Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-09
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Tuesday Evening, July 9, 1873
LOCAL LAconlcs.

LOCAL LAcoNlcs.
Highest mercury to-day IS above zero.
There is considerable cottonwood seef
floating in the air to day.
Regular communication of St. John.
lodge, AT & A N, this evening.
Last night brought us another storm o
rain, wind, thunder and lightning.
From some unknown cause we are thor,
OF our usual batch of telegraphic report to.
day.
Dan Rice's circus pictures are adorning
the dead walls and bill boards of the city,
and the summer vacation has new charms to
the overworked school boy.
"A match game of base ball was played to-
day between two exceedingly juvenile mines,
the prize being a ball. 1t was lively, and
the winning nine surrounded the ball and
carried it off.
Miss Ida Hoyt daughter of NJ. U. Hoyt,
received acaller Sunday which was not asked
to come again. 1t was snake, and when
discovered by her, was coiled up in rock
ing chair taking snooze.
Our report of last Tuesdays high school
exercises, and Fourth of July celebration
will appear in next weeks weekly issue,
copies of which can be procured at our
counter on and after Wednesday.
Flandreau Enterprise: The Press and
Dakotaian and Pioneer-Press, sterling dali
lies from the capitals of Dakota and Mime
sofa appeared on our table some days since.
The Enterprise already has an exchange
list calculated to swell the heart of any
country editor.
A young wolf captured couple of months
ago by Jimmy Bowyer, one of our carrier
boys, was on exhibition on the streets TO- day.
1t is blood curdling 10 hear Jimmy tell the
boys about his encounter with the old she
wolf the day he deprived her of her off
spring. Jimmy gives promise of becoming
tirst-class newspaper writer some day.
Judge West, being interviewed to-day re.
garding the location of the territorial fair,
says the representatives of the people Of
Vermillion have not yet signed the agree.
ment binding themselves to give the society
S4o0 in case the fair is held.at that city. If
they are not heard from, definitely, soon, the
society must abandon its intention of loca.
ting the fair at Vermillion, and seek another
place.
AT the meeting Of the reform club last
evening. new constitution and bylaws was
unanimously adopted. An election of off.
GERS will be held at Pruden's hall to. morrow
evening. A full attendance is desired. Re-
marks were made last evening by Gen. Bea.
die, John N. Fogcrty, James s. Foster, John
H. Cassidy, T. A. Kingsbury, P. K. Faulk,
DIR. ]. B. Van Velsor, S. w. Swift, Thomas
Stewart and others.
A town just started in Moody county has
been given the name of Ssnkey This
looks like scheme to rob our Col. Moody
of the honor to which every pioneer is en-
titled. Moody and sankey, as evangelists,
are inseparable in public renown and when
the generations of the future hear of the
city of sankey, in the county of Moody,
they will not stop to think that there was
ever any other Moody after whom county
might be named. The best way the colonel
can fix this thing is to commence preaching.
Marshal Bates is engaged in some inter-
esting experiments which he thinks will
to the medical profession of
the city if his subject holds out until the ef.
ficacy of his remedy manifests ITSELF The
tramp who caught the liver complaint while
lying in the city calaboose, and was dis
missed with the injunction that he leave the
city and return not, failed to comply with
He was re.gobbled, scythe
placed in his hands, he was led into forest
Of weeds and instructed to go to work. At
last accounts he had cut his way through
twice the length of three streets, and had
entered upon fourth. His liver was be-
ginning to respond to the vigorous exercise,
. health giving perspiration had ensued, and
a general toning up of the entire system was
in progress. The city marshal is of the
opinion that eighteen days of this treatment
will correct his tendency to invalidism and