Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-25
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The festival in the NJ. E. church last eve
ming was tolerably we'll p~atronised.
The Excelsior mill is running again, and
will probably keep up continuous motion
until next summer.
(. There will be preaching at the Methodist
church tonight at 8 O'Clock by the Rev. L
N. Williams. of Sioux City.
Thirty-six empty Dakota Southern freight
cars were ordered to Sioux City to-day. The
freight business is getting lively.
Wheat receipts today have been about
five hundred bushels, but the market is stiI
depressed, prices ranging from 65 to 20
cents per bushel.
Geo. Pike yesterday plead guilty to an
assault and battery committed upon a Rus.
sian. whereupon Justice Eldridge imposed
a fine Of one dollar and costs.
A granger from the Jim rode into town
to DAY on a load of wheat, and Is he passed
a friend he kicked one Of the bags and said
he had $500 bushels more of that stuff at
home. Then he made . wide smile.
To morrow is the occasion of the fourth
quarterly meeting Of the present conference
year Of the Methodist church. Preaching
At II q. M. and 8 p. N. by Rev. L. N. Viii.
liams, presiding elder Of the Sioux City
district.
A gentleman from Sioux City says that
the special train load Of returned Black
Killers which went down last Sunday spent
$1,000 in the Sioux City clothing stores
while they were waiting for the eastern
trains to leave.
Mr.. Rushka, residing 10 the Bohemian
settlement in Bon Homme county, threshed
5s7 bushels of wheat from 22}1z< bushels of
seed. Mr.. Krupka, living In the same set.
Element, threshed about $50 bushels from
&c bushels of seed.
From Will Lower We learn that two
spans Of the railroad bridge at Omaha fell
into the river this morning. the break being
caused by the encroachment Of the river
into the Omaha 1ats. We have been una-
BILE to procure particulars.
Services will be held at the chapel of the
liberal christian society to morrow evening,
at eight O'Clock. Col. Akin, president of
the society, will read one Of Rev. Robert
Collyer's sermons. entitled Every Man a
Penny All are cordially invited.
The Indian wilderness is beginning I
blossom with cabbages and things. j. 8.
Lanning, Of Ash Grove landing, shipped
1000 pounds of vegetables TO Pierre on the
Black Hills, and Foster T. Wheeler, Of Fl.
Randall, sends the Springfield Times some
enormous specimens from his garden.
A game Of base ball was played yester-
day at the footof Third street. between two
steamboat nines-the "Galoots" of the G.
X. Peck. and the Lunch Grabbers" of
the Nellie Peck. James Spargo was SEQ.
rer. The result of five innings gave the
"Galoots" 81 and the Lunch Grabbers"11 II.
A day or two ago = little boy of John,
Fox living in lower Yankton, fell in the
river while fishing, and would have drown
ed had it not been for the fact that Mrs.
Fox discovered him just as he was sinking
for the last time. She had gone to the river
for wood, and upon discoveringthe situation
Of her boy managed with great difficulty 10
save his life.
Bon Honmc Citizen: J. E. Curry and
Mir Trepicr, Of Yanktou, were 10 town
this week looking for building in which
TO start a store. They found one-the Citi-
Ecu 1 flee. They inform us that they will
he ready for biz" by the first of Septem-
L.r. These gentlemen intend to buy all
kinds Of grain aud produce. and sell their
goods at Yankton prices. We wish the en-
terprise success.
Yesterday the clerk Of the supreme court
RENTED the judgment Of the supreme court
in the case ofthe territory VS.. Joseph Char
trand, to the clerk Of the district court. A
commitment was then placed in the hands
Of deputy sheriff Elliot, who locked up the
defendant in the county Jail. The prisoner
was fined two hundred dollars and costs Of
prosecution, and sentenced TO undergo nine
months imprisonment in the county Jail.
Efforts are making to induce the governor
to remit the imprisonment part Of the sen.
tence.
At the soldiers reunion held In Yankton
on the 9th Of February last, the anniversary
of the bsttle of Fort Henry, it was agreed
to hold the next reunion at Yankton on the
18th of September next. the fifteenth ami
vcrsaly Of the battle of Antietam. 1t Is
suggested by some Of our soldier friends
that the reunion be hold here during the
territorial fair. We think the suggestion q
gsodonc. The officers Of the association
are: Capt. J. A. Wallace, Of Union
~, president; Gen. c. T. Campbell, Of Bon
Homme county, vice president; Major T.
S. Clarkson, Of Chs. NixcoanSy, aud Capt.
John l.. Taylor. Of Yaskans sousty, score.
taries.
A complete new line Of peckvear. al Wise
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