiing pur
chases and had II So and SO bill
changed.
The police were notified and he was
arrested Monday night. He is only
10 or IL years old and the matter
was compromised by the boys father
promising to pay back the money
Mr.. p. recovered his watch
Although SO young this boy has
committed three known thefts in. :
weeks. He will land in the peniten
tiary vet.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-07-25
PArRoN1zE HOME INDUSTRIES
Don't Discriminate Against Your Home
Enterprises.

Don't Discriminate Against Your Home
Enterprises.
No town or community ever at
tanned prosperity, even, much less
full industrial growth, by discriminate
ing against home Industries. Such Il
practice cannot be defended.
When you need a buggy, n road
cart, IL wagon, sack of -four, Il can
of fruit, IL plug of tobacco, n cigar, or
any one of the thousand and one
things which are needed by yourself
and family, the first thing you
ought to ask yourself should be the
question: Is it made at home?
If the vehicle or the commodity is
made at home, it is your duty and it
is to your interest to purchase the
homemade article fit is not made
at home, is it sold by our home mer-
chants? fit is, you should, for the
same reasons, purchase it of our own
dealers and not send North or West
| for it.
The town that makes it rule to
never send off for anything it can OBJ
tain at home is bound to prosper.
This is the true philosophy of bust
ness, and vital principle is involved,
directly affecting the present and flu
ture prosperity of Winston.
| In this connection the Roanoke
| Herald says:
The man who hugs the delusion
that he is making money by sending
away for what he can purchase at
home, simply because it is a little
cheaper, should remember that he is
contributing to depress and cripple
home industry and, to that extent,
lessening the consuming population
of his community and consequently
diminishing the demand for the very
articles which he sells here and buys
elsewhere. That is process of grad
.ual business depression. If man
give his work out at home, even
though it cost him small percent
age more, which we do not admit, he
thus aids in keeping alive the bust
ness, trade, and productive enter
prises of his city, and increases the
demand, by encouraging the working
and purchasing population, thus
finding greater profit in the larger
sale of goods, with smaller margin.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-07-25
ABOUT THAT CONVICT.
1t Appears that He Did Not Get the
Appointment

In our issue of June 21th we pub
lished an item stating that II negro
in one of the eastern counties, who
had applied for the position of mail
route agent, had been convicted of
crime and sent to Walnut Cove to
work on the R. & S. railroad; that
willie there serving out his term he
had received an official letter from
the postoffice department at Wash
ington telling him toget up his bond,
that hewould probably disappointed.
Congressman Brewer sent THE
SENTINEL to the authorities at Wash
ington andrequesteda an examination
into the case. The department Off
cials referred the matter to Postmas-
ter Smith of this city, and we wrote
to a prominent citizen of Walnut
Cove, who reported the circumstance,
for the facts in detail. In reply to
our letter that gentleman writes The
SENTINEL as follows:
"WALNUT COVE, n. c., July 2O.-Re-
ferring to your letter of to-day: Some
time ago Dr. A. G. Jones, and several
others, informed me that a commits
sion appointing darkey, who was
in the stockade. as a postal route
agent, had been forwarded to him at
this point. Dr. Jones was the regu-
lar ply stefan to the stockade and |
thought his information was correct.
Since the reception of your letter |
have been over to see Mr.. Wheeler,
who has charge of the convicts, and
he has shown me the letter. 1t is to
a negro by the name Of d. r. Rouse,
postoffce Forest City, n. c.; but in
stead of a commission appointing
him to the place it is a letter from the
Gen1. Supt. of Railway Mail Service
notifying him that his application
for the place had been received and
placed on file for consideration
1t will be seen from the above that
we were slightly in error, but only
slightly. THE SENTINEL did not state
that the negro had been appointed,
but that he probably would be.
OF course we did not and do not
believe this administra ton would APP
point a convict to office, if it was
aware of the fact. Our motive was
to show the character of some of the
men who apply for and hope to OBJ
tain office under President Harrison,
and the circumstances, as detailed in
the above letter, serve our purpose.