Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-20
LOCAL LAcoNIcs.

LOCAL LAcoHIcs.
The county Jail contains five prisoners.
Regular meeting of the city council to
night. @
Green peae, new potatoes and cucumber,
are in the market
Weather clerk Shaw's barome,eris risin1
rapidly. which is an assurance that poct
weather is coming
Walter Carr has the boss cheese cutter
the machine being SO contrived that it cut.
the amount of cheese desired, and does away
with the necessity of weighing.
Rev. Mr.. Wakefield, of NJ Minnesota, preach
ei two sermons at the court house yester
DAY which were listened to by intellieen,
audiences and gave excellent satisfaction.
While topped immigrant wagons are con.
stantly passing through our streets headed
t'wards the Jim river region and Bon
Homme county. Their occupants have
come TO stay.
Since the taking effect of the order pro-
hlbiting the licensed traders from selling
paint, beads, &C., to the Indians, George
Irumbo, at Ills store on Choteau creek, is
doing good business in that line.
Rev. s. D. Ilinman, having been accused
ot irregularities and suspended from his DC.
s''ion as missionary at Sau,ee agency, by
Bishop Hare, has demanded an investiga
tion. A church trial will therefore occur,
to begin ON the dth of Tu,o
This is good time for the committee on
grades, streets and alleys, to put on their
rubber boots. and take walk around town,
and ascertain where mud holes should be
filled up and bitches dug to drain miniature
lakes and frog ponds. Let the procession
be formed.
Joe Ellis was brought down from Plum
creek. Saturday, by Deputy Marshal Ed.
munds. under arrest on charge of selling
liquor to Indians. He waved examination
before Commissioner Congleton and gave
bail in the sum of $500 for his appearance
before the district court.
The indications of the weather for the
upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys
are rising barometer, brisk and occasionally
high wind, veering to colder northwest or
north winds and partly cloudy or cloudy
weather, with rain areas principally in the
northern portions.
A communication from Gen. Hammond
was handed in at four o'clock this afternoon.
too late for publication to-day. 1t states
that he is not the informer in the Hudson
case and that he has not attempted to inter-
Fere with the Pierre settlement. The COM
will appear tomorrow.
The Yankton Turn Verein society, at
heir meeting yesterday, elected the follow
ing officers to serve until January 1st, 1879:
President, Adolph Schaudein; Vice Presi-
lent, Louis Frendenstein; Secretary, Paul
). Hamann Assistant Secretary, h. w.
Fricke; Treasurer, John Becker; 1st Turn.
vart, E. Jurka I'd Turnwart, Frank Wag-
Ter; Librarian, Joseph Bader.
There was general meeting at the Re-
orm Club hall last evening. The hall was
lied to its utmost capacity, quite number
# ladies being present. Interesting re-
marks were made by s. w. Swift, P. A. Pc
erson, L. Congleton, DR.. J. B. Van Velsor,
I. A. Kingsbury and Thomas Stewart.
fourteen persons signed the pledge. There
Vill be regular business meeting of the
lub this evening.
A Yankton correspondent of the Detroit
rec Press says that ''by the appointment of
a new Indian inspector in the person of
Gen. ]. H. Hammond the ring has re-
ceived great blow" We have heard it
about that he was something of
lizard. but We never took any stock in the
ssertion and deem it extremely unkind in
,e Free Press man to print it.
A respectable citizen was discovered yes.
.rday knocking his head against brick
all. Blood was streaming from his ears
nd nose and tears from his eyes. Being
kpostulated with for his barbarous self
he offered in explanation, that he
I'd quickened conscience and was pun
hing himself. That he had thoughtlessly
ought bill Of goods from one of those
ioux City houses and when he began to
link of the way they had used Dakota the
isery Of the revelation had so wrought
pom his feelings that he never could have
,ppiness again until he had done penance.
g couldn't hire anybody to kick him and
e couldn't kick himself, and-and then he
gan to beat the wall again with his head. ,
he crowd moved off with the unanimous ,
mark that it served him right.
GOOD NEWS. ;;