Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-19
LOCAL LAcoHlcs

LOCAL LAc0NIcS
Lemons are up and scarce.
. The wheat harvest has fairly begun.
.s The next meeting of the city council vii
be on Monday evening next.
K The first Universalist sociable, at s. J.
Morrow's, is pronounced success.
The democratic territorial committee will
meet in this city on Monday evening, July
22d.
The Jencks hotel is being very much i'm.
proved BY a few coats of good looking
paint.
Another cold wave struck us at noon to.
day, sending the mercury down fourteen de-
= grees in three minutes. Do 70 some more.
As 1t may not be generally known We
feel authorized in saying that E. T. White
is not candidate for delegate in congress.
There will be a meeting of the Turn
Verein at Turner hall on Sunday evening at
! O'Clock. A full attendance of members is
desired.
For four successive days this week at
Springfield, the thermometer marked 100 in
the shade. And yet the people will talk
politics.
Last nights arrivals over the Dakota
Southern added three more Cinnamon to
oar population. We presume they will en-
gage in the washee business.
A strike by the workmen at the Dakota
Southern washout, at Vermillion, has de-
layed the completion Of the work there lail
out by Engineer Van Antwerp.
There is talk Of holding a'public meeting
for the purpose of expressing the confidence
OF this community in the integrity of the
much slandered DR.. Livingston.
Mr.. Dan. Rice lost package of letters,
numbering four or five, on Third street last
evening. The finder will confer q favor by
leaving them at the Jencks hotel.
The city council at its meeting yesterday
afternoon adopted Palmer's grade of the
city. This we hope will put an end to all
disputes in regard to cuts, fills, sc.
Dan. Riee's band wagon passed through
the streets this forenoon, followed by some
thing less than one thousand boys, varying
in size from roasting ear to tin churn
Persons who do not wish to see their
names among the delinquent tax payers in
the county list, must not fail to pay their
taxes before six o'clock tomorrow evening.
The appropriation for surveys in Dakota
this year amounts to $4,000, instead of
$3l, 900, as stated a few days ago. Gen.
Esperson received his instructions Last
night
The delinquent tax list of Yankton
county will be placed in the hands Of the
printer for publication next week. Pay
your taxes if you don't want to see your
name in print.
Springfield Times: Two dollars per day |
is what the American farmers in this locali-
ty propose to pay harvest hands, while the
Russians are offering three dollars per day,
or five bushels Of wheat.
The executive committee of the Califor-
mia agricultural society extends an invita-
ton to the people Of Dakota, through Gov.
Howard, to exhibit specimens of our agri-
cultural and mineral products at the coming
California fair.
The furniture and fixtures of the discon.
tinued Indian superintendent Office went
of on dray this afternoon. The governors
Office will be moved to the rooms vacated
BY the late Indian superintendent, in PEN
nington's block. ia- 90.
A difference Of opinion in regard TO the
soundness Of Bro. Haskelps theology came
very near leading to game Of fsticufi on
Third street this morning. Men who hold
and practicestrong religious principles are
frequently ready to maintain them straight
from the shoulder"
A rumor has gained circulation that
band of socialists and communists in New
York have bound themselves to assassinate
all the great men in the country. If theyl
carry their design into execution there will
b great mortality in Dakota, and may COM
pel u to send man of medium intellect to
congress.
One hundred and twenty-six applications
for patents Of mining property in the Black
Hille have been fled in the surveyor gene
RAILS Office in this city. As it costs consid-
esable money to patent mine, this large
number Of applications indicate that the
miners out there have full faith in the value
i their ground.
The yeuns man with dark bay hair, re-
;p,csanliy attired and Of deceat appearance,
~ 3 4 ths habit Of following yousg L. |
~ bout u stsssts aitsr dafk, 4 hrsspsct-