Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-01-09
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The fair held in Boston to aid in tue pur.
Chase OF Old South church, has yielded
about $4,000
Gov. foung's annual message shows the
state debt to be x5OO, ,3O3,7O. The message
makes several pra ical suggestions.
The Baptists have succeeded ia raising
ShurtI. f college at Alton, Ill. The larges,
gift. $1,000. was from lauy of Chicago.
1t is rumored that Austria and Germany
have vetoed The idea Of opening the Oar,
danelies to Russ,ao vessels only. Russia
has cons. quently determined not to raise
The question at all.
The Union house At Farley, Iowa, was
burned Monday, with all its contents There
had been u legal execution issued ON the
good and inceudiarism is strongly suspected
Insurance $2.0uO.
Statistics of the brothers of the christian
scho IL, Catholic order devoted to the work
Of education, show an aggregate in the Uni..
ed States and Europe OF ], l,25Oestablishmenr,
2,237 schools, 395.7l8 pupils
The standing committee Of the dioces.
| OF Louisiana has consented to the consecra-
tion Of Rev. DR. EccIeston as blshopot w. IT
Virginia and refused to cou.ent to the con-
secrat On OF Rev. Dr. Seymour as bishop OF
Springfield.
A St Petersburg dippatch says hopes If
an armislice are rapidly disappearing I .e
strict-st secrecy is maintained as to the ter,ur
Russia would propo.e. 1t j. SAID even the
commander in-ch.ef has not YET be: n j.
s.ruc.ed on tins point.
California, Jsn. 7.-B til honses of The
fuI x1i tr
Wednesday OUT of respect To the memory
| OF the late Senator Porter The tuuera
| will take place to morrow undcr the aus.
pices Of the Odd Fellows, of which decrss.
ed was prominent member.
Of the Dramatic News. New York, publish
cd AL "tf:, We ar,,cie nu Ka,c Grad, now
he wite uf George Fawcett Rowe Mr.
Perrin, the iat,'s !aiher, and tle origlna
'wn-r aud tfa,ner of Flora Temple, thrash
ed Byrne last Sunday.
The solicitor Of the treasury has decided
that goods manufactured in bonded manu-
featuring warehouses may be transported tc
and exported from other ports than those a
which said warehouses are located, provid
lion is done by regularly bonded carriers.
| An cmc!al Olsp0tCh states thut the tus-
sian loss in crossing the Balkans, however
was not so great as at first supposed. Th,
Turks suffered enormously, and immens,
numbers Of sick aud wounded were foun,
in their positions. On Dec. 81 the who'll
plain of Kamarli was strewn with Turkisl
corpses.
Henry r. Hinckley of Northampton, on
Of the private deposit ,rs who lost heavily t,
the r"bbery Of the Northampton bank hs
recovered S25,0OO Union Pacific per cen,
gold bonds, with Two years interest, at cor
o. $4,000. A short time ago the tank bur
glars pledged 100000 Of the best railroa
bonds for loan OF SS, 900 and the bonds re
covered were among the collaterals.
A Vienna correspondent telecraphs:
is announced from Cons'aptinople that th
porte has informed England nf It's readines
t,enter into negotiations with Russia, bu
intimated that it did not think negotiation
between the military commanders as pre-
posed by Russia suitable, a much prefer.
ble method heing negotiations through spt
cial plenipotentiaries. There are. however
formal difficulties in the way of this pre-
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