Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-06
NEWS AND NOTES.

Emigration to Texas has about ceased.
Corn in South Carolina sells for SIS al
barrel.
The rigidity Of the presidential backbone
has become chronic.
The negroes of Texas will hold a con-
%vention on July 1.
A large number of Canadians are coming
into the U. s. this season.
100000 negroes have Joined the NJ. E..
church south since the war.
Texas and Alabama papers are on a big
boast about the growing crops.
There is a very large immigration into
the upper Minnesota counties.
S,168 barrels of beer (32 gallons each)
we're sold in Minnesota during Nav.
The Spanish government intends to has.
ten the complete abolition of slavery in
Cuba.
Wolves are numerous in portions Of Min
nesota and each county pays a bounty for
wolf scalps.
The contest for the Ashley belt, held by
Rowell, begins June 16. Ennis is the univ
American entered.
The trottinE stallion Vanderbilt, owned
by Sentinel, dam Lightning, died at Lex
ln2ton q few days ago.
A C~onstantinople correspondent saws that
a project for an alliance between Russia and
Turkey is talked about.
Seventy vessels, from FIVE to seventy tons
burden. with $50 men, are now engaged In
the Key West sponge trade.
Song of the south: Come, Sambo,
dear Sambo. come home" There's no cot.
ton without u good deal of wool"
The inhabitants of Cincinnati are the most
cultured peeple insthe country. Their beer
schoeners are bigger than any other.
One of the district schools in Rice county.
Minnesota, has been closed on account Of
the alarming prevalence Of dip.herla.
Thirty new craters opened in Etna. They
cover several square miles and all pour
forth lava. The eruption of Vesuvius is
also increasing.
An Indiana man is the proud owner Of 9
hen twentv-'hree years old. He is going te
keep her until she is old enough to sell fol-
a spring chicken.
The farm known as Lammermoor, IL
Essex county, Virginia, which before the
q war sold for $4,000, was sold Monday las
: . at auction for $3.50.
"A Patrolman Charles Prince, of the 81
r Louis police force, was shot aud killed o,
the LIST In the most cold blooded manner b,
. a rough named Charles Sanders.
IS Peter Cooper, Wendell Phillips, Solo,
es Chase, j. b. Weaver and B. F. Butler wer
expected to be present at the greenbac
re meeting in Boston on Thursday.
le Springfield Mass, had it red hot on Sur
day. The mercury ranged at 80 to 100 de-
n gress in the shade. In New York it reach
ed SO, and at midnight stood at 80.
Recent freight contracts, probably cover
ing the summer season, have been made
Chicago and St. Louis, as low at six cen
- per hundred from Chicago and eight cen
~ per hundred from St. Louis to New York.
The brunette demi-monde of New O
leans are getting up an exodus on the
own account. The quadroon mstrons ar
their sparkling daughters are going to +
lieve the loneliness of the Colorado silv
miners.
for The hard times seem to be passing Nv,
n from Rutland, VT, which has recent
voted aet2,O00 school house and a 500
sewer, both-of which are progressing ra
idly. Work is plenty and trade good, 81
there has not been q bad failure for a ye
or more. A large number of building 9
no going up.
Croton lake. whence New York city
rives Its supply of water, is patrolled dai
by acompetent person, who goes up il
boat along the shore on one side and dov
on the other, removing all dead fish, bru
and drtftwood. Last year the water Y
covered with q light scum. but its con
ray ton now 10 said to be perfect.
~ A new and fatal distemper has attack
wy the horses in Newark, N. j. The e
symptom is q swelling Of the glands. VII
grow eventually to such a size as to che
the animal to death. A green froth emit
from the nose and mouth marks the
velopment of the disease. For want Of
oout better name the farmers call, it "gr
tied, mouth"
Until Freight rates eastward from Chicaao,k
nlng been reduced 70 unprecedented low Gan
and A few Of them billed freight to New q
cling at u cents per 100 Ms. Il was suppose
! to one time that 123 cents for grain and for
,om- class freight vas the lowest, bu. when
was rate dropped TO 10 cents it Wa s,ee,
lain. there could be no further decline,
tie that the minimum has been reached, i
eser. evident that the railroad managers will
DOM: Obliged 70 do something TO prevent for
and injury to their interests.