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Year: 1877




vending their winding way loaded with
freight to the Black Hills from this place.
This freight reaches this point by river and
by rail, mostly by the North Pacific rail
road, giving the wharf and the depot the
appearance of business thrift. The four
horse coach arrives safely every day from
Deadwood filled with passengers gong
home. These passengers, as rule, give
glowing account of the prospects
in the Hills and of the hid den wealth yet
to be gathered from its mountains. The
trains from the East come daily with pas
sengers for Montana and the Hills. The
hotels are full to repletien, business is
brisk, mechanics are in demand and the
laborer who honestly seeks for work
finds it. Looking from the plat
form Of the Sheridan House
many buildings in process Of construction
can be counted. One year ago this was
but city IN the name; few years more
it will be a city in fact, of merchants, ar
tizans and mechanics. The opening
wealth of the mines in the Hills and in
Montana annually developing will con-
tinue to increase our material prosperity
Not only the wealth of the mines refer
red to, but Montana has other products
which must find market, and when
thisIndian broil is over, that too will yield
Increased contribution to the advance
ment of our city. In this connection we
ask the consideration again of business
men, to this as a fitting point for whole
sale dealers, being a point at which all
the merchandise for points west, and all
the material products for the East must
be reshipped. 1t seems to- us most
favorable locality to exchange the one
for the other. To this class of business
men we give an earnest appeal to inves-
tlgate the facts for tn themselves.


In addition to this fact, that this is virtu-
ally the heart in which and through which
the business arteries of Montana and the
Hills can center and radiate. There are
thousands of acres of rich arabic land in
this vicinity which needs but the hand of
the husbandman to bring forth rich and
profitable harvests. If those people in
the East whose whole life is wasted in
battling for bread could know that here
within sight of Bismarck there are thous-
ands of acres of elegant land, open to the
settler under the homestead law, from
whose soil the bread they battle for and
aye great deal more can be easily OBJ
tained, would they come? or will they
remain where they are balancing ON the
ragged edge of starvation.


We know that it may be difficult for
many to find the means of transportation
but we hope capital and the, railroad
will become sufficiently interested to
make this c9pparatively easy. When ii
becomes generally known that in North
ern Dakota the government profers as la
gift to the actual settlers homestead up
on land which produces remarkable
crops of wheat and bothef cereals Ind


~. .s-tRF boz .soEss
Year: 1877

that Dakota has the healthiest climate
in the universe, colonies will organize,
and our pra1ries will soon be covered
with thrifty population and the air will
be resonant with the hum of harvesters
and busy men.
Year: 1877

Among the hundreds Of tricks practiced
by the swindlers who travel about the
country selling implements and goods of
various kinds, the double note is perhaps
the most successful. For instance, a
peddler offers farmer mum Der of i'm


plements, or quantity of goods to sell on
commission, and the latter signs what
purports to be q simple receipt for the
goods, but which is so worded that it can
be cut into two parts, one-half being a
genuine note Of hand payable at a certain
time, without any proviso whatever.
These notes are generally sold to some
Year: 1877

An excellent sponge cake is thus
made: Take six eggs, two cupfuls sugar,
two cupfuls -four, one teaspoonful cream
tartar in the flour, a half teaspOonful soda
dissolved in a little warm water and added
the last thing; beat the yelks and the sugar
together; add the whites, well beaten, then
the flour, and lastly the soda.
Year: 1877

When a man has been laid up for three
weeks with broken leg, and the landlord
begins to talk about the rent, nothing
cheers him so as to send a note to his
friend stating his troubles, and receive o
reply to the effect that the latter will come
in the course of the day and read chapter
in the Testament to him.
Year: 1877

We stepped into millinery shop
the other day on business and accl-
dentally sat down on bonnet that
some one had laid on the chair. Were
NAMED there until no one was look
ing IN our direction and then quietly
got up and stepped to one side. There
was lady in at the time looking for
a bonnet shaped to suit her. She fin
ally found the one we had put in
shape and it Just took her fancy it
was lust what she wanted, so she said.
Year: 1877

his head from US, there was no more
danger. Jack Spnnet arose from his
recumbrent position, but he could do
no work. He was weak and faint
the terrible, the awful fear of those
few moments leaving him utterly
nerveless.


assured myself that he was not
bodily injured, and then | took the
pole and tried once more to push the
boat off.


asked Jack if we should stop and
see the serpent die


"Nor he answered. Get back as
soon as you can. 81 am not we'll 7


Of course | hesitated no longer
I sculled do vn the river, then set my
sail, and with the evening breeze |
ran up to Manado.


On the following day some of us
went out and found the serpent dead.
| had blown his brains half out from
his flat saucer like skull. We towed
the monsters carcass to Manado and
there had the skin taken off and
stuffed. The Dutch Consul offered a
fair sum of money for it, and we sold
it.


Jack Srinnet received a shock on
that occasion from which he has never
quite recovered, though he is by no
means an invalid.


HIS nervous system is shattered, and
there is an oppression upon the chest
and if he ever chances to sleep upon
his back, he is sure to be seized with
the most horrible dreams.


The serpent IS upon him as he was
in that terrible moment, and his
whole frame quivers with fright.


lie awakes with a cold sweat all
over his body, and sleeps no more for
the night.
Year: 1877

On Tuesday afternoon last week,
about ) o'clock, Amos jackson, a ne
gro convict from Washington county,
made a desperate attack upon Depu-
ty Warden Stevenson at the peniten-
tiary. He was brought by Mr.. Ste
venson into tie Office of Warden Will
kinson charged with negletting his
work in the shop. When told that
he would be punished for his behavior
he became furious with anger, and re-


leasing himself from Mr., Stevenson
struck him violent blow and fled
through the dining room and kitchen.
Passing through the gate to the yard,
he hit officer Barber, who Was stand
ing at the side of the gate, in the face
and continued running toward the
shops. The officer fearful Of what
might follow if the lnfuriated negro
should enter the shops and attempt
to incite riot among the hundreds
Of convicts there, drew a revolver and
shot him. The ball made a flesh
wound in the lower pat of the back
and caused the negro to stop, al
though he made determined effort
to get into the shops. He is now IN
the hospital in an improved condition.
Year: 1877

you with all your might and see II you can't break
itl called tho husband who thought he could easily
free himself II the ieg released from its cramped
position The wife seized his loot, meaning to obey,
but at that the lurched over little and
her husband released himself When they LETT the car
her dress was on fire. showing that another minute
would have onveoped both in the flames.


Both able TO walk to the hotel as soon as re-
leased, having escaped with only few bruises The
heroic wife and mother not only ready to obey
her husbands orders, but sho had plan OF her own


A woMAXs DEVOTION


"when saw the flames just upon u.s." she said,
sand while Was that my husband would be
burned alive, made up my mind to put one Of the
cushions over him. lie down on top OF that and hope
that. while was being burned up help would come TO
him for our chiIdrens sake. "


~ was afraid she wouldn't be strong enough to
break my Leg" added tho husband 'and then 1t would
be all up with me. was going to have her get out,
and then rather than be burned alive was gong to
. Well, had this big knife in my right hand
pocket, and my right arm was tree to get 1t and use
Year: 1877


DESCRIBE THEIR SENSATIONS IN THE FALL
ING CARS.


DETROIT, Jan. 3, 1871
If every individual who went down with the ilfated
railroad train at Ashtabua and lived through the
pcricnco were to write up his her sensations and
adventures none would display that coolness and
heroism described py Johnson u. Orburn and his wife,
who were on their way to tho Saginaw Valley. Both
are past forty and Mr. Orburn is an Ohio farmer who
lately purchased farm IN Saginaw county AS the
train pulled out from Ashtabua the farmer's wife
began eating luncheon, and her husband trying to
read newspaper oy tho light Of tho dim lamp.


THE FALLING


He says he felt the first movement when the bridge
gave way Hc first imagined that one of the wheels
under his car had become detached u of tho
car seemed to settle down little. He dropped the
paper and seized the back of the in front OF him.
Then tho whole car seemed to lift up, and several
women shrieked In alarm. There was SEN
sation OF falling On tho contrary, both agree
that they thought the car was running up
a steep hill. This would prove that the rear end OF
their car settled FIRST From the time the
bridge gave way till the struck the ice not
than ten seconds could have elapsed, and yet during
that brief interval the husband threw around
his wife, she grasped tho seat and asked what had
happened and lie told her to secure a brace Tor her





through the nelds" Tho end OF their struck
drst smashing itself tc kndling wood. the debris
being thrown over the passengers in front Tho
farmer found himself the floor, held down by
mass OF wreck his left leg while his wife was
thrown across him, with the wreck of two or three
seats holding her against the sido of tho car While
thus held and before either had spoken, end OF
the car settled u lt.lc and The wife released.


rLUcRY PAIR.


sMary, are you lvings" asked the husband, being
his FIRST words after the fall She replied that sho
was not even hurt, beyond bruso Or two, and by
this time tho shouting and confusion around
them proved that the train was of tho
track though neither suspected that 1t
was more than tumble into way
side ditch. II was wonderful how woman could re.
tain her presence OF mind under such exciting crcum
stances but Mrs Orburn didn't cry out after tho
shock Scores OF other passengers were snreking In
pam and fright AS the cold waters flooded one end of
tho and the flames began 10 cat away at tho other
The woman cleared herself OF the broken seats just
the fire started and she then asccrtancd tnat her
husband pinned fast to tho door by the wreck OF
matter on his leg, which partially bent around
one oil the iron standards OF seat She worked with
all her might TO set him free, but the raging lamcs
we're now only aiew feet away, and the smoke and
heat were becoming terrible.


! MARY, take hold OF my loot bond nv leg toward
Year: 1877

"TnE HIGu 1T is a well
known fact that the present style of mems
collars arc high-very high-behind, which
gives chem the appearance of possessing an
ambitious desire to crawl over on a mans
head and convert themselves into a sort of
hood or bonnet. Well, a young man who
was guilty of wearing one of these ambitious
and restless looking articles, went into bar
Der shop to have his hair trimmed The
barber seated him, and stepped back for a
view of his subject. Unfortunately the
head had almost completely disappeared be-
meath the barricade of white linen. The
knight of the shears put him in half a
dozen positions, but to no purpose. A last
with sigh, and in the most beseechng
manner, he said. "Mister aiu't there some
way get that collar OFF," The youth took
the hint and removed the linen Charlotte
Observer.
Year: 1877

A Long Island Judge thus settles the
question ofscholastic ,corporeal discipline,
not forgetting that he was once a boy -
"No hard instrument, such as a ruler or
ferrulc, should ever be used in Furnishing a
pupil. A tough whip should be used, but
not on the hands, nor feet, nor head, and
if common sense, natural instinct, or some
dim recollection of tho past does not call to
mind the suitable place of application the
teacher should study anatomy and fud out" /"
Year: 1877

A SPIRITED SCHOOL GIRI---!The mistress of
a most disorderly school in Skowhegan. Me-,
lost control of her scholars one day last week
aud allowed the nanghty boys to throw wads
of paper and balls of clay at the pretty
girls. One Of the girls finally reported a
certain boy who was annoying her with pop
shots from q pOpgun. The timid school mis-
trees sternly reprOved her for tattling in
school. The girl returned to her scat, and
her prosecutor resuming military operations
aud firing at long range across the school
room hit her in tho face. :" If the teacher
can't hex you cam said the pretty girl,
and dashing across the room she struck him
with a big book, dragged him out Of hlsseat.
and beat him until he lay on the floor blub-
herring and begging for mercy,
Year: 1877

The subscription price Of this paper
lis one dollar and fifty cents year, ray
able in advance. We lowered the price
III order to have it paid in advance.
Some of our subscribers are behind
hand, and they should not complain if
the paper be stopped. We have to pay
cash for paper, and then to wait q year
to have the money returned, and some
times not then. makes subscription at
the low price Of one dollar and fifty
cents d year, rather too costly for US.
Our delinquent Subscribers therefore
will please come forward and pay up.
Year: 1877

A touching incident has Just occurred
in connection with the death of Lieuten-
ant William Van w. Reilly, who fell
with Custer in that terrible fight on the
Little Big Horn last year. At the time
of the battle he wore seal ring with his
crest cut upon it, aud this, together with
his clothing, his sword, his pistols, and all
his belongings. was torn from his dead
body and carried away by some one OF
the foe who had helped kill him. His
mother, unable to secure his remains,
and longing for something that had been
with him to the last, tried in every way
TO recover it; she offered immense re-
wards; she had fac-similes OF the die
made and sent to the different agencies
along the..frontier, and she wrote to all
the commanding officers in the Sioux
country, describing il, and a few days
since she received official notice from the
war department that the ring had been
found. 1t was taken from the finger of
one of the fifteen hundred Cheyennes
who came in the other day for their an
nual supply of forgiveness and ammu-
nition.- Cincinnati Commercial.
Year: 1877

There is no Turkish home-lift. By
home life, ] understand the frequent
gathering together under the same roof,
and in the same room, of the members
of family, and all the influences and
attendant circumstances which such fire.
quent gatherings imply. The Turkish
house consists of two parts, one for men
called the selamlik, and the other for
women called the haremlik. These are
usually the two wings of the house, and
are commonly altogether separated from
each other by central hall. Thus the
men have their part of the house and the
woman theirs. Neither is allowed, with
out permission to enter the territory of
the other. In Turkish house, the men
and women do not take their meals to-
gether, do not sit around table, and
can hardly be said TO feed decentlv. IL
IL quite possible for men and women
who do not know the Use of fork to be
very clean about their food, but the use
of fork is a great step toward cleanli-
ness in eating. A Turk holding a con-
siderable position in the state will take
handful OF boiled rice from the common
dish, and after having squeezed all the
water out by working it well in his hand,
will put the lump into the mouth of
guest as mark of peculiar favor. There
is slovenliness about Turks at their
meals which is probably due to the fact
that men and women, do not take their
meals together. The object of the meal
is solely to eat. Small tables, usually
without cloths, the dishes ready for
every ones fingers. and the absence Of
a score of small conveniences which
every European tables furnishes, could
only be tolerated by people who get
their meals anyhow. What is said Of
breakfast applies equally to the other
meals during the day. The civilizinc
effect upon household of requiring ali
the members to meet together, the atteu.
tlon which has to be given to dress, and
to certain proprieties of life, the conver-
satlon which takes place, are all 30
many influences which the Turkish house
Is entirely without. The truth is that
the SEPARATION of the women from the
men absolutely destroys every thing
worth speaking of as home life, and
causes the life IF Turk in his own
house to be utterly wearisome and stupid.
Cor, London Times.
Year: 1877

excitement knew no bounds. The home
secretary was questioned in the house of
commons to know if the news was
authentic; the queen telegraphed TO
Wales for confirmation crowds gath.
cred around the newspaper bulletin the
papers are full of the praise Of the res
cuers, the details Of the rescue and the
strong endurance of the men whs were
saved The Welsh bravery of last week
will be sung in the Eistedfodds Of the
Cymri for ages.-N Y Herald.
Year: 1877

Mother" said a little. girl, what did Da-
v:d mean when he said, Preserve me, o God,
for in Thee do put my trust ?"


"Do you remember" said her mother, "tbe
little girl we saw walking with her father, in
the, woods yesterday ~


go, yes, mother; wasn't she beautiful ?"


"She was gentle, loving little thing, and
her father was very kind to her. Do you re-
member what they said when they came to the
narrow bridge over the brook p


81 don't like to think about that bridge,
mother; it makes me giddy. Don't you thibk
it is very dangerous, just those two loose
planks laid across, and no railing? If she
had eppfd little on either side, she would
have fallen into the water"


"Do you remember what she said ?" asked
the mother.


"Yes, ma. She stopped a minute as if she
was afraid to 20 over, and then looked up in-
to her fathers face, and asked him 20 take hold
of her hand aud said You will take hold OF
me- dear father; don't feel afraid when you
have hold of my hand And her father
looked so lovingly upon her and took tight
hold of her hand as if she was very precious
to him"


"Well, my child" said tie mother, 81 think
David felt just like that little girl, when be
wrote those words you asked me about"


!" Was David going over bridge ?" then
asked the daughter.


"Not such a bridge as the one we saw in
the woods but he had come to some difficult
place in his lfe-there was trouble before him
that made him feel afraid, and he looked up
to God, just as the little girl had looked up to
her father, and said, Preserve me, o God, for
in thee do put my trust 1t is just as If be
had said, Please take care Of me, my heaver-
ly Father | do nc no. feel afraid when thou
art with me and taking hold Of my hand
Year: 1877

4 neighbor of mine recently informed NE
that lie had lost a most valuable horse by a
casualty by no means uncommon. A kuowl-
edge of simple remedy would have prevented
this loss. The horse trod upon a nail, which
entered his foot. Lameness followed the
nail was extracted, but lOckjaw supcrvened,
resulting in death. An unfailing remedy in
such cases is muriatic acid. II, when nail
is withdrawn from horses foot. the foot
should be held up and some muriatic acid
poured into the wound, neither lameness nor
lockjaw need be feared. Why the iron should
have the effect which it frequently has, and
the rationale of the above remedy, am
unable to explain but Of the certainty of
counteraction of disease by this perfectly safe
application, am well cOnvinced.-RaTGl
Home.
Year: 1877

4 lady correspondent Of a Southern paper,
writing from Arkansas, gives the following
recipe to increase the flow OF milk in a cow
She says: "Tepid water slightly salted, given
twice a day, will increase the low Of milk
one-third if the COW will not drink it at first
trial, scatter a handful Of bran or meal over
the top of it. They soon become very fond Of
it and and will drink all you give them. |
tried this plan three years ago with perfect
success. had only one COW, she was Of the
common stock Of the country, and after she
began to drink the water, prepared as above,
she furnished me, twice day, two ordinary
water buckets full of milk, and by feeding a
little corn boiled with cotton seed the milk
yielded butter enough to support my table
bountifully and leave me few pounds to sell
every week. / gave her three gallons ofwater
twice day"
Year: 1877

At your banquets never allow the wives to
sit opposite their husbands. Not only flirting
H. G., fun is rendered utterly impractieablo
under such condition, but there is n Gorgonism
in each Others eyes which pe,rifes their
tongues when they catch sight Of one another.
Let every wife be seated on the same side as
her husband, and as far from him as possible;
then although it may be mostly carried on in
under-tones, you will never find the convcrsa-
ton for a single moment cease.
Year: 1877

A chap from the country, stopping at one
Of our hotels, sat down to dinner. A bill Of
fare being handed TO him by the waiter, be re-
marked that be didn't care about reading
now, he'd wait till after dinner"
Year: 1877

Dissention will sometimes inconsis


tently prevail in the most quiet and


welI-organiEed communities, especially


where the laws, rules and regulations


do not meet in measure with the re-


quirements of, or is not peculiarly


adapted to, the private interests or mu-


tual views of few of that class who


never accord with such means as will


best facilitate the ends of ''peace, har-


moay and protection.


Much has been said and done by
some OF our citizens censuriDg the
action of our board of health in the
enactment and passage of their present
rules and regulations governing the
health of our port.


In our judgment we fail to realize or
perceive upon what grounds or from
what cause or reason any dissension or
objection could be based in opposition
to the rules and regulations which now
exist and are enforced by the board of
health.


Our board as created is composed of
gentlemen every one of whom are
largely and personally identified with
the commercial interests OF this port
and county, and whose reputation US
men of honest integrity. intellect and
professional ability cannot be disputed;
therefore We will venture to say that any
laws or provisions made by these gen.
tlemen for the protection of the health
of our port and city ought certainly to
be recog nized and explicitly observed.


The appointment of DR.. T. N. b o mt
as Quarantine physician was one which
we believe to have been approved of by
our citizens. Since his appointment we
have never heard of single instance
wherein he has knowingly committed
or has acted in opposition to
the laws which direct him in the dis
charge of his duties. His reputation
as quarantine physician in Pensacola
should be sufficient proof to assure our
citizens that he is experienced in his
duties, and that the health interests of
our port will be safely protected and
cared for.


We trust that this invective oensure
d the actions OF the board of health,
md of the duties of the quarantine
physician, will be ceased. aud that
pirit of general harmony prevail, in-
tead of strife and dissatisfaction,