Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-12
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Friday Evening, April u, 1873

Friday Evening, April ", 1873
LOCAL LAconlcs.
Lover Third street is being raised to
grade.
There are twenty-nine licensed saloons in
Yankton.
The first swallows OF the season are sail.
ing over Yankton to-day.
The damage done to the calaboose by the
woman in black hasbeen repaired.
Gorham, Of the Third street butter and
egg depot. il enlarging his store room.
Matters 1t Crow Cresk are s.stx qua Tho
military are stilli matters OF the situation.
Yesterdays train brought up ! larse mum.
Der Of passengers en- route for the Black
Hills.
Tuesdays wind blew down . shed belong.
ing to D. y. Lawrence and demolished :
$3.50 carriage.
Many Of orr citizens are identifying their
grounds with evergreen trees from the Min
neapolis nursery. .
No date has yet been fixed for Mrs Stan.
toms lecture, The committee has not
heard from her agent on the subject.
The amount of cash in the city treasury
at the close of the fiscal year, April 9Th,
was nearly $500, and the city entirely
out of debt.
L. D.. +. Poore broke ground yesterday
for his new dwelling house on Pine street,
between Fourth and Fifth. The structure
will be of brick.
In the case of Clevenger against the New
York Mutual Life Insurance Co. q judg.
ment was rendered for the plaintiff IN the
sum of 1851. 10.
The star spangled banner has been flying
all day from the staff on the executive build
ing and from the court house in honor of
the arrival Of our new governor.
The indications of the weather for tie
upper Mississippi and. lower Missouri, val
leys are, clear or partly cloudy weather,
variable winds, mostly from the west.
Spink's chimney blew down during the
late gale. We have previously remarked
that there appeared to he Il Nemesis on Mr..
Spink's track since he became a democrat.
The recent rain and the warm weather
following has started the grass to growing
finely, and the prairies are beginning to pre-
sent a green appearance. On the bottom
lands the grass is large enough for good pas
turage.
The Elk Point Courier is entirely too
generous. 1t credits Yankton county with
twenty candidates for congress, and Union
county only two. Yankton county goes
more than that blind" while Union can
" CALL" and go = half dozen better.
Sheriff NJ. A. Bakers eastward trip is
chronicled thus in the Council Bluffs Non
pareil of the l1th "Mrs. J. A. Baker,
Yankton, passed east this evening" Con-
sidering the character of the man whom the
sheriff has in charge, the news Of his trans
formation excites in the minds of his friend.
grave fears that he Tor she) may cease to be
"yirtuous and happy"
Last nights ~gubernatorial party on the in
coming train was augmented by the presence
of the squatter governor, who got on at Elk
Point and modestly retired to the shades OF
the baggage car, where he sat in state on an
immigrants grip-sack and smoked his brier
root with that serene complacency which
none but true sovereigns can achieve,
Major Hanson WAS introduced to the new
governor to-day. AS he barred his bald
head and walked with reverent tread into
the executive presence, an anxious friend
who was on the watch snatched him one
side by the coat sleeve and hurriedly whis
pered in his nigh ear. don't let him know
you was ever an Indian agent" The major
was num-.
Mr.. S. B. Hussey, of Lynn, Mass, who
some months ago purchased a tract Of land
near Yankton, returned here recently &C.
c%ompanied by six families from Massachu.
sets, who will become permanent settlers in
Yankton county. Mr.. Hussey is highly
pleased with Dakota, and through his in.
huence a large number Of eastern farmers
will be brought to the territory.
A man in Kentucky got rich by attending
to his " business. Every man saves
money. which is the right road to fortune,
who buys his groceries at Lavender's. (
Oiled curtains and curtain fixtures of all
styles, at Mills & Purdy's.
All the fat, healthy men in Yankton buy
their groceries at Lavender's.
The man who wears the red ribbon does
well, but he who buys his groceries of Law
cnder, does better.
Ladies' Urderclothing at L. Congleton's
ELEGANT ATTRACTIONS.
Mrs. E. J. Morrow having just returned
fro~ The ooot po- nNoro . ooupIa<o l;oo ~