Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-11-02
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III You would be discreet,
Five things observe with CARE
OF whom yeu speak. to whom you Apeak,
And how, and when and where"
By the straw We learn to reckon
OF the way tho whirlwind blows
Also through the straw is sucked
That which crimsons mankinds nose.
The 10th inst, win - fatal day for
turkey. .
Everybody should attend the mum 20.
cial tonight.
Temperance lecture tonight At the Meth.
odist church.
Yesterday was another busy day with
wheat sellers and buyers.
A marble cutting establishment has been
started on lower Third street.
The "sers and yellow leaves" have nearly
all dropped from the parent tree.
Business il reported very good ct all the
points on the Dakota Southern.
The California minstrels arc billed for
Monday evening at Stones hall.
Go and hear Susan-at the Consrega.
tional church next Friday evening.
Wheat brought rs cents per bushel to-
day, and the receipts are about 1900 bush
els.
Remember the Baptist socisble and fes-
tival this evening at the chapel. on Second
street.
Next Tuesday, Nov. 6. is the day fixed
for the Yankton county election. About
sixteen state elections, including New York,
occur on the same.
There is gradually beginning to be kind
Of "Greenland icy mountain" temperature
in our atmosphere; and boys begin to have
visions Of snowflake, coasting sleds and
skates.
A Yankton mar went out after geese the
other day and returned after a sixteen hours
absence with asolitary bird. He called it
quail, but his wife recognized it as q young
domestic pullet.
When the benevolent people of Lincoln
county wish to give their ministers extra
compensation they get up Remuneration
party, which sounds much better and ex
plains the object more truthfully than the
customary Donation" party
The case of A. P. Harmon is D. R.
Sylvester, which has been," like a wounded
snake dragging its tortuous length along" in
our courts for four or FIVE years, was dismiss
sed on Monday last, at the cost of plf:
Col. G. G. Moody appeared for plf, and
Bartlett Trip and Oliver Shannon Esq.
for defendant. The case will now go to the
supreme court.
St. Helena Bulletin: Capt. Grant Marsh
is hourly expected from below with the
steamer Livingston, which he purchased =
few days since. He contemplates starting
about the 9TH day of November on a pleas
ure excursion u salt river. He anticipates
quite a number Of passengers from Cedar
county, and has put down the fare very low
in order to have a goodly number, and pro-
misses to have along . good physician in
order to heal their broken hearts. For pas.
sage apply on board.
This morning, while in search of items,
we we're slightly imposed upon. 1t hap
pened in this way. An individual, on
Broadway rushed up to Us. exclaiming
Say did you hear about that steamboat that
was burnt up on the river above here"
Pulling out our note book and pencil we
said: "No; what boat I; whe-whe-where
and when did she burn
The reply disgusted us. 1t was this: ut
was the Antelope,-she was burned up,
seven miles above Yankton about ten years
ago"
We bought the cigars. of course.
The San Juan Sentinel thus speaks of two
old Y~anktonians: John F. Bowling, of the
Sentinel, with others, started on the 18th
instant, for the Salt mountains in Utah. II
he does not find the Indians too numerous
or too hostile, he will visit other places in
the southwest. W. hope that his note book
will be plethoric with items when he re.
turns that may be of interest to our readers.
Thomas w. Harmon of this place has
exchanged his interests in the Dakota Her
aid, NJ. K. Armstrong, Greealeaf, Montague
and Andy johnson mines in Burrows park,
and coal lands below Ouary, for which he
has received property in the east to the
amount Of $4,000.