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Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-17
FAST YOUNG MEN.
Concerning a Steadily Aug.
mented Class in New York
City.
isw sets Correspondence Chicago Times

sssass aatk Correspondence Chicago Times.
This class of young men is steadily
augmented in New York. They viii
not labor in any way. It was enough
for I,sir fathers to do that. The fam
lily estate il large, and are they not
entitled to share oft? An allowance
Of $4,000 to $1,000 year is reason
able enough, is it not9 They lounge
at the clubs, dine at Dclmonico s,
stroll on Fifth avenue, play billiards
at the Windsor or some other high
toned establishment, drive now and
then in the park, occasionally patron
ize the opera, attend fashionable par
ties and make love to Laura, and
Florencc, and Rosetta, and all the, 9TH
or graces, and at the end Of the year
find their allowance all gone and
themselves in debt as much more. AS
rule, they are not actually dissipa-
ted, in the sense of being habitually
incorporate; but their wine bgls are
no small ones, by any means, and
what they spend for cigars would
easily keep small family in moderate
comfort. r. II. Macy, the Sixth ave.
nue. dry goods merchant, who died in
Paris few weeks ago, leaving $780,,
600 to his family, cut off his only son
with an allowance of $1,000 q year,
solely because the young man had
grown SO reckless and incapable oil
taking care of money th1t would
have been ruinous to himself TO give
him more. I, was for somewhat
similar reason that Comodore Van.
derblh left his second son only $780,
900 out Of his immense estate. The
Nathan boys were also wild and ex-
trayagant, and gave their fathers a
good deal Of trouble in this way. l,
would be easy to cite scores of illus
trations, But the general fact is sutfi-
cient. The case Of Macy has been
mentioned, Another of Our dry goods
millionaircs had son, now dead, 10
whom he gave an excellent education,
but who iell into habits of intenper-
snce, married fiighiy young woman,
went abroad with her, and died there
in poverty and obscurity. There was,
moreover, the case Of the wealthy and
aristocratic George Hoffman, whose
son became infatuated with popular
danseaue, followed her to Europe and
married her, and died (frem fast liv-
ing) before he was ri. The list
might beestendsd Indefinitely, bu. to
make it any longerfs needless. /
may, however, take space to note the
fact Tint recklessness of the kind here
In question seems to be moro common
among the sons Of men who grew rich
during the war than among any 9th.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-17
WAR ITEsls.

New York, Mayg17-A special TO
the Times from Giurgevo says that q
great batils is impending, and already
hssvy c.nnoasding is in progress.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-17

ers. Whether this is q be accounted
for on the "put- = isBDSggar on horse
back and he will,ride. to. the devil the
ory or not ! do not pretend to say /;
but observation satiaGes me tina, there
is great deal Of truth in it at any
rate. Nearly 4ll rich mems sons ne
decidedly free in letting ,he money
Ay, ono way or another; but the sorts
Of those who coined their wealth out
Of war contracts are unquestionably
ahead in this respect.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-17
MARKETS NJ rELEGRAPH

WALL sTRErr,
New York. May II.
Money "a per cent
Govcrnments-Firm,
Gold iof.
s;ooss-fifm.
sEW roag SAasKr.
Now York, May IL.
WHEAT Lower No sales
@CoRN- Lower, new mixed western, GiQss; old
do, Gsa7f.
OATS Dali, mixed wsftsrn llGoe.
RSE-Dnll: vs.
s PoRR-vHesvy; 1871.
LARD-Lowcr; ~.
WHIsKY--Lic95l II.
CHICAGO.
chicago. May II.
WRnAT--Unsut,lcd but Arm; % for June.
/ sih for July. j
coiss -Firnar and unsettled; sok torea.h s,
y for June.
OATS BstieRi 4ia fos cash; in for June.
HrH-LoSw; =.
1AsI1T-Ssr~ = ~.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-17

Paris, May l7.-1u consequence of
= differeno e|wfth ffesiafn, MacMahon
Jules Simon, president of the council
minister Of the interior, has rendered
his resignation. The ministers now
IN council are making efforts 10 induce
him 10 reconsider his action
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-17
Tnx WHISKY cAsEs.

New York, May 1.-THE president
held a areeeption to-day in City Hal
and WAS visited by great crowds o
people.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-17
H1scELLAHEous.
THE RUSSIAN FLEET.

Ax6C6AAAN6 6VUo
THE RUSSIAN FLEET.
New York, May 1.-THE sailing Of
the Russian feet WAS suddenly stop.
ped this morning by the admiral for
some unexplained reason.
TIKI WHISKY CASES
Washington, May 17-Secretary OF
the treasury has modified somewhat
the decision for compromising in Ger.
tain Chicago cases, the full letter Of
Sherman regarding which, was pub
lished yesterday morning, by which
modification the secretary mentions
that it is not his intention to preclude
each Of these parties from submitting
such offers of compromise as he may
think best, leaving each case to stand
upon ito peculiar circumstances. In
the meantime 1t is the duty Of the
department TO press the claims to
judgement, and to enforce Judgement
by the usual process Of the courts.
In all other respects the letter to
French concerning the proposition for
compromise Of Hessing. Powell, Rash,
Dickinson, and others Of Chicago in
Eeertain class Of whisky cases remains
u telsgraphed yesterday. The deci-
sion Of the secretary Of the treasury.
in the Rehm whisky cases will not be
promulgated for two or three days.
The secretary is awaiting the arrival
from Chicago OF two or three briefs
having some bearing on the matter,
before final decision will be made
by the department.
HAYrrAN DHBr.
New York, May 17-Alvices from
Haytai, state that tho French aeet
has been ordered there to enforce the
| settlement Of the Haytain debt, which
has been repudiated BY the Haytain
government.
/ Commodore Edward NJ. Carpenter,
U. S. Navy, died at Shawsbury N. J.
yesterday, aged 81.
FLOODED.
Omaha; May l7.-Continued rain,
ofthe past week have flooded the coun-
try and neighborbood Of Silver creek
Neb., to such-An extent that for about
a quarter Of mile tho track Of the q.
P. R. Il. has been slightly under wa
ter for several days. Yesterday it fell
SO, that trains could not pass safely
and yeatcrdays passenger trains eaa I
aud west bound, were laid on each
side Of the break. The esficers say
trains will be able to cross the bad
place in . few hours rs water Is sub,
siding.
/ St. Louis, May livery heavy
rains prevailed in Kansas for severs
days past and considerable damage
has been done to various railroads iI
the way OF land slides, washes &c
Yesterday the heaviest rain foHtwenty
years fell at Leavenworth foodia g
creeks, carrying away houses, and
doing several thousand dollars dam
age.
| COLLISION. -
viney ard Haven, Mass. Nay II
Steamer Collier OF Harrisburg, COLI
ded with the schooner Marictta Tilton
of Cross Rip last night, sinking the
latter in : few minutes. Capt. Worth
and wife, mate, cook and two seaman
were drowned
RECEPTION.
1 New York, May 1.-THE president
held reception to-day in City Hal
) and WAS visited by great crowds o
people.
BURNED TO DEATH. i
BirminghAmpton, Nay l7.-Four
children Of Frank Dunnegan burned
to death 1t Little Hook, Cour.land
county. yesterday. The house tool
Rre during the abssnee Of their pa
>lrents. The Oldest was nine years.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-17

PORK Flrmef; lases for c..h; niofor
July
LARD Lower; ls.. Tor cash; sa7a for July.
wHBKY-i OF.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-17

New York, May 1.-THE sailing Of
the Russian feet WAS suddenly stop
ped this morning BY the admiral for
some unexplained reason.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-17
BURNED TO DEATH.

Birminghampton, Nay l7.-Four
children Of Frank Dunnegan burned
to death 1t Little Hook, Cour.land
yesterday. The house took
ERE during the abssnee Of their pa
rents. The Oldest was nine years.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15
Advice to Texas Colonists.

Bishop Garrett, of the Northern Texas
Protest Episcopal diocese, gave a lecture
upon Texas colonization in Philadelphia
the other day. The bishop spoke chiefly
concerning northern Texas, because, in
his opinion, it was the best part of the
Lone Star state for emigrants, and be-
cause he was more intimately acquaint-
ed at that region. Between the Trans
Continental and the Texas Pacific rail
roads is a parallelogram of rich land,
suitable for pioneer farmers. A belt of
timber land runs south from Texarkana,
the entrepot of the two roads; west of it
is the agricultural belt, two hundred
miles wide, and running the length of
the state from north to south, appeared
to him the finest land in the world. 1t
has a black, waxy soil, impregnated
with lime, free from sand, fifteen feet
deep, and productive of the staples both
north and south. But it is hard to cul-
tivate, and therefore, some emigrants
despair, Thirty-five miles or so away
from the railroad land is cheap, and if
an emigrant has money enough to buy a
piece, station himself upon it and work
hard, he will soon come out master. But
the man who goes thlther sould have his
one thousand dollars when his foot is
finally planted upon the suited spot. If
he has one thousand dollars, is
industrious and sober, he will
be independent in five years. But
there are too many poor people there
now. Texas does not want absolutely
poor people. II would not advise poor
people, who have only money enough for
transportation" said he, Ito go to
northern Texas, fertile and promising as
the country isl There are no charitable
abodes for the sick and unfortunate; the
emigrant should not go into that state
unless he can maintain himself until a
foothold is established. Nor should any
man who drinks 90 TO Texas. Whisky
will not do there Bullets are plenty for
all but the sober, and if man keeps
sober Texas is as safe place for him as
Philadelphia, If you cannot live with
out whisky you had better not set your
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15
THE WEST.

a PORTLAND, Oregon, dispatch OF the 30th
ult., says two slight shocks of earthquake
were felt on that day.
w. l.. HAMMER and John Quincy A.
Oder, bankers, of Decatur, H., and S. T. X.
Eller, haberdasher, of the same city, fled
petitions in voluntary bankruptcy, on the
30th ult.
THE Second National Bank at LAFAYETTE,
Ind, closed its doors on the 2Sth ult., owing
TO the defalcations of c. T. Mayo, cashier
Ills shortage viii reach $4,000, reported to
have been lost in speculation.
THE funeral of Bishop Marvin, took place
at St Louis on the 29th ult
HoN. f. II. BUCKINGHAM, district attor-
ney for the third judicial district, died at
Omaha, Neb, on the 2Sth ult., of heart dis
ease \ council of physicians decided that
the disease was the result of violent boat
ing exercise when attending Yale college.
Deceased was % years old, graduate of the
class of 1873.
Col. FRANK A. EASTMAN, who was some
what concerned in the early whisky prose
cutions, filed petition in bankruptcy at
Chicago on the 9th inst. unsecured liabili-
ties $52, 600; secured s23, 1000; assets nominal.
Hon. WM. MURRAY, a prominent citizen
of Clinton, Rock County, Wis, died at the
state hospital Tor the insane at Madison, ON
the 10th Murray was member of the As
sembly in 1858.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15
A Curious Will.

A curious will has just been settled in
Berlin, containing moral worth, &
wider circulation than miser's last
testament often obtains. The poor man
died, when to general surprise it was
found he left thirty-four thousand marks
The thirty thousand in a package, signed
and sealed, was to be given to his native
town in Bavaria: one thousand each to
three brothers, and one thousand to a
friend with whom ne had quarreled. 1t
was stipulated that none of the four
should follow the body to the grave,
which suggestion the three brothers
gladly accepted, but the quarreler walked
alone and forfeited his thousand marks,
for the sake of paying last mitigating
honor. When the package was opened
for the town it disclosed another will,
giving the thirty thousand to any OF the
four who should disregard the stipula-
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15
THE MARKETS.
New York.

New YORK, December 1.-3 100 P. NJ
Cotton-Quiet; II bloc for middling up
lands Flour-Dull; receipts 1000 bbls
sales, 10000 bbls; superine, state and west
ern S475@5.25; common, Chicago extra
state s. 35G5S5; western $3.50 500; round
hoop Ohio s.. 40@7.50 Wheat-Rather more
steady, good business receipts $4,000 bus;
sales 100000 bus; $1.43 for No. winter red
December. Rye-Quiet'at 75@77c for state.
Corn-Scareely SO firm; receipts $4,000 bus !:
sales, 10000 bus; at 591E@63e for mixed
western. ley-Unchanged; two rowed
state 74H@17c. Oats--Dull; receipts 81, )
600 bus; sales $1,000 bus; 35td4l for mixed
western; 39td45c for white. Pork-Dull;
SI340@13 80. Lard-Steady; at SSH.
Whisky-At Sl.10K. Petroleum-Crude at
Sc; refined l3c. Coal Irregular $260@3,75
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15

foot on Texas SOIL" said the bishop.
The kind of men to go to Texas are the
sober, horny handed ones, with a little
capital. Tradesmen with thousand
dollars can locate at Sherman, Fort
Worth and especially Weatherford,
further west, and start up successfully,
but no shop clerks with fine apparel and
Immaculate choker are needed. 1t is
amazing what interest the people now
there take in religion. They are keen,
acute and remarkably good judges of a
sermon, SO that clergymen with empty
heads and cold hearts will soon find that
they are in the wrong place. The
bishop concluded by advising all who
desire to emigrate to see that they get
trustworthy information of land and OF
land titles. No man should go to Texas
until he has counted the cost.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15
A Sort of Basket Picnic.

A Universalist was once trying t6
prove to the untutored mind of a negro
woman that such place as hell was g
simple absurdity.
e'Aunty, do you believe that all the
people who 60 to the bad place are burn
ed in lake of brimstone|'
Certainly does" promptly replied
the tinted theologian.
"Well, now, don't you see, Aunty,
there isn't birthstone enough down there
to keep fire going all the time%
This seemed to be poser for a little
while. She had never entered into a
calculation of the amount of combusti-
BILE material necessary for the process.
Her countenance soon frightened, how
ever, and she replied:
Why, honey, don't you know that
everybody who goes there carries his
own birthstone with him?''
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15
The Austrian Lance.

The new lance recently adopted in the
Austrian service, after a long series of
experiments with the weapons of the
Cossack and Prussian patterns, is feet
| inch IN length. The point is made of
Bessemer steel, its length being slightly
over seven inches, and the butt is shod
with the same metal. Two long bands
of iron attach the head to the staff, and
leather strap, for the arm of the man
carrying it to pass through, is fixed to
this latter at about four feet from its
lower extremity. The total weight of
the weapon is four pounds. Before the
end of the year all the lancer regiments
in the Austrian army are to be armed
with the new weapon.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15

THE teachers of the public schools in
Bridgeport, Conn.,, whenever they infict
corporal punishment on pupil, are OBJ
liged to send the pupil to the school SUI
perintendent with certificate explain
ing the offense for which punishment
was inflicted, the instrument of castiga-
ton and the number of blows struck.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15
SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN.
VARIOUS TOPICS.

THE Sutro tunnel, ander the Bonanza
mines of Nevada, will be about 20,170
feet long, and on the LIST inst, distance
of18,I47 feet had been reached. Dur
inc the past six months an average pro-
press of 24S feet has been made.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15

GREAT restitution is feared this
winter among the Newfoundland fam
lilies who settled recently at Fox Bay,
Anticosti, and applications for their re-
lief have been made to the Dominion and
Quebec governments. 1t appears that
the settlement at Fox Bay was made
some time ago by people from New
foundland who have so far been able to
provide for themselves. Recently, how
ever. number of new corners arrived,
and these not having been so fortunate
the older settlers have had to maintain
them, but have not sufficient provisions
for the purpose. Hence the application
for relief. The matter, however, is one
entirely for the Quebec government to
deal with.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15

FoRTY-THREE wagons and fifty-five mule
packs were necessary to carry the effects of
the Nee Perces Indians, now en- route for
Fl Leavenworth, Kansas. Some possessed
a quantity of gold and silver, both IN com
and dust. One was said to be worth $751;
600, and several others from $1,000 to 14,ooo
which they accumulated by selling cattle
robbing trains and gambling.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15

MANY of the streets in San Francisco
have been renamed by the Chinese, who
will not use the names given by Ameri-
cans. Here are some specimens of the
amended appellations: Court House
street, Negro alley, Ming Yung Jos,
House alley, Bread alley, Private lane
Kun hooks Restaurant lane, Good
Linguist's street, Old Spanish alley, Con
tagration alley, Scavenger alley, Mother
OF Heaven street, and Street of the How
Wong JOSS House.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15

THE manufacture of steel pens is con-
Quoted extensively in Essex, Mass. Two
hundred hands, mostly girls, are employ
ed. Each pen passes through twenty to
twenty-five distinct operations, many of
which require special machinery and
skilled operatives. The steel imported
comes from Sheffield, and the pens are
exported to Canada, South America,
Mexico, Cuba and even to England.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15

"NExT Sabbath" remarked a Dead
wood pastor to his congregation, as the
contribution box was being passed
around, "Next Sabbath there will be no
morning service, provided the collection
to-day will warrant us in sending down
to Yankton for 100 rats and Rednosed
Bills black-and-tan pup"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15

AMERICA annually imports $50 100000
of flax, hemp, jute and ramic-all being
products that may be raised on our SOIL
This is an actual fact, as in 1870 America
raised 100000 pounds of fax, and,
from successful experiments that have
been made, jute and hemp may be pro-
duced in like quantities and of equally
GOOD oualitv
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15

CHINESE sleight-of-hand and an Ameri-
can faculty for swindlng were united in
All Foy, an Americanized Chinaman
in San Francisco He presented at sew
eral brokers' counters $50 in gold, and
asked for a silver roll. After pocketing
the roll he would change his mind and
ask for trade dollars. The roll that he
r turned would be found to be piece of
lead pipe with a silver piece at each end.
This game was successfully played also
on some of his countrymen.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15

THE Peabody museum at Yale has re-
ceived an immense fossil tree from the
coal mines at Amot, Pa. 1t is twenty
six inches in diameter, and the roots ex-
tend out two or three feet on each, side,
making it some seven or eight feet across
at the base. The mass weighs more than
two tons. 1t was found two hundred and
twenty-nine feet below the surface of
the mountains at Amot,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

DAVID STILLMAN and wife, aged invalids,
were found on the 30th ult., In their a"ei-
ing, at Bridgeport, CT, murdered.
THE house of a negro woman, named
Eliza Nurse, was burned at Memphis, on the
night of the 3Oth ult., and two of her chill
dren, aged and years, persisted IN the
flames.
THE hotel, grand stand, and 40 stables oil
the Washington, d. c., Driving Park, burn
ed on the 30th ult. Loss $4,000.
ON the moining of the 29th ult. John A.
Brown (colored) shot and seriously wound
ed VIM. Kelley, son of Congressman Kelley
at Philadelphia, Pa.
On the 29th ult, Matthew Davenport fatal
" stabbed his wife and her alleged para
mour, named Pratt, at Northampton, Mass
JAMES T. AIKENs, formerly of Chicago
while giving exhibitions with stereopticon
at st. Pauls church, Toledo, on the night OF
the 2Sth ult., dropped dead OF heart disease
Mrs. E. P. SHALL was seriously and per
haps fatally burned at Columbus, o., on the
2Sth, while kindling fire with coal oil.
ONE Roper, alias McGhee, a negro, who
attempted to rape Miss BERTHE Templeton
was taken from the Jail at Columbia, Tenn.
by mob, on the 9th inst, and lyncheG
from the third story of the court house, in
the presence of fully 1000 people.
| THE river at Buchanan, Va, is six fee
higher than at the time of the creates
freshet in 1882. Twenty colored peopl,
have been drowned in the neighborhood.
The latest reports from Richmond, Va.
show that the damage by flood is abou
$35O,0O0. The damage at Manchester il
100000. At Lynchburg bridge 900 fee
long was washed away.
| j. III. JONES, JR., of Boston, wool broker
disappeared several days since. 1t is nov
thought that he is connected with severa
transactions by which Boston firms wer
swindled out of about 100000.
THE United States war steamer Huron
went ashore Kitty Hawk, n. c., on tn
oath inst, and became a total wreck. o
one hundred and thirty-five souls on board
only about forty were saved. The Huron
was an iron screw propeller, carrying fou
guns.
Miss ELLA HOWARD, aged II years, o
Knob Knoster, Johnson county, Mo-, SUI
cided on the oath inst, by taking a dose 0
strychnine. Cause, quarrel with her lover
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-12-15
THE EAST.

THE creditors of Conrad Poppenhusen,
the owner of the Long Island railroad, have
chosen Herman Schwiskering assignee.
The Liabilities are placed at 100000 !;
assets s., 100000,
THE total receipts of grain at Buffalo,
n. Y, from the opening OF navigation to
December l, exclusive of flour, were Co.
900, 524 bushels. Receipts of flour, $4,000
barrels. Total shipments of grain by the
canals this season, AZ ,000, G32 bushels
JOHN p. TRIBE, wholesale provision
dealer at Buffalo, n y. made an assignment
to Phillip Becker, on the 2Sth nit. Liabili-
ties reported as largely in excess of assets
FRAUDULENT audits of bills against Rens-
saeler county, New York, we've discovered
on the 2Sth inst, and several supervisors
arrested. 1t is thought the illegal bills for
last year will foot up 0,000
EDWARD j. FORD, an old colored man
who has been over % years under asentence
of death which no governor of Pennsylvania
was ever willing to enforce, has just been
pardoned and released from the Philadelphia
county prison.
THE Delaware, Lackawana and Western
railroad company sold 100000 tons of Scran
ton coal at auction at New York on the
9th. The prices show a considerable fall
ing off compared with last month.
THREE hundred and fifty infants make up
the grand national baby show which opened
at New York on the Goth inst.
MOSES III. GRINNELL, former collector of
the port of New York, died on the oath inst,
aged 10 years.
Col. ABRAHAM DURYEA, an ex-polce
commissioner, was arrested atNew York on
the oath inst, charged with obtaining
money under false pretenses from savings
hank