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Year: 1879

The undersigned takes this his thanks
to the people of Yankton particularly, his many
friends throughout Dakota and Nebraska for the
patronage which has been bestowed the late firm of
DUDLEY & HAWLEY through the many years in which
that firm has carried business in this city, and
desires to call the attention Of these friends and that
the people generally to the enlarged facilities exten
sve assortment and comodous rooms, which the late
firm had provided and which the of Dudley
& Hawley, possesses


In the line Of the trade
of Tn Copper and Sheet Iron Ware claims
tabshment equal in all respects anything



the Hardware trade Of the region which naturally
utary this point here spare effort to
make for the interest Of the people within this region pu
chase their Hardware Tnware Copper
Stoves, and all other articles in this line from


Yours gratefully and respectfully


GEO. e. HAWLEY.


Union Block. Third ST.
Year: 1879

The following re Elections upon the
present situation, which were ad-
dressed to the Star Of yesterday, are
pervaded by such o vein of COM
mon sense, and are withal so we'll
expressed, that we cannot forbear
transferring them to our columns.
They bore the title Of "Our REM
edy," and appeared under the nome
de plume of "Nod."


Approaching es / do your efforts
to discourage all threats of violence
and wrong doing by those who are
interested in the labor movement,
l hope you will indulge me few
lines on the subject of your leader
in this mornings issue. Perhaps I
ought first to explain that 1 voted
the Workingmen's ticket, at the
last city election; that, in common
with O great many voters of the
city, l am watching to see the out.
come of this legal and peaceful
remedy against privileged classes.
The movement has its own future
in its-own hands.


Your plea for charity in business
may have some effect to soften
down the hardness of some capital
lists for the movement; but should
expect that the hardness would at
once return on reading the sugges-
ton that the efforts of all lovers of
peace may be Intellectual to prevent
an outbreak of mob movement on
bread or blood. l am told by cap.
itallsts of San Francisco that the
success of Workingmeu's votes
and the manner in which they are
conducting the city affairs, though
partly wise, is in great measure the
cause Of the distrust of our secur.
tiles in that market. They know
that the city and coun.
ty Of Los Angeles are
." rich, productive and beau.
tiful.' But they fear something.
California Is not alone in that. In
the Eastern states labor Is reduced
to little over one-half what it is
here. Now, we who have no capi-
tai and must depend on our labor
for our living are interested in hav-
Ing this fear removed, and full COZ.
hdence in US, our aims and inten-
tions restored. We are more inter-
ested in the industrial employ.
ment of capital than are those who
own the capital. To this end in
terest must he low. This will de-
pend OH the confidence In securi.
ties. Confidence in securities de.
pends largely In the belief that the
party in power Is "a law and order
party" and that nothing threatens
the peace and security OF society
and prosperity.


That Is the situation. If we want
charity let us ask it from door to
door. If We want to do business
we must act on the selfish princi.
pies of business; and we always do.
Any movement of capital against
labor is selfish; and any movement
OF labor against capital is selfish.
They are in my opinion equally
unwise. Neither capital nor labor
can get on well without mutual
confidence and cooperation.
Year: 1879

The San Francisco Bulletin after speaking of the past thus talks of the future.

 Forty years hence, and what? The Dorian canal will be one Of the great highways ot commerce. Steam will be applied still more economically to ocean transportation. It has gained almost d hundred per cent, in cheap ness and effectiveness in the last ten years. There will be half dozen lines of railroad across the continent. Half dozen or more great cites will be located along the coast-one Ut least in Alaska, one or two on Puget Sound, another on the Colum- bia, one possibly midway between the mouth of that river and San Fran cisco, another down the coast, possi- bly, at San Diego, and another on the Gulf of California, perhaps at Quay mas. There will be great midway city between the Missouri and the Pacific coast, perhaps at Salt Lake, or at some other point still more flaw orable for trade The City of Mexico will be Americanized and made a great railway centre, and the mining interests south of the Colorado will be vastly more important than any that have been developed north of the Jine- The centre of population will have gone far west of the Missouri river, being at the expiration of that time not far from the base of the Rocky Mountains. The fisheries and the great lumber region of the North west will be in and about Alaska, country just now little esteemed, in fact, deemed of too little consequence for an organized territorial Govern ment. The redwood forests will have entirely disappeared, and both sides of the Sierra will have been denuded for mines, quartz mills and railroads Here and there will be small forests which have been planted and culti- vated by private enterprise. The coal and the timber will come down from the north; copper and iron ore will come from the same region New Orleans will be nearer to San Fraccisco in point of time, than Salt Lake is today. Currents of trade will have changed. The merchant on this side of the country will not go to the other side to buy goods. All military roads once led to Rome. All commercial roads on this contin- ent will finally lead to San Francisco at least that is the logic of events as we now forecast them for the next half century,
Year: 1879

Tonto Basin is not only q stock grazing region but a mineral district of no mean importance. The Mazat- gal Mining Company, is located in the northern portion. This company have a two-stamp mill in operation, and a good mine to supply the ore The owners, Messrs. Dou 2herty and Raymond are practical miners and would not waste their time on any thing that didn't promise well. A humber of other good locations have lately been made with good indica- lions.
Year: 1879

By private letter from Seymour we learn that water was struck in the com2any's well at A depth of seven ty-five feet. Great rejoycing was in dulged in, as water was very scarce, and that question was beginning io as s1rme a serious aspect. A steam pump was ordered by telegraph and in strUctions given to ship immediately. Three months from to day we expect to see this lively town with plenty of money in circulation and popu- lation of not less than 300 men.
Year: 1879

looked back the last fourteen years Of my life
with much satisfaction when reviewed what had
doue under the heavy load Of adversely and odium
which had been forced % carry. felt that the
had now come for me to seek moral redress Yet
fearful that II should make any attempt to get back
on the list II would be said that my effort simply


scpeue To take money out OF the Treasury. did not
want people 10 think say that was after the money!


40 with grea care drew up q bill which, passed.
would authorize the President 10 review the proceed
ings OF the oOurt-martial which tried me, and 10
aunnl aud set aside the findings and sentence, n
after snch review he should deem IL right and
proper so 20 do Then, IN order 10 meet any


nsInuatons OF greed any part, inserted IN the sec
ond section the proviso that renstated, should not
entitled 10 back present future pay or allow
Of any kind whatsoever. Ny pay as Surgeon General
was S6 900, and had insisted upon the being
paid the amount tor the fteen years would be $4,000
Hut have asked nothing While | have always felt
That have been unustY treated and that too through
Year: 1879

WALL STREET YKsTERpAY.-There
was further decrease In the volume Of
business at the Stock Exchange, but the
market was stronger and closed general
iy at an advance on the opening figures.
Money was plentiful on call At to 6per
cent. Government securities were firm.
States dull and railway bonds rather
dull, but stronger. Foreign exchange
was advanced.
Year: 1879

The Weccacoe Actives announcs|
their annual ball will take place i


Institute Hall, on Friday, January
Every arrangement will be mad
make the ball success, as the al
are determined not to be in the rel
any If the balls given 50 far this Sd
Year: 1879

n the general excitement goods at old prices
customers may assured that large force will do their best
supply ali be waited these short days. The increase
of our clerks quite noticeable but times in the day far
AMPLE Please take kindly disappointment in not being
served again. We have lately gotten hold of lots
Goods late for ORDERS and sold to
sacrifice As very desirable quote in Ladies' Dress
Goods:
Year: 1879

RED lead in cayenne pepper chromate
of lead IN mustard sulphuric acid in
vinegar corrosive sublimste IN pickles;
prussic acid in tea scented and celored
clay in coffee alum in bread sand in
sugar marble dust and plaster Of Paris
in -four ; powdered stone in soda dam
aged grain in Graham meal chalk in
baking powders /; mercury, arsenic, and
copper in the coloring of candy creoso;o
and salts Of copper in whisky-such are
only samples Of some Of the adulterations
in food and drink pointed out, the other
day, by George T. Angel, in a paper
read to the American Social Science AS
socaton Of Boston. The bold proportion
of these adulterations is even more sur.
prising than THEN pernicious qualities
Mr.. Angel has been for many years q
champion of an Animal Protection So
cety his facts justify him, we should
say, in now devoting portion of his
time to the protection of the chief biped
among animals.
Year: 1879

He wasn't such bad man as men
average, though he was nc: a hard WORK
er ard he didn't have good husbands
and fathers interest in mis- family. What
they ate and what they wore he earned,
whether it was good or bad, and wife and
children depended on him. One day
when he had been drinking he got into
row, stabbed one Of the party and was
taken to the station. There was not 50
worth OF provisions in his house, and
while they wept ever the fate that had
overta6en husband and father their faces
paled at the thought Of the empty cup
board, their scaat clothing and the rent
overdue.


"This man is bad man and must be
punished ;" said the public.


"How2"


why, we'll send h ina to the State
Prison for year or more"


"And his family?"


The public shrugged its shoulders and
made no reply.


That man was bad man, but his wife
WAS praying, God fearing woman and
his children had innocent hearts. They
we're not TO blame for the deeds of their
father. Yes, the man must be punished
with year in prison, where he was well
clothed. we'll fed, furnished with a good
bed, attended by doctor when necessary
and his work was but play to his strong
muscles. Instead of feeling degraded he
entered prison with head erect and the
firm conv iction that he had viEdcated
his manhood By stabbing the fellow that
had struck him. For year he was bet
ter fed md better lodged than since he
could remember, and he gained fesh.
Thus was he PUN nished," to come home
and find himself corner grocery hero
and plenty Of men anx ious 10 befriend
him.


Now what of the family? Even be
fore the husband was arraignsd for trial
the wife had to sell the best of ner furni-
ture. He was no: yet sentenced when the
children were sent out to beg. The day
they punished" the bad man by starting
him to com Portable prison, his family
were turned INTO tho street, and remained
there all day and night. When they
found r home in hove the children
went begging for food and the mother for
work. In year exposure and suffering
had consigned tho mother and three
Of the children TO paupers' graves, and
the other two had been sent among
strangers to find homes. The punished
man comes out fat and healthy, to dis
cover that he has only himself to look |
after, the law having kindly made va
grants and bsggars of his family and then
killed and buried most of them.


"He's got such dose as will make
him behave himself in future" says the
public.


The "dose" is forty extra pounds Of fat
system cleansed of whisky and more
rugged look than he had carried for
twenty years, having scarce enough in
terest TO ask when his ifs d led and what
had become of the children the law didn't
kill and bury.


1t is nothing If "law' break. up homes
and makes beggars and paupers and
skeleton corpses by the half dozen to
punish one man over whose actions the !
sufferers had not the least control. Law
makers are wise men, and we must ad-
mire their wisdom. .-Detroa Free Press.
Year: 1879

About four years ago farmer of Sup
prise Valley found in the crop of wild
goose small quantity of grain the like
Of which he had never before seen. He
sswed this grain, and it grew and -four
ished producing more than hundred fold.
The straw and beardless head are said to
Bile wheat, while the grain looks
like rye, but is twice as large. The far
mer has now many bushels Of this ce-
real, and has sent samples of it to oe
planted in various places in California,
whore food for cattle is not easily obtain
ed at some seasons, as the stalks of the
new grain, when cut before 1t is thor
oughly ripe, makes excellent hay.


An old sailor, after reading an item
which had been going the rounds Of the
papers in regard to the new cereal, the
substance of which item is given above
finds his memory refreshed. 1t brings to
his recellections a circumstance he mad
almost forgotten, and has set him to
thinking. He has thought II all out and
is now firmly of the opinion that there is
an inhsbta5le land at the North Pole.
The old man says he was one of the crew
Of the Investigator, Capt. Mcclure,
which sailed from England in 1850, in
company with the Enterprise, Comman-
der Collinson in search Of Sir John
Franklin, and he certainly has in his
posses ion one of the Artic medals given
by the English admiralty to all persons
engaged in these popular expeditions
from 1918 TO 1855. Ir September OF that
year the Investigator reached land
which Capt. Mcclure named Barring's
land, and three days Afterwards other
land which he named Prince Albert
where about the last OF the month they
were frozen in.


While in the last named land, the cx-
plerers observed many wild geese and
other fswis flying southwark. Some Of
tho geese stopped at the place where the
ship lay and several were killed by mem
bers Of the crew. In the crops of some
OF these geese he recolects to have seen
and marveled at seeing, a considerable
quantity Of grain such as the new ca
real of Surprise Valley is said to be. As
no such grain is known in the temperate
zone, and as we have no account OF a
grain of the kind being found in any re.
gion of the world, hc is Of the opinion
that the geese obta in it in region lying
about the open polar sea. He says no
man has yet gone so far north, bnt
he found wild geese and other water
fowls flying still further northward. AS
the geese are undoubtedly ly vending their
way to we'll known stopping place
far TO the north, there must be some
thing to feed upon at that point where
they stop. AS wild geese no moro live
on fish than do tame ones, there must
be, in the country to which they go,
grass and ether vegetation similar TO
that found in the temperate regions.
The wild geese that hail on the Pacific
Coast make the grain fields their feed
ing place, and that it is not likely that
in the land about the Pole their ma
ture is SO changed that they feed upon
mosses or fish.
Year: 1879

A YOUNG man having sent his sweet
heart an engagement ring, she received
it with great pleasure but assured MIN
in her letter OF thanks, that she would
like something more binding, whereupon,
in his ignorance he sent her a piece OF
cheese.
Year: 1879

1t is ardently hoped, know, by all the soldiers
of the land that the present Congress will not ad-
ourn without passing the Equalization Bounty Bill.
1t is an honest and just measure in every sense.
In this light it has ever been regarded Twice
it has been passed. and only waited the signature of
the President at time, unfortunately, when the
limit of the session had expired. Congress has al
ready been officially informed of the cost of paying
these bounties. Adjutant General Townsend has
stated (and no man is better informed on the sub
ject) that $40 100000 would cover the entire debt.
" Now is the accepted time" gentlemen of the SEN
ate and House of Representatives, to pay this just
and honest debt Fourteen years have rolled
around since these soldiers laid down their arms
and returned to their homes ALL we say unreserv-
edly, all of them injured in health by exposure and
hardship This debt was due them when the war
ceased 1t was note of hand, payable on demand
and yet the account is still unsettled Year by year
hundreds of these brave fellows are going down to
their graves The bountes of earth are for them no
more Year by year the Governments bill TO them
lessons, Are we purposing to allow death to wipe
out the dues TO patriotism! Surely this dastardy
charge cannot be made against this nation And
then look at the countless blessings this trhng sum


for trihing it is to us-woud confer upon thousands
of households The soldier, now mechanic
could with the amount he receives, secure much
needed outfit Of tools and improve his little cottage
the once soldier now farmer could purchase team
and break up his prairie. In fact, the money would
wonderfully benefit the essential producing classes
of the country and stimulate immensely its present
depressed business interests. There is not a single
argument against the passage of the bill, and a
dozen might be cited why it should pass. We are
on the eve of Presidential election, and let Con-
gressmen exhibit to the soldiers that in question
like this, they know party. Thus republicans
and democrats alike win win the favor and applause
Of those who saved the nation al the time of its
sorest peril
Year: 1879

Bear in mind that ere you receive another number
of our paper, Decoration Day +" win have come
and gone On that day, when many celebrations
and ceremonies will take place interesting to the
soldiers we wish you would bear us in mind, and
send either written or printed accounts of what
at the graves of our heroes. How forci-
bly, the words of Collins arise in our minds, when
we think Of them:


How sleep the brave who sink rest,


by all their cOuntry's wishes blest:


When Spring with dewy fingers cold,


Returns deck their hallowed mold


there shall u


Than Fancy's have trod


BY fairy hands their knel ; rung,


by forms unseen their dirge sung.


And Freedom shall awhile repair


To dwell weeping hermit there
Year: 1879

We write these words in the latter days of April
two weeks succeeding the anniversary of the death
Of Abraham Lincoln and in view of the buildings
where he was assassinated and breathed his last
Some reflections upon the life of the man at such a
time, naturally arise We do not purpose to pronounce
a eulogy, notice at length the character of our
martyr President but briefly to refer to the one
leading trait manifested by him We aude to his
deUotion to the soldiers. He looked upon them to
the nation, and his for them extended from
the moment that he called for IS 900 men, down to
the period of his death His warm and almost wo-
manly interest in them unbounded. He under
stood and appreciated all their hardshps their sac
rifces their beroism If they were specially noticed
for vaor he was ever ready to promote them; were
they sick in the hospital he not unfrequenty visited
them; and when they deserted, at times, allured
thereto often by desires to meet loved home
and captured and sentenced to be shot he was
ever ready to pardon them, if there any mti-
eating circumstances, At private gatherings and
at mass assembages during the war the great theme
on which he almost constantly dwelt was: What
shall loe do for the soldier8-hoac shall re reloard
the soldiers? Six weeks previous to his death was
written his last will and testament to the American
people, in which we find these words:


With malice toward none, with charity for all, With
mness in the right God gives the right let
strive to finish the work to bind the nations
wounds for him who shall have borne the battle
and for his widow and his orphan to do all which may
achieve and cherish just and lasting peace among
selves and with all nations


''To care for him who shall have borne the battle,
and for his widow and hisaorphan." What gratitude
the head of the nation here exhibits. What a strong
tide of sympathy arises in his noble soul In his
great Grafton the battlefield of Getty ysburgh July
A. 1863 pronounced by such critical magazine as
compositions in the English language, he said,
speaking of the soldiers who fell that sangunary
field


We do not honor them, they honor usn
4 What an expressive magnificent sentence And
why does the honor thus rest? Because when
death seals forever the lips of valor and devotion
the record of life is made up and the spirit is stamped
and sancti6ed, with the approval of Deity. Thence
forth these names are hallowed and shed honor
upon the living with whom they once associated
The spirit of Lincoln has joined the hosts of those
who laid down their lives that Liberty might live
yet shall his immortal name go down the coming
ages with those of the patriot soldier, of whom the
poet wrote:


Rest on embamed and santed dead


Dear as the blood ye gave


No impious footsep there shall tread


The herbage of your grave;
Nor shall your glory be forgot
/. While Fame her record keeps,


Or Honor points the hallowed spot,
, proudly
Year: 1879

Rest ON, embalmed and sainted dead,
Dear as the blood ye gave,
No impious footstep there shall tread
The herbage of your grave
Nor shall your glory be forgot,


While Fame her record keeps,
Or Honor points the hallowed spot,
Where Valor proudly sleeps"