Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-09
CHUNKS OF IMPORTATION.

= Tom Griffin, a ~6S-year-old darkey,
Boston. 10 said to be the father Of six'
three children.
The Texas legislature has passed aA
giving six hundred and forty acres to dse
veteran pensioner. N
Fl Senator Matt II. Carpenter, of Wisconsi
is fifty.fve years old and his great mass
sturdy hair is iron gray.
/. A few weeks & one hundred farm
comprising a twelfth part Of Warwickshir
England, were advertised to let.
The hard times in England are %reflecte
. in the register generals returns. In 1877
: there we're POS, 6l5 marriages, in 1877
: 189,657.
The weather has been SO cold that nobody
has ventured within interviewing proximity
of Charles Francis Adams, and ne are cor.
s~equently deprived of his opinion on the
veto.
The firmness of Mr.. Hayes backbone is
the more astonishing to Zach Chandler
from the fact that the president takes moth
ing stronger than crab apple cider.
E-x-conpressmen are a trifle cheaper even
than ex-senators. Cain, colored, of South
Carolina, is now a messenger in the treasury
department at a dollar and . half q day.
Mr., Moody has closed his work in Balti-
more, and is on his way to Boston, where
he will remain into May. He will take
part in the proceedings Of the International
Convention of Young Mems Christian Asso-
Citations, and will afterward take q rest.
An elephant died recently in Calcutta
which is said to have been ridden by War
rem Hastings when governor-general of
India, 100 years ago. He may probably
have been fifty years old at that time.
This is an age of progress. A colored
baptized fourteen converts in the
river on Sunday, and each of the
candidates for regeneration wore q rubber
'uit. No rubber suits were worn on the
Jordan eighteen hundred years ago. The
way of salvation Is easier.
Joseph Cook, Bishop Simpson and party
will set out from Chicago in May in q sps-
,ial train for the Yosemite valley. Here
great meetings are to be held in the interests
IF Sunday school work, and it is proposed
10 erect a chapel as a memorial for the ben
Eft of tourists.
President Keep of the Chicago and North
railway company is free to admit
his belief that Vanderbilt has secured an in
terest in that road, but he has no intimation
Of any prospective change in the manage.
nent on that account.
Peru is enthusiastic about her war with
Chilli, and her people are giving all possible
upport to the government in men, money
md material. 1t is probable, therefore,
hat we shall see these South American re-
involved in a prolonged and fratri-
idal war.
DR.. Russell, who at the opening of the
,ar of the rebellion, visited this country as
correspondent of the London Times, and is
opularly known here as Bull. Run Rus
ILL.," is to be knighted and to receive a
appointment. This has been ef- |
,cted through the influence of the prince of .
Vale, and duke Of Sutherland, who are at !,
ached friends of DR.. Russell.
The new liquor law in Massachusetts, pro-
ides that if injuries to property are done
y intoxicated persons, damages may be
covered from the owner of the building
the liquor is sold, in whole or in part
ausing intoxication, and the owner of the
may recover from the tenant.
Good church members in Texas trust to
'rovidence, but they also believe in keeping
powder dry. Thus we read that at a
general baptism in that state the
|her day, when the fourteen candidates
alked down to the water, fifteen revolvers
ere deposited on the bank of the stream,
lat Of the preacher making the fifteenth.
The London promoters of the project to
oppose the leasing of the Atlantic and Great
'estern railway by the Erie railway COM t,
my announce that so many adhesions have ,
'en received that Sir Henry Tyler, Sir I
harles Young and Captain Douglas Gallon $
I'VE already consented to act on the COM 3
ittee to carry out the scheme, relying on :
e requisite majority being secured. /