Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-31
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yANkToN, DAKOTA
Friday Evsaies, August 81, 1877
Local l.ACONltS.

The Excelsior nilla h ovesrun with buai-
nesa.
Thermomet.r "a. This is standard
weather.
ii 70 q part Of the duty Of every citizen to
work for The territorial tair.
The financial misfortune in Chicago has
not hurt the Yankton banks. (
Prof. Culver Of White Water, Wis, has
besn engaged - principal Of the vermillion
school.
Hon. ". E. Cation. Of Elk Point, accepts
the position OF marshal at the t%erritor.
iAl fair.
The republican convention Of Turner
County will meet at Swan Lake on the 10th
of September.
The Episcopal convention for the mii.
sionary diocese Of Dakota meets at Yank-
ton . week from next Friday.
Judge West, the secretary Of the t~erritor-
ial agricultural society has supplied every
nook and corner Of the territory with pos
ters and circulas announcing the coming
event.
Taylor Bros, of the Herald Office. deserve
a great deal of credit for the excellent style
in which they have got up the fair posters.
The job would win enccmiums from the
best printers In the land.
The death Of Brigham Young, chief Of
the Mormans is announced. This event
obviates the necessity for government inter.
ference witt. the vice Of polygamy. 1t will
soon follow the old chieftain.
Cedar County Bulletin: Yank,on is
steadily improving-several brick and frame
buildings now being erected. Its popula-
ton is being swelled by all nationalitics
from the east. The towa site is one Of the
finest in the west.
The bonds voted TO the C~ovin2ton, Col
umbus and Black Hills railroad by our
Cedar county Nebraska neighbor have not
been issued yet and the clerk Of the comfy
has been enjoined from delivering them 10
the trustee. The trouble is something con-
nected with the ronte adopted by the COM
pany.
Swan Lake Era: A new post Office call
ed Mansfield in honor of C. NJ. Mansfield, a
worthy settler of Turner ~connty-bas been
established at the residence of VIM. Roam.
tree, Who is the postmaster. The Swan
Lake and Allentown mail line supplies the
office. Will is a number one fellow and
will be a good postmaster, of course.
Pox Of the Yankton Nursery, has ship
ped to the Agencies and Forts above during
the present season, over 40 bushels Of toma'
toes. He will send about 40 boxes by the
Nellie Peck tomorrow night. He has also
shipped cabbage to Sioux City and tomatoes
as far east as McGregor Iowa This beats
any home industry in Dakota.
The new grocery house Of w. H. Wassor
go, Capital street, has grown rapidly il
popular favor. 1t is one of the most com
plets grocery establishments in the west ant
conducted in the best style. Their lines o
goods take in the entire field Of supplies 70
.jobbiDg and retail trade, and their long &C
quaintance in buying their particular good
enable them to offer superior inducements t
purchasers.
The Cedar county Bulletin makes the fol
lowing fattsring notice OF enc of GU
promising attorneys:
Harry McNanars, already made promi
nent by bis able literary contributions I
the Herald, has opened alaw office in Yanh
ton and viii discuss equity with the othe'
PROFESSIONAL flights of that town. Nj. NJ. is
young man of quick perception, brillian
in his ideas either in Law OK literature. an,
through recently from the east il fast gain
ing friends and prominence over the entir
territory.
w. II. Van. Gieson, ESQ, came in fror
Del Norte last Monday. During his absenc
be negotiated for the purchase of 100 ton
Of ore at Ouray, and Peter Houghton wen
there Monday 10 attend to shipping the OF
to the lixiviation works here. Mr., Va
GtesOn has also contracted for 200 tons {
ore from the Bill Young mine at Miners
City. samples from which have assayed g
200 ounces in silver and 30 ounces in col
to the ton.-Sluer World Colorado.
The "Bill Young lode is ovnedby Cap
A. W. Burrows and other equally fortuna,
boys from this neck of land.
The funeral Of Chas. E. Hedges at siou
City on the Goth, was an imposin
affair. twenty-five hundred people We,
in attendance. including the firemen, bar
and the Masonic societies under whose 8
parvision the funeral was arranged and Il
body deposited according 10 the peculi
ceremonies of that institution. Rev. N
Avery delivered the funeral discourse fro
the text:-1 Chronicles, %, IL: 1--WE .
strangers before thee. and ~sojeurners
wellas oil our fathers our days on the ear
are q q shadow and there is none abiding
The Cedar County Bulletin thua allud
TO Yankton county's garden spot:
A Favored Locality.-We made our &,
trip across the Jim river, D. T., country !,
Friday. Jim river is . smooth-runni
stream of water comparing in volume to I
Big Big si n... and draining mir I, .ooPeofcountry
tive. At the point Of our crossing It strete
"a out feYeral miles in width and consiata