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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

EARLY in 1776, Washington decided to
attack the British in Boston. Though
the ground was frozen and the weather
cold, body of men threw up line of
entrenchment on Dorchester Heights
in single night, as had been done once
before in that vicinity On the next
morning Gen. Howe, who had super
seeded Gage, was taken entirely by sur
prise, but heavy storm prevented
him from dislodging the enemy just
then, and gave the Americans time to
strengthen their forces. Afterwards
confessing himself out-generaled, he
prepared to leave Boston. When he
first saw the breastworks it is said he
exclaimed, "The rebels have done more
in one night than my whole army would
have done in month";. On March II,
to the great delight Of most Boston
people, the British army left the city
for Halifax.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

The Earl of Dudley is soon to wed
Miss Lefty Lind, the fascinating "skirt"
dancer, whom theater-goers may re-
member as the possessor of limbs as
elastic as her notions of the convention
alities. The Earl is "a years old, and
the down is just beginning to sprout
Oh his upper lip. Miss Lind is the
mother of a hearty 12-year-old daugh'
ter. This is nothing new. Many in
the first ranks of the English nobility
are descended from unions quite as
queer as this. It takes but generation
OF two, often but year OF two, to
blend disrepute with the best blue
blooded families.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

"Over there" l am told, and as the in
formation is accompanied by no further
direction, prefer the request:
"Won't you please show me where it
lisp"
cover there, told yer!" ycl,s the gem
tleman in brass buttons, and he shoves
me toward a narrow doorway.
l begin to wonder whether this shov-
ing is customary all through the voyage.
Alas: I speedily find out that 1T is a
very general practice.
However. go through the door, and,
after many struggles, manage to squeeze
my bundle through the aperture, and
there ! see two long rows, on each side,
young fellow in shirt sleeves is arrang-
ing something on one OF the shelves, and
timidly venture to ask:
(Which is my bunk. please?"
"Any bloody one yer like" he says:
"fust come, fust served" Then seeing
me perpleXed, he kindly adds, "Yere,
shove yer things up yerc next to mine, +"
and he lifts my bundle and throws it on
to one of thu top shelves.
Then the horrible truth dawns upon
me. This is to be my bedroom, that
my bunk. and the slight partitions, two
inches high, are all that will separate
dozens of US during our Forthcoming
slumbers.
We're off! Shortly VIC have our first
mea bread, butter and tea. That is.
such names apply to ilarlooking ar
tic!es on shore. but the present cond-
| mcnts look suspicious, and as fortified
myself with a powerful meal before |
embarked refuse the al.urements of
this rcpast, and content myself with
looking around, and studying my fellow
emigrants.
We number in all am speaking only
OF the steerage-threc hundred and
| twenty six persons, two hundred and six
OF these being ma es and the remainder
women and children. Our Eationalities
comprise Germans, Norwcgians, Swcdes.
Russians, Fins. Polish Jews. Polaks.
Russian Jews lin families of three and
four, and amounting to about fifty in
aD. about ten Britishers, fully fifty
Irishmen and frisksome colleens, one
Scotchmen, one colured man, and one
American (my unfortunate self.
The elaborate tea being over. my fei-
low voyagcrs troop up onto the upper
deck, look around as ii they felt lost,
then sit or lie about the deck (steerage
passengers have no forms or benches to
sit upon). The men smoke their pipes
and the women look sad, as if they were
wondering how long it would be before
they were seasick. But the women
haven't much time to enjoy the fresh
air tonight, for punctually at dusk
down st;s.rs they must go and keep
sacredly and solely to the quarters pro-
vided for single women and married
couples.
determine to retire, so wend my
way down the ladder into the apartment
largely labeled. "Single Men,"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

HISTORY has to be constantly re-
writtkn. Evidence has been found
going to show that the revolutionary
patriot, Robert Morris, did not die in a
debtors prison, as all the books have
it; that he did not die in 1906, but
twenty years later, and that he does
not lie buried in Christ churchyard,
Philadelphia, but was inferred in
Leedsville, N. J. The substantial
events of his history, however, his
great services as a fnancier during the
revolutionary period, his sacrifice of
his fortune to the patriot cause, and
his actual financial embarrassment as
result, go unchallenged. 1t seems
probable that he was imprisoned for
debt, but that by favor or otherwise
he escaped and lived many years in
complete seclusion.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

WHEN William Penn sailed up the
Delaware, in 1852, there were about
$500 white people in the province and
territories, and on the eastern bauk OF
the river from Trenton to Salem. A
few wigwams and not over twenty
houses were to be found within the en-
tire limits of what is now Philadelphia.
In 1854 the infant town had about 9, SOC
residents, while in 1899 Philadelphia
and its Liberties had nearly 5000
people. Between this period and 1890
there are almost no trustworthy rec.
ords of population. The Philadelphia
Directory, published in 1856 by Fran
els White. contains approximately
$500 names of citizens, while Mac
Pherson's Directory for the same year
has more than 5000 names. In 1890
the first census was taken, and the
population was found to be 81, 1871.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

ductive of many incidents of both humor
and pathos. Therefore, determined to
make my return trip to America, after
five weeks holiday in Europe, a means
of observation and profit cannot now
say, pleasure.
Consigning my baggage to the care Of
a friend who Travelled by the saloon, |
content myself with the toughest suit of
clothes l can find, and armed with a
huge bundle. consisting of a mattress, a
heavy rug, brush and comb, towel and
soap tin cup, two tin plates, and knife,
fork and spoon. embark upon the ten
der at Princes Landing, Liverpool En-
gland, and amidst an uncomfortable
crowd of people and baggage, / find my
self on my way to "the ship that's to
carry me over"
AT last we reach her, and / mount to
the upper deck, having my bundle thrown
up after me in very unceremonious
manner
/ already begin to realize that am
not feeling very happy grasp my bun
die and look around. "Down- stairs, :"
says grutf voice, and another unccre-
monious shove brings me opposite q
rickety-looking ladder, down which
have to climb. My incumbrance causes
me rather to fall than walk down, and
when l reach the lower deck, sit on
the bundle and sigh.
haven't been sitting there a minute
before / get another ungentlc shove,
and grutfer voice exclaims, "Down-
stairs!"
sWhat" l gasp, "more descent?"
Then look down a large opening into
what thought was the hold for cargo
or cattle, and I see more rickety ladders
with iron guides, and almost weep as
land on the first step and roll down tho
rest.
"Is this the steeragc?" ask.
eyes; get your bunk" is the reply.
Get your bunk?" l murmur, plain
lively; "but where am to get it?"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

IT is passing odd that the only true
Americans should be considered not
Americans at all. Commenting I'M
favorably upon the recent marriage Of
Miss Elaine Goodale to the educated
Sioux, Charles Eastman, Chicago
paper said: "It is true that the best
man for an American girl to we'd is an
American man. 1t is not a compliment
to American men when an American
woman chooses an Indian or man
from any other race for her husband. "
If Sioux is not an American it is hard
to tell who is. His ancestors were
hunting the bison and spearing the
American salmon when the progenitors
of the writer of that editorial were
churls ground beneath the heel of a
feudal lord.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

The Salvation Army, whatever may
be thought Of its novel methods for the
revival of it's Christian earnestness, is
fast becoming powerful organization
and wonderful engine for good. The
scheme for the employment of the Lon.
don poor which attracted so much at
tention recently, and which, despite
the sneers and opposition of such men
as Professor Huxley, called forth spon.
taneous expressions of approval and sup.
port from men of high station and Of
widely divergent views, is materializ-
ing, and tract of land has been &C.
quired for the purpose of working out
the experiment near London.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

keepers of lighthouses, ETC., are en-
tirely free from it. This interestin g
discovery should be consoling to Bards-
ley, Philadelphia's convicted treasurer.
Most persons would about as soon go
to the penitentiary as to have bad
case of grip, and he will be perfectly
safe from that dreadful disease for at
least fifteen years to come.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

HENRY WATTERsoN has q level head
when he has mind to use it. The
other day in an address to the students of
the University of Virginia he said sour
country is not getting worse; it is get
ting better, and we are masters of the
greatest country on the globe. We have
the most perfect system of government.
We have nothing from without to fear,
and within We have but two great dan
gers-the taste for money and the devil
of party spirit"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

A LAWYER does not often go wrong,
considering his enlarged opportunities,
but when he does the law is apt to go
wrong in not giving him severe
enough punishment. The weight of
the lash should be proportionate to the
extent of the knowledge, and four
years Imprisonment for the New York
attorney who forged muniments and
one year for the Illinois man who
burned records might justly have been
ten in both cases.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

NEW YORK city boasts of fifteen free
public lighthouses. Boston, with less
than one-third the number of inhab
itants, has nineteen. The deduction
from these figures would seem to be rea
sonably obvious.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

A FAMILY at Norristown, Pa, keeps
forty-seven cats. Its name is carefully
kept from the public, but it is undoubt-
eddy we'll and unfavorably known to all
the neighbors.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

THERE are now in the field 6,996 or
dained missionaries and multitude Of
lay workers upon active duty. The mis-
sionary work was begun within the
memory of living people, and the mis-
sionary spirit was never before SO uni
versal among Christian people as now.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

The New York San, in defending the
Prince of Wales, seems to take the po-
sition that when a man is ibertine,
drunkard and gambler it is all right if
he will only say SO in all open and
manly way. This is doubtful. People
get out Of patience with too much of
that sort of thing.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

PRINCESS LOUISE was married at 4
o'clock in the afternoon. This is another
setback for the Anglomaniacs who have
been introducing noon weddings be-
cause that was supposed to be the
fashionable hour in London.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

HAVE spent twelve
days in the steerage
of an cmigrant ship,
and 1 am still alive.
The storage Of an
emigrant vessel -
even though it be on
an Atlantic liners
Ia by no means
lpalatial abode, and
the consorting to-
gether of compare
tive strangers for
days in a confined
Spo.cn ml1St no nrO-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

Mrs. CHAsKA is seeking divorce
from her Sioux brave What! Tired
already of the tepee, and yearning for
the ways of the civilized? When
the dime museums fail, the noble red
man seems to pail upon the civilized
annette.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

hot water in their tea-pots Then they
have a feast, after which they sit inside
Just over the engine boilers and warm
themselves and dry their clothes at the
same time.
l get great idea Of the Englishman's
ignorance of mixed drinks when I 60 to
the bartender for brandy and soda l
astonish him by asking for piece of ice
in it. He silently accedes, and 1 walk
away to quaff.
Half an hour afterward l return and
call for another b. and S. He fills up
the glass and l again ask him for ice.
He stares at me and says:
"Why, where is the piece of ice you
had just now?"
Things run very much the same until
our second Sunday night, then the bar
being closed for very long time, the
whole gang of Irishmen assemble in
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14
IN A SHIPS STEERAGE.
ACROSS THE OCEAN ON A SEC
OND-CLASS TICKET.

Experience of n Passenger Who Tried 1t
from Observation-Disclosures Like Cattle
Emigrants Roughly Treatod-Sidelights
on q Dark Subject.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

The eternal fitness of things would
be better exemplified and the equilibri-
UNI of society better maintained if our
young men were little more gritty
and our strawberries little less so.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

AN esteemed religious journal, giving
advice to boys, says that every one OF
them fought always to treat the girls SO
we'll that they will all wish he was
their brother" That may do to tell
to young boys, very young boys, but
when fellow grows up to the age of
indiscretion and carries cane and
sometimes buys his own cigarettes, you
can't influence him by anything that is
calculated to make him the butt of one
those Ill-be-a-sister-to-you jokes.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14
Playing on TIL Ruins.

"These fremen must be ffl'o-" !,
set, said Mr.. Spilllins, who was E'"'
ing paper.
why SOP" s,o
II read in the paper that after ~
was under control the firemen J ).
all night on the ruins. WAY a.
they 60 home and 60 to bed Ike al
BILE men, instead of rompins
like children ?"--Iecas SittiH9S'
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

A WOMAN in Sherbrooke, Quebec,
who is 90 years old, can still dance.
The dance is probably breakdown.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

However people may differ in
spelling President Hippolyte's name,
he himself spells it with big 81.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14
s s,a nj! into despair again

and yet SO far. again. So
mo NO chance .n,na to sleep that n,o,.
oodS tries to. The u.an ro night.
Jump with their excitemo roar, Yell
within, within sight Of the promised lat. at y
women answer with shriek so . ,and,
OF laughter and snatches o os ana sore
s,. At o'clock the donkey-eeDnsasi.,.
gage from the hold. At up the
forward on deck and are jn c'ock "
the Health Officer, and at q inspected o,.,
reach the desired haven, mass cl 10
the necessary formalities, and 'hrt
gatorial career as an emirrs a,.u my
HARRIS HApp,,xso wv
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

CONSISTENCY is jewel and Is =
orally worn, as other jewels a'c
vain show.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

WASHINGTON PHYSICIANS pretend to
have discovered that the immediate
cause of the late Senator Wilson's
death was his indulgence in plate of
bean soup. This seems rather strained
we mean the reason, not the soup.
When man reaches the age of seventy
one death is not very far away, and
may be invited by numerous causes.
The discovery of the fatal qualities of
bean soup will create panic in Boston.
for if the extract is so dangerous what
must the solid be.
A New YORK girl has set worthy
example to all women. She was to be
married and was ready to go to the
altar when her husband came to her
intoxicated. She loved the man, but re-
fused to risk her happiness with one
who would 60 to his wedding in such
condition. She pointed to the door and
commanded him never again to enter
her home. It not only required cour-
age but great deal of common sense
to do that, but it was the proper thing
for the occasion.
The statement that 100000 cubic
feet of infiammable gas can by any
process whatever be made from ton
of coal is ridiculous on it's face. That
bulk of air at the sea level would weigh
about thirty-eight and half tons, and
100000 feet of such gas as is most
used at present for heating or lighting
would weigh nearly twenty tons, the
specific gravity being about half that
Of air. At least it can do no harm to
remember these little facts when talk
ing about the possibilities of manu-
featuring gas from COAL
The British Governments report on
the recent epidemic Of grip in England
finds that that disease is disseminated
by personal contact, and that isolated
persons, such as inmates of prisons,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

cover there" am told, and as the in
formation is accompanied by no further
direction, prefer the request:
"Won't you please show me where it
The Washington bee., 1891-11-28
Almy VIII Re Hanged,

The judges in the Almy case at Ports
mouth, n. H., rendered decision that
the prisoner is guilty of murder in the
first degree, and sentenced him to be
hung in the State prison yard at Concord
on the first Tuesday in December, 1892.
Almy was removed to Concord before
the decision was rendered.
Amy arrived at Concord late in the
afternoon and was driven at once to the
State prison. He had left Plymouth in
ignorance of the decision made by the
judges, but as he crossed the city the
newsboys were calling the verdict and
sentence, and as his ear caught the fate
full words which meant that he must die
he blanChed trife, but made no COM
ment.
AS Amy was being carried to prison the
crowd surrounding him was very bolster
Gus and menacing, crying out to Hang
hint" Lynch him!" etc., but no leader
appeared to set an example of lawless-
ness.
When received at State prison Almy's
hair and beard were clipped and shaved,
and he was put in the regulation prison
garb 1t is apparent from his conduct
that he hopes to escape the gallows in
some manner.
The Washington bee., 1891-11-28
PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS,

The types by an oversight made
me say "QuantuDn' for this week
"sufficet,' where it was written
"Quantum sufficit" for this week,
with this correction all o. K, un-
der this head; under that Snow is
the time," 2nd paragraph, where
Mr.. harrison appears it should
have been Mr.. Harrison, as the
President was intended as re-
reading of the sentence will show.
Mr.. Pinchback's excoriating the
white Republicans of the South for
their selfish cOwardIce is enough to
prove to any man of common
sense, who has known the Cover
nor in the past, that we have a
bold political leader yet; and for
one | am thoroughly satisfied that
he is not affected with ''colorpho.
bia and hasten to make an apology
for my mistake. While it is not
my intention to name any person
of low degree in my personal OBJ
servatiOns" yet l shall point the
pictures of several individuals so
that they will recognize themselves
on sight. Let the BEE be CAREFUL
ly scrutinized closely next week.
For this week l close with the
following prologue to incoming
comedy:
CADE.-Dost thou use to write
thy name? or hast thou a mark TO
thyself, like an honest plain deal
ing man?
CLAK.-Sir, thank God, l
have been so we'll brought up, that
| can write my name.
ALL.-He hath confessed, away
with him he's a villain and a trail
tor.
CADE.-Away with him, | say
hang him with his ink, how about
bis neck.-Shakespoare.
w. V. T.
The Washington bee., 1891-11-28
CITIZENS MEETING.

The circulars sent out by gent
lemen interested in forming an
organization in this city to labor
for the obliteration of race preju-
dice aud determinations in this
city has been signed by hundreds
of substantial citizens and resi-.
dents.
Therefore the meeting of all
who are in sympathy with this
movement will be held at the Met
tropolitan Baptist church, r ST.,
between 18th and 18th n. W..
Monday, Nov. 80, 1891, at 7.30
P m. The committee of promo
ton has invited several gentlemen
to be present and present the
matter to the people
Among them Prof. Kelly Miller,
OF Howard University, Hon. John
Z. Lynch. John III. Brooks Rev.
Geo. w. Lee and others. All per-
sons interested in this movement
are requested to be present and
hear the plan of action proposed.
A. f. HILYER,
chairman sub. committee.
The Washington bee., 1891-11-28
CIVIL WAR IN BRAZIL.
Great Uprising i'm Favor OF RestOr-
ing the Republic.

ing the Republic.
The news from Brazil continues mea-
ger. There is no doubt that a great pop
ular uprising has taken place against
Dictator Fonseca, who is reported ill from
excessive nervous prostration.
The Insurgent committee at Porto Ale
gre, the capital of Rio Grande do Sui,
Brazil, has sent circulars to all the
garrisOns, commanders, and intendentes
throughout Brazil, in the name of the
provisional junta, asking each of the
parties addressed to join the movement
against Dictator Fonseca.
The squadron in the Upper Uruguay
River is said to have gone over to the
insurgents. General Assorio, who was
chosen chief of the military forces Of
the Junta, is now reported to have de-
clared that he will not side with any
party, as his only aim is to defend the
constitution and overthrow the dictator.
General Osorio, who commands the in
Burgent forces in Rio Grande do Sui, has
Issued manifesto in which he threatens
to march on Rio Janeiro
The forts at the Rio Grande bar have
been completed.
The Washington bee., 1891-11-28
s1e, 900, 600 FOR sas. 900. 900.
Practical Settlement of the Long Stand.
ing Virginia Debt Question.

Practical Settlement of the Long Stand.
ing Virginia Debt Question.
The State Debt Commission and the
Olcott Committee, of New York, the lat
ter representing the holders of Virginia
bonds. who have been in conference at
Richmond, Va, for several days upon Il
plan of settlement, have come to an
agreement.
The agreement is that the State Com
mission shall recommend to the legislat-
ure the issue of $19000,000 of bonds,
having 100 years to run, bearing interest
at 2 per cent per year for 10 years and
per cent for the remaining 80 years; that
the new bonds issued are to conform in
general character to those issued under
the Riddeberger bill; that these bonds
will be exchanged for the debt outstand-
ing exclusive of bonds held by the United
States and the schools and colleges Of
the State) in the proportion of 10 for IS !;
but it is distinctly understood that the
coupons or other interest obligations are
not to be receivable for taxes.
The Olcott Committee represented the
holders of 1913, 100000 of the $2S, 900, 600
IF securities.