Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-22
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LOCAL LACoNJCs.
Good lime in any qsantity is offered fol
sale by Mr.. Eph. Miner.
The Germania house il receiving an un-
derground addition five or six feet deep.
Government Indian freight will begin to
move through here about the LIST of Sep
tembcr.
Marine insurance to any amount can now
be obtained of l.. b. Partridge & Co. See
their announcement.
A sewing machine depot and repair shop
has been opened by c. A. Lewis, opposite
the postofice. See card.
Tho new blacksmith shop on Douglas
avenue of WIN. Dales Is completed and Mr..
Dales has commenced operations.
The Methodist festival occurs on FRIDAY
evening at the Methodist church. All the
de!icacies of the season will be there
Schasdien has received q stock Of i'm
proved kerosene lamps which give a beau
tiful light without the use Of q chimney.
A gold bracelet wa lost yesterday on the
street. The finder will be suitably rewarded
by leaving it at the Press and Dakotaian
office.
Mills and Purdy's Eve cent Centennial
cigars are receiving . large share Of the at.
tenton of smokers who like to get q good
thing for . little money.
The city council sitting as . board Of
equalization are ready to hear any com.
plants Of over valuation Of real estate.
The board will adjourn in q day or two.
Tomorrow night is the night when the
young men and the young maidens will sit
up to see the eclipse Of the moon. If II
doesn't eclipse before morning some fthem
will not feel bad about it.
The police picked up the pieces of a man
down ON Douglas street this morning, and
when they got him put together 60 that he
could speak they discovered that he had been
wrestling with the undulations of Alderman
Stones sidewalk.
Young unmarried gentlemen who are de-
tected in the act of purchasing calico and
thread and buttons should never be 90 IN.
wise o. to request the fellow who sees them
not to 60 and tell those newspaper reporters
about it. He should say they are for his
Grandmother.
The county register of deeds rested from
his labors yesterday long enough to go down
on Smutty Bear bottom and kill . rattle.
snake which was three feet long, nix inches
in circumference and carried ten rattles. He
was after prairie chickens and the snake
came near ~devouring his dog.
The Sioux City Journal says: As nearly
all the beats from up the river arrive at
Yankton during the middle of the day, the
Dakota Southern road will possibly be com.
PEELED, In order to meet the competition of
the Chambers, to run its train as it did some
years ago, from Sioux City in the morning
10 Yankton and returning In the evening,
lying over here oil night. This would be
. benefit to our merchants and hotel keep.
ers.
The boiler attached to Wright & Stevens
steam sausage factory, on Third street, ex.
ploded this morning about eight O'Clock,
but did no damage to anything except the
boiler and the back window of the shop.
The boiler was an upright. Of small capaci.
~, and stood out of doors. The upper end
was blown out and some of the fragments
were carried a'block away from the scene
of the explosion. Fortunately no one was
injured, and the sausage factory will resume
operations as BOOB as Messrs. Wright &
Stevens can put in a new engine.