Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-10
LOCAL LAC0NICs.

Thermometer to-day Sc and 80.
Was it cottonwood seed or grasshopper?
Supreme court will meet on Monday next.
The Vermillion reform club is in a flour
ishing condition.
The Yankton county Jail has been tenant
less nearly a month.
Schoregge has enlarged the front basement
windows Of his Third street block.
The brick work of Leighton Wynn's new
dwelling house is nearly completed.
More weddings will take place in Yank.
ton in the near future, SO says rumor.
Jacob Siebert has commenced the erection
Of a dwelling house on Douglas avenue.
Bartlett Trip, Esq, has built a large ad.
dition to his new Walnut street residence.
There will be a temperance meeting q
the tabernacle, on Burleigh's block. to-mor-
row evening.
A cool wav from the north yesterday ter
minated the oppressive heat of the preceding
forty-eight hours.
The result of the republican caucus held
in the Sioux Falls precinct last Saturday
evening, was favorable for Judge Kidder.
Tom Marshalrs surveying party left
Yankton to-day for its field of operations.
E. H. Van Antwerp's party will go to Bis
marck by the steamer Black Hills. Van
Antwerp's work lies in the vicinity Of Bis
marck.
The indications of the weather for the
upper Mississippi and lower Missouri val
legs, are colder; partly cloudy weather, &C.
c%asional rain, followed by clearing weather;
winds mostly northerly, and stationary or
higher pressure.
Judge Kldder informs us hat all the rail.
road companies expecting to carry passen-
gers to our territorial convention to be
holden on the 22d inst, have agreed to carry
delegates and all persons desiring to attend
said convention, to and from Yankton for
less than half fare.
From the Springfield Times of Thursday
we learn Geo. Mead has secured the contract
for moving one hundred thousand pounds
of supplies for the Spotted Tail agency.
His bid was $3.50 per hundred pounds,
against 1888 bid by Mr.. Deer. Only the
two bids were received.
Yesterday was the sixteenth anniversary
of the battle of Cedar Mountain, Virginia.
The confederate forces were under Stonewall
Jackson, and the union army engaged con-
sisted of Gems. Banks division and Ricketts,
division of McDowells corps. Union loss,
1900 men; confederate loss much less.
How is this? PRO. Haskell had free use
of the M. E. church at Yankton. In Sioux
City, after q few days, differences arose and
he was excluded from the church there. He
had an appointment to begin a campaign at
Worthington in q few days, and the M. E.
building there was destroyed by ac-
fire on the 9Th inst. Has Haskell
deserted the Lord, or yiee yersa.
An individual went into H. w. Whites
gun store on Tuesday last and obtained re-
pairs to a revolver, amounting to $3.50. for
which he rendered IN payment a five dollar
bill. Mr.. White being busy at the time,
and unable to change the bill, requested the
individual to step down to Third street and
get the bill changed. He agreed to DO 50,
taxing the revolver with him, and up to this
time Mr.. White has seen nothing Of the in
dividual, the bill or revolver. His faith in
humanity 10 doubles diminished 70 the ex-
tent Of $3.50.