Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-16
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Wheat sells for eighty cents per bushel in
Yankton to-day.
An oyster supper will be given this eve
ming at the Grand Central.
The Missouri river transportation con-
tract matter is still unsettled.
Fred Lerch has sold his saloon to B. B.
Moss and is going to become a granger.
Rev. Mr.. Gerner will preach on "Tfue
Religion Sunday evening at the court
house.
The church social al the residence of the
Rev. ]. A.. Potter, last evening. wasa pleas
ant affair.
There will be a business meeting of the
lecture committee at Bartlett Tripp's Office
this evening.
At the Methodist church tomorrow morn
ing Rev. James Buchanan will preach. No
services in the evening.
1t is rumored that one of Sioux City's
weekly newspapers is about to be removed
to jackson, Neb.
Samuel Cameron, one of the Oldest and
most respected citizens of Sioux City died
very suddenly of heart disease on the 18th.
His age mas 81.
The Woman's Temperance Association
has engaged ]. H. Lozier, Of LIE Mars, who
will deliver temperance lectures in this city
on Monday and Tuesday evenings.
Persons who had made contracts to de-
liver wood from the other side of the river
to our citizens, are nov concealing them on
on account of the impossibility Of crossing
the river on the ice.
The intimation that A. w. Howard is the
uncle of w. A. Howard is a groundless i'm
putation against our newly %reconciled post
master. Their genealogical tees didn't
even grow in the same forest.
There is a probability that another Ger
man newspaper will soon be established in
Yankton. The protector is a wealthy Ger
man from Chicago, who has recently made
large investments in real estate in the
neighborhood Of Yankton.
The examination into the insanity of
Mary E. j. FIVE, came off to-day before
Probate Judge Congleton. Six witnesses
were examined, including DIR. Daniel. No
order or decree will be entered in the case
for two or three days.
The indications of the weather for the
upper Mississippi and lower Missouri val.
leys, are, cloudy weather. areas of light
rain or snow, warmer south wind, falling
barometer, followed by colder north winds
and rising barometer, accompanying storm
center now in the northwest.
DR.. Geo. Paul. who has been confined in
the United States Jail during the past two
months for a violation of the internal rev.
enue laws, was discharged this morning by
Commissioner Congleton, under the statutes
providing for the remission of fines in cases
Of poor prisoners.
Towards are becoming numerous in
Yankton official circles. The rulers of the
former occupants of the site OF the capital
were in the habit of remarking, how!
how!' when they met on the streets, but in
The future who two Office holders approach
elch other, it is expected that they will Inn
prove OF the crude native greeting, and say,
IS Howard! Howard!'
S~pudkins went home late last Tuesday
evening, having previously pinned a red
ribbon to the lapel of his coat, aud grave
IL. though incoherently, reported 10 his
wife tina he had Joined the Murpbys-had
heard John Brennan's temperance speech.
His wife didn't believe in his reformation
much, the next morning, when she discov-
cred a piece gunny sack pinned TO his coal