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Year: 1873

YANKToN, Oct. 22.-The Grand


Jury in the Territory District Court


for this county, returned an Indictment
this morning against P. P. Winter


mute for the murder of Secretary Nc
Cook, charging him with manslaughter
only. The friends Of General McCook
are very indignant, and do not hesi-
tate to say that the members of the
Grand Jury have been corruptly in
fuenced, as it is understood that Win.
termute has been using money freely
wherever it would do the most good
The course of the jury has been the
source of general scandal for some
days past, and their action, and the
probable result of their investigation
have been freely reported on the streets
from day to day. As result of this,
Judge Barnes censured the jury when
che indictment was presented in the
most severe terms, and in closing told
them they might return, but not with
the thanks ofthe court. It is understood
that several members stood out siren.
uously for an indictment for murder
until they fouud they must take man.
slaughter or nothing, the vote stand
INC evenly divided. Tt is understood
that the next move of the defense will
be for bail, and then delay and con-
tinuance. This may be found an un-
wise course at present, as the feeling
is very deep, and many regard the
course of the Grand Jury as a confes


sion of fear to submit the question of
the murder to q petit jnry, and when
the impression shall prevail that just
ice is to be baked by the use Of money,
or otherwise, serious results may follow
Year: 1873

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY
The President has approved the report
of the Commissioner sent to examine
the sixty-fve miles of Northern Pacific
Road between Portland and Puget
Sound, and directed patents to issue
for the lands to which the road is en-
titled under the law This puts into
the hands of the company an immense
tract mostly very valuable.
Year: 1873

MRS VAN Corr. Mrs. Van Cott
ended her labors in this city Monday
night last Although it is claimed
that through her instrumentallty some
fifty souls have been made to realize
the duty they owe to their Creator,
still it must be admitted that the re-
ported successes usually attending upon
her misistrations have not marked her
efforts in this city. Why this is the
case, we are unable to explain, unless
it be that the people of this city are
not so susceptible to the influence Of
her peculiar style as those in other
places. The meetings were largely
attended; indeed the church was usu-
ally crowded; yet no enthusiasm was
awakened, and no general response
made to her invitations to "seek sal
vation there and then" ."-Bezot Free
Press.
Year: 1873

A SCENE IN COLLEGE.-The Boston
Globe of October 9th relates this story,
giving a little insight into the pecul-
iarities of college life:


Saturday morning the freshman
class of Hamilton College thought it
had grievance. The exact nature of
this grievance, when subject to an
analysis, would, perhaps, be as hard
to determine rs that of the majority Of
grievances college boys, from time to
time, think proper to resent. BE this
as it may, resentment against proper
authority, at this particular time,
took the form of bolt from mathe-
matical recitation. When the bell
stopped ringing, not a freshman was
in the lecture-room. Nothing daunt-
ed, the tutor Immediately dispatched
the janitor after one of the members
of the class. Now, however ripe re-
bellion may be in whole class, no
single member, ever considers it Gun
manly" to decline a summons to q
private lecture. This student, there
fore, Immediately repaired to the reci-
tation room. Instead of lecturing him
on the evils of bolting, however, to
his surprise, he was merely seated at
the board to solve one of the problems
of the days lesson. The janitor was
then dispatched after another member
of the class, who, upon his arrival was
received in the same manner. Another
and another was sent for, until the
whole class was assembled, each one,
upon being summoned, supposed he
was to have private interview with
the tutor. The expression on the last
arrivals face may better be imagined
than expressed. When the class bolts
again it will, in all probability, try its
resentment upon some other professor.
Year: 1873

A Cleveland paper relates number


OF anecdotes illustrative of the strength


and size of Abner McIlrath, whom it


dubs a giant. 1t appears that McIlrath


is " sixty-one years of age, and is six


feet seven and half inches standing
in his boots, fairly proportioned in


form, without pound of waste flesh.


He was and is giant in muscular
strength. He has lifted l ZOO pounds
of iron, and blow with his massive fist
and long arm is SO powerful that on one
occasion, when some twelve or fifteen
sailors went out to his place to "raise
a muss, " he thrashed the whole lot and
threw them one by one out of the door
just as one could throw so many babies,
and during that operation he dared not
double his fist for fear his blows might
prove fatal to some of the rowdies. He
formerly carried on the business of
cooper. and used to come to town with
his load of barrels. On one occasion,
while stopping at the Red Tavern"
latterly known as the "Jackson
House" and which is now torn down, a
snob from town, who was out there with
his turnout in the shape of a livery
horse and buggy, got into a difficulty
with Abe. and having insulted him in
some way or another, Abe resented it
by lifting the buggy rightup and strad
ding it across the fence, and then got
on his wagon and drove off to town,
whistling as though nothing was the
matter, and leaving the luckless wight
to get his buggy off the fence as best he
rould"
Year: 1873

If the lesson could be permanently
learned that the cash system is better
than the credit system, all the suffering
entailed by this monetary crisis would
not be dear price to pay for it.


People who buy for cash always buy
cheaper than those who buy on credit.
They buy, too, more closely, and select
more carefully.


Purchases which are paid for when
they are made are limited more exactly
to the purchasers wants. There is
nothing like having to count the money
right out when the article is bought to
make people economical. The amount
of Indebtedness Incurred is not much
considered when the payday is afar off.


Persons who do I'll their business on
a cash basis know just where they stand
and what they can afford. Consequently
they never find after-occasion for re-
GREETING, in turn of times, that they
have INDUCED in this luxury or that,
which they would have foregone had
they seen what was coming.


Real wants are few and can be graft
fed for cash. At all events, they should
always be limited to what can be paid
for in cash.


How much of anxiety, how many
sleepless hours, haw many heartburn
ings, disappointments, and regrets
would be avoided if this rule were
always strictly adhered TO.
Year: 1873

This is the way catching turtle is
described : You spy him from afar of
floating in the undulating surface of
the water, sometimes miles from the
shore. Slowly, cautiously your boat
man rows the skitf to the turtle the
least clumsy splash of an oar would dis
turb his siesta. At last you get behind
him, and inch by inch you approach
him. Then you stoop well over the
bow, and turn your turtle. Ahem.
Turn him ? 1t seems easy enough to
say, "turn him." but how do you do
it ? You bend down, leaning far over
the bow of the boat, make both hands
meet under his belly in the water, and
you lift Mr.. Turtle clean out of the
sea and tumble him backwards into
your boat. II is surprising how light a
turtle is in the water and what a dead
weight he is when out of his element.
No matter if he does struggle little
and dash his fiippers at you, the only
thing really to be afraid of is the bar
nacles which almost always grow on his
sides and cut like knives into the arms
and wrists when you hold two hun
dred pound turtle in your embrace.
Year: 1873

A Vermonter having visited Iowa.
decided that the proper men in the
East to go West are those who are poor !;
those who are rich or who are doing
well, ought not to go. Further, it is as
hard TO make money in the West as in
the East, and an enterprising man can
make money anywhere. Therefore,
there is no necessity for anybody to go
West, and there is no use for the West
Year: 1873

Phillips is called the silver-tongned orator.
ing.


Bragg is good dog but Holdfsst is better
one.
One lone drunk at the police hearing this
morning.


L. s. jackson & Co.. say that they have Just
received large and cheap lot of Hamburgs, at
Gas Market st.


Some of our people who intend being present
At the Clayton House banquet are already disci-
plining their appetites for the occasion.


The first payment on the third series OF stock
Of the Mutual Loan Association will be due this
evening. A few more shares yet for sale.
Year: 1873

SEVERE ACCIDENTAL Clayton, on Saturday
afternoon, a newsbOy named WIN. Phelan was
run over by a car and severely injured. Phelan
vas standing on the rear car of the afternoon
passenger train north, and fell of, clOse beside q
moving passenger car which had just been switch
ed on TO a side track. Before he could scramble
out of the way the car ran over his foot cutting
off portIon Of the heel. He was brought to this
city and his injury attended to.
Year: 1873




A Shakspearian was reading Mid
summer Nights Dream to the sailors
of a ship in which he was crossing the
Atlantic, and they listened with
pleasure, till he came to a passage
which described ga mermaid sitting
on a dolphin's back" when an old
salt burst out, "That's nonsense! A
dOlphin's back is as sharp as a razor,
and no mermaid could ride on it till
she'd saddle him."


A gentleman was riding in Scot
land by bleaching ground where a
poor woman was at work watering
her webs of linen cloth. He asked
her where she went to church, what
she had heard on the preceding day,
and how much she remembered. She
could not even tell the text of the last
sermon. "And what good tan preach
ing do you,n said he, ''if you forget it
all?" "Ah, sir" replied the poor wo-
man, if you will look at this web
on the grass, you will see as fast as
ever put the water OH it the sun dries
it all up, and yet, sir l see it gets
whittier and whiter.'


Some person attempted to take adj
vantage of the ignorance of the Vien-
nese of American paper currency, by
putting in circulation Confederate
notes. The Vienna Police Commits
siOners issued an order, over date Of
September llth, stating that "dollar
notes of the Confederate Government
of the South of the United States
were, since the overthrow of that Gov
ernment by the Federal Government
of the United States, valueless," and
warning the people to beware of them.
The speculation was thus nipped in
the bud
Year: 1873

1t would be wei to remember In
the present fever OF indignation
AGAINST fraud and dishonesty, that
there is a considerable number OF
honest men In America. The state
of things is lad, no doubt, but then
we ought not to lose our heads over
it. The cases of dishonesty revealed
by the late panic amount to about
six, ali told, which are Fix too many,
and somo of them are undoubtedly
sy,nptomatic Of great looseness q
Year: 1873

Senator Caldwell, Of Kansas, does not deny Ia,
paid Governor Carney $4,000 to withdraw from
the Senatorial canvass, which resulted in his cleo
ton II iS said he excuses his action in the prem
ises by stating that Senatorial candidates get theii
rivals out OF the way by giving thcm foreign mis-
sions, COnsulates or Indian agencies, and he die
mot see that it made the least difference if hG
bought his opponent of with hard cash.


Such an excuse can only have weight with a
party that il itself so corrupt that it needs the
services Of snch men as Caldwell to keep il in
power by acts as violatiye of law and precedent
as Caldwelrs is Of honor and prOpriety. What
viii be thought Of popular government that can
only be sustained by virtue and intelligence, II
these much desired qualities, in its leading men,
are TO be put in the scales against the gold OF the
Miiterate, ruthless seoundrels which fortunate
ventures sometimes raise to the position of wealth
rarely ever attained by the most wise and pru-
dent, in whom alone the public interest can safe
ly be confided.


There are too many such men as Caldwell in
the Senate now; and even IL they are as bad as
ne 1t win be well for The country IL there should
be enough Of virtue LEFT in them to take such &C
taon on CaidWel's case and others like his, that
viii put the stamp Of condemnation and infamy
upon all attempts TO secure position by the use
OF gold By bribery and corruption.
Year: 1873

ONE of those calm and tranquil ladies,
who are SO successful as travellers, iately
rushed up to a tran on the point OF leaving
a London station, and with one foot OH the
step, frantically called for a pcrier to tell
her whether that was the train sne wanted
or not. A very elderly bachelor, perceivipg
the lady's dilemma, obligingly took the
sleeping infant she carried, in order that
she might the more easily enter the carriage.
At that moment the train started, and
porter appeared juss in time to drag away
the nervous lady from her dangerous strug-
gle to get into the moving car. Awful were
her feelings, but woT3e we're those OF the
elderly bachelor, who was stout person.
in spectacles, and who in vain attempted te
stjfls the wild bowls of the frightened child
by dandling it, amid the laughs Of bis COM
pauions in the carriage. The little crea,
ture was deposited at the Text station, and
the Mortified old gentleman sank back al
most faintiDg in his seat, wiplng BEADS OF
agony from his scarlet visage.
Year: 1873

A few days since, J6hn i1IancOok' a farmer.
living near Payson, ILL.,, was found hanging BY the
neck nom the upper window q his house. On
with fatal wound in her head She fingered
three days in an unconscious condition Han
COCK, who was GO years Of age, had for some time
shown symptoms OF insanity and II is supposed be
struck his wife with hammer and then hanged
himself.
Year: 1873

A WITTY PARsoN,-While Phineas Rice,
an early Methodist preacher, was stationed in
one of the New York churches, he found that
many of the young people of both sexes were
accustomed to leave the church before the
close of the evening service. II annoyed him
and he determined to stop it. The next Sab
bath evening, before he commenced the SER
mon, he said:


some of my brethren have been greatly af-
flicted that 50 many young women leave the
church before the service is through. But
tell them that they ought not to feel so, for
doubtless those that go out are young women
who live at service, and their mstresses desire
them to be at home at 8 o'clock; and if they
are not at home by that time, they will either
lose their places or offend their mistresses, aud
they don't want to do either. They must
either 90 out in time to get home at o'clock,
or stay at home altogether. This would be
very hard on them. And servant girls have
beaux as well as other girls, and the young
men have to go out and wait upon them home;
and 50, hereafter. when these young women
leave the church before the service is over,
you will understand who they are, and not feel
badly about it."
The congregation were no moro annoyed at
ter this; they either stayed at home or stayed
till meeting was closed.
Year: 1873

A New ELDoRADo.-A Buenos Ayres cor.
respondent of the New York World says the
report of the discovery of the richest gold
mine in the world is fully confirmed. The
scene of this great discovery is in the valley OF
Famatina, in the Province of Rioja. Argentine
Republic, and the tidings Of the almost fabu-
lous riches unearthed have produced the great
est excitement Wonderful az are the ac-
counts given Of the value Of the mines, it il
the general opinion that the half is not known.
even by the discoverer, and that there Is more
gold there than the finder thought at the time
of negotiating for.the sale of portion of the
tract. The single fact that q provisional trans
fer title has already been drawn up for the sale
Of two leagues of this immense auriferous de-
posit. by which the vast sum of $1OO. 900 ,OOQin
currency is to be paid, it is the best evidence
Of the confidence that is placed in the result Of
this discovery.
Year: 1873

The New York Home Journal very appro-
priately presents the following:


No woman ever dresses low from high mo-
tive. No lady goes to the opera, to balls or
dinner parties with her bosom bare for the
purpose of pleasing her husband or her aff-
anced lover! Neither does she denude her
breast for the qualification of her own sex.
What can be the motive for this "scandalous
undressing" in publcl Let US treat this del
icate subject philosophically. yet fearlessly.
We readily confess that there is nothing 80 ex-
quisitely beautiful on earth as the bust OF 9
beautiful woman. And for this very reason it
should not be exposed to the gaze OF vulgar
eyes. No woman who truly loves her husband,
ever desires to exhibit her charms to any eye
but his.


And yet what do we see, or rather what do
we not see. in the shape of naked arms, sh0ui-
ders, backs and bosoms at every evening gath
erng among what is called the "best societyY"
One is continually reminded of the scarcasm
of Dr. Franklin. nearly hundred years ago,
who. when present at one of these gatherings
of undressed English women, was asked If ever
be had seen anything like it before. blushingly
replied, mot since he was weaned." But we
need not dwell on the fact of the existence OF
this fashionable scandal. Let Us strike at the
root of this immoral custom Of Glow DRESSING"
The motive, as we have said, is not good one.
We have heard men who consider themselves
connoisseurs at these exhibitions declare that
they like to see it. but would not like to see
their own wives half naked in public"


No man who properly prizes and appreciates
his wife ever did or ever will like to see his
better half exposing her bust in public. 1t is
clear and conclusive. then, that this low.necked
fashion never was designed or followed by the
delectation of husbands. and even women will
always "pick to pieces" the most audacious
undressed belle OF the ball. Why, then, do
women indulge in this immodest and unhealthy
style of dress? One is afraid to press the
question to an honest, logical solution. The
true answer is derogatory to women.
She bares her bust to excite something more
than envy in women and admiration in men.
And this she knows full well when she looks at
her undraped form in the mirror in the char
acter of statue vivante.


How many fatal cases of consumption have
been caused by sudden exposure to midnight
air. or coming out Of steaming ball rooms and
opera houses, with the most vital part of the
body unprotected! On the tombstone of many
beautiful woman might be truthfully inscribed: !:
Death from low-necked dresses Turning
again to the moral aspect of the folly, it is no
exaggeration to say that more cases OF seduc-
ton, elopement and domestic ruin have arisen
from these temptations than from all other So
| cial causes
Year: 1873

Woes cluster-they tread each others
heels" The truth of this old, familiar
saying is again illustrated by the preva-
leuce of the terrible yellow fever plague
n our Southern cities, simultaneously
with the existence of the lamentable
financial disasters throughout the coun-
try And yet, Notwithstanding the de
pressing effects of the monetary panic
upon our northern cities, a number of
the latter have generously responded to
the earnest calls for help from our
Southern brethren in the afflicted cities
and towns. These responses-in the
midst of the financial difficulties, result
ing in wrecked fortunes, and general
alarm in money circles-these responses
Illustrate the better side of humanity.


The cries that have come up, and are
coming, from the stricken cities of the
South, tell the fearful destruction it is
working and the need that most sorely
presses upon the people. And this need
Is just now the most difficult to supply.
Nurses and nourishment are indeed
scarce, but may be had for money. 1t
is money that is needed to supply the
wants of the distressed. And money is
The most difficult thing to furnish. Yet
we are sure that the charity which
proved itself so nobly and emphatically
after the great fires of Portland, Chi
cago and Boston, will not remain dor
mant in the present dire calamity that
has overwhelmed Memphis, Shreveport
and than other towns in the South.


The generosity of the American peo-
PIE, in times of misfortune and affiiction
upon any class or community, is well
Known. Hence we hope to see noble
response from all parts of the country to
'ae urgent appeals for help from the
yellow fever sufferers. What will Rut-
land do in the matter?
Year: 1873

gun. The money you need more than
anything else, so don't worry about
my disposing of it.


81 declare, exclaimed Howard, "this
seems like fairy's doingsl / hardly
wish for thing before it comes"


So on Annies finger was the prettiest
little pearl ring, and Mr.. LAWSON chuck
led to himself on the success of his wish
es. When, few days after, Smith was
paid for the light suit, and received an
order for another, he congratulated him
self on his good luck. Neither he nor
Mr. Lawson conld keep their secret, each
whispered it TO his friend and so it
reached the ear of a shrewd and we'll
known legal gentleman of W, who,
Immediately after Howard graduated
and won the prize for the best essay,
astonished him by coming and offering
him a partnership. Two months had
only passed when Howard found himself
Just where he hoped to be, in two years.
And better still, an old miser uncle, who
never before would help him, when he
heard Of his nephew s success, concluded
there was 9 something in the boy, and
sent him a nice little present in the
shape of a five thousand dollar bond.


A few days ago, Nellie's little friend
Kittie came in and whispered, 81 am
going to be bridesmaid tor Annie Law
son. She is going to be married early in
the fall. And then she added, laugh
ing merrily:


. truly believe this marriage will be
the work of my postal card. ! know,
only few days before, Mr. Lawson did
not treat Howard with common polite
ness. Just see how slight thing may
turn the current of our lives"


" We should be very cautious, then,
how we drop these pebbles in the stream,
Nellie But | am glad, if our little
piece of fun has done such good work.
And | am confident Howard Marcy is
worth all, and more than Mr. Lawson
believes he is. And we have only made
him anticipate what the future is sure TO