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Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-09-26
ROASTED COFFEE.

lfthere is any luxury more generally ap-
preciated than another, it is GOOD COFFEE.
Few persons can roast coffee well, and to
meet this want Messrs. Bell, Conrad 4 Co.,
Chicago, have imported and roasted coffee
called
ANKORIA,
which is the nearest approach to Java OF
any heretofore offered 70 consumers. It is
not giased, is brittle and will grind easily.
Your grocer has the goods for sale, ~ also
the famous
PEERLESS BAKING POWDER,
made by the same firm Ask him for them
and obtain the best goods in the world.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-09-26
CLEAR WATER.

Pumped Every Evening by the Ferry
Boat Engine.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-09-26

Parties can be supplied with clear fresh
water by applying to the BLUE wagon
at the Ferry boat or Kadish's drug store.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-09-26
NOTICE.

NOTICE.
On AM, after this date the scotland and Fire
steel stage viii start tioin A. W. Lavender
store, 3rd street, Yanktnn. For express or pas
sage, apply to \, W. Lavender
WM. SEAMAN,
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Broche Shawls at Eiseman 4 Co. s.
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cattle.
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LIST OF LETTERS

Remaining in the postoffice at Yankton
Yankton county, d. T., Sept 26, 1877. II
not called for in 30 days, will be sent to
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-09-26
THE REUNION.

Arrangements Perfected at Last Ntxht's
Meeting.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-11
The Spring Freshets.

An enormous quantity of rain has fallen
during the past week over the watersheds
of the rivers between the Atlantic coast and
the Missouri. But in the western country
the drainage gradients are low, and there
fore the flow of the water from the surround
ing territory into the rivers is gradual.
In the Ohio Valley, however, MS we'll as
in the watersheds of the rivers that flow
from the Allegheny system to the At
lantic, the drainage gradients are steep,
and consequently the volume of water
precipitated into the rivers during heavy
rain storm, such as that just passed, from
the slopes of q hilly region, is immense.
Many of the rivers, such as the Ohio, Sus-
quehanna, Mohawk and Delaware, were fro
zen over when the storm came on. Even
the great Hudson was filled with floating
ice and it's upper waters closed to naviga-
ton. The high temperature and the warm
rain broke up these ice masses, while filling
the rivers with prodigious volumes of water,
and the results are heavy freshets.
According to our latest dispatches
the Mohawk has risen twelve feet
six inches during less than twenty-four
hours. The Susquehanna has already over
flowed its banks ut Wilkesbarre Pa. The
Ohio has risen nine feet at Pittsburg, thir-
teen feet at Cincinnati and five feet at Louis
vile during the past two days. The Upper
Hudson, though filed with running ice. is
in danger Of being closed by the present
cold snap, and the New England rivers
give indications Of damaging floods. Alto
gether the exceptional condition of the
rivers must be attributed to the recent
storm and the cold that follows it. The
present freshets will subside during the
next few days. but rise may be expected
in the Lower Mississippi
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-11

If the alarm of fire that was raised ut st.
Francis Xavier's Church had been really
warranted we fear that the results would
have been even more disastrous than those
arising from mere groundless panic.
There is no doubt that the church was over
crowded. Father Langcake says, substan-
TALLY, "the seating capacity of the building
persons, and, allowing the widest margin,
no more than eleven hundred persons could
be provided with standing ROOM" Now, it
is clear that the church must have held
nearly one half as many more persons as
was consistent with safety. Therefore it
was dangerously overcrowded, and disaster
was possible even if the exits were more nu-
merous and the stairways wide and COM
modious. The passages must have been
thronged with worshippers and, although
the people in the aisles did not suffer from
the frantic rush from the west gallery. they
aided in rendering the crush at the foot Of
the stairway more deadly by cutting off the
outlet of escape.
Too much credit cannot be given to the
good priests of st. Francis Xavier's for their
cool and brave efforts to calm the excited
multitude. If it had not been for them the
panic would have seized every person pres
ent. The appeals to those in the body of
the church, coupled with the singing of the
''Tantum Ergo by the choir, had the effect
of arresting many in their headlong flight
perhaps to death. The story of this disas-
ter brings the question of unsafe buildings
again into prominence. What might
have been deplorable catastrophe in
Washington street, by the fall, all OF
heap, Of large Warehouse, was
providentialy prevented by the time OF
its occurrence and the absence of the en-
ployes. This building was evidently badly
constructed. The floor beams failed II
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-11

their carrying capacity, and either detected
and drew from their bearings on the walls
or broke under the load that was placed
upon them. Overlooking storehouse floors
is as dangerous to public safety as over
crowding theatres and churches, and differs
only in degree. If we can regulate the
number Of passengers that ship shall carry,
the strength Of her hull and the size OF
her boats, why not the number of persons to
be admitted to public building? 1t is
wisdom to provide against the possibilities
of danger. even though they be very remote
We hope that the lesson of the recent dis
asters will bear fruit in greater caution and
safer buildings.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-11

When an actor dies it is not only himself
which he has embodied. Lear, Richelieu
and virginius thus persisted with Edwin
Forrest to find their palingenesis in Edwin
Booth. A long train of tragic queens
descended with Charlotte Cushman into the
grave. To-day, when the remains of one of
the most passionate and famous of American
actresses are carried away to the tomb they
will not pass away unattended. Blanca,
whose sorrows were not greater than those
of this woman, will share her rest, and Ca
mile will lay her cross of white camelias
upon the grave. Matilda Heron greatly
suffered and greatly triumphed in her dra-
matte career. She possessed genius in q
high degree, and at one period of her life
had no rival in her own realm. But
she who had simulated painful death a
thousand times expired peacefully at last,
perfectly contented to leave the mimic stage
and the real stage Of the world. She be-
queaths to her profession not only her own
fame, but child whose future it will watch
over with the tenderest care 1t was the
dying request of Matilda Heron that her
funeral services should be conducted in
sThe Little Church Around the Corner"
and many who admired and few who loved
the great actress will not fail to pay the
last tribute of respect to her memory. The
curtain falls, the lights are extinguished and
the spectators depart.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-11
The city Charter.

There are SO many good points in the
proposed charter for this city, which has the
sanction of the joint Committee on Cities Of
the Legislature. that we are not surprised to
find that the friends Of good government are
not without apprehensionsa as to its ultimate
fate 1t will at once put out of Office up
ward of dozen commissioners, gentlemen
who are many of them doubtless in high
degree ornamental, but not necessary to the
government of the city. With many of these
gentlemen will disappear the superfuous
departments over which they preside. Four
departments will by this process of CONSOLE
dation become merely bureaus in other de-
partments. These ore the Excise Depart
ment, whose duties will go to the Police,
where they belong; the Department of
Buildings, which will become a bu-
reau in the Fire Department, and the
Dock Department, which will go to the
Public Works Department. The duties now
performed by the Public Administrator will
20 to the office Of the Corporation Counsel
1t will be further reform in the city's legal
machinery to abolish the useless Office Of Cor
poration Attorney. Many Of the departments
not abolished will be subordinated to one
head. The Department of Parks will be
treated thus, and will be relieved from the
control it now has over certain streets, but
will retain its other functions. There is a
disposition to extend these positive econo-
mics in expenditure to the abolition of the
Marine Court, not that that tribunal is I'M
necessary, but because it is believed more
efficient tribunal can be organized to cost
but little more than half the money. 1t is
further proposed that the elections shall be
held in the spring. There is not one of these
propositions that is not in itself a good
measure of reform. Taken altogether they
will constitute an immediate and important
practical reconstruction of our city govern
ment, and we trust, therefore, the measure
will become law.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-11
Pulpit Topics To-day.

Considering that there is no foundation
in Scripture for o belief in hell or eternal
punishments the Universalists expend a
great deal of argument, protest and expostu-
lation with those who profess belief in these
doctrines, and Mr.. Pullman will increase
the amount to-day. Mr.. Mccarthy, too,
will discuss the existence of heaven and hell
and their relation to humanity, while DR..
Armitage will look after Judas Iscariot. who
went ''to his own place. and the orthodox
and liberal Christians have been trying for
eighteen centuries to find out his abode.
Mr.. Martyr may be able to settle the ques-
ton in his talk about the devil-a myth
ical parsonage in the creeds of many,
but living reality in their expert
ences and lives. It is little strange,
too, that while some ministers disprove the
existence of hell altogether, others, notably
Mr.. Alger, will demonstrate to-day that there
are two hells-a NEUROLOGICAL and true one.
A dead man will speak through Mr.. Mo-
ment-not very strange phenomena, how
ever, in these days-and Mr.. rockingham
will utilize the discord that exists between
dreams and duties. The Office of the m cd
ern priest, as illustrated by Professor Adler,
is to abolish the priesthood and religion
generally and rear up on organization based
on ethical culture. Mr.. Hepworth's quota
ton of Nathan's charge to David, ''Thou art
the man." is pertinent to such destruction
sctc
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-11

called, and turn their attention to their true
source of strength and proft-their local
business The people, having learned their
power, will not submit to being charged fifty
cents per one hundred pounds for one
hundred miles, while the same carrier
transports goods nine hundred miles
beyond their doors for fifteen cents
per one hundred pounds The States
will make laws regulating the tolls on these
highways. Doubtless the charge of less
rate per mile will be permitted on freight
carried a thousand miles than on that trans
ported only ten miles, the latter being sub
jected to just as great terminal expenses as
the former. But railroads will no longer
be allowed to charge more for the shorter
than for the longer distance. There is no
danger that the people will Cypress the
railroads. The latter are still strong enough
to take good care Of themselves. The public
is always just in the long run. Any unfair
treatment of roads by legislation will be
fought against by the press and eventually
remedied by the people.
This decision is equivalent to revolution
in the railroad business 1t is said that
one of the ablest of the railroad mag
mates has long foreseen that the right of the
people to use these highways with their
own cars, and engines even, would soon
be recognized, and admitted this right as a
reason for furnishing extraordinary facili-
ties in the way of ''sidings," rates and &C
ccmmodations to manufacturers and other
shippers along his lines, upon the ground
that when this right should be acknowl-
edged they would have no tempta-
ton for it's enforcement. Whatever
may have been his or any other railroad
officers opinion, it is now certain that the
rights and powers of the people are
acknowledged. What they may prove in
all their details to be is too much for imme-
date consideration or present space In
the meantime the appearance is that the de-
cision of the Supreme Court has brought
safety to the country and salvation to the
railroads.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-11

President Hayes first collision with the
obstructive elements of his party has re-
suited in a handsome victory and the con-
firmation Of his whole Cabinet by a vote
that may be regarded as unanimous, the
only adverse votes having very much the
character of expressions of personal chagrin
and spite. Upon this result the country is
to be congratulated as much as the Presi-
dent From the sudden collapse of the
opposition to the Presidents policy. as indi-
Gated in the composition of his Cabinet,
this collision will be belittled and may pres
emily appear to have been only trivial skir-
mish but it was, nevertheless. an important
battle, on which were ct stake issues of the
greatest consequence to the country. Our
greatest misfortune is to have in the Exec
utive Mansion man whose personality is
a mere cover for government by an intrigue,
by this or that conspiracy of officeholders
and jobbers. This has been conspicuously
seen on several occasions ; and it has even
made itself fagrantly felt in cases where the
Executive was O man of very positive and
even in1omitable will. In such cases OF
course the factions do not openly lead
the President by the nose, but they play
upon his known weakness and are not the
less successful for the adoption of devious
courses. Every function of govern
ment where that kind of influence is
dominant in the State is perverted
to corrupt purposes; and the State itself be-
comes only a great scheme for the protec-
ton of robbers and the oppression Of
the people. The battle just fought was
to determine whether we should have that
kind of government for the next four
years. or plain, honest, straightforward
government as the people understand it;
whether one set Of men should filch the
money of the people through the Navy De-
partment another through the War De-
partment, another through the Interior,
and so on, or whether the honest, upright
men appointed to those offices by the Presi-
dent should administer them simply for the
purposes for which they were created. This
was the undoubted nature of the issue. and
the fact that victory has fallen to the side of
honest government is Of good augury, as it
shows that jobbery, which lately seemed so
shameless at the capital, is yet so little con-
tident that il loses heart when looked fairly
in the face Now that the President has his
Cabinet as he has named it we anticipate
confidently the immediate initiation Of meas
ures that will ultimately pacify the South.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-11

our LONDON anU rArAs O@OAe AetteESs
General Ignatieff, who is not wanted in
Paris, where he is, or in London,
where he is not, has, nevertheless,
something to say concerning the i'm
mediate future of Europe which both
capitals are anxious to hear. Paris,
however, has its own troubles with Germany
to talk about, and, like our own democ-
racy, to grin and bear. But it has
some choice bits of operatic scandal
too. There is one impresario Knocked on
the head, second thrown out Of his car
rage, while third takes fight in manner
which the defaulting clerk of Podunk gro
Gerry would regard with contempt-namely,
having only three dollars of other peoples
money in his pockets 1t has a banker on
trial for arson, which will crafty the ex-
leaders of the Commune, whether in New
Caledonia or Montmartre-tha branch of
reform being generally confined hitherto to
gentlemen wearing blue blouses. Then the
prime dome are in trouble. Little Patti,
having left her husband, finds but poor well
come from the naughty matrons Of Vienna,
who turn the cold side of their shapely
shoulders to her at the opera house. Little
Lucca, who has had much experience in
the husband business, finds herself in n
lawsuit with one of them for half
fore she snapped the marital cord. When
we remember that this same Baron wants
to have the divorce set aside we may imagine
the hasty manner with which the sprightly
little singer will put her earnings, since they
were parted by law, out of the way
From London Punch we have description
of a cartoon on American beet, which is
accompanied by some complimentary verses,
which are beefy also. While it may be i'm
polite to look the gift horse in the mouth, it
is hard to forbear laugh at the spawned
Pegasus which our British cousins exhibit
after they have ridden him over the
powders Of what they are pleased
to call the Yankee vernacular. Paris
is puzzled over our weather predictions
for that city, and London invokes the HERALD
prophet to give it fine day for the Ok
ford and Cambridge boat race. 1t may
here be quietly limited that England
would have had fewer tempests this season
if certain London prophet, hight Row.
land, had not ventured last year to predict a
storm for New York when it was q
well established fact that we grew our own
storms and had monopoly in the British
hurricane market. American beef and
American cottons in England are also, we
may confdentially add, some of the
results of his temerity. With another orig
inal Uncle Tom on visit to Queen Victoria,
and batch of lively fashion items from
Paris, we leave our cable letters to our
readers.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-11
WEII-To-Do READERS OF THE HERALD, VIII,

IA WEII-To-Do READERS OF THE HERALD, who
yreathc n sympathetic sigh over the statements
If workingmen to the Mayor, may be of great
ervice to humanity by remembering that indi-
iduals may do that which the city is powerless
10 accomplish, by helping the discouraged work
ingmen to find employment, and by relieving to
some extent the pressing necessities of this
worthy class The gratitude of the poor is not a
bad permanent investment for ones surplus
funds; it may not yield interest at present, but
tbe principal can he retained by the investor
when he leaves his other possessions behind him.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-11

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock mar
kct was fairly active, the principal business
being done in Lake Shore and the coal stocks.
ThcrN was general decline in values, the coal
stocks being the principal sufferers. Gold
opened at 1O5ls and closed ut 1O4a4, business
being done at the intermediate prices Govern
ment bonds were weak and lower as also
railroad bonds. Money was easy ut 212 3 per
cent on call and closed easy ut per cent on call.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-11

THE CIRCUIT Court OF THE UNITED STATES,
fitting at Hartford Conn. decided yesterday
That the steamer Maryland, which transports
railway passenger cars and their occupants from
ono set of rails ending ut Morrisania to another
which begins in New Jersey, is not n ferryboat,
nut part prolongation of a railroad, and that
therefore the city of New York, which is the
plaintiff in the suit, has rightful claim upon
Inc boats owners forNfcrry rentals.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-11

From our reports this morning The probabilities
IRE that Inc weathcr in Nep York t0ddy w,H be
tightly ,carmer and partly cloudy or clear, ,ciM
fresh trihds from the southeast
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-11

Our OF THE FRYING PAN INTo THE FIRE
walked number of lottery dealers yesterday,
and their opinion of the United States govern
ment this morning makes the most abandoned
6libuster seem loyal by comparison.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-11

THE FAMOUS JOE Goss, of pugilistic fame,
continues TO demand admiration on account of
bis magnificent physical development. Events
in court within the past two or three days show
that his is no unbalanced body, but that his
check is in as fine condition us his muscles.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-11
GU ADRUPLE SHE Il Z
NEW YORK, SUNDAY, MARCH II, 1877.
,N0TICE TO COUNTRY DEALERS.

The Adams Express Company run special newspaper
aSn PENNSYLVANIA Railroad and its connections,
Saving Jersey City at quarter past tour A. NJ daily and
Sunday carrying the edition of the HERALD tar
West US Harrisburg South Washington reaching
Philadelphia quarter past six A. NJ and Washington
II o1a NJ.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-11

CHEMIST charged with distilling crooked
whiskey claims in defence that the liquids seized
Iere poisonous spirits. AS if there was any sort
\ liquor which did not come under the same
desnnafion !
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-11

SANITARY INSPECTIONS FOR THE Schools
enatc bill 175, introduced by Senator Gerard,
provides for thorough inspection by competent
medical men of all the schools and school build
ings in the city of New York. We called attcn-
ton to the necessity for this measure on the 9th
If February, and pointed out how vitality i'm
,portant it was TO the sanitary welfare of the
thousands of children who attend our public
chools. Il is only by rigid inspection of both
schools and scholars that proper idea can be
Formed of the sanitary abuses that now threaten
The young in close, i'll ventilated schoolhouses
situated in i'll drained and filthy districts. We
hope, for the sake of the children, who are at
the mercy of the Legislature in this instance,
tlat Senator Gerards bill will become % law
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-11

DISTINGUISHED CITIZENS will find some acc,i-
Atc information about themselves in our "Pcr-
!. ANAL Intelligence"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-11

THE OBJECTIONS of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr.,
% the integrity of the will of his father, pub
lished in full to-day. promise TO keep witnesses
and jurymen from gr,imbling about lack Of
business.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-11
ADJUSTMENTS TOMORROW.

UNION SQUARE THEArRE-TuE DANicHErFs.
ACADEMY OF MUsIC-TnE WAGNER Fxrx.
kRw YORK AQUARIUM.
EAGLE THEATRE-AIMxE.
IGERMANIA THEATRE-Dmsr MAxssER
|uTADT THEATRE-THE FLYING DUrcHMAs
|BOwERY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ALBANIA.
BROADWAY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. MAvouRsEEN.
brand OPERA HOUsE-Two ORPHANS.
|RiFrH AVENUE THEATRE-BLuE GLASS
THIRD AVENUE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
IfARK THEArRE-oUR BOARDING HOUSE
kkALLACK's THEATRE My AWFUL DAD.
<oLYMPIC NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OPERA
tYCEUM NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OPERA
HuoLEYs THEATRE. BRooKLYN-Mrss MUTTON
tIvOLI THEATKE-vARiEry.
FEW AMERICAN observation-disclosures.
JAN FRANCISCO MINsTREIs.
KELLY Icons MINSTRELs
EGYPTIAN HALL-SESsArIoNAL VARIETY.
PARTISAN VARIETIES.
HELLER's NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
COLUMBIA OPERA HOUsE-vARIErY.
THEATRE COMfQUE--vARrEry
TONY PASTORS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
EILMoRE's GAEDEN-MExIcAN RIDING.
BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE-vARmrY.