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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05

Senator Dubois, whose chances of re
election still hang in the balance, in
dulges in great deal Of buster and
bravado about the battle Of 1900, when
the silver forces will overthrow the
money power and abolish gold. Such
talk may produce the desired effect on
the Idaho legislature, but men Of COM
mon sense and experience know that
free coinage at l6 to will never again
be the paramount issue in a national
campaign any more than grcenbackism
could have been resurrected as a para
mount national issue after specie re-
sumption. Bee.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05


The Railway Age says: Efforts are
being made to organize in Chicago a
company for the purpose Of construct
ing railways, electric roads and electric
lighting plants, dredging harbors, etc,
in China, OH an extensive scale, and
promoting trade between that country
and this. The new company is to he a
competitor Of the American Trading
Company, which now controls most of
the trdde, and its promoters are said to
haze already secured large capital sub.
scriptions. One item of it's extensive
scheme is said to be the construction
and equipment from American shops of
$500 miles of railway lines. There Is
no doubt that the recent visit Of Niceroy
ii Hung to this country has powerfully
increased the disposition toward intro.
ducing railways and other features of
modern civilization into the Chinese
Empire, and American manufacturers
and railway builders will in time find
there large field for their enterprise" !"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05
May Be a Denver.

Lee Hall and Rod Murray were down
from Ragged Top or Balmoral City yes
terday and report great deal of activity
at the new future great. Balmoral may
be second Denver yet; who knows
They say three business houses will be
built in the near future, to be occupied
by w L. Mutt, Ed Grossfeld and two
Salvonians Of Lead whose names they
could rot learn. A chinaman will soon
establish in the laundry business. TIE
town is nicely situated on a level and
has sample water to supply large town.
Balmorsl City is located in the center OF
a district that promises to be one Of the
best producers in the Black Hills county
and it will, without doubt, be lively
camp next year.-Times.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05
S1mpic n Rehash,

J. II. Benkholders Of Colorado Springs
is quoted as saving; 81 went up to
Denver to be at Mr.. Bryan's reception
last Tuesday night. That was the first
time that | and many others in Colo
RADIO had ever seen him or heard him
speak and Of course We expected to hear
something extra fine. | must, however,
say that the crowd was disappointed.
Mr.. Bryan did not come up TO the ex-
pectations. His speech was simply a
rehash Of what he had read trIe and
again. He did not advance a single n ew
argument, and his eloquence is excelled
almost every day in Colorado by such
men as Charles Thomas and Senator Ed
Wolcott. ! am free to make the state
ment that had Mr.. Bryan visited Colo.
RADIO and put in two or three weeks
there before the election he would not
have poled half of the votes he did"
This is childish and unreasonable
grumble What could man say on
the silver question that would not be a
"rehash" of n thousand speeches de-
livered during the late campaign? After
an issue is buried, and the people arc SC
weary of it that their gorge rises every
time it is mentioned, what man is there
on earth who could make an impression
by announcing that he is still running
for president on the platform of the
cheap dollar? 1t was good thing 70,
Colorado that she should herself be dis
appointed in the very outset of the new
campaign. Perhaps she will now re
turn to sanity and begin TO earn he,
prosperity by the sweat OF her rather
good looking countenancs.-Lincolr
| Journal.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05
All TherAi

The melancholy days are here, the
saddest of our time; the chilly blasts
begin to blow from the far off northern
cline The wood-saw sings the coal.
bin groans, the trees doth moan with
sorrow, the sun shines bright and warm
today, might srow like e--to.morrow
We gladly think Of times to come when
we can swiftly soar through mince. pie
skies and night mare drives and stomach
aches galore. Subscribers who are two
years back" should to the sanctum
stroll and soften times which sorely try
the editorial soul, Trade is fair mos
everywhere, if merchants do not fail tc
advertise judiciously the goods they
have for sale.-Dskota Republican.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05
Cleveland Buys q Home.

A late Princeton, New Jersey dispatch
says: "Rumors have been current here
for some days concerning President
Cleveland's intention of making his
permanent home at Princeton. Nothing
definite could be learned until this
evening, when Prof. Andrew West re-
turned from Washington, after having
an interview with the president. Prof.
West this evening gave out the follow
ing statement: President Cleveland
has to-day purchased the residence OF
Mrs A. J. Slidell on Bayard avenue, in
Princeton, and will make Princeton his
permanent home soon after the expira-
ton of his term as president Negotia-
tons looking to this end have been in
progress about three weeks, and were
consummated today by the purchase OF
the property"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05

Commenting upon the late pop legis.
lative victory, the Henry Independent
says in part: "The pops, from Pettigrew
down, have made the prairies resound
since early spring with their loud
proclamations as to what they would do
for the people, if only given chance at
law making. Now let US see what they
will do with the transportation question,
the liquor question, the state taxation
question, the state school question, to
say nothing Of the L. :. senatorial
muddle. The popocrats are in the sad
die. Give them free rein and see how
they saye the country"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05
Legislative Contests.

Reports Of legislative contests become
more numerous. says Pierre special
and from indications, when the legis-
iature meets at least a majority of the
republicans will find their seats con.
tested. The reason for this comes from
the different senatorial aspirants. The
followers of Kyle assert that the Petit.
grew element started contests in dis
tricts which would, if the contestants
succeeded, strengthen the Pettigrew
forces in the legislature and give them
an advantage over the Kyle element
Ihis started the Kyle forces to initiating
contests, and the two factions will fight
It out on the floor of the house. The
factional fight may kill the chances of
the contestants of either faction and
leave the republicans in their seats, as
the members of neither faction will be
willing to vote to seat men who would
strengthen the opposition, and thi
strength, with the republican members,
will be strong enough to retain the re-
Aublicans in their seats. Again, the
beginning ofthe contests has carried
the matter so far that it is likely to
bring reaction, and many OF the con-
tests be dropped and never pushed to a
finish. If crowded too far it is not i'm.
probable that the republicans will w ith-
draw, and, forming trump" legisla-
ture. select senator of their own choos-
ing and send him to Washington to
make figh. before the senate for his
seat. If the populists, or rather fusion
lists, are not satisfied with their working
majority of both houses, and attempt to
carry things with high hand in the
opening of the session, very queer poll
tical complications will result before the
session is many days old.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05
What Prominent insurance Man Says.

II. NJ. Blossom, Sc nior member Of II
NJ. Blossom & Co., 2I7 N. Sd St., st Louis
writes: had been left with very
distressing cough the result ofinHuenza
which nothing seemed to relieve, unit
l took Billiards. Horehound Syrup. One
bottle completely cured me. l sent one
bottle to my sister who had sever,
cough, and she experienced immediat,
relief. / always recommended this
syrup to my friends.
John Cranston 90S Hampshire Street
Quincy llls., writes: l havo founC
Ballard's Horehound Syrup superior Il
any other cough medicine have eve
known. 1t never disappoints. Price
25 and so cents. Free trial bottle at A
J. Jones 4 Cos drug store.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05

That the cause of 16 to steadily lost
prestige from the onset of the campaign
of education, is evidenced by the polls
of the states taken at various periods,
notably in Iowa and Illinois, where in
the former state, the FIRST poll taken
showed that the state was for Bryan by
majority Of 600, and in the latter state
the early polls we're very discouraging
to republicans, but after the educational
term had ended the vote Of these states
very clearly indicated the result of a
more thorough understanding of the
question at issue, by majority for &C.
Kinley of $4,000 and $4,000 respective
iy, and yet Bryan says his defeat WAS
due to the fact that the voters were not
educated upon the great question of free
and unlimited silver coinage. Funny,
aint it?
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05

That the farmers of this country are
more prosperous than they are reported
by the populistic press is evidenced by
the following, which we clip from a re-
cent issue of the Philadelphia Record
1t appears that 72 per cent of the farms
in the United States are free from mort
cages. This is a fact, and gratifying
and rose-colored fact which knocks the
stutling" out Of many loud and long
winded harangues. If further inquiry
should be made it would doubtless be
discovered that in a majority of instances
the mortgages on the % per cent of
mortgaged farms represent money bor-
rowed for improvements The Ameri-
can farmer sometimes has occasion to
growl but take him for all in all, he is
the most prosperous tiller Of the soil and
the most independent in the world.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05

The Columbia club Of Memphis, Ten
nesse, has been congratulated by Hon.
w. r. Moore, the head of the largest
business establishment in the south, up
on the fact that the late campaign re-
suited in loss of $4,000 democratic
votes in the southern tier. Alabama
cast 10000 fewer democratic votes in
1896 than in 1892, the falling off in Flo
rida was 5000, in Georgia it was $1,000,
in Louisiana $4,000, in North Carolina,
$4,000, in Tennessee $4,000, in Texas 81.
600, and even in unprogressive Mississ
ippi there was diminution Of 5000
votes from the democratic roster.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05

The Minneapolis Tribune says "The
Colorado brethren, if they did but know
it, are making themselves ridiculous
over Bryan. They are exalting a
"Cheap John" statesman to heroic di-
mensions. However, there is sa'isfac-
tion in rejecting that the more violently
craze RACES at the beginning, the
fiatter it falls in the end. The Bryan
craze will be very fiat, even in Colorado
long before 1900"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05
The Report Denied

Officials of the Anaconda Mining
company deny the report from Denver
that the company had given notice of a
cut in wages to 60 into effect December
lst, says special telegram from Butte
Mont. No notice of such intention has
been given, ard it is not believed that
the company has any present intention
to cut wages,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05

A late Watertown, S. d., special says !:
IA gentleman from Minnesota has been
at Castlewood during the present week
looking up the advisahility of reopening
the flax mills there. This is one Of the
infant industries which the democratic
congress strangleh by their Infamous
tariff bill. Watertown also has a fax
tow mill. which it expects Mckinley to
put in operation again"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05

The Sioux Indians at Pine Ridge
agencv have raised fund of $500. to
send a delegation to Washington to look
up their claims ag inst the government,
and also insist upon change in the
administration of the affairs of the
agency. Chief Red Cloud and two or
three other prominent Indians will
comprise the delegation.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05

The Omaha Bee says: Congressman
Pickler has cast his anchor windward
with an eye on the commissionership of
pensions, a position for which he is
eminently qualified and to which his
services as a union veteran and recog
nized champion of the old soldiers in
the national house of representatives
fairly entitle him."
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05

John W. Foster, exsecretary of state.
who has just returned from two weeks
visit at Honolulu, expresses the opinion
that it is the duty Of the United States
to annex the Hawaiian Islands without
unnecessary delay, otherwise some other
nation will assume power over the same
The question is, to say the least, a de.
batable one, and there are many promi.
rent statemen whose views are not in
harmony with Mr.. Fosters in this
matter.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05
Through to the Hills.

A late Cherok ee. Iowa, special to the
Minneapolis Journal says: There are
strong indications pointing to Illinois
Central extension next year. The COM
pany now has terminals at Sioux City
and Onawa, Iowa, and Sioux Falls, s. d.
It is we'll known that it has long intend
ed to extend the line from Sioux Falls
to the Black Hills and from Onawa to
Omaha, thence south. There are good
reasons for expecting these extensions
in 1897.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05

Mrs. Hattie Hughes was elected at the
late election in Utah as a member OF the
state senate, defeating her husband, her
opponent, by an immense plurality.
Mr.. Cannon win amuse himself in look .
ing after the babies during his wife's
absence looking after the affairs of the
state.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05

The Hot Springs Herald, which howl
ed for Bryan during the late campaign,
has declared its intention to assume and
maintain position in the future which
shall be strictly independent in all
things, political or otherwise. The
Herald man is postmaster of Hot
SprippS
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05

Samuel w. Allerton, the we'll known
Chicago banker, seems to have the in.
side track in the race for Secretary OF
Agriculture under the Mckinley ad-
ministration
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05

s. A. Ramsey, of Woonsocket, has re-
Gently bobbed up as candidate for the
U. S. senate to succeed KYLE. A late
Woonsocket special, says Mr.. Ramsey
has been making a still hunt and ex-
poets to be elected on the first ballot.
This rumor is from persons who are in
close touch with Mr.. RAMSEY and is said
TO be reliable.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05

The doubtful (?) states Of Illinois and
Indiana, both of which were so conf
IDENTIFY claimed by the popocrats have
been reported officially, McKinley's
plurality being l4l ,l6S and 49, ,403 re-
sDectiyely
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05

The New York Engineering and Min
ing Journal, in its issue of the 2Sth ult..
says: Conditions continue favorable
to improvement in general business,
and there is undoubtedly steady
growth in the volume of trade, but very
little of the booming quality about it.
Money is in good supply and there is no
difficulty in placing business paper,
Manufacturers only await the growth in
demand, which is necessarily gradual" !"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05

A recent Chicago special relating to
the Cuban question says: IAN after
noon paper publishes an interview
which purports to come from the local
agent of the Cuban league in the United
States of America, which has been re-
vived in New York. The agent states,
as soon as the Cuban claim to inde-
pendence is recognized 10000 fighting
men will go from this country to aid
them. These recruits will be obtained
here. There are plenty of Americans
who will enlist. No others are wanted.
If any Americans are caught by the
Spaniards, after recognition by the
United States, they will have to accord
them the privileges ofprisoners of war.
which Americans cannot get now.
Within three months at the longest af-
ter the United States takes such action
Cuba will be free. No attempt will be
made to reach President Cleveland, but
Major Mckinley is pledged to our cause
and the government will be influenced
to take the necessary steps.'n
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-05
a Sound Liver Makes d w ell Han

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troubled with Jaundice, Sick Headache,
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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-06-11

Long Island City, . place Of spproxi-
msteiy 10000 people. and staten
Island, which lies In New York bar
Dor. The aggregate population now
exceeds 1000 900, and there Is ample
room for several millions more in IN
occupied areas on Staten Island and
Long Island and north Of the Harlem
River. Brooklyn, with its population
Of approximately 10000 souls, has
never had any self-centered existence.
IL has been merely . great residential
district Of the metropolis. The high
est ends Of municipal progress will
doubtless be served by the consolida-
ton. Much OF the opposition which
WAS expressed against the bill signed
by Governor Morton Was due not to
disapproval Of the project Of Greater
New York, but to the particular
method. For some time TO come the
union will exist only in name. A
commission must now be designated
to devise . charter and recommend Il
practical scheme for making the union
q working affair. Many believers in
consolidation would greatly have pre-
ferfed that q charter should be first
drawn up and then submitted to the
people OF the Greater New York for
ratification, the adoption of The char
ter carrying with it the approval OF
consolidatiOn.-From 1.-THE Progress
OF the World" in June Review OF Re-
views.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-06-11

who favor q graduated income tax
and further necessary legislation to
reduce and equalize taxation, and
who are opposed to the present ms
chine election methods in North
Carolina (this referred to the election
law existing in 1899 by which many
of our citizens are disfranchised, and
the will of the people perverted by the
dishonest action of certain election
ofiicers; who are in favor of more
economic administration of our gov
eminent, county, State aud National;
who are opposed to having the Ex-
ecutive and Legislative branches of
our government dominated and con-
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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-06-11
HOW IS 1T NOW ?

"The best meal to give a tramp is a
Ieaden one."-NeW Y Ork Herald (Ind. i.
1.-THE old English system of impris-
Onment for debt would be preferable to
our present bankrupt law."1Chicago
Times (dem.).
"Hand grenades should be thrown
among those who are striving to OBJ
tain higher wages, as by such treat
ment they would be taught valuable
lesson.-Chicago Times (dem.).
1 say, come on with your schemes of
confiscation, and graduated income
taxes, and irredeemable currency I'M
der universal suffrage, and, to you
who are sufficiently frank proclaim
ing the doctrine of the ringleaders
then under military necessity, and
even here in the United States, we
must get rid of universal suffrage,
and we shall. Rather than allow these
things, we will have one of the fierc-
est civil wars.-Rev. Joseph Cook, of
Boston hired church tool of monop-
oily and plutocracy.
"There seems to be but one remedy
and it must come-a change of owner
ship OF land owners on one hand and
of tenant farmers on the other some
thing similar to what has existed in
the old countries of Europe.
York Times Und.)
Is not dollar day enough to buy
bread? Water costs nothing, and q
man who cannot live on bread is not
fit to live. A family may live, laugh,
love and be happy that eats bread in
the morning with good water, and
water and good bread at noon, and
water and bread at night.-Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher; 10000 preacher.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-06-11
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.rmx oLD xoxra srArx.~

A cAUcAsrAS correspondent rel
quest the publication of Judge
William Gssten's famous s.Old North
Sta'e"
Carolina Carolina. Heavens blessings
attend her
While ". live We will cherish, protect
and defend her:
Though the scorner may sheer at and
Writings defame her,
Our hearts swell with gladnsss when
ever We name her
Hurrah. Hurrah. the Old North
State forever.
Hurrah. Hnrrah. the coed old
North State,
Though she envies not others their
merited glory,
Say, whose name stands foremost In
Liberty's story.
Though too true TO herself e'er TO
crouch to oppression,
W no can yield 10 just rule more royal
submission.
Hurrah, &C
Plain and artless her sons but whose
doors open faster
At the knock OF a stranger. or the tale
OF disaster?
How like to the rudeness of their dear
native mountains,
With rich ore in their bosoms AID life
| in their fountains.
Hurrah, &c.
And her daughters, the Queen Of the
forest resembling,
So graceful, so constant, yet to gent
lest breath trembling,
And true lightwoOd at heart, let the
| match be applied them,
How they kindie and flame. Oh. none
know but who've tried them.
| Hurrah, &c.
l'Then let all who love us, love the land
| that we live in,
(As happy region as on this side OF
| Heaven),
}. Where Plenty and Freedom, Love and
Peace smile before US,
Raise aloud, raise together, the heart
I thrilling chorus.
Hurrah. Hurrhh. the Old North
State forever.
Hurrah! Hurrah. the good Ole
North State.