Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-05-14

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bunion tinkerer who held forth on
street one day last week. He should
have been impounded.
FoR the present Geo. Stickney
will use the east room in the North
up building, being compelled to do
so by reason of the removal Of the
court house.
THE plan and specifications Of the
Jail and court house improvements
were drawn by M. B. Kent Of this
city. The plan gives entire satisfac-
ton, and will make q fine building
Of the court house. M. B. under
stands his trade.
|XFRoM what we have seen and can
learn, prairie chickens win be very
plenty in this county this seaon.
They are very numerous, and if no
shooting is done until the law per-
mits, that kind Of game will be as
plenty as in former years.
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THERE is a cheeky poper publish
ed at Topeka, Kansas, that sent out
its prospectus last winter for a chill
drens paper, agreeing to send it for
a year for the publication ofthe pros
pectus. This we published and re-
ceived one copy. When the next
copy came, it was accompanied with
another notice worth $50. The next
number came with about $500 worth
of advertising. This is entirely too
thin. We are willing to advertise
any reasonable amount, but do not
mean to give $500 worth of space
and work for a $1.OO monthly. The
same firm is publishing an agricul-
cultural weekly, and have the excess
i've cheek to ask $500 worth of ad-
vertising for a copy. W. are not in
the pork business, Or we might be
induced to get a copy of that paper
printed in that Kansas sty.
The last issue of the Yankton
Herald contained a communication
from a party who resides a couple of
miles east of this city, that shows the
type of the writer in his true light.
The author of the article is a young
man who makes his headquarters at
a saloon, and takes his meals at the
expense of his father, who has the
misfortune to have an ass for a son.
The young man in question has ia.
ken it upon himself in the past to
write articles against the business of
this city, and has frequently gone so
far as to abuse many of our best cit
liens in a manner far beneath the
dignity of one who claims to be above
the level of a fool or knave. But,
being a superanuated printer, he has
conceived the idea of starting a pa
per in this place, and tries to mend
some of his drunken freaks, so that
he may get some patronage. He is
about as hard up for money as brains,
and borrowed enough Of the former
to take him to Canton to see an old
printing Office for sale; and he is try
ing to SOW seed for the latter by max
ing a distillery of his stomach with
his nasal protuberance as a sign. To
say that the young man is a liar, a
drunkard, an unreliable dead-beat
clothed and fed by a hard working
father, would be expressing the true
condition of the nincompoop. Too
lazy to work, too ignorant to beg and
too cowardly to steal, he spends his
time between drinks writing slush
about the town that furnishes him
his "store Clothes" and whiskey
enough to keep him drunk most Of
the time. Our people have become
disguised with his brainless attacks.
We would advise the young ninny
to take an emetic before an inspec-
tor comes around, or he will be COB
bled up for ar illicit distillery. And
to increase his brains, we would rec
ommend that he diet on one whale a
day for the next thirty years.
AS an evidence Of mans inhuman-
ity to man, we cite the case Of John