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Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-10
CITY COUNCILS REsolurlon.

BE- IL resolced BY Ms Mayor and CITY Council Of
The CITY Of Yankton:
Section 1. That it is, aud is hereby declared to
be, necessary, that q sidewalk should be con-
stl1lcted upon certain Of the streets in the city OF
Yankton, as follows Commencing at the north
west corner Of Broadway and 18th streets thence
along the north side Of ith street to the west side
81 Lin street thence along the west side OF
Linn street to the south side OF 7th street, the
same being in front Of lots 8 and 10, block III.
Todd and WitherspoOn's Yankt0n lots 10. H.
Y, 1918 IS, 16. u and 1s, block 81. WithersOOn's
Hankt0n lots 10. II, ~, 13, IA. Is, l6, u and I8.
block 46, Central fanktOn, and lots 10, II, ", 10.
II, 70. 1G, u and lS, block 81, Central Yankt0n'
and Including the street crossings Of Linz, htli
and 9th streets.
Sec. 2. That said sidewalk shall be constructed
Of wood, be four feet in width, and be In ali re-
specte made Of the material and In the manner
provided by the ordinance of said city, and the
outer edge OF said sidewalk shall be laid three
feet from the curb line Of said street,
Sec. s., This resolution shall he published for
four consecutive weeks in the Press and DakO-
taian newspaper, the Official paper Of said city OF
YanktOn.
Passed August 9Th, 1877. ta
E. T. WHITE, City Clerk.
Approved. August 9Th, 1871.
Nj. CRAMER,
dsSd Mayor pro TEN.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-10

Nearly all the Yanktonians in the Hills
are busy, and have q fortune in the near
future.
Al. Woods lumber mill has been a source
Of profit, but just at this tine the supply
exceeds the demand, and good lumber can
be purchased for twenty-five dollars per
1000 feet.
Dan Harnett has bonded a lode 10 an H.
linois party for eighty thousand dollars. 1t
is a well defined gold bearing lode, yield.
ing from an average of top rock thirty. six
dollars to the ton.
Deadwood, according t Mr.. Wallis esti.
mate, has a permanent population of 5000.
and an equal number of sojourners. 1t
already contains q number of fine resi-.
dences, and is as orderly as an eastern city.
From Mr.. Andy Walls, Of the firm of
Hornick & Walls, Sioux City, who returned
from the Black Hills on the Fanchon, We
learn that business in the Hills is overdone.
The market is overlooked with goods which
are selling in some instances for little more
than sufficient to pay freight charges.
The quartz lodes generally continue to
Weld profitable. Pearson's mill has proved
a mine Of wealth. Wambole's mill will
soon be running, and promises to prove a
first class investment. Its owners have
worked like beavers since reaching the
mines. Van Meter and Gunderson, of Yer.
million. are interested with Wambole.
d. Burleigh's st%eam-pump is in successful
operation On Castle creek, and it bids fair to
make its owner q millionaire. From one
forty feet deep, from which the water
had been removed by the pump, seven buck
cts of earth yielded Sl4. This claim was the
property of Burleigh & Beadle, of Bon HON.
me. Burleigh's pump supplied drainage for
a number of good mines, for which the min
ers pay literally and are truly thankful, for
without the pump, the mines are ~valueless.
These mines are in Pennington county.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-10
a POPULAR PLACE.
'~[springaeld Times.l

springfield TiMes.l
The Merchants hotel. Yankton, was liter
ally overaowed withguests during II ursday
and Friday of last week. Nearly three
hundred persons were seated for dinner in
their spacious dining room on the Sd and all
were served with . promptness and alacrity
that surprised even the guests themselves.
The secret Of the Merchants success in this
important direction lies in the fact that 4
thoroughly competent and energetic steward
has charge Of the dining room and the help
therein, and sees 10 it that no one is in the
slightest degree neglected. And this is what
makes the Merchants, with it, excellent
apartments and abundantly supplied tables
so popular with the travelling public-a fact
which its gentlemanly proprietors can well
afford to be proud of.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-10
CARD.

To tie Cash Purchasing Paddle;
take pleasure in announcing that the
new cash grocery house is now prepared
for business, and respectfully solicl.s cash
patronage. It is my design to keep q first,
class grocery store. embracing every variety
Of goods known TO the trade, and to sell
them for cash at prices that can not fail 10
be satisfactory. l invite a call aud an ex
animation Of goods and prices.
Very respectfully.
A. w. LAVENDER,
If Third st. opp. Mills s Purdy's.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-10
Personal.

Mrs. Pennington is considerably worse
to-day.
Wu. R Erwin. of Lower Brule, is a, The
Merchants.
N. 4. Woolley viii, leave for Milltows
,o-morrow y start up his gfist mill for the
seasnn's work.
Gen. Hammond will go to Yellow Medi-
cine creek on the next up boat to stake out
the gfcand for the Red Cloud agency build.
ingA
+. g Munger, Of Duluth, contractor for
thu. Fort Peck agency buildings, is at the
Merchaats. He has signed the contract
and will at ones begin the work.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-10
Vegetable
ReOeWer

Remover.
lsa scientific combination ofsome of the
most powerful restorative agents In the
Vegetable Kingdom. It restores gray hair
to It's original color. 1t makes the scalp
white and clean. It cures dandruff and
hnumors, and falling out of the hair. Il
furnishes the nutritive principle bv which
the hair is nourished and supported. II
makes the hair moist, soft, and elossy. and
is unsurpassed AZ q hair dressing. Ii is the
most economical preparation ever offered to
the public, a. it's effects remain a long time.
making only an occasional application nee.
essary. tits recommended and used bv emf.
nent medical men, and officially endorsed
by the State Assayer of Massachusetts. For
sale BY oil dealers. Sold by Mills & Purdy,
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-10
rERRlrollAL AeaicULrvaAL sec.Err,

YAxKrox,D T., Aug. 10, ~.
There will b . meeting Of thsodcers and
boArdof directors Il the Territorial Agsl.
cultezalsocisy = Yankton, o. Friday ths
l7th day Of August, 1877, to arrange for .
fair the coming fall.
NJ. T. WooLLEY,
Secretary.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-10

Opportunity is the flower oftime.: Time
is laden down just now with flowers in the
shape of Gents summer clothing and I'M
derwear, to be sold at actual cost at Harry
katz's. Gather roses While We may"
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-10

schorgge will commence running q bread
wagon August 9Th. Parties desiring bread
delivered will please leave orders at the
store. He proposes to make and deliver it
in such shape that domestic bread manufac-
ture will be no longer necessary. diff
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-10
WAR IN YAxkros.

Schoregge will sell twenty eight loaycs o
bread for one dollar; seven loaves for twenty
five cents. AZ
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-10

From this date (Aug. 1st) l will keep in
my saloon, the Custer House, cheese, hams,
herrings, etc. CHARLES Lone.
Aug2dlm
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-10

Waiting cards on damask board. white
and tinted bristols, at Press and Dakotaian
lob rooma.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-10
PROPOSALS.

PROPOSALS u BOARD CITY PRISONERS
CEAl.ED PROPOSALS., directed to the un-
- dersigned, will be received until the 18th day
Of August, 1877, for furnishing board to city pris-
Oners. Proposals to be for one hundred meals
Z. T. WHITE, City Clerk.
Yankton, d. T., August Z, 1877. div
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-10

Another large invoice of the latest styles
Of straw hats, just received at Katz's.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-10
ROASTED COFFEE.

Ifthere is any luxury more generally ap.
precisted 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 a coffee
called
ANKORIA,
which is the nearest approach to Java Of
any heretofore offered to consumers. It is
not glazed, is brittle and will grind easily.
Your grocer has the goods for sale, as 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, 1877-08-10

Do not wait until you get East to invest
in . suit Of clothes. Harry Katz's stock
will compare favorably with some of the
largest in Chicago, in all respects, end he
will sell just as cheap as you can buy in any
eastern city. Every one who has been there
endorses this statement.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-10
ron SALE CHEAP ron CASH.

A secoed.hsnd chilled iron cafe. sille
manufacture. Inquire Of
GEo. q. HAND.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-10

Straw hats at katz,s.
Trunks and Valises at Katz's.
Gents summer underwear At Katz's.
Lisle thread B%albriggan aud British half
Hose at Katz's.
White and colored Shirts at Katz's.
White Vests at Katz's.
Everything cheap beyond compare at
Katz's.
Don't fail to go to Katz's.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-10

Ola papsss III als q lie Pres and Da.
kosian o2ca. p ny +osnts pr hundred.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-11
The Giants Causeway.

Nothing have ever seen in nature can
equal the perfect finish of the Causeway.
1t is difficult to believe that the hand If
man has not fashioned it. Pillar on pill
lar, smooth, perfect hexagons, climb up
and down where you will upon it, and
the same perfection of shape meets your
eyes. One group of pillars has been
called the Fan, since it has assumed that
shape. The columns as a rule are about
four feet in length and rise one above an
other SO regularly that the tops on some
form seats, and those form backs to them,
and so on from the lowest to the highest
1t is almost impossible to describe the
beauty of the place; you have to stand
first where we stood to believe it.
Stand on the hexagons with the grea,
waves surging up to your feet, pillows OF
blue-green water roll up and retreat,
gurgiing as they go from submarine hol-
lows, under your feet, and then as you
approach to peep over the rocks, rush
forward again, fixing all round you, and
splashipg you with foam and bits of sea-
weed Turn aside and rocks of grand
and weird shape meet your view. Amongst
others appears to be monk who, with
bent head, kneels in everlasting attitude
of prayer. Contemplate these rocks for a
few minutes and they will appear full OF
faces and figures, fantastic perhaps and
quaint, but all in keeping with the kneel-
ing figure. Turn your back upon the
sea, and what grand scene you have =
what cliffs, what rocks, what wonderful
formation. 1t seemed to me, wherever l
looked, my eyes wanted to remain fixed.
-Neu DominiOn Monthly.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-11
The Unemployed.

"Three million of unemployed men in
the United States'-that is the text upon
which have been threaded more editorial
attempts at pathos lately than any state
ment that has been made since the panic.
But is it true2 There are in the United
States about 100000 people, 100000
900 males, of whom not over S,000,0U0
are mature, able-bodied men. Of these
100000 about 100000 are Southern
negroes, of whom it can hardly be said
that any are really out of employment,
since there is work enough for all who are
willing to work. OF the remaining six
million, at least three million are farmers,
of whom it cannot be said that any are
out of employment. This calculation
leaves but about 10000 to be account
ed for, and if they are all out of employ
ment, then there is nobody at work 10
the United States, except the women, the
Southern negroes and the farmers! But
this, of course, is an absurd conclusion.
OF these 100000 We know that 1,0O0,-
900 are engaged in active business in
professional work, or else supported from
accumulated wealth. And OF the rem lain
ing 100000 at least one-half of 1000,
900 is engaged in mechanical trades, in
the great business of transportation, in
manual labor, in Government or State
employ, ETC., etc. This would leave but
100000 men really unemployed in the
whole country, of whom at least half are
Southern whites who won't work, tramps,
lazy young men living on their fathers,
etc. etc. We then arrive at the conclu-
sion that not over 100000 men in the
United States are really unemployed
Ptttsburg Leader.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-11

A CORRESPONDENT Of the st. Paul
Pioneer Press describes the use of gold
dust as currency as the greatest nuisance
of the Black Hills. Each man is pro-
vided with his buckskin sack, and no
matter what he buys, be it a plug of to-
bacco for ten cents, or an outfit for sew
eral hundred dollars, he must weigh the
amount out in dust. This is vexatious
process, and of course cannot he often re-
peated without a considerable percentage
OF waste. Gold is taken at eighteen dol
lars in greenbAcks, and all shopkeepers
give two prices. movement is on foot
t. remedy this evil by adding a consider
able percentage to the price of goods
sold for dust, aud many of the more
sensible miners are beginning to sell
their dust IS they bring it 10, and do
their trading with paper money. Form
erly there was much risk in taking gold
dust, rs it was mixed with \ material
that it was impossible to detect 10y any
test except that of acid, and few could
spare the time TO submit the dust to that
process. Now the dust is comparatively
clean and safe to handle.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-11

Oh yes, she had. If you had been in
the cottage that night you would have
heard cough every now and then, and
would have found that Ellen's mother
was lying in a bed in the room,-not a
bed with curtains, but bed with doors
like press. This does not seem nice
way of having bed but We should all
be glad of the wooden curtains about us
at night, if We lived in such a cottage,
on the side of hill along which the
wind swept like a wild river. only ten
times faster than any river would run,
even down hillside. Through the cot
tage it would be spouting, and stream
ing, and eddying, and fighting, all night
long and poor woman with cough,
or man who has been out in the cold
all day, is very glad to lie in sheltered
place, and leave the rest of the house to
the wind and the fairies.-St. Nicholas for
SeDtennber
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-11

A LATE nobleman, in whose character
vanity and parsimony were the most re-
markaole features, was, for u long time
before he died, in the habit of retailing
the produce of his dairy and his orchard
TO the children and the poor people of
his neighborhood. 1t is told that one
day, observing a pretty little girl trip
plug through his grounds with . milk
can, he stopped TO kiss her after which
he said, in = pompous tone, Nov, my
dear, you may tell your grandchildren
that you had once the honor of receiving
kiss from the Right Honorable, the Earl
of B" The child looked up into
his face, and, with . strange mixture Of
and archness, remarked, " But
you took the penny for the milk, though
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-11

Sir HUMPHREY DAvY.-When Davy
was in Sicily he was studying geology.
and the rap and cla,ter of his hammer
amt ng the rocks astonished the Catanian
pcas ants, who accounted him mad. They
told their priest of the danger from the
maniac, but Davy had seen the priest be-
fore them; his reverence quietly intimat-
ed to the peasants that it was foreign
gentleman from q far-off land who was
practising penance! Davy was regard
ed by the Catanisns as saint. He has
since been regarded by the world a. .
philosopher.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-11

THE OLD MAN.-Bow low the head
boy do reverence to the old man. Once
like you, the vicissitudes of life have
silvered the hair, and changed the round,
merry face to the worn visage before you.
Once that heart beat with aspirations
equal to any you have felt-aspirations
crushed'b by disappointment, as yours are,
perhaps, destined to be. Once that form
stalked proudly through the gay scenes
of pleasure, that beau-ideal Of grace; now
the hand of Time, that withers the flower
Of yesterday, has warped that figure and
destroyed the noble carriage. Once, at
your age, he possessed the thousand
thoughts that pass through your brain
now wishing to accomplish deeds worthy
Of nook in the temple of fame; anon
imagining life dream that the sooner he
awoke from the better. But he has lived
the dream very near through. The time
to awake is very near at hand; yet his
eye ever kindles at old deeds of daring,
and the hand takes q frmer grasp at the
staff. Bow low the head, boy, a. you
would in your old age be reverenced.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-11
PanSies.

These universal favorites need no word
of commentator at our hands; we only
wish to explain how the florists proceed
to produce the beautiful large flowers
that are so much admired in early spring.
The seed should be sown about the mid
die of August in very rich garden bed,
the richer the larger will be the flowers,
if not rich already it should be made so
by the addition of very fine manure. The
plants will need thinning out or trans
planting in September to about six inches
apart; after the ground freezes they
should be covered with litter about as
much as strawberries, which is raked off
early in spring, and if in a warm sunny
exposure they will blossom very early :;
but If the flowers are wanted before they
will come OUT of doors the bed should be
prepared in the fall like hot bed, put
ting down planks six feet apart to receive
glass in March; the covering in this case
should be sea weed and brush deep
enough to keep out frost, and care will
be needed to protect them from rottiug if
the weather is warm in the winter. They
bloom profusely in early spring but as
the weather grows warmer the flowers
grow smaller, and if we desire to save
good seed for planting it should be taken
from the large early flowers. BY mark
ing the most desirable colors while in
flower we can get seed that will be likely
to produce similar color, but in order to
be sure of perpetuating the color it will
be necessary to separate the plants by
considerable interval to prevent the pol
len from mixing. A watering with liquid
manure at the time of Towering will in
crease the size of the fower.-Mass.
PlouQhman.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-11

A PUPIL in an English school was
asked in an examination paper, why is
the tropic Of Cancer so called, and why is
it situated twenty three and half degrees
from the equatora" The answer, con-
structed on basis of purest logic, was !:
"The Tropic OF Cancer is SO called from
Lain word cancer, meaning q crab, be-
cause there are . great many crabs in
that portion of the globe and it is situst-
tw-nty-,hree and q half degrees from the
EQUATOR because there are more crabs
there than anywhere else" Another pu-
pill, asked to define the word "buttress,"
wrote out its meaning, "A female who
makes butter"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-11
MEASURING BY THE EYE.-Years ago

MEASURING BY THE EYE.-Years ago,
a VS. correspondent, when We went t.
school 10 little weather beaten school
house, what exciting contests there used
to be over the teachers favorite exercise
of having the scholars estimate, with the
eye, the size and weight of different ob-
jects in the room. He. would hold up
his cane, aud have each one tell how long
he thought il was, aud it was a lucky
child that could come within half foot
of the right length. He would measure
an nrchin, and then have the scholars try
to reproduce the measure on the wall.
He would mark off an inch or foot or a
yard in some conspicuous place, and then
see how near anybody could come to
chalking the same length on the black
board. And it was astonishing how wide
astray one would GO. The fact is, our
eyes deceive us ridiculously, even upon
the commonest things. At first thought,
which should you say was the taller, a
three year-old child or flour barrelG
And could anything but actual measure
ment convince you that the same child is
half as high as six footers There is an
old saying, that child two years old is
half as tail a. he ever will be; aud after
a few experiments in measuring, one can
easily believe it, but not before.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-11

DIsPLAY.-True merit is never fond Of
Display. Hence comes the phrase, "bar-
baric splendor." 10 the palaces OF the
Turk, ia the halls Of the Aztec, the
greatest displays of history are located.
There the mind lay in feebIeness, full OF
coarse passion or childish littleness. In
the heart Of Africa the great traveller,
Schweinfurth, found the same love Of the
'.high style" He found jet-black prin.
cess whose body WAS weighed down by
over a hundred pounds Of African jewel
nv. Her ankles, her arms, her waist, her
neck, were laden with rude iron rings.
The taste ran to iron at those African re-
ceptions. Thus this history Of display
is all inwoven with the history Of bar
barian life. The moment the higher fac
ulties Of mind began to be developed,
splendor began to move from without 10
ward. Decoration moved away from the
tapestry, aud wardrobe to reappear IN
the soul. True greatness has always
been plain.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-11

PITKIN's JOKE ON THE LOUISIANA
DEMoCRATs.-lt will he remem bereJ that
recently one of the Nichols investigat-
ing committees found three or four boxes
in the custom house marked ~. II. G.
Pitkin." The conclusion was jumped at
that the contents were certain stolen
papers bearing the vote of the State. The
committee, through Gov. Nichols, asked
the attorney general OF the United States
if they should be opened. Judge Devens
said the committee would have to take
that responsibility on its own shoulders.
Meantime, while cogitating rs to what
should be done, each member of the
smelling committee affixed their private
seals on the boxes TO preclude the posi-
bility of the opening of the lids without
detection. Meanwhile Pitkin, who knew
What was going on, allowed New Orleans
for three weeks to work it-elf into high
state of excitement. Thinking the sus-
pense had been long enough borne, and
with the chances to have the committee
make asses of themselves, he yesterday
telegraphed to the Nichols authorities
his permission to open the boxes. 1t is
understood they contain fishing tackle,
some imitation grubworms, old gumshoes,
bathing suits aud hammock or two.
Pitkin thinks also that one Of the boxes
contains in manuscript an epic poem,
which he trusts the Committee will read
and criticise.