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Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-10
the HANSON JAIL DELIVERY.
Madison Sentinel.

The Press and Dakotaian takes the Senti.
to task for what it is pleased to; call un-
ACQUISITIONS as to the escape of Han
son from the Yankton Jail. However, the
Press n Dskotaian may think, we have
spoken from any spirit of "vindiclive-
ness but from actual belief based upon in.
y~estigation as TO the merits and dement's Of
Hanson's escape. We secured the services
OF Z reliable gentleman to visit, in our be-
half, the Yankton Jail and make such inoui-
ries as would shed light on the subject in
regard to the mysterious delivery. This
gentleman, with much difficulty obtained
permission to look over the building. and
when at length he was permitted to do so he
was followed by the deputy sheriff, who. If
We mistake not, had charge of the prisoner
at the time of his getting clear of Justice.
The deputy was unusually frequent of ex-
PLANTATION as TO the affair, telling our repor.
ter . number Of incohorent and dlsconnected
and We verify believe fictitious stories. "a to
the circumstances connected with the escape
OF the murderer. But in spite of these, no
plausible reason was given, or can be given,
Why Hanson should get out of our %territor.
lei stronghold for lawbreaker,. with the
slender aid of a knife and piece Of bar lead
Had he fairly escaped by auch aid, was no,
the guard criminally negligent of duty ia
allowing him 10 60 out when they have 8
remembrance Of seeing him pass them in tn,
night7 The Press says that Yanktou conn
" acted in good faith, having willingly in
CURED Q large bill Of expense in feepin,
Hanson while they did. Lake county has
bill Of costs as we'll, which it will willinol,
lose In behalf of justice. The matter q
opinion rests with US now as II aivavs no.
We hint nothing. Criminal ne]plioenc.
bribery or convenience did it. Bar lead !;
too thin and too soft an answer 10 turn ava
wrath.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-10

The conmiaion appoipted BY the presi-
dent to proceed to Cuba 6rtkssptrpose 81
collecting information in relation to the
yellow fsser, h.. submitted. rpreiipinary
REPORT to the national board 81 health. The
report sass: The most general result is
that the yellow fever habituallyS prevails in
every place il Cuba from which reports
we're received, provided these places are q
any si,s: or commercial importance. and
contain my considerable number Of unac'
climated persons to furnish food for wide
spread poison. In this particular, the med
icI authorities, as we'll as the intelligent
residents Of Cuba, have for the most par
misled the profession. Csn
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-10

= fsw Of the trivial facts which the national
board Of health might ascertain were it 80
disposed. Il = suggested by these citizens
that before the national board Of health ir-
bsrnasine sermi's or tho cotton fomite," il
might inquire If yellow fever might not in
the end prove Z filth disease, and due in .
great measure to the unimportant details Of
economy of which the foregoing is
. fair sample.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-10

Bailey's bill, for the eduatqd efcolored
pslopls recites lat $5l0,00O has been cover
ed back into the tre.surysasee1AA,b being
III bon,p ofscolored soldiers unclaimed
alsr - years and direcsstfe secretary
ofthe treasury to invest 'tkatss6ouht il
gqyernnsst 4 per cents, tls interest TO. Be
auporttonSd to- FIVE institation1 already il
Operation, whore colored people receive
sdpcationin tho higher branches, e..
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-10

if6s msn Who Stole Secretary skssesfman's
ripost. haa bean discharged from the govern:
mint printings Office. While the evidence
a{iiinst him hi been purely ciseuustaptial,
itJas fszfs trens, and h%arbNsdr hsnss,f
tdtbs esgsht i . trap seffof' him BY Chief
BfSoks6 ths secret seryiee.g sRis seya
d{honssationsS when confro1td VIII u
e1idenke q his guilt, were enough 8 Son-
vn hisss AOSg.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-10
1aEeD.He pesnLEHcf.
A. Theory whach may Explain h Mis-
fortenes OF Memphis.

fortunes of Memphis.
-N New Orleans Times
"A committee from the national board OIL
htalthah as Eecently made an inquest vketh-
ersth4r loVa fefaepidemic Of Memphis
VS. y&e Sapp6,6 a. cotton fomites,1's or
'.hbefntfias germs Why either OIL
these disastrous infections should have
been selected as 4 probable cause, for what
to The secular mind seems easy Of solution,
has not been disclosed. A representative
ofthe Times, b q careful study of the
Memphi newspapers, and judicial pump
ing Of certain residents Of that afflicted city,
has askastained a few facts which may
throw solne Light upon this abstruse subject.
These AAertio4t may not prove an unan-
swerabfe 5sindioRtion of the "hibernating
GERM" st6t information was not sought in
the int1esSt Of tAat pl~antasmagoria, and the
facts must be permitted to make their own
interpretation Of the riddle.
Memphis, say the old residents Of that
place, is perforated by thousands of cylin.
drical pits, varying in depth from four
to- sixty feet, according to the topo
graphy, which are used for two very differ
ent purposes, although both are In close
proximity. Both are affected BY the rise
and fAlspf the Mississippi and the conse-
quent backing up of the waters of Bayou
GayosasS which extends for two miles
through the heart of the city. The bottom
reachedsin both these series of excavations
i1svhite sand, which, it is claimed, permits
the sipsae of any liquid, and especially is
thiS tho case under the resistless hydraulic
pressuresbf 4 high river. 1t is confidently
believed that this sipage invariably results
insthe @ ninglihg of the liquid contents Of
both pitas that Il they be not identical, the
senblancse is sufficiently great to jus,ify a
belief that the two are at least blood
relations.
2 may strike the same terror q an i'm.
Poftant statement, but the writer is assured
that these two styles Of pit, which honey.
comb II fity front and rear in the proper,
tion Of y least tvo to every lot, and five in
. nejot1y Of cafes, are devoted alternately
70 dri1ktpg.water and dejecta humans
Boh arshst time 90 offensive as to be unen.
dntablei sed ct aeeasons when this efluvia il
shared Ii<h rigid impartiality by both Their
= S.ualIssen outbreak of yellow fever.
But asfght difference is made in tie fat
Of eithse. When the pit not devd,ed Z,
drpking-yater y partly full. it ia closed en-
tirSlly wiK EARTH and another pit ~ Ii,
same pts1p No isNug in the immediate vicin
ase. % 9ome lets q many q five of thes
pits had Nleen dig, partially filled in m
usual gfadipal process, closed, and the con
TENT rem1an to 1enetrate terra frma. unit
even cefe3b become offensive, and drinkip
watsr 10 akstimesSo unpaiatable that usual
little whtskey q wine il added to CORE,
it, itavor. AZ asmeasnre of economy, the,
underground cisterns are supplied With ire
drains below thefaucst, and through the
a~llaeueplus-WAtee is-~poaFoAlback. AGAR,
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-10

Fresh Oysters at Lavender's.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-10

aesnators kellogg and Csfsr;osn have
r{(slched Warrington from LouisianA Thew
q confident, after the testimody-the CON.
mlitee has taken, that the democrats dare
M recommend SpofEord's admission to the
sd1sata hpt Notwithstanding the evidence in
ads. [ogl vff tuqoWe.
d, ..a.ss L y..ss5 saes n
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-10

If you want any Turkeys, Chickens,
Butter, Eggs or Oats, address
SUING s. STRATTMAN,
st. Helena, Neb.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-10
Price, 21 Cents.

Be careful to call for COLLINS voLrA1c PLAs.
TKRlest You get some worthless imitation. Sold By
al Wholesale and Retail Druggist. Throughout fne
United States and Canada, and BY WEEK 4
TER, Proprietor1, Boston, Mass.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-10
RAl%LRoAo:No1IcE

Subscribers to the Chicago Milwaukee
and st. Paul railway fund, Yankton divi.
sion. are requested to call at Yankton Bank
and pay twenty-five per cent of their sub
scriptions. NEWTON EDMuNDs,
Treasurer of Committee.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-10

The Merchants billiard parlors have been
moved 10 a location one door north of Ed
mund's and Wvnn's bank.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-10
49, A- "1-s
The old reliable
City Bakery will
sell from date %
loaves Of Bread for
one dollar. Re-
member the old
Bakery, establish
ed in 1862.
H. A. S~choregge.
nooh AND LADDER MEETING.

The members of the Yankton Hook and
Ladder company will hold their regular
meeting at the Truck house Thursday even.
ing, Dec. IL, at s o'clock. Business Of i'm
portance will be considered and a full atten-
dance is requested.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-16

The Boston Post paragrapher is moved
to remark that Mark Twain got more for
his "Gilded Age" than Shakespeare re.
ceived for all his plays. This is, perhaps,
why Mark answers one of the iil-paid
Williams many conundrums. In"Romeo
and Juliet" Shakespeare inquiries "What's
in manner" and in the "Gilded Age
Twain replies "There's millions in it." 1t
might be an interesting calculation for
some imaginative statistician to figure up
hs.w much we pay for names in year.
Any one who purchases piano or or
gan knows that name costs good deal.
1t is the same way with everything. Many
articles cost high price, because of the
name OF the maker, although he may
have been dead for years, and the charac-
teristics for which his particular article
became famous, have been superseded by
better qualities in other articles of the
same kind But as a general thing a
name is very good criterion on which to
buy. If we get a watch, or knife, or a
piano, or buggy from celebrated house
we are pretty sure of getting good arti
Gle for our money. Very few men would
think of buying book on science, histo-
ry or any other subject, without knowing
the name of the author. We would be
more apt to get good work on astrono-
my, for instance, If the name of Proctor
or Watson or Swift were on the title page
than if in that position stood the name of
Smith or Brown or Jones, estimable as
we know these gentlemen to be in private
life. 1t seems, therefore, to bring things
down to fine point, that the name of the
author appended even to short maga
zine article is very desirable. Harper's
Magazine thinks differently, and it is con
sequently sort Of "No Name" magazine
Mr.. Curtis defends this system in his
"Easy Chair" this month by saying tina
it gives old and new authors an equa
chance with the public. This would be
a strong argument in favor of the system
but it falls to the ground when we know
that in many papers the names Of thu
authors are published, in the monthly ad
vertisement of the magazine. The name
should be either kept secret or given il
the Magazine itself as the present system
merely gives the reader extra trouble
finding out who the authors are.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-16

There is one remarkable effect of our
peculiar climate that has probably struck
everybody, and yet we have never seen it
referred to in print. 1t is the absence OF
any noticeable change in the seasons.
The monotonous continuity of even sun
shine insensibly merges days into weeks
and months into years without the usual
suggestion of lapse of time occurring else
where. One shakes hands with friend
on the street corner to-day; and next year
meets him fresh from a trip round the
world, and is rather surprised to find him
in another suit of clothes, the pattern OF
the old being as fresh in our minds eye as
if we had seen it yesterday.
The other day Front street merchant
and his wife were seated in a street car,
when another gentleman stepped in. The
| moment he saw the first mentioned party
the latter said, eagerly:
"Because it comes to the surface to blow
That's the answer, isn't it,"
ayes" said the other, "but didn't think
you'd guess it. =.
"Why, what did the gentleman mean"
asked the merchants mystifed wife, after
they had left the car.
"Whv, you see, down at the club the
other day, asked them all conundrum
first rate thing too-why is whale like a
water lily7-and none Of them could
guess it."
"Club' Why you have not belonged
to club for five years-not since we
were married"
"Havn't II That's fact. Now, let's see
when was it asked Brown that conun-
drum" and by careful comparison o.
dates it was ascertained that Brown hac
kept the answer fresh in his mind for ex
actly six years and five months. This
story is literally true, and will be SEN
carefully stuffed to any museum in the
country on receipt of the postage.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-16
Went up on the Cellar Door.
[Sidney tO.) Journal


A farmer Of Cynthian township came
to town one day this week to make few
purchases. 1t happened that he called at
an establishment where an elevator is in
use. In order to furnish the articles de-
sired il was necessary to go into an up
per story, and the salesman said to his
customer, "Just get on and we'll go up"
The startled granger looked around and
said ton where?" He was given the de.
sired information and they started up
The upward flight was evidently some.
thing new to the farmer, and he attested
his appreciation of it by remarking
This beats all nation, don't it?" The
salesman smilingly remarked that he
rather thought it did. In the meantime q
son Of the farmer became impatient and
came into the store room below looking
for him. The farmer seeing his son
stepped to the hatctvay and said: "Yor
can't come up here, son; ! came up on tht
cellar door, and it's up here yeti"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-16
easily Grim.

Very little light lives inside my beloved
churchyards. The westering sun slants
in by some unwonted entry, and some
times a few prismatic tears drop on an old
tombstone. A flock of sparrows try to
raise lively chirrup in a solitary tree,
perhaps taking different view of worms
from that entertained by humanity.
In one churchyard, have seen an old
man and an old woman making hay,
among the graves They looked like
Time and his wife. On an old marble in
the foreground, between me and them,
were two cherubims, and | sought to
compare them with the haymakers-l
coughed and awoke the echoes, but the
old couple never looked at me, so | was
fain to leave them under three yards and
half of darkening sky, alone by them
selves.
In another churchyard of similar di'
mensions, l saw two charity children
They were making love, in spite of the
ferocious, spiked gate, and the skulls and
crossbones. O, it was no doubt colder
ground to those young persons! Satur
day evening was their trysting- time
They came there to shake the bits of
mating which were spread up in thu
church aisles; and they afterwards rolled
them up; he rolling his end, she rolling
hers, until they met, over the once divided
now united rolls--sweet emblem 1t wa
so refreshing to find one of my grim ane
faded churchyards blooming into flower
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-16
Could See Through It.

Nine. c., dressmaker has great deal Of
trouble with her sewing girls. The 9th.
er day one Of them came to her to say
MADAME, fear that l shall not be able
to work much longer. I think I am get.
ting blind" "Why, how is that3 You
seem to get along pretty well with your
work. "Yes; but can no longer see
any meat on my plate at dinner" Nine
c. understood, and the next day the
young ladies' were served with very large
but very thin pieces of meat "What hap
piness" exclaimed our miss; "my sigh
has come back. l can now see bettel
than ever" How is that, MademoiseIle' ?
"Why, at this moment | can see the plate
through the meat"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-16
A Preachers Best Sermon Spoiled.
Richmond Herald)

Brother Cuthbert Roach, brother OF
the Rev. Elijah Roach, many years ago
moved from Charlotte County, Va, to
Trigg County, KY. He told me when he
went to the Little River Association,
Kentucky, he heard leading minister in
that association, and very good man,
preach from the following text: Acts H.,
40: "Save yourselves from this untoward
generation" The old gentleman pro-
nounced the word "untoward" as il it was
uncovered, and went on to tell the audi
ence that in the davs of the Apostles the
people lived in walled cities, with towers
and battlements Cor their defense; that the
Apostle used the word fisuratively here,
10 show how defenceless was that wicked
generation, without towers of strength,
in which they could enter and defend
themselves from the wrath of God. Thus
it is at the present day, said he, the sinner
is exposed and has no tower in which to
defend himself And with many other
words did he testify and exhort, saving,
save yourselves from this untoward gen
Grafton. AS they returned from church
Brother Roach said to the preacher:
"Did you not give a wrong interpreta-
ton to the word untoward in your text
to-day by pronouncing it incorrectly"
ooh, no, Brother Roach, | know am
correct, for have preached that sermon
at least twenty times at different places
and the brethren have told me it is the
best sermon they ever heard me preach.
"Well, well" says Brother Roach, 1--WE
will see what the dictionary says as to the
meaning of'the word and its pronuncia
ton when we get to the house"
After they looked at the dictionary the
good brother, with evident modification
and regret, exclaimed: "Brother Roach
this is too bad! You have spoiled one
Of my best sermons! | shall never bs
able to preach it again"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-16

But somehow his restless roaming had
brought him home again, and the last Of
the bright winter days found him in his
hotel, not mile from the mansion where
he knew Sylvia was-Sylvia, who hated
him: who had said she hoped never to see
his face again.
And l am sure he had utterly forgotten
he had sworn never to look upon her face
again.
They were SO near, and yet SO far-so
hopelessly severed, yet SO faithfully unit
ed.
Then, one day, it came to her so unex-
pectedly, SO suddenly, that it shocked her
into white, trembling fear-the casual re-
port that Mr.. Hope was in the city, at
the Northumbria, and not looking we'll
in fact, very shockingly broken in health
and appearance. Then her heart almost
broke with loving sympathy and pity.
81 will go to him! Twill go and kneel
at his dear feet for forgiveness! Oh,
heaven, go before me and prepare him to
take me back to his love again"
So, before she tasted another meal, Syl.
via went and dressed in her quietest dark
dress, and in an unostentatious hired cab
was driven to the ladies' entrance and
asked to be shown to Mr.. Guy Hopes
| room, ( -A. .t. r-
And then, with pulsing heart and eager
step, she followed the corridor to No. %,
where she hesitated' second before she
raped, her face fairly anguishful in its
intense anxiety, her breath almost stop
ping, for fear lest she might be repulsed
She had dismissed the man who escort
ed her; then, gathering all her courage
knocked on the door, so fearful, so hope
ful-knocked, to hear no answering sum
mons to enter.
And then she raped again, louder
while sudden deathly pain seized hel
at thought that came to her. What i
he be lying dead within'
A little exclamation Of uncomfortable
agony came from her, and in despera
ton of fear she turned the door-knob anc
found the door unlocked, but the room
empty of the dear presence to whom sh'
had come to 60 down on her knees be
fore.
For ten, fifteen minutes she waited, an,
then went back to the manager, simpl,
saying she would not wait longer for he
husband, and because he knew her s.
we'll he was notaat all surprised when sh
begged him not to mention to Mr.. Hop
that she had been there.
Then heart-sick, disappointed, despair
ing, she had herself returned to her mag
nificent desolate home-magnifcent an
desolate as she had left, but desolate neve
again, for, standing in the reception-roon
eager, expectant, her husband was waitin
for her, to catch her in his outstretche
arms.
"Sylvia, my wife! l have come to b
forgiven"
And light shining suddenly on he
fair face that might have been rehecte
, from an angels, she chung, agitated,
, him.
"Oh, Guy! heaven is SO good to us,aftc
all! Can you ever forgive me, and lo'
me again'"
, And the latter life began, more blesse
. and beautiful than the former, for nev'
again was it marred by disgust, Or jea
ousy, or temper,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-16
Man From Monkey.
murphy on Habit and Intelligence

(Murphy on Habit ano lntelllgenceJ
The difficulty, whatever it amounts to-
of conceiving how such being as man
can be descended from an ape, the ape from
a fish, and the fish from protozoon, is
paralleled in the life Of every human be-
ing. The child, before it learns to speak,
appears to have no higher mental nature
than that of an intelligent dog; for some
time after birth it appears to have no men
tai nature at all, and Immediately after
conceptionit has no higher organic nature
than that of protozoon.
The development of the individual is in
the highest degree mysterious; but the
mystery is only repeated, and the difficult
ty is not increased, if it is true, as the doc
trine Of evolution teaches, that the devel-
opment of the individual, from the struct-
ureless germ up to the mature man, has
had its parallel in the development of the
race, The relation of mans spiritual to
his animal nature is no doubt one of the
greatest of all mysteries; but the relation
Of life to matter, though lower kind OF
mystery, is equally mysterious. No ply
steal science can elucidate the relation Of
the spirit to the brain; but the fact that
mans brain has no superiority to that oi
the highest apes from which his spiritual
superiority could possibly be guessed, SC
far from giving support to materialistic
view of our spiritual nature, rather tends
to cut away the ground from under any
materialistic argument. The question
What point in the development, either o
the individual or Of the race, is tina
when the spiritual nature has come I'M
cannot be answered, but is not an impor
tant one to answer.
1t is, however, in accordance with al
the analogies of creation, if the same ere
ative power which at the beginning crea
led matter and afterward gave it life, final
ly when the action OF that life had devel
oped the bodily frame and the instructive
mental powers of man, completed thu
work by breathing into man breath o
higher and spiritual life.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-16

China is SO little known, and its ways,
so far as they are known, are so peculiar
and outlandish, that ordinary Europeans
accept its doings with mild and compla-
cent wonder, as though nothing we're too
strange to be believed about it, If, in.
deed, there is one thing about China in
which all men outside the Celestial EN-.
pire are agreed, it is that Cinnamon are
unlike all the rest of the world