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Year: 1879

GOLD IN DAKOTA.


Undoubtedly it will excite some of the
.Se1atijeets readers to be informed that
gold has been discovered in Lake County
Dakota Territory. A colony of about
15O Cream Cityites have already settled
in that locality, and some of them are
naturally worked up about their future
prospects. The manner of the finding
out was this


A man by the name of Shepherd had
occasion to go some distance from home
for load OF hay On his way home he
stopped iOr few moments near q bluff
to rest his team. While looking careless
ly ground, he saw lying near him piece
OF rock that seemed to be filed with
yellow and black streaks. Looking more
closely he found that veins of this yellow
metal ramitied the white quartz in all di-
rectlOns.


Shepard announced his discovery to
parties from Sioux Falls, and claimed to
have found specimens in abundance.
But he refused to reveal the exact local
ity, saying thai it was on Government
land, more than mile from his house,
near Wicklow. Doubling Thomas offer
ed to stay at his house, while he departed
for season and brought back additional
specimens. This he refused to do. He
says he has written to Wisconsin friends,
who will soon take M mining claims.
The mine is situated about four miles
from Madison, the county seat near
Lake Herman. 1t is represented by
correspondents that there is great excite
ment among Sioux City parties, as some
of the old miners think the prospects for
rich find are most favorable. Pro
spectors are already ont in ali directions
searching tor the yellow treasure. There
had been considerable quartz discovered,
and some dust washed out, before this
latest and best discovery was reported.
If the gold craze sbould result in COM
Portable supply of real nuggets the Mil
wauhee colony is ahead OF all other COM
ers on the road to fortune But there's
many slip in this prospecting for gold


GOLD on THE MENoMINEE.


Just across the dividing line between
Wisconsin and Michigan, in Menominee
County, the people think they have found
gold. The Menominee Herald says,
Considerable excitement has been caused
III this county by the announcement that
gold and silver had been found at the
Emuet mine. Traces Of the precious
metals were discovered some time since,
and this fact together with the favorable
appearance of the ore caused Judge Ia
gals and the Breen Brothers to have as
says made for the purpose of definitely
settling the matter. Three assays were
made. A specimen Of the blue ore taken
from the west shaft; one Of the brown
from shaft directly north; and a piece
Year: 1879

SCOT IN THE GARDEN.


Those who have scot, either of wood
or bituminous coal, should carefully save
it for use in the garden. 1t is valuable
for the ammonia it contains, and also for
its power of re-abSOrbing ammonia. 1t
is simply charcoal (carbon) in an extreme
ly divided state, but from the creOsote it
contains is useful in destroying insects,
and IS at the same time valuable as fer
tilizer for all garden crops. 1t must not
be mixed with lime else its ammonia will
be dissipated, but if the soil is dry and
hungry little salt may be used with it.
SCOT stepped in water and allowed to
stand and settle for day or two is also a
most excellent fertilizer for house plants,
possessing precisely the same qualities
that the parings of horses hoofs do. For
flowers out of doors it is especially valu-
able since it may be easily applied, and
tends to increase the vividneSs of the
bloom, and, mixed with salt, it is a most
excellent fertilizer for asparagus, onions,
cabbage, etc., in connection with COM
post, in the proportion of quart of salt
to quarts of SCOT. For bushels of
compost this quantity makes heavy
dressing for each square rod to be work
ed in next the surface of the soil.


To MAKE A HoT-BED.


The first requisite in making hot-bed
is a good location. A southern or east
ern exposure is the best. 4 high plank
fence, fully SIX feet in height, on the
north and west side Of the beds is import
ant, if not sheltered by buildings. For
heating; make rick three or four feet
high, and of the length required, of fresh
manure from the horse stable Turn and
intarmix well as soon as fermentation be-
gins, making TIE bed about two feet in
depth and eight in width. Then make a
frame that will lie, say ten feet in lenght
aud six in width, and tramp the manure
well inside the frame, and cover the man
ure with SIX or seven inches of dry earth
Leaf mold from the woods answers q good
purpose. After three or four days re-
move the sash, or covering, aud SOW the
seed. From the time of sowing until the
plants appear keep the beds covered.
As soon as they appear, the sash will
need to be raised slightly to let off the
steam that will have accumulated. Cab
bage, cauiiffowers and lettuce should be
sown, in this latitude, during the present
mouth. The earlier the better. 1t is
important to have straw mats or pine
boards to cover the sask when the nights
are unusually cold By the last of
February tomato and egg plant seed
should be sown. Frequent transplant
ing greatly increases the value and vigor
OF the plants, rendering them more hardy
for transplanting in the garden or field.
Year: 1879

Somebody's child is dying-iying with
the flush OF hope on his young face and
an lndescribable yearning to live and take
an honored place in the world beside the
companions OF his youth. And some
body's mother is thinking of the time
when that dear face will be hidden where
no ray of hope can brighten it-when her
heart and home will be left desolate-be-
cause there was no cure for consumption
Reader, if the child be your neighbor's,
take this comforting word TO the mothers
heart before it is too late. Tell her that
consumption is curable, that men are liv-
ing to day, aged, robust men, whom the
physicians pronounced inourable at the
age of twenty-five, because one lung had
been almost destroyed by the disease.
DIR. Pieree's Golden Medical Discovery
IS most efficient Alternative for separat-
ing the scrofulous matter from the blood
and lungs, and imparting strength to the
system. 1t has cured hundreds OF con-
sumptives.
Year: 1879

The story of this discovery has been
told by Mr. Holden himself III the house
of commons before a select committee
appointed to inquire into the working of
the patent laws. We cannot do better,
therefore, than give it in his own words;
Il began as al inventor on a very small
scale, =" said Mr.. Holden, in the course of
his evidence. For what I know, [ was
the first inventor of lucifer matches; but
it was the result of happy thought. In
the morning | used to get up at 4 clock
In order to pursue my studies, and | us
ed at that time the flint and steel, in the
use of which l found very great incOn-
venlence. | gave lectures in chemistry
at that time at very large academy. OF
course | knew, as other chemists did, the
explosive material that was necessary in
order to produce instantaneous light;
but it was very difficult to obtain a light
on wood by that explosive material, and
the idea occurred to me to put under the
explosive mixture sulphur. | did that,
and published it in my next lecture, and
showed it. There was young man in
the room whose father was a chemist in
London, and he Immediately wrote to
liih' elCCttO di u
lucifer matches were issued into the
world. l believe that was the first occa-
sion that we had the present lucifer
match, and it was one of those inventions
that some people think ought not to be
protected by patent. / think that if all
inventions were like, or if we could dis
tinguish one from another, the principle
might hold good. If all inventions were
ascertaiued and carried out into practice
with as much facility as in this case, no
one would perhaps think of taking out
patent. was urged to go and take ont
a | atent Immediately; but thought it
was SO small matter, and it costs 50 lit
tie labor. that did not think it proper
to so and get patent. otherwise / have
no doubt it would have been very profit
able. "-LOndOn Society.
Year: 1879

A lecture delivered at the Berlin
University some three months ago,
by Prof. Duhels- Raymond, bears
the ominOus title: "The End of
Our World," and says that every
movement upon our planet, with
the exception of the tides. which
are caused by the attraction OF the
moon is caused by solar heat. As,
however, the sun loses portion Of
his caloric every year, science has
lately come To the conclusion that
he will not exist as an emitter Of
warmth longer than for seventeen
million years to come. During this
space of time our earth will get
colder and colder, In proportion ~
the solar heat shall diminish. The
leo viii advance from the poles To
the equator; the earth's population
will gradually recede before the ad-
vancing glaciers; the sun will be-
come less and less luminous, until
he will present the appearance of a
dark red ball, and finally ice will
annihilate all vitality on our planet.
Year: 1879

Col. BREwER, Auditor Of Alaba-
ma, said In resent declaration, IN
alluding to the result Of a general
negro exodus: "White labor would
no longer come in competition with
the black labor there would be no
vast hordes of unskilled laborers to
butcher the lands and wreck the
homestead there would be no
squalor, and but little idIeness; few-
er crimes and more Intelligence.
White cottages would begin to fleck
the landscape as the torrent Of im-
migration came pouring in; tillage
would be more thorough and Its inn
plements more perfect schools and
churches would be sustained as the
population thickened, and our chill
dren educated at home as the stan
dard of education advanced, and as
the marshes were drained.
Year: 1879

You wish to trade where you get the BEST GOODS
for the LEAST MONEY. And we positively assert that


l. " W1LLlAMs is that place Now when you are in n
to try v L. Williams the shoe man. and prove what he
says. large stock of Fall and Winter goods just
Year: 1879

P S-Clothing will be made specially this fall, and
will be sold 10 per cent cheaper than any other house In
the city will sell them


We also have large lot of Remnants in Calico and
dollar sept. 27-ly
Year: 1879

What is the riddle of riddles? Life for we all have to give it up.

 If you want to make Q gun go of pretend that it is not loaded and hold it close to somebody's head. It will shoot then if it never shot before. A man named John Hole was so lazy, that in writing his name, he simply used the letter J, and then punched hole through the paper,

 No matter how bad and destruc- tive a boy may be, he nSRF becomes so degraded or loses M self-res- peot sufficiently to throw mud on q circus poster.

 A man was boasting that he had an elevator in his house, 50 he has, chimed in his wife. and he keeps it in a cupboard in bottle labeled 'Sardines.'

 A Boston child remarked, after gazing earnestly at Q man who was bald, but had heavy whiskers, "IIis head was put on upside down, wasn't nY"
Year: 1879

fully, without moments rest, to rescue the
child. The poor little fellow moaned out {;
"Oh if 90 tan on'y dit me out I'll be so
dood Tate me out and tate my mamma out y
At last McDonough freed him from the car
and DIR. Mclaughlin tenderly set the little
sufferers leg. His father also lay mangled
and dead behind him, but not where little
Willie could see him.


An English correspondent says that at the
old Exhibition building in Vienna, Blondin
daily risks his life on a rope stretched across
the vast dome at giddy height He has ex-
pressly requested that no net be placed under
the rope to break his fall should an accident
occur. lie says that he has found by expert
ence that the public do not care half so much
tor his performances when the possibility OF
a terrible accident is not present to lend a
zest to the show. He receives large sum
of money tor every exhibition, and the more
daring his feats the higher are his wages. He
now traverses the rope without the balancing
bar, walking backwards blindfolded. Blon-
din is followed everywhere by Mr.. Thomp-
son, who has made a bet of fl0, 900 that the
Hero of Niagara will fall from the rope and
be killed ere he attains the age of sixty.
Five years more and the cruel wager will be
decided one way or the other, for Blondon is
already fifty five.
Year: 1879

rFrom the New York Tribune.


The country wants loyal rule. That is,
il wants Northern rule. II has seen and
tried the Solid South, and has had enough
of it. To resist it. there rises in its resist.
less might Solid North. Did we not tell
you, men of the South, that every buck,
shot aimed at Southern republican would
cost you northern voteP Did we not tell
you that every vote against the honor and
the credit of the Union would cost the
democratic party vote in States where II
had none to spare? There is a solid North.
Ohio will be followed by New York in
November, and by Indiana next year. 1t
is an open secret, among those who watch
political events, that the State of Noor-
hees has changed its population and its
opinions even more than the State of Thur
man. For each of them there is politi-
cal grave, which will be speedily filled.
And the voice of the Empire State will be
heard, within the next month, sending Mr..
Tilden to a resting-place as narrow and





as sure as the grave prepared for Mr..
Thurman. The electoral voto of every
Northern State, great or small, will be
cast for the candidate Of the next republi-
can Presidential convention, and the Solid
South may stay solid if it can.


The greenback heresy suffers worst in
the Ohio battle. Democracy is sorely
wounded; greenbackism is killed. The
democratic party will not dare to court
that heresy hereafter. 1t has learned, by
the fate of Ewing, that great courage,
rare sincerity, splendid services as Union
soldier, and real ability, will not save a
man who leans to the side of the Confed
crate repudiationists. There is an end of
cheaplogic-chopping about monetary theo-
ries. The Union incurred a debt to pay
loyal soldiers. 1t is going to pay that debt
in gold, dollar for dollar. The greenback
men of New York may as well get out of
the way at once, returning to the party
from which they came. There is no place
and no future for them in nation which
still loves the old flag and bows with rev.
erence in memory of the men who died for
Year: 1879

The bell punch is generally sup
posed to be a modern invention,
but it was evidently in use in
Macbeth's time, from the fact that
he says: $50 bid thy mistress,
when my drink is ready, she strike
upon the bell"
Year: 1879

A woman who was having her
first introduction TO the telephone
was told by tho operator to place
the instrument to her ear and lis
ten to the words the wire would
speak to her. "And now," she
said in all innocence, "shall talk
with the other ear 2"
Year: 1879

A doctor should know whether
his patient is rich or poor before
he writes q prescription. In one
case dose of common salts will
do, in another trip abroad and
and German baths must be recon-
mended.
Year: 1879

SUsPECTED.-A great sensation was ere
ated in Baltimore some days ago by Lieu
tenant A. Fl. Fletcher, United States navy,
abandoning his wife and taking flight with
q Miss Bailey, girl of eighteen, daughter
of the lady at whose house Fletcher and
wife were boarding.


Fletcher and Miss Bailey are supposed to
be in this city, boarding at q private house
in retired quarter of the city. Detective
John Wren yesterday evening telegraphed
to parties in Baltimore that they were here
and could be arrested. He was answered
in substance that there was neither warrant
nor reward out for them, and was requested
to persuade the girl to return home. After
reccivingi this telegram Dir. Wren made no
farther move. He has not seen the sus-
pected parties; but from his information be-
lieves they are the iugitlves. So it is by no
means absolutely certain that they are the
lovers in question.
Year: 1879

WENT Our FOR A VIsIT.-Prisoner Jones,
who walked out OF the city Jail night before
last, returned voluntarily in about TWO
hours. He only went home to see his wife
and family. He priced the bolt OF the yard
gate open with an ice pick. Jones was en-
gineer, and was therefore permitted to
sleep in the engine-room in the yard.
Year: 1879

Belle ISle.--The feeders at the Old Do
minion Iron and Nail Works held meet
ing yesterday afternoon to take action upon
the late reduction OF ten per cent. in their
wages, which will take effect from to-day.
They decided not to work for the reduc-
ton.


The nailers are expected to meet to-day,
and will take action in regard to the matter.
Year: 1879

Pay as you go.


Never fool ia business matters.


Do rot kick every Que in your path.
Learn to think and act for yourself
Keep ahead rather than behind the
times.


Don't stop to tell stories in bust
ness hours.


Have order, system. regularity,
aDd also promptness.


Do not meddle in business you
know nothing CT


Use your own brains ratser than
those Of others.


A man Of honor respects his word
as be does bis bonds


No man can get rich by sitting
around stores sDd saloons.


If you have place Of business,
be found there when wanted


More miles can be made in day
by going steadily tbsn By running
a1d jumping.
Year: 1879

Without extending our gaze iuto the daz- zling visions of the near future, we may abundantly content ourselves with the mar, vellous prospect immediately before us, as a reasonable probability, that Minnesota will this year harvest crop of nearly fifty million bushels of wheat, which a concurrence of suspicious conditions may swell to ifty-dve million. This is by far the biggest wheat crop-if we raise it-which ever burdened the granaries of any state of the Union. Its money value to the farmers of this state can hardly be less than forty million dollars, and may be much more than this, for all our European advices point to the probability, rapidly ripening to certainty, that the wheat crop of Europe this year will be short. h England there is no doubt that the annual de iciency will be largely increased by compar ative failure of the domestic crop, and similar reports come from the continent.-St. Pau (Ainn Pioneer Press.
Year: 1879

"Yes, business is good-better than for several years past, but it is hard to collect bills"-such in general was the reply returned to the inquiries of your correspondent when he sought recently to arrive at some idea of the financial and commercial state of Canaan. It is evident there is fair demand for the staple goods of the dealer and for the work of the several tradesmen. It is also plain that the money to pay for either or both is not easy to provide.

 We can readily explain the former in this way: Since the hard times began people have been using up whatever supplies they had in hand. They bought nothing except what was
Year: 1879

The world little imagines how largely it is indebted to the laborious researches of scien- tific medical men for many of the most i'm portant truths relative to human health, hap piness and life. As population increases and the value of food is enhanced, the knowledge which chemistry has elicited is becoming more and more valuable in a practical point of view.

 "How much ability to labor can I derive from eating a pound ofpotatoes or dollars worth of brandy, beer or gin?" are items which could be turned to large accounts by attitudes of the toiing poor.
Year: 1879

"A frightful accident occurred on the Me- tropolitan elevated railroad early Wednesday morning. Several trackmen on hand car going down the east side of the track to make repairs, discovered an engine coming up the road. Davis shadley, one of the oldest em ployes of the road, volunteered to get off and warn the approaching train, when he was struck by the regular south bound train, His body was mangled in a terrible manner One of his legs was cut off and remained on the track, while the body was thrown into the street below. Death was instantaneous.
Year: 1879

".* We shall feel greatly obliged to any of our friends in the county, or elsewhere, who will send us particulars of any occurrence of interest which may come under their notice.

 ~ CORRESPONDENTS are requested to send in their communications so as to reach us on Monday of each week. as we cannot insure the insertion of any correspondence received after that time,
Year: 1879

The glorious fourth" was celebrated with an unusual number of accidents in New York City. The police report three killed, and about a dozen more or less seriously wounded Among the killed was little girl not yet two years old, who was shot dead while playing in front of her fathers house.
Year: 1879

serve the State WELL He elected Comptroller on
the nomination Of one party and Governor on the
nomination OF another party. and his career IN both
positions has been by his small defer
ence to the wishes and demands of party managers.
and in his present Office he has done important aud
honorable duty by the veto of bad legislation and
the removal of bad men,"
Year: 1879

From an Interview in the New York Times.l


When Kalloch came here he was about
thirty-seven years of age. His height was
six feet, and he had a supple figure and
weighed 100 pounds. His hands and feet
were remarkably small, his head was mas
sive, his hair dark auburn and curly, and his
features exceedingly expressive. The wom-
en- admired Kalloch, ran to him with their
stories of trouble, compared notes with one
another in regard to what he said to each,
and then quarreled over what they chose to
call the quality of his compliments. In order
to akethemselves appear to one another to be
in favor of the minister, many of tine women
would tell in very exaggerated forms what he
had said to them. These exaggerated sayings
would be misconstrued by other envious
women, who had had nothing similar said to
them, and retailed about with scandalous fla
vors attached. In this way considerable gos-
sip was always kept going, but nothing
ever grew out of it definite enough for even
the most malignant enemy to base charge
upon. The wonder to me is that man like
Kalloch preserved his integrity at all.
Year: 1879

"How fast do you think we are travelling ?"
| Charley Fraser, one of the oldest engineers
| OF the New York, Lake Erie & Western rail-
way, asked reporter as they were standing
together on the foot of locomotive No. 300,
| rushing over the meadows to Rutherford


park.


81 should think we were going nearly a


mile minute


"a mile a minute!" said Frazer. 81 doubt
ii you ever rode mile minute. Few loco


motives have driving wheels over five feet,


and have my doubts if a fve-foot wheeler
can be pushed mile a minute. People have


very erroneous idea of the speed of railroad
trains. We are not going more than thirty
five miles an hour and this is very fast. Few
trains make this speed. The passengers in
the cars would think we were going mile a
minute sure, if was to pull out the throttle
so as to send her forty miles an hour. The
express trains make no such time as the local
trains. Where we lose is with so many stops.
No man could stop on a platform car and
face the wind going mile minute and live.
The breath would actually be blown out of
his body. You couldn't count the telegraph
poles going mile minute. Talk to an old
engineer of that rate being made by pass
enger train, and he would laugh. made a
mile minute once, however. 1t was when
was but eighteen years of age. was an
engineer then in charge of fine six foot
wheel locomotive. There was lot of rail-
road moguls on board, and the object was to
make the best time we could. They were to
ring the gong when the speed was mile
minute. thought we were making it for
some time before the bell rang. At length
on down grade with full head of steam,
when we were spinning along as if we were
all going to destruction, and the motion of
the piston going over the centre could no
longer be distinguished, the bell rang. We
had reached the rate of mile minute. 1t |
was the fastest l ever rode before or since. l |
tried hard to make mile minute on sub |
sequent miles, but lacked it three or four |
seconds every time. couldn't squeeze an
other mile inside of sixty seconds. When
you hear man telling of riding in pass
enger train that ran mile a minute, don't |
say anything, but mentally scratch good al
lOWance"