Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-18
LOCAL LAcoNIcs.


How doth the kindly farmer man
His labers quick begin,
The seeding Murphy, in
And as he covers DER the gaps
His agile hoe has dug,
He e,li thinks OF al! the sWears hen swear
Whcncomes the later bug. 81
Halver johnson, of the Jim river region
bought four hundred dollar blooded bull
yesterday.
There will be temperance meeting a,
the Reform Club.room tomorrow evening
at II! o'clock.
Q. Yek and Lee Sam have secured rooms
for their washee house on Cedar street b,
tween Second and Third.
Subject at the Methodist church to-mor-
row morning, "The Kingdom of Christ. +"
Subject in the evening, s.The Divine Pur.
poses."
The little baby who puts his toes in his
mouth is almost the only person who in
these hard times manages to make both
ends meet
The regular term of court commences on
the first Tuesday in June. The law fixes
the same day for the commencement of the
term in Union county.
The motion for new trial IN the steam
boat case of The Chambers Transportation
Co. against ]. B. Kinney ct al, was argued
to-day in the district court.
A lot of household goods were received
over the Dakota Southern road yesterday
for Rev. E. J. Reichler, of the German
Evangelical church, Yankton.
The almost continuou, rain during the
past two CT three days has put the roads in
bad condition, and consequently business
among our merchants is very dull.
j. G. Butterfeld, ex-master mechanic of
the Dakota Southern road, was presented
with a seventy-five dollar shot gun Wednes-
day night by the railroad employees.
One of the sick bulls left here by the
steamer Rucker, belonging to w. H. Clark,
of Montana, died Thursday. 1t was
blooded animal and a very valuable one.
The sun is shining this afternoon and the
dark rain clouds have ceased to obscure the
ethereal blue. This does not indicate what
the weather will be when this paper is de-
livered to its readers.
In the replevin case of Minnie Gibson vs.
Madame Shaw in Justice Whites court this
morning, by agreement of the parties, Min
ME paid the costs and took her trunk. And
now peace prevails on the levee.
St. Johns Lodge No l, A. F. and A. NJ,
of this city, elected the following officers for
the ensuing year: Geo. w. Kingsbury, w.
NJ; VIM. Blatt, S. w.; John O. Bates, J.
W.; J. R. sanborn, treasury; S. H. Gruber,
secretary.
The Baptist society of this city has de.
cided to builda church on the northeast
corner of Douglas avenue and Sixth street,
and work will be commenced without un.
necessary delay. The estimate cost of the
building is $1,000.
The indications of the weather for the
upper Mississippi and lower Missouri val
leys, are falling and low barometer, increas-
ing easterly to southerly winds, slightly
warmer, cloudy, rainy and stormy weather,
followed tonight in the last district and on
Sunday in the second by rising barometer,
winds shifting to colder, northwesterly and
clearing, but partly cloudy weather.
The warehouses in Yankton are all filled
with government freight and the side tracks
are numbered with cars filled with goods for
which there is no storage room. Lack Of
money and the slowness Of appropriation
have brought about this dead lock in freight
shipments. Meanwhile steamboats, are
waiting and the season is W caring away.
Will Lower left Yankton few days ago !
under the announcement that he was going
10 Kansas to look after some stock. Init
m. tions since received indicate that the
kind Of stock be was interesting himself IN
WAS joint stock company OF limited mem
,crship But then we don't know. "A |
telegraph office is no place to find out much |
hat is true.
Gen. Hammond had heard that an action
vas to be instituted against him for resist
ng civil officer in the discharge of his
lazy and went before the court to-day and
.sked permission to he heard on the subject.
lie stated that he was about to leave for the
indian country and thought that he should
rave an opportunity 10 give his aide of the
a:e before his departure. The court in.
ormed him that no proceedings had been
and it was therefore not impor-
ant that he should present his case. Gen.
hammond and the newspaper reporters who
ad focked 10 the scene then dispersed.