The herald., December 21, 1883, Image 6

About The herald. (Big Stone City, Dak. [S.D.]) 1883-1890

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DAOKTA
1
MiWS 'NOTMS.
i he kiri.wootl house Was it new ho
tel u]»ened out month ago, al Carring
ton and cost $2C»,O0(. It was entirely
destroyed hv fire together with AlcUer
mott ^Smith's saloon. One room of the
Kirkwood house whs oecumed bv the
Bank ofCarringt )n and Urouhart A At
'l estate office.
ac. Ludwig Ivr u-e. a i i:i
landman of some note in his own coun
try, is in Mitchell to look up land for
hims'df and a colony offline forty fam
ilies of his icina *e, who will come whe,.
he has found lands and a desirable
ooijTitry and location.
attachments have been issv:
t." district court at Mitchell agah. i.
i '-:d Co.. jobbing merchants "f Car-
Dak., in favor of J. Oberfelder
Kmmerson, Sherman Co.. Mey
ers, ficc vV Co., J. 1'Vrnauer HP ?., the
Hun/deger Tobacco company, and Pre
i,!) A IviinH, The in :iil,
rt Yates Correspond onde His ma re k
s -me: Mr. Bacon of Poplar lliver, M.
i., ..rrived at Standing Hock agency
in pursuit of Black Cattish and his fol
lowers, About oW Yanktonia Indian
lane recently arrived from the Poplar
liiver agency, many of whom are well
armed and vehemently declare they will
not return to their reservation. In con
versation with a gentleman at the agen
cy Black Cattish said the Indians were
dissatisfied wit to the present administra
tion at the Popular River arctic v. and
that many of the Indians made several
ineffectual attempts to run away before.
Devil's Lake Inter-Ocean: Nineteen
timber Ituie ntries w .re made at the
land'ofhee, representing J.'!,040 acres of
land. Deducting the live acres required
to be planted in trees on each clmim, we
have acres to which the prelimina
ry* step to title was taken in one day,
which will produce at least twenty
bushels of No. 1 hard wheat to the acre
—au aggregate of nearly 50,000 bushels,
which at *0 cents per bushel would
amount to IS,()i)0. And yet there re
main from :,()( to 4.000 tree claims to
be taken in this land district.
Annie Dully and Maggie Nelson, two
Sioux Falls hotel waitresses, had an
amateur prize fight to settle a disagree
ment. Miss Dully knocking out her op
ponent.
Bradstreets* St. Paul a*enev has re
ceived advice of an assignment to Thom
as W. Cansby of V. Shreck, harness
dealer, Bismarck, Dak. Shreck's assets
are given at $1,730, and his liabilities as
The cause of his trouble is said
to have been management.
The "treasure coach" from Deadwood
to Pierre makes two trips a month, car
rying o0,000 each time at a cost of
$000. The gold is in 150-pound bncks
locked in a strong safe, llobbeis tould
hardly get off with such heavy bri ks, if
they could open the safe.
The La Moure Chronicle says that a
gang of thieves has had its headquarters
in the Bear Creek region of that county
for "some time past, and stolen horses
and wheat which they concealed in
ca\es and underground stables. A
stolen team was not long since found in
one of these. A man named McCann
hus 'has been arrested charged with
stealing "00 bushels of wheat more tiniH
he raised, and bound over for "trial in
$•"1X1 bail.
New York Herald: The consecration
of the Uev. William I.. Walker as mis
isonary bishop to Dakota will take place
in Calvary Protestant Kpiscoyal church
on the L'oth inst., at 11 a.m. The ser
mon will be preached by the Bight Rev.
Bishop Cope of the diocese of Western
New York. The Bight Rev. Bishops
Henry C. Potter of this diocese, Thomas
SI. Clarke of the diocese of Rhode Island,
and Robert N. Clarkson of the diocese of
Nebraska, will also take part in the cer
emony. The musical part of the service
will be given by the students of the
General Theological seminary.
J. McClung, one of the principal wit
nesses in the Marquis de More's trial,
and now engaged in the carpentry busi
ness at Little Missouri, was returning to
his home near what is known as the
Cantonment, when he was fired at by au
unknown party. A similar attempt on
the life of Mr. McClung was made about
nine days ago in the immediate vicinity.
Rev. Isaac M.Fry, the Congregational
minister who absconded from Yalley
City some weeks ago, has been anpre
hened in Ohio and will be returned to
I akota.
Mans Johnson and Chris Alsted, two
of the parties accused of the murder in
Pembina some time ago of the vo ng
Archer, and were admitted to bail'to the
next term of the district court, have
skipped their bail.
William Harding came
yille. HI., three years ago
consisted of the parents,
sons and one daughter.
poor, a«d iiad scarcely money enough to
emigrate here, put up a shanty and buy
the bare necessaries of living for a short
time. They all entered land, and now
the family has over ::,000 fertile acres in
Hutchinson county, which is estimated
to be worth in the aggregate over $40,
000.
from Belle
The family
seven grown
They were
Washington Special —Hon. James M.
Tyaer of Indiana, who spent the sum
mer seasq^i in Dakota, is in the city. He
fipeaks in the most glowing terms of Da
kota, whose future lie thinks is very
promising. He says emigration to that
territory has been unparalleled, and will
continue uninlei ruptedly until every
acre of cultivated land "is taken. He
thinks tiie territory should be divided
before admission into the Cnion, but that
the proposition to divide will be an ob
stacle to admission, and that it final! v will
be admitted as one state,
William Bough has been arrested for
Belling liquor on the Leech Lake reser
vation.
MAN(.} 1 THEB IBV'S ST lv I V
Hang up the baby's stocking,
Be sure you don't forget,
Tfi« doit little dimpled darling,
He never saw Christinas yet
But I've to'd him nil abjut it.
And he opened his big blue ey
And I'm sure he nncterstan'i
He looks so funny and a
Dear! what a tiny stockin.'
It does'nt take much to .-Id
Su piuk tees as Da by's
Away from irojt and co. i.
Hut then, for baby's Chri:1
It will never do at all
Why, Santa wouldn't toe Ioot:n:'
For anything half'so sruall.
know what we'll do for the ba*
1 thought of the very he-t pH:
I'll borrow a M.-okimf of !iandn a
The largest t!mt ever I err
And we'll hang :i by tp:n«\
Right herein the corner,
And write a letter to Santa.
And fasten it in the toe.
Write: "This is fh« baby*.
That bangs in toe corner here
You never have
veen
i i
bin. ^uila
For he oniy cuns t'l.s year
But he's j'.ntYi:-" baby
And now, before you no,
Just cram his stoctm with ,*00
h:\uu soi clear dow.
1: f'h
om St. Nichr/:.-!
lO every gir a:. .•
America, South Ami
Africa and .Australia
My Dear, D,»»ir l"r
what a "club" K?
I hear your an?wo:
all the ciiiis an i hill.
the sea bre-ze bring
from the count
"You i et ah
you have a pn ndviii and i.ui
so much to join, and vol.', an
Yes, that is it
uh" is.
Now I wa.i
—a (rue "tub—n
She wondered if in those houses would
go up that wild shout of glee, those ring
ing hurrahs and joyous clapping of
hands she had so often heard. And as
she wondered, she shook her head ,-ad
ly,saying:
"They have never known these pleas
ures, they never will, unless—oh! unless
somebody remembers •hem. Why can't
something be done? I would work, but,
one peison can do so little alone. I
want a hundred helpers -where shall I
find them?"
She thought intcntlv 1
1
want
the th
1 :.
i
,1.
1
.ml
ir a\*
eopie
vou all know what a
ery propei •nd thor-
ougiily organized club, eleven months
old and you may believe every word,
1
or it all happened right here, in Port
land, Maine, less than a'year ago.
On Sunday December 10, 1^82, a lady
s tting in a warm, cozy room, w.bile the
wind whistled about the house, rattling
the windows, and piiiag the snow iiakes
in deep dri.'ts across the steps and against
the fences, was thinking of the houses
up on The Hill and down at Gorham's
Corner, and in Salem Lane, which had
no steam radiators, no glowing grates,
no double windows to keep out the?
searching winter winds.
She thought, too, of the little children
in those houses ami. as it was Decem
ler, of the joyou day coming so soon
the day for giving gifts to al! the world
over—and wondered if in those houses
little bare feet would spring out of bed,
and dance across the chimneys in the
dim dawn of Christina* morning if
numb, bhiejfingers would eagerly snatch
down shabby, faded stci kings and iind
that St. Nicholas had really been there:
if, later on, fathers and mothers, with
brothers and sisters, and babies in th:iir
high-chairs. 'Tor just this one day,"
would come gadlv around dinner tables,
where plump Christmas Turkeys lay at
one end, and pltun puddings were ready
for the other and huge stacks of oranges,
nuts and apples rose in the middle and
if, in the evening there would he great
mysterios in the parlors, a fragrance of
spruce, an exciting rustling of paper
parcels, mothers slipping slyly i u and
out of doors with hands hidden behind
them, a »enerui scurrying about -md
then all eyes dazzled by a hur.die I twink
ling candles caught in the branches of
a grace 1 ill tree laden with toys.
1 few mo­
ments, and then cried: I ki ovi The
children will do it, tne Portland chil
dren those who have happy nonies and
Christmas-trees, and play rooms full of
toys. They will load a Christmas-tree
as one was never loaded befone they
will spread a Christmas dinner which
cannot be eaten in one day thev will do
it—the warm-hearted,generous Portland
children."
The bells from all the churches were
ringing for Sunday-school. That was
the time—that was the place to Iind the
children. A number of notes were writ
ten, asking two or more girls and bovs
from every Sunday-school 111 the city to
meet at that house at live o'clock, on
the following Thursday afternoon.
Did they come?
Come? They did not know what the
call was for, save for a whisper about
Christmas work but they came came
in pairs, in trios'in quartets and quin
tets—a whole squab from the Butler
school big boys with big hearts, wee
tots only four years old from the kin
dergarten— one hundred children readv
for anvthing,
Oh, I wisii you could have been there
at the forming of that club!
A lady came forward to speak to them
and their voices were hushed in expec
tation. I can't tell you just what she
said, but her words were beautiful. She
spoke oft heir Christmas festivities every
year, of their presents audtheii mends
then of the unfortunate children who
hud fewer, some none of these .joys.
When she asked: "Does anv one here
tnvthing for these others?"'
that they could doanvthii
ivas new' to almost nil—te "ei"v "von the 1
wish was new: but Hkt
11 rb came their answer
!-v.
i' I' I! I want to
i r«
1
what can y
... aid thsu or
anothi
atnrk
nnini:
1 clival of ftiino kind
!».ad
ol cart :e.ss»Iy dv^-str
aveano', whenever pr:
'K)d repair ail outgroxMi
I lothing from any source.
he ks-vstouo of 'hi» i
i i i v e o a y e v
outs, and to make .• i
I .he Citv H:'! .-1
'I Men !.:!•' It!'' i 1 -o-'l
uit!i the idea tu.it the cnu*f imih.-
houid he grown per^Mis. Ilis
ho mayor of Portland elected
:dent of the Children's Chris!,1
c.
Gforgn Was!
Vo -:rc corohllv iuwi-cd
'.'ipistinas Festival,
At City Hall, Thursday,
2 [, in.
1
Other.-, ladic* and gentlem 1
ihoj-eii lor vice presidei.:, tree.
letary, e\e'Utivit eouinji
The children then ditj»--!
a-a,n on Saturday, at .•
caturday
•i •. nd
aim pay
morning tiro-tghi to
first a meetiijjF of grown per.--.
oilcred thoir stroii-.-er hand
heads and deeper pur-es in the work
the hildren had undertaken: but agreed
that all that children c..uM do slmiiht i»"
It to them.
And a great i o
Mrm, who stuod ready 1.1 i!i*
grouud to give of their strength, w)\
quietly inclosed their wihing contiihu
tions to the executive commute "witlj
best wishes for the Children's
1
~i .na»
Club."
Instead of one hundred cnidren,
three hundred came to Keception hall,
eager to join the club. After addresses
by tiie president and other*. hildren's
committees were appoint! 1, and their
work explained to them.
As the children missed out in single
lile, each was re gistered. and received
from the secret iry a card of member
ship. as f.. .vs:
Card nt 3'. :,.-r hio.
1882.
CHRISTMAS.
"Kreel
iiave received,
C. 0.
rtify truii Ah
ltd a i,f
This is
liars is
end tn
:Mh, a?
Let us skip the busy days of pi i ar
aliom when the secretary of t' 'd1
dten's Christmas Club recorded twelve
hundred namt-s when the Park street
iiooi sent in the names of one hun
dred members who brought to their
teacher hooks, tovs and clothing, to h"
sent, to the City Hall when comfortablv
pad children eirne through the c'o'v
bringing in their sleigh*, on their sled*
their arms bundles of clothing and
toys, baskets of urovisions, books,
sloths, skates—much that was dear
them, given in the spirit, of true char-
One child could brin«» "only a plate of
osci.its, another a dozen apple? fur
the dinner one hud no toys at home,
out brougnt a live-cent piecf she had
treasured "to buy sornethin' for so tin
'»n uttle [eller that hasn't nothinV one
took all her money and brought to
liei unday school teacher a pahited
candy bird-ca^e, and said, "I want if to
me "ll
tr0C tor Eome
,hl"r
P°orer']i
And how were the children invited
those children who were to be the quests
o: the club?
Six hundred invitations were printed
An invitation committee was formed to
MSiTimute these invitation* with th*
greatest care to persons who would be
responsible for every ticket that is
they gave no invitation to any child
without knowing the parents or some-
of the recipient's history, and
wilting the child s name on the front of
back"
UlUl
name on the
.,.1'!.ee ,^ys before the festival
the.se little 'guests" could come to the
clothing room, and from the donations
made by the "members" receive boots'
snoes dresses, hoods, trousers and inck
ets—whatever they needed to present
festival °rlerly appearance at the
Let us look into the city hall at half
past one on the afternooJ of'IIolv^In
nocent s day, December
Thirty long tables areloaded with all
that makes Christmas dinners the best
in tiie vear. Ten plates are iaid at emrh
1.0^0 t'tbies. A lady is standing
ii
01 c, ry table a meuii
cither side as'_'vva
1:,,1'
mi gu»wt !:"'ks anything
i :i .terooi, Ii: reception :n
sisting lii'teen hoyr
fifteen gu H, O direction
gentleman
v
1
ii.-entt'd io
chaiye o*'tl .• v.\il be arri
kmgdowil the broad siair.-a^e, we
se lower hall hiled with children,
cage, ut.turned faces are -reward
one lias enterei
a a line of faces. 1.
-,:d "Aith heuihb*
haii sinc.oth te-da
1
scriihbi d: no nai
no (h^ o'der, as ra
and the qu ck cvcm lake in t'.ie heat
the hristmas gailands, the tow
?n e. i.d, i'l-st (d'ali, the good will
adiating from every fat"
'1 ng therpreseiiH sent o
ib,II, ha:ldS'i'ti"!v i
was pinned till-
"If there is anv ,i'
this
the li:
nr ran
lot
und
ig!i tl.
leanii:
ind e\
•e.-tau'
uiusiciars 1:
and"a dr
Mplc* of fill
After that .1 .•
back to that tv. i
•ighty-tvvo yeai.x
ind cruel King Herod
•ree^hat ever\ child •. :e(
old sh mid be put to {eat and m.- i:\e
c.itioners went Jorth and siaugiihtred
every one: but the Mttle Chri-t-ciuld »vas
haved. Save for what? To live to leach
peopleihatlittlechildreiiare precious a
tnesr lteavenly l-atber, and tha*
every K:tle child is somethina: th.it will
live forever—the price oi whichisf.tr
abo\e rubies.
lhe band then played gayly, and the
guests woo had waited so patientlv and
respectfully were, invited to partake yf
the feast.
1 very plate had previously filled
with a generous ,.p y of turkey
•'ideken, and every table had an
Jie boy who put aside, in a 1 i11
oes'de hi* plate, the nicest, part
•ryUiing gi\en bun. When a*kei
lil no: want to eat that, looke I
•v. saving, "Please mav 1 ca:: v
orne to iwotb-M Sh"'s sick
a: mar
Wheie. were the -t tagv-r lace.'
•iinong the "members" in tin gallery of
:he "guests" ahi.ut the bail? Which
were the happier?
I think there was n-. difFerence, for
wneu our hearts are t'u! to the brim with
joy, they can hold no more, and if
•"'•reams and peals of laughter, and onick
clapping of hand.-, mean joyousness,
they were both as happv as thev ciuld
There wa? so much to enjoy!
A little j»jr] recited beautifullv "'Twas
the night, before Christmas a queer
bo. 1 by-horse as large as lift, curveted
and pranced about the ball, taking lri-dit
at, e\ej.\ t.nng, and convulsing the'iiouse
with .ughter a» he waltzed in time with
ne usic, some gentlemen sang funnv
song* am. tmd the most amusing stories
and suddenlv who „hould appear but
•y.ta I laus hiinsell. He was "clothed
all ill lit from his laud to his feet," and
carried on 1m back a pack containing
fci\ hundred bags of candy.
As the sunlight faded, *a tiny ray sud
denly flashed fmm the highest --ioh
!.nS'ISl|!iaS tre?'
ttn'1
trwitnn 1%
weuVm-)U1TrU
chorus
b!!
w,L
2sth,
the'mo^t
f,!11" -v ^01 children's least
i he I'allety is reserved for those' mem
ijew ot the club who have no work to do
•hrnng that afternoon. Hut besides
these, no other spectators are admitted
to the hall no grown persons, extent
he committees who are to assist duruU
the festival in various ways. The stage
suppoits a lofty tree, decorated that
noming by the members, while, on
hiblts behind, are heaped present fr,r
ni'"11!1 ff children. Around the edw
of the ha 1, settees have beeigdaced for
foe guests, while the enthlcenter is
conted into a (l.inoiny hall
a
a nU1 1
sol ImmV I®1!
0
a,rc
the
which Arv'alUoo'Vh,^
angesar»* slinJ,
pai-lijiws *fli«
their Imn'k
I tins closes tho \u,
JjOoking niv
little later,
I
i
PT4
^en»!em7
u
'-clous of time crln*11
'here, with a do! i
ably—tight I v
1, '., r4,1 tks
v,)!
Ml
niitl ev.-rv.
SX'iud diinut, 01
chur?l
the ni
uinj
late.
i 1
u
h.i'i e takes
)ung con^le call,
'iniU'ii in
e
the
gr^Ke
et, l.andet
Wbf
at h'
oiei'
re:i n:y hail |,..Hrir.
tak)!:g u iiiifr, !.
Mr. A. ,i'i
i Mr,
mtui it is
Ak
mm .r.j
i .t »Ihtiff
red #,nn
V.'im?
it« «r i
It m,'- •, iitjttl lia
veur.. i uiirt, vrj
if li.i,'e
..c I 'ell da!
..c says womii
•I. '(it.- as !(,!'«,
in u' Wiiiriii
e \V'"*r did yoii
mm
wa'n
Froi:. 1 and
not bin •. wiii Ijia
rhups a more extrior
never heard of that
i f-tirn Venice 11
out, took their
observed to Si
r.
il-iiof
dies
I.ido
11
a fail­
ing source of ham, tongue, pickles, cake
and pie, and for nearly au hour the !:i
le hosts and hostesses served their
guests before conducting them to the
etiees awaiting them.
ou can judge best whether 'be din
uer was apprec'.-ifed, bv niv '. •, vou
one little tnrl who, wr.eii asked if sh
I ^referred chicken or turkey, replied,
i I aiu never tasted chicken and of
o w n
:i.e: I •, and .'m
1 1. 1 ssnaat!
s*AliV Tf.
moth"'
aie it I
••en rei
Italia:
i'-." ii I-
1
pile
•f v
if slie
shy
that
hurrali
fitriUn o{ musi(:
came,
S00U
h',vdllI)K
"Prai«» God,from whom all blessing flow
v
1, 11 ,1
rwsenls rU U)is
tn'e where"no'w
iate-
Ilie'lt
In-u.d
ling
While the children
naiiid i their seats, th
di-appeur as :i bv magic,
eady bunds, leaving the .,tr ,o
games and amusements.
ortv tables
ht !'V
retuit
a fris
waite
voice
cued, Ob, Bessev, see the star!" Then
another and another tw.nk.ing |i,d,t
he
^!'a,c'fal Ohristmns
IHii fr,,"shgured, all agle.un with
A pretty device had been totiearaon«
he branches "sun-bo^s," as
minors'
n
W^re'iWl1'' -an1 V10
wee one
tiu
a hnndr
away.ng
A (piiet awe had rested upon the chil
dren as they watched the stars crpen
out. lull as a flood of light burst npoi,
time-'
Uble s hi,1i l,i
w
each rank ot twen»v ih
led by the hosts, who have so clmlVaPv
Cp thf'n^YV
liT'^h
,tie
s eps'aMh/Jr'i f?(!M V10
1 at the expense
I taring the
a reixlezvoust
the wi!nt-w"i. At 1^'
rived, radiant witU
if he badVajduredMtowii
Your ilair is nnaii.'"'.
in one hour v*itii tti'H'
l»ace--. I had a g.».id d.-'-a
get consent to thethrrf
would not heiifVi! itiih
lighted.'' Forfimato.y.^*
Hturrel was amicably se'»{!l
Lord S ickvilie, lrotber
Minister at V.'a-liin^'n, o
Cceiit old Imiisii .xvlioperoi
acres. 1:. oari csilh'il ks
eii'^ak a Mnail t«avn in
mad- have of late Y'f
in ball'an hour
t,.r.-f..l.l
see the bouse. 1 la
such a nui.-Hiice u"1'1
J'"
longer allow it to oe
Sevenoaks hotel
who have mainly lived
ed its e\hibition a
theirs, are fiuioiiH.
-d in which the wrUtffriJ
catches tire be doubts
got in Sevenoaks to
(Jovernor Terrazas. 0
having commi^si*'!'®^
of the foothills of
,he
come for breoeli-l«adif^
thousand cartridges
y oaildles
e8'^,
pose of crushing, •''.nVfr
the Apaches and all
dians of the
word be sent to alM
the Territories oiJ
Mexico to .join the rn^J
State, declaring tlift- ,*it
(be pre^ium o^.^,,
and the plunder ana
captured amniuniti''",
Wlien Kc-n..t..r
Ijoint- in Kootlnnd, i'1
ling through the b*11
(schoolmate, "V"'"1"
Honald?" he Paid to
Donald, "1 don't kD0«
I caught a six-poiin1
the frith, and
ftl'lcrnoon.
at,ll( k:ftof
stage
line dnwn ll
I s at thr right, and out into the dru*.
mub rooms, and then home.
1 bejame child whom we saw win.™
in, tl«*d.lUent f.?
a e e a e s n n u
tears
can kee hack
But even this is not all
the
V!Cy 'ne a pair o' skates1"
or
after titer
hsS
thai before somt'dn
don't know .\°"rLr^"
either John Mcl ljr'v0#y
bi rty years ago»e- *»»mr
"Now which is
cried the Heiiat-01
te
jj
"Weel, .limnne, -J.
Americans aregoii^ ,g
the House
ofleel&
nlj
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