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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01
CUSTER CHRONICLE


"A. Swindle Is the name that APP
pears over the Office door OF a strus-
Cling lawyer in the city OF Stratford,
Ont. A friend OF the unfortunate gem
tleman suggested the advisability of his
writing out his naiae In full, thinking
that Arthur or Andrew Swindle, as the
case might be, would sound better and
look better than the significant "A.
S~windle." When the lawyer with tears
In his eyes whispered TO him that his
name was Adam the friend understood
and was silent.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

Word comes from Cummings, N. d..
that Charles Davis. who lost several
pigs during the snowstorm last hanks
giving and found one OF them about two
months ago.. 10Y tells a stranger story.
To his own amazement he found an
other OF his pigs, which was alive n
still lives after being buried liz days.
IL was found only by the thawing OF the
snow a few days ago. The truth OF the
story is attested to by Mr. Wheelon. a
wheat buyer at Cummings and Barnes
nm.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01
DR.. H. C. FARRAR EXPELLED
One OF the Most Prominent Metho-
dist Divines Confesses
His GuiIt.

Schenectady, N. Y, April 26.-Rev. DIR. II.
c. Farrar, ex-pastor of st. Luke's church.
Of Albany, was yesterday expelled from
the Methodist Episcopal church and the
ministry, at the Troy conference. The ac-
ton against DR.. Farrar was for adultery.
He formerly was president of the State
Sunday school association and held high
rank among the Methodist preachers Of
New York state. He is a grandfather.
DR.. ]. II. Coleman, presiding elder of the
Albany district, who had charge of the
prosecution, read to the conference a con-
fession signed by DR.. Farrar. The con
ference then unanimously voted to expel
him from the ministry and membership OF
the Methodist church. Later In the day
bishop Ninss nounc the expulsion.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

An old pair OF trousers worth more
thar 800 Is not seen every day. A slack
wire walker in London has an article OF
his kind which he would not
for a f20 note. They are made or TWEEN
ty-fve complete skins Of the south AZ
rican antelope, n are In come places
three inches thick. The first require
ment i'm performing on a wire one-fourth
OF an inch in diameter Is to wear wen
padded garments Of an indestructible
material
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

Two more eighteen story hotels. to
cost SO, 900, 900, are TO erected at once in
New York city, and the architects say
they are to be the finest structures or
this class In the city. 1t seems to be the
opinion OF shrewd real estate people In
New York that the transient population
of New York has already been vastly
increased by her magnificent hotels.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

A white boar roasted whole. was the
chief dish at a state dinner given by
the prince OF Montenegro. 1t was
brought In smoking hot. Inside the
boar was a turkey. and inside h tur-
key was a snipe which had been shot
by the host.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

W hen the Roman aCtholic church in
Portsmouth, Va, burned down recently
the Baptist and the Methodist churches
OF the city offered the homeless congre.
gitlon tire free use OF their chapels until
ii could III Divide itself with another ell.
fee. and three Methodist and one Epis.
copal c!srgymen called personally on
the priest to express thei r sympathy
with him and his people.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

Paris is learning how to handle n
municipal franchise. 1t will allow a
company to build ~forty-five miles OF
railway through Its streets at a . or
$40, 600, 900. the fare TO vary from 2 cents
to 4 cents. At the end of thirty-five
years the city will take possession OF
the entire property without paying a
cont
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01
Rradstreet's Review.

New York, April 26.-Bradstreet's
says:
The change in conditions underlying
general trade, while slight this week,
has been In the direction of improve
ment. The depression in iron and steel
continues, md Bessemer pig and steel
billets have reacted another 25 cents a
ton.
The outlook favors an increase in Ia
Dor disturbances to resist midsummer
wage reductions. The bituminous coal
mining Industry Is worse off than the
anthracite, with rumors OF strikes
which promise to have an unfavorable
influence in other han the iron and
steel industries. Trade in wool Is quiet
err. There Is less life in the wholesale
dry goods trade, and little relief has
been experienced, Notwithstanding the
large auction sale OF cotton goods last
week, buyers continuing to supply i'm
mediate needs only.
The tendency toward more settled
weather has stimulated retail demand,
more particularly at the northwest.
notably for dry goods. hardware n
millinery. The general tendency of tho
Mississippi floods to subside has Gre
ated a better feeling. but not even the
recent agricultural department census
records all the damage done. Country
roadways ave begun to improve, which
benefits interior merchants.
The only large cities reporting an In
crease In the movement OF merchandise
are St. Paul. Minneapolis, milwaukee,
and Kansas City. At almost all other
large centers there has been no ma.
terial gain in Industrial or commercial
lines. New Orleans reports that thu
sugar lands have escaped overflow thus
far.
Exports of wheat (nour included as
wheat) from both coasts of the United
States and from St. Johns, N. B. this
week amount to 1854, 65S bushels
against LIPS, 900 bushels in the third
week of April. 1896. Exports of Indian
corn amount to 4,769, 3l5 bushels this
week. against 2.23S,O OO last week. less
than 1000, 900 bushels in the same week
Of 1896.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

Torrance Of some great Greek play and
hold 1t in the Acropolis. No more fitting
place on earth for such a performance
than the theater OF Bacchus, which has
lain quietly during all the centuries at
the foot OF the Acropolis. NJ. Homolle
went to Paris and invited M. Mounet-
Sully and the Coincide Franchise to CO.
operate with him They agreed to help
him and the great French institute has
promised TO support him.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

Nine-tenths Of the whisk brooms sol
and used in the United states are mide
from broom corn grown In Kansas
Most Of the brooms are Manufactured
in Rochester and other eastern cities,
but the raw material comes from Kan
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01
A lady has made to Secretary Long

A lady has made to Secretary Long
the sensible suggestion that Instead or
giving the names Of u great admirals
to our diminutive wal craft. the tor
pedo boats, the latter should bear the
names of Indihn chiefs or tribes that
have achieved fame In u national his
tory. During the civil war this was the
custom, but the names have disappeared
with the ships which they designated.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

Citizens of Quebec are advocating the
building of a cantilever bridge across
the st. Lawrence river, hear their city.
and that II be 3.450 feet long. with seven
spans, the middle one to be LAO feet
They wish IL built a little west OF the
Chaudiere river, and the track to be 100
feet above the water. The v there lie
said to be about $50 feet in depth at
midchannel.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01
What a Mess.
A Safe Risk,

A species of insurance" is one of the
British terms for discriminating du-
ties. 1t Is a pretty good term, too, and
we should like to see a species Of In
surance," for the protection OF Ameri-
can shipping, put into effect without
delay. 1t would be a first-class risk,
covered by a good policy, with the pre-
miums payable by foreigners.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

Mayor r. Y. Williams OF o~akesdale,
Wash, resigned his office rather than
sign an ordinance condemning a man to
imprisonment In jail for neglecting to
license his dog. The mayor, who a
served two or three years thought 1T
would be cruel and unjust TO confihe a
man II he has no money with which to
nav n dog tax.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

There is one man at least who has
made a success Of poultry raising, and
he Is Isaac Wilbur of Little Compton.
r. L. He ships from 1870, 900 to $50, 900
eggs a year and has 100 lighthouses on
his place. The chickens are fed from a
wagon which goes from house to house
In the morning, and in the afternoon the
egg are collected.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01
Business In the Japanese parliament

Business In the japanese parliament
seems OF rather a frivolous character.
A whole recent sitting was devoted 10
considering whether a had not
violated parliamentary etiquette by at
tending the opening In a frock coat in
stead OF the regulation dress suit. FL
nally the offending member vas solemn
ly warned OF his "indiscretion," narrow
ly escaping being ordered over to the
disciplinary committee for punishment.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

The Paris prefecture of police has
bought a wooden horse. harnessed, and
all candidates for the position of cab
man must show that thew know how to
harness and unharness him and pass
an examination In whatever other tests
the perfect may propose.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

A recent addition to spectacular ef-
fects Is a perfect rainbow. The appar-
atus consists of a box with a semi-cir-
cular opening. behind which are two
revolving candelabra prisms. These are
worked by a handle. and h light from
the prisms is still further divided by
wires. The London stage Is now revel-
ing In ralnbows OF the most vivid and
beautiful description.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01
Stick TO the Platform.

Republicans who profess to be pro-
tectionists should not allow themselves
to be misled by Democratic s~quealers.
The policy Of protection is national,
not individual. 1t promotes prosperity
among the many. 1t has nothing to do
with the selfishness of a few.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

1t Is hard to overtake some errors
after they are stated on their travels. A
recent dispatch from London SAID that
the log OF the Maynower" is about to
be returned to this country. There is
no such log, nor have historians ever
discovered which one Of several May
flowers brought the pilgrims across the
Atlantic. What Is coming back Is the
second Governor Bradford's manu-
script history of the pilgrims In their
American home for twenty-eight years.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

Next Sunday, brethren SAID the Rev
Mr.. Goodman, beam!ng benevolent,y upon
his assembled flock, II shall preach 4 SER
mon upon the evidences of Christianity
and I sincerely hope that one of those
evidences will be a full house whether II
rains or not."-Chicago Tribune.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

The state geologist OF Kentucky has
grieved and disappointed many OF 1t.
citizens by declaring that there Is ne
gold in the state. Some ore recently an
alyzed by another chemist was found Il
contain copper and lion, but no gold.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

An inhabitant of A~rendskerke, In Hol-
land, has notified to the municipal reg
istrar the birth of his twenty-flrst son,
all the Others being alive and in the
enjoyment Of good health.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

A Fetching Climax-He: II love you
madly." She: who could blame your
1T want you to be my wife," II hear
you" MY family would welcome you
with open arms THAT would be nice
1--WE would make our lives a continual
honeymoon" Splendid idea" Il am
rich" "My ADMINISTRATION Life.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

At the recent village election in Con-
stantine. Mich. the women taxpayers
were allowed to vote on an electric
lighting bond proposition, but only
three awaited themselves Of the right.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01
It's All Riphf.

The Dingley bill is all right. Its rates
are not too high. In some cases they
are too low and may fail to protect
American industries.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01
n Labor Wauta.

Labor cares not a jot for the rate per
cent. Of a tariff schedule. Labor IL
only interested in knowing that it is
high enough to enable work to be done
here. Make It so.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

Among the birds there are few bette
fighters than the goose, or a gandsr
more particularly. The ragged white
Russian geese bite feroclously; II Is nc
mere peck with them; they bite and
hang on with all the tenacity OF a u
dog
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

A delegation In TO be sent from Ger
many to Jaran and China to open up
lines of trade, especially in textile prod
ucts. The cotton exchange has contrib.
uted 10000 marks and the government
20. 0o0 marks to help defray expenses.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01
A Sure Sign.

The louder the free-trade papers
squeal, so much the more certain are
we that the Dingley tariff Is a good
American bill.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

The adoption of a universal postage
stamp which shall be good In any part
Of the world will be considered at the
postal union congress In Washington
next month.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01
SELLING THE TAYLOR PROPERTY
State Has Several Good Offers for
Its Claim.

Pierre, April 26.-Land Commissioner
Lockhart has gone to Sphinx county to
offer u large amount OF the Taylor
property In hat county for sale. He
has several offers at private sale, but
under the provisions Of the law the dis
posal of this property must first be at
public sale.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

The origin of the phrase ION tick"
meaning credit, was ION ticket the
idea being thai articles bousht inc 70:
paid for at the time had to be noted on
o ticket.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01
SHADOW OF THE ACROP0LIS
Mounet-Sully TO Produce u Greek
Play in the Old Theater
of Racchua

Athens. Greece. April 26.-One OF the
most novel ideas Of the age is just about
to be contaminated here. The French
school. this city, is about to celebrate It's
hftieth anniversary, and NJ. Homolle,
the director, decided to get up a per-
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

In the Belgian parliament when a
member is making a long speech he may
be supplied with brandy and water at
the government expense.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

The old Washington hall In Durham
England, which IL supposed by some to
have been the seat of George Washing
toms ancestors, has been bought by ar
American for $1,000. 1t is described as
"picturesque and full of rhe lmatism.'
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

In Derbyshire county, England, there
is a subSerranean road ssvyn miles long
1t connects two mines.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01
Y. M. {. A. INTERNATIONAL MEET
A Large Number OF Delegates Have
Been in observation-disclosures
Satisfactory.

Mobile, Ala, April 24.-The thirty
second international convention mat
has been in session here for some days,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01

Y. NJ. c. A. BUILDING, MOBILE.
larger number than has been present
at conventions of his body, and Is
largely due to the liberal rates made
by the Louisville and Nashville and
Mobile and Ohio roads.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-01
A Populist Failure.

lack Of doing it's own carrying In its
own ships, in its own foreign trade.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-11-10
Election Notice.
a IA MEETING OF THE BOARD OF COM

a L a MEETING OF THE BOARD OF CON-
missioners for Robson County, held on Mon
day, september 9th. 1897, the following order
was passed: : :
Application having been made by petition Of
one fifth OF the qua lifted voters in the follow
ing territory. VIZ Beginning at livestock law
gate on the Eumberton road OF John Mel
Browns, ana running with the Lumber ton
road to the "old Lumberton road" thence with
said road, and to include the clearing where
James Brayhoy lives, and thence to the W. 4
Nv. Railroad, so as to include all the Mcintyre
land, and thence northwards with east side of
said railroad to the public road leading from
philadelphus church to Mt. Tabor church,
thence eastward with said road to D. H. Nc.
Millan's southeastern line, thence with said
line to point near Raft Swamp on Daniel
McIntyre's line, thence northward across Raft
Swamp on the Mcintyre land to T. ] Toiar's
line, thence eastwardly across said Tolar's
land to w. D: McIntyre's south corner, thence
With W, D. McIntyres line eastwardly to the
Great Desert, thence northwestward along
said Desert to T. ]. Denny's corner. thence
along the edge OF said Desert northward to s.
line between said Denny and Tolar to and
| across w. & w. Railroad, thence with west side
OF said railroad to the line Of E. S. Ausley's
| to a. c. McGugan's line, thence with said
Ausley to Wellington and across railroad and
with said line north to \. g. McGugan's east
line OF said McGugan's line to e. S. Ausley 5
line, thence with said Auslcy's line to the
Great Marsh. thence with south side of the
Great Marsh to the c; F. Il Wv: Railroad and
across said railroad, thence with west side OF
said railroad to where it intersects the stock
law fence east of Shannon. That the question
| OF STOCK Law or NO STOCK Law be
submitted to the qualified voters Of said tori.
tory. 1t is hereby ordered thd.'an election be
held at w. A. Smiths house, on =
TUESDAY, THE 23D DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1897
| IN said territory, at which election the said
question OF Stock Law No Stock Law shall
pc submitted to the qualified voters of said
territory and that for the purpose of holdinp
SAID election the Clerk of the Superior Couri
| is hereby instructed to appoint two Registrars
ana tnree Judges OF Election and to cause the
Sheriff OF Robson County to serve notice in
accordance with law. It is further ordered
that petitioners pay all costs of this process.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-11-10
VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS.

The editorial below, which is
copied from the 0hadbourn Jour
nal, whose editor Is q Western
man and knows whereof he speaks,
is worthy of the careful considera-
tion of every farmer who reads the
RoBEsoSIAN. If our farmers will
adopt the suggestions of the Jour
nal and make cotton o secondary
crop, there would soon be less talk
of hard times among them. So
well does the Journal state the
case that we copy what it says
without further comment:
Being, as we are, native from
seotlon OF the country where rails
ing live stock is regular part of
the business of every farmer, we
fthd it difficult to habituate our
selves to the practice among
Southern farmers of buying' and
coHsunaIasg- imported, horses and
mufes+ Wefcnnnot persuad5rour9
solves that it is good business. In
viewing the situationwe'fnd moth
ing in natural conditions to pre-
vent stock breeding; and we be-
lieve colt can be foaled and put
on the market at less cost than in
the North. The causes that pre-.
won't horse breeding are artificial
and grow ont of the suicidal meth
DDS OF farming which prevail. Be-
fore the horse can be made q reg
ular product of the farm cotton
must be relegated to q subordinate
position and in its stead forage
and home supply crops must be
made of first Importance. We
must convert our raw material
into the finished product ready for
the market in the shape of horses,
cattle, sheep and hogs, and the
waste matter from the process of
production should be returned to
the land for it's improvement.
There should be fields of forage
crops where we now have patches,
and patches of cotton where we
now have fields. Then we would
always find a ready and profitable
market for our cotton, tobacco.
fruits and truck, while every ar
tlcle for home consumption would
be supplied from our own fields.
Our farms would become self-sus-
tanning and self-improving and
there would be an end to the ever
lasting drain on our soil that is
keeping us bankrupt. During court
week at Whiteville probably fifty
head of horses and mules were;
sold. Why send this money North7 ?
Why not raise our own live stock,
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-11-10
FILLMORE Items.

Cotton picking is about over.
The o'possum may look sharp.
The farmers are digging their
potatoes now. The potato crop is
better than we expected.
We went to the circus the other
day and saw curious things as
well as many curious people. -.
The convicts are here at last, at
work Oh the new rrilroad. Some
Of our people want to see the road
completed.
Nero Bethae and Sandy Ellis,
both colored, got in a difficulty a
few days ago in which Nero got
the worst end of the bargain, and
has suffered great deal from q
wound on the head.
w. B. Young came through this
section selling Goose Grease lin
While in tho store of p
<. Mcdonald selling u ease of his
liniment his horses got frightened
a and ran away, scattering goose
grease over the, entire country
The run cost Mr.. Young three or
four dollars, not saving anvth;no
noosit the loss OF goose grease.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-11-10
Commissioners Sale.
]. A. McAllister, Receiver of the minor hei
of John N. Mccall, deceased,
c. Purcell and wife, Matte Purcell

G. A. Purcell and wife, Matte Purcell
By virtue of decree of the Superior Court nj
Robson County, at January Term 1890. I viii
on Monday, December, 9th 1897, sell for Cash to
the highest bidder at public auction, at the
Court House door in the town Of Lumberton
the following land in said State and County.
bounded and described as follows: In BIue
Springs township, east of Lumber River and
bounded as follows Beginning at a stake by
maple tree. sweet gum and black gum and a
short-leaf pine. on a ditch bank, j. F. Purcelrs
corner, and runs South, 42lz East, IS to n stake
In McPhattie's line thence as his-McPhatt,e,,
now JohnSon's-line South, 45.West, 10 chains
to stake by pine and lightwood- stumn.
thence South, 50 East, 10 chaius and so links 10
stake by pine, Fairley's-now Watson's-
corner; thence as his line South, 80 West 4
chains to stake by pines, thence North. 60
West, q chains to a stake by two pines: thence
South, 30 West, 20 chains to a stake: thence
North, 80 West. chains to stake by a pine ;
thence South, 60 West, IL chains and links 70
stake by pine; thence North, GO West. IL
chains and 60 links to the channel OF Lumber
River; thence up the various courses of said
channel about lie chains where the conr,e
North, S3l3 West. will direct to the begin ning
thirty acres. Also supposed. by estimation. 10
De ~ acres in ssid river swamp.
This End day Of No<emher. 1857
JOHN B. PITMAN,
IfoN.''t. Commissioner