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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06
The Order of the Day.

Says aSt. Louis man: "Iwas witness |
Of funny scene at the Fair Grounds
then known as Benton Barracks that |
took place in 1861. A New Yorker
named Strong was sent out here 10 look
after quartermaster's supplies, and inI
order to give him some military status
he was commissioned Brigadier General.
He neither knew nor pretended to know
anything in the world sbout military
matters. 1t SO happened that all theel
higher officers were called away, andl
that he found himself in command OF thel
troops at the barracks. The adjutant, a
young West Pointer, came to him forl
the. order of the day. General Strongl
knew fully as much about Sanscrit as bel
did about this, and for moment wasI
completely nonplussed. But he was al
man of ready resources and soon extrl-l
Gated himself from the difficulty. 'Order|
of the day! order of the day!' he said
We'll, you can do to-day just what YOU
did yesterday. Wait minute, heI
called out as the astonishcd adjutant wasl
retiring. Convene all the troops in q
prayer-meeting to pray for the success OIL
the Government and the suppression or
this wicked rebellion The adjutant|
gasped, stared and stood irrcsolute, butt
being accustomed to obeying orders i'm
plicitly, he said nothing, and the prayer
meeting was held. General Strong
afterward laughingly boosted that all the
Union victories were due to his peculiar,
innovation on ordinary military routine.''
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06

FRENCH journals are making much
ado over the use of the field telegraph
in the recent army maneuvers. The
fact that the wires were kept we'll up
with the front of the advancing army
and that at all times the principal
commanders had Geographic com.
munication with every part of their
commands is regarded by the Paris
ians as something wholly new in mill
itary science. Veterans of the Amer
lean civil war will be amused at this
pretension. AT a time when more
serious business than holiday maneu-
vering was on hand the telegraphic
corps of the Northern army followed
the fighters and conducted its opera
tiOns often under hot fire.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06
Studying the Blooming of Flowers

Phenology is the term proposed for q
study of the periods of blooming 1n1|
flowers. In some parts of the world
flowers appear with tolorable regularity
so much SO that floral calendars have
been based on the fact, and varlous]
flowers have been dedicated to saints
and church festival days because on
blooming at special fixed times. The
snowdrop for instance, is known IN
Catholic countries as "Puriticatloin1
flower" from its blooming on the fourth
of February, the festival of the Puritlca,1
ton. Our St. Johns is so namea
from its first opening on St. Johns
day; and so of other flowers. In QUIZ
climate, however, phenology will not
have much show as science, except as ~
may show the unreliability of these times
of Towering. There are, at times, 8
month of difference between one season
and another, and sometimes flower
that blooms the earliest of all one year,
will be far behind others in another year.
New York Independent.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06

THE destructive floods in Spain,
which have caused the loss of over
1900 lives. are directly traceable to
the demolition of the forests by the
woodman's AK. The lesson has al
ready been brought home to America
10y the spring-time floods that do such
damage along the Ohio Valley. No
attention has ever been paid to the
warming. however, and it is hardly to
astcr in Spain will operate more eff
fectivelv to bring people to realizing
sense of the peril braved by permit
ting the destruction of the forests
without any regulation whatever.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06

TIE drunken Justice of the Peace
in Kansas City who sold his whiskcrs
at auction for $500 has been re-
moved from office. fined $50, and sem
fenced to thirty days in Jail. He has
done much in his way to advertise
Kansas City, but his day of useful
ness is over. The only thing left for
him to do is to emigrate to some
place few hundred miles west of
San Francisco and grow up with the
country.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06
Indian Fights to a Finish.

John T. Miller of Fort Reno, Okla,
while seated in q group at the Laclede
Hotel said:
"When you talk about fight to a
finish and Knockout blows. both are
witnessed in the aboriginal degree of
perfection when fight between two In
dian bucks is seen in ring. the circum.
stances of which is not q rope, but a
string Of interested human spectators.
1t is fact that among Indians of the
same tribe, though they may number
thousands, there are few cases of quar-
rels among them that ever result in muir
der. This is strange when it is remem-
bered that the Indian is passionate, un-
controlled in his impulses, cruel and
terocious by nature. They have their
difficulties and quarrels, however, but
arbitration Of the old men prevents
bloodshed or murder.
"Yet once in while fight occurs,
and it is q novel sight to witness. One
buck challenges another to combat, aud,
accompanied by their friends to the bat
tleground, each buck is stripped and
made to confront the other. Between
them lies q war Cuba smooth, long
piece of hard wood, seasoned by years Of
service and regarded as sort Of mascot
because of the blood stains on it received
during the war. The seconds of the
sufly looking duellists toss up piece of
bark on the wet or the dry principle,
when boys long ago chose sides in play.
ing town ball. The winner picks up
the club, ana his opponent, folding his
arms, sturdily plants himself, bending
his head. 1t is the club bearers priv.
lege to whack his antagonist just as
hard as he can, and with all the vigor-
Gus righteousness he can command on
the back. 1t is foul blow t. strike
above or below the back. One g:a,ow is
struck, and then the man who has en-
dured it picks up the club and his oppo-
nent is subjected to all the force he can
command. So the whacking goes on,
and almost every blow is knock down
one, until the. duellist last knocked
down rises to his feet and refuses to &C.
cept the club from his opponent. He
has had enough and the party breaks up.
THE severity of the punishment in
t1icted and endured in these duels is
marvellous. The club used has Jagged
edge, and every blow struck brings
blood, making deep cuts and fearful
bruises. / have seen two such fights,
and they are brutal and nauseating in
the GOODNESS Of their procedure and the
appearance of both contestants after vic
tory is won and defeat confessed
Globe. Democrat.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06
"Reminiscences Of the War.

A large turtle, bearing upon its upper
shell the inscription "a. H. n, First
Illinois Cavalry, 1861, twas captured the
other day in a pond at Linwood Lawn
farm, near Lexington, Mo-, and the shell
preserved. In August, 1861, part of
Marshall's company of Union troops, be-
longing to the First Illinois Cavalry,
was camped at Linwood Lawn, and the
inscription was no doubt made by one of
these troopers.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06

THE modern tragedian who is in
search of theme for tragedy can
hardly do better than select the story
of eX-Prcsident Balmaceda. who has
put the necessary climax to the story
by his suicide. OF course. there must
be woman in the story. and that is
the easiest of things for a clever
dramatist to find. 1t is rather re-
markable. it may be remarked in
passing. that the story of Prince Ru-
dolph is not on the boards; although
it is probable that in European coun-
tries its production would not be al
lowed, while it is not the sort OF
theme to which the American play
wright takes naturally. 1t will see
the glare of the footlights sooner or
later, however: of that one may easily
be assured. 1t is too sensationally
dramatic. and it is so full of mystery
as to provoke the attempt of the
imaginative dramatist to solve its
mystery.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06
DIR. MULLER. a prominent Metl

DIR. MULLER, a prominent McthO-
dist clergyman. until recently located
at Canton, Ohio, has created intense
excitement in the religious and social
circles of that pretty town. Tho
doctor, who is As, has just taken unto
himself an attractive bride of 90.
The event caused much comment
among the gossips and busybodies,
who, among other things. accused
the reverend gentleman of conduct4
ing his courtship with too great
frivolity. Many old women, of both
sexes, doubtless, wrote him insulting
anonymous letters, expressing freely
their ideas of his conduct. AS re.
suit the doctor preached farewell
sermon. in which he announced
that he would return to Canton no
more forever. He shook, as it were,
the dust of the town off his feet, and
took occasion to denounce the anony-
nous letter-writers in the most
scathing terms. There may be
some doubt as to the propricty OF a
minister's using the pulpit for such a
purpose, but that he was perfectly
right in turning his most picturesque
rhetoric upon the anonymous letter.
writers no one will deny. There is
no more cowardly, despicable, sneak
ing, mongrel disgrace to humanity
than the writer of anonymous letters.
After all, minister, to be of any
service, must be man. And no man
will court a girl with a funeral ex.
preston on his face, nor will he allow
any set OF old women, Of either sex,
to tell him how it should be done.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06
worth tramp over the fields to see and
should be installed as one of the curious
attractions of Lake George.

worth tramp over the fields to see and
should be installed as one OF the curious
attractions of Lake George.
A CORRESPONDENT of Our Dumb
Animals tells this horse story: A team
of handsome horses was standing IN front
of my door. The near horse was MUNICH
ing some grass contentedly, which the
( off horse could not reach. Suddenly, to
nv astonishment, the near horse raised
his head with his mouth full of grass and
held it near his companions mouth.
The off horse accepted the apparent invi-
tation to eat, and took the grass from
the other ones mouth After turning
and eating q while on his own account,
he repeated this manguvre, and then
called in the other members of MY family
20 watch them There could be no mis-.
take about it; the horse which could
reach the grass fed his companion at
short intervals as long as they stood be-
| fore the door.
| A SINGULAR case of spontaneous com
bustion is reported where painter en-
gagged in mill removed his overalls at
y. m. to 90 home AT s 30 the watch
man discovering smoke in the mill sum-
moncd the engineer, and together they
searched the premises carefully, tracing
the smoke to small room in which the
overalls were discovered, aud in one
pocket was q bunch of greasy waste that
had ignitcd. This shows, according to
Architect and Builder, that spontaneous
combustion may ensue in less than three
hours if the conditions are favorable.
Two Cleveland, Ohio, burglars who at
tempted to saw their way out of Jail used
rats as sentinels. AT night when they
were dy to begin operations, they
sprinkled bread crumbs in front of their
cells and collected drove Of rats.
Whenever a turnkey approached their
section of the Jail the rodents scam
pcrcd away. thus giving the alarm. For
several nights they worked that way.
and though the turnkey heard the saw
ing and went about on tiptoe, he never
could locate the noise.
SUFFRAGE in Japan has recently been
put to q novel use. A village was
harassed by midnight robber whom no
one could detect So an ingenious in
habitant proposed that each villager
should write the name of the man ne
suspected on slip OF paper, and put it
in ballot box. On the votes being
taken there were fifteen for one man.
and the rest were blanks. The robber
was so astonished at the proceedings
that he actually confessed his identity
A MARVELLOUS and horrible accident
happened at private house in Paris.
The host had invited number of friends
to luncheon. A great Danish boar
hound was in the room, according to
custom. a guest happened to drop his
napkin, and while stopping to pick it
up the dog with a spring seized his
throat and killed him. There was ter
rible struggle to pull the beast off, but
without avail.
A CONNECTICUT meteorologist informs
mankind that next winter is to be an ex-
tremely long and cold one. The nut
crop, he says, is unusually large this year.
And he adds: Mature never takes the
trouble to prepare big crop of nuts un-
less they are going to be needed
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06

The elopement as a diversion for
Chicago young people is getting a
trifle too common. In the historical
department OF the woman's display
at the Worlds Fair there should be
a wax model Of a sweet young girl
asking her mothers consent to her
marriage. Unless something of this
sort is done to perpetuate the mem
ory of this obsolete custom people
may forget that it was ever in vogue.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06

A WOMAN has just been granted a
patent upon device for teaching the
value of coins If she will introduce
it thoroughly among her sex she shall
have monument higher than the
theatcr hat or the price thereof.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06

ACCORDING to the official reports
the Emperor William called Napo-
leon the "Corsican conqueror," not
The "Corsican parvenu. This is
probably an afterthought: but it is
not likely to mollify the French opin-
ion on the subject. People who are
on the lookout for a grievance are not
particular about word
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06

UNCLE SAM has still over 600. OOO,-
600 acres of land subject to settle
ment. There is room for all to have
a farm without killing ones horse
and dissipating ones fortune in try
ing to distance everybody else in the
rush for newly opened Oklahoma
lands. But then there is less excite
ment in quietly settling down by
ones self and getting right at hard
work.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06
Electricity as a Detective.

An English shopkeeper found that on
several occasions bottles of spirits were
missing and he could obtain no clew %
the thief. Finally he arranged an elec1
trio signaling device by means OF whlcnd
if bottle was disturbed, a bell would y
rung. The affair worked admirably an9
the thief was caught red-handed.-1
philadelphia Record.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06

"a P1TrsBURG man." says the Buff
falo Express, got SO black in the
face from choking on piece of apple
that he has staid black. He passes
now for full-blooded negro" When
we come across a fact like that we
always wonder at the hopeless inn
potence of fiction to produce its
equal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06

A TELEGRAPH operator disguised
as coachman was found transmit
ting the result of the Gravesend
races to other operators stationed in
a neighboring tower by means of a
flash light system of signals arranged
in his silk tile. Now we know what
is meant when a man is accused of
talking through his hat.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06

could be assured that the other party
would not marry anyone else" In
the pursuit of this essay in statistics
will the Globe kindly estimate the
number of marriages that take place
because one or both of the parties
could not marry anyone else?
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06

THERE is a two-headcd boy in New
York dime museum who presents the
strange phenomenon of having one
head very fond of beer while the other
drinks nothing but saltwater. What
a candidate he'll make some day.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06
Is IT worth while to be laughed

Is 1T worth while to be laughed at
and made sport of by every one of the
occupants Of a barber shop, even
down to the "brush." just for the de-
ceit of having a few white hairs
made black by the application of a
mess of ill-smelling sticky stuff which
BARRIERS deal in? You don't fool any,
body, not even yourself.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06

A YIELD of $4,000, 600 bushels of
wheat in Michigan will throw even
the copper mine dividends of that
famous peninsula quite into the shade
this year. The farmer is the nabob
of the universe when the crops are
good
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06

If suicide could ever be regarded
as fitting ending of human be-
ing's career, Boulanger may be said
to have rounded his life in proper
form
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06

s-.t.TN
A New YORK newspaper has dis.
covered that opium is sold on almost
every street corner in that city. re
read the editorial columns of several
of the New York papers one would
think that the editorial writer's of
Gotham were taking advantage of
thissituation. ,-.,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06

1t is to he hoped that the increas-
ed influx Of foreign gold may dimin-
ish the home market for gold brick"
games.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06

A COMPANY organized to run coaches
from Chicago to the Worlds Fair is
going to employ women as conductors.
but it won't work. Why, it would
take a woman all the way from Lake
street to the Calumet to find her
pocket and make change for the first
passenger. 'ss'':'s, -
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06

IT is said that onions will cure
diphtheria. Now If we can find
something to cure onions it may be
worth while to cure diphthcria.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06

"HALT the marriages in the world, :"
says the Atchison Globe in one of its
fits of Kansas pessimism, "would not
be contracted if the parties to them
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06

So FEW cigarettes are smoked in
Chicago that the odoriferous river has
to work overtime.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06

They will persist in calling it a
dreadful accident, when it's delibcr-
ate kerosene.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06

WHEN hosiery dealer buys a lot
of new goods he may be said to be
stocking up.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06

A CONNECTICUT Justice of the
Peace has decided that when a barber
begins to shave a face he enters upon
an implied contract to finish the Job.
In the case on trial the barber and
his victim entered on a political dis.
cussion, during which the barber ut
tered reflections upon Governor Bulk.
s!ey: TIC victim Gale! ne barber 9
blanked fool and the barber ordered
the other out of the shop. though
his face was but half shaved. The
halfe-shaven man, who had a two
weeks growth of beard on one side OF
his face. having just returned from q
protractcd fishing trip. sued fol al0O
damages. The court thought the
barber had great provocation and de-
creed that he should pay So and the
costs. ~ = :::>=--S-.-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06
THE HERALD
WASHINGTON SPRINGS. SD.

Actors and convicted murderers
both 60 off the stage at the fall of the
drop.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06

A CONNECTICUT meteorological informs
mankind that next winter is to be an ex-
tremely long and cold one. The nut
crop. he says, is unusually large this year.
And he adds: Mature never takes the
trouble to prepare big crop of nuts un-
less they are going to be needed
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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-11
A JOLLY TIME.
One Man Killed and Many Carved
a PinniO

One Man Killed and Many Carved
at Colored Picnic.
CINCINNATI. o.. Aug. lO.-Hunt's
Grove, which is situated on the Big
Four railroad few miles west of Cleve-
land and twenty miles west of this citys
was the scene of bloody riot at a pic
mic given by the "Jolly Four" colored
club of this city, this afternoon,
numbering several hundred. Men
and women were well provided
with whisky, razors and pistols.
Ida Griffin and Beatrice Grey, both
colored, quarreled about lover, and
went at each other with raZors till both
fell exhausted from loss of blood. Bea-
trice is in Jail and Ida is in the hospital,
dangerously wounded. A ring of spec
tatorS witnessed the mill till it was fin
iShed.
Inflamed by the sight of blood the
drunken male desperadoes began to
vaunt their prOweSs. Jim Chapman. an
catcher'' in this city, pulled big re-
volver and defied the crowd to tackle
him. Hal Hendricks, who murdered
a man in Cincinnati, took him up.
Chapman began firing, Hendricks
responding by landing big rock be-
tween Chapman's eyes, laying him out.
He soon recovered and the battle was
renewed, the partisans of each man tah7
ing sides. The air resounded witlf
the crack of pistols. The spectators
fled and hid. The result of the battle
as far as known is: H. Hendricks, mor-''
tally wounded by bullet under the
heart; Jim Chapman, skull smashed
and numerous bullet holes iii his body.
but nevertheless running away from
the sheriff; Irwin Anderson and Rowe
Thomas, both badly wounded. This is
not half of the injured, but it is all that
can be learned. +