Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-17
OLD WORLD NOTES.

st, Johns lodge Of Glasgow. Scotland,
recSntly celebrated ito S2Oth anniversary. "A
Tlesking aud queen OF italy hsye. l1id
allddSshe mourning Tor Victor Emnianuel,
which they hsse WNEq for ak months. |
The nephew Of tsmah raaha, Youssouf
Tahir Boy, has Joined the Royal Irish con.
stabulary depot, at Dublin, where he is to
undergo six months of drill, discipline and
instruction.
The rstincident otthe celebration of the
silver wedding of the king and queen of
Belgium 10 the birth Of their first grand
Child. a daughter o f,ths Princess Louise of
Saxe-C oburg.
The Catholics of Belfast proroaetb hold a
procession on the 18th, Ladyday. Besides
the 400 ordinary police, 1000 extra police
men will he drafted into the city service to
keep the peace.
An outbreak OF pleure% pneumonia Ia cat.
Inspectors and valuers were appointed, and
orders given to have the beasts slaughter
France, so fortunate in, its wine yield
since. the war, ia now a heavy sufferer. The
four departments and done damage cOmpu-
ted at $2O0,O0O, 900. q Burgundy has ESCAPED
asi yet; 7t@N
June 20, twenty Of the male prisoners be.
longing to the city jail, Cork, were convey.
ed to the Clonmel Jail, there TO serve out the
remainder of their term. Under the new
prisoners act, the chief Jail is in tie future
to be used as a female prison for city and
county. e@' sr
On Saturday morning, June 90, Jane and
Mary McClements, aged respectfully " and
and ~, were found dead in the bed IN their
inquest in.the evening the jury found a yer.
dict of death from sutfocation, owing to
escape of gas" -
said to have been 9SS,O00, 900 rubles. Dur
ing its progress, or at least from April 1,
1877 to, June 26, 1875, the paper currency
of the empire was increased from ILL.,
6O0,OOU to 1,154,OO0,O0O rubles. A ruble is
equal TO about 40 cents, but the Russian
notes have deprecated about 80 per cent.
The annual report Of the Dublin metro
politan police for the year 1877 shows that
is a decrease of 155 as compared with the
year 1876, and of 433 as compared with
1875. Testimony ia again borne to. the
much-abused '.jarvey," who last year de-
livered up to the police 1,l75 articles of
property. b. rs s
The Sabbath alliance. of Scotland has had
another shock almost as severe as that &C.
casioned BY the queens Sunday boat ride.
An elder, high in the church, has been
guilty of travelling "homeward by train on
Sunday from a continental trip" and was
summoned to appear before the Kirk ses-
| s;op Of Tnrorpaeo HI oIJaI continuous, to
Sabbath breaking and refused to appear.
In a recent Irish breach of promise case
tried at Limerick, the plaintiff was a wild
ow of 90 with seven children, and the de-
PENDANT a widower of 70 with ~ children,
and they had agreed upon a marriage the
very first time they met. The faithless
father of q family yer back on the bargain
and the jury mulcted him in EGO damages.
The statistics OF the Irish Methodist
church were reported at its recent conference
to be: 1880 members, 207- chapels, 266
Sunday schools, with 2,4l7 teachers and
20,S6S scholars. The income of the home
mission society for the year was s9,3S0.
The denomination is now larger in numbers,
as the union::of the primitive Methodists was
completed during the session of the confer
ence. 81 a
The empress Of Austria is now a grand.
mamma, and yet nj one could, with justice,
give her more than thirty or thirty-two years
at the outside. Her waist is still as round
and as small as when she was a young prin.
cess, and not, as now, her majesty. Some.
times her face wears q most lovely color, and
after galloping up and down two or three
times the long avenue of the Prater, she
looks younger and prettier than ever. She
leads q strange life for an empress, and
avoids society as much as possible. ~