Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-18
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Friday Evening, April ls, 1879
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LOCAL LAcoHics.
Ed. Baker, late Of Yankton, 10 now tn,
business manager of the Olympic variety
theatre 1t Sioux City.
Capt McVay has planted . large number
Of shade trees on his lots on the corner Of
Fifth and Pine streets.
Creppsn the detective has sent word 10
Kramer that he will come in tonight and
fix up that little matter.
Dewey & Powers have put down q sub
stantial six foot sidewalk 10 front Of their
row of tenement houses on Fourth street,
Billy Marble, now playing in this city,
and w. B. Valentine, one of our, county
commissioners, were school boys together in
New York state.
Another one Of those striped overcoat
drafts has turned up. 1t was protested at
Deadwood and its amount is almost one
hundred dollars.
The weather indications for the upper
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys are:
Stationary, followed by falling barometer /;
slightly warmer east winds, clear, followed
by partly cloudy weather.
Jerry Cavana and Miss Emma Cavana
who have been playing an engagement Of
eight weeks at Campbell variety theatre in
this city, will start for St. Paul tomorrow
morning, where they have an engagement.
The base base ball season has fairly open.
ed. The "West stars" and the Morning
Stars" have met upon the field of strife,
and victory perched on the West Star ban
ner. A leather covered saw dust ball was
the prize awarded.
A number of property owners in the city
are about to commence proceedings against
the city to test the legality of the special
tax assessed by the city council during the
past year for the construction of certain
sidewalks in lower Ysnkton.
A few baby grasshoppers were discern
able to-day in sunshining spots. They
make a splendid free lunch for birds and
chickens, and the most of them will be e1-
hausted for that purpose before they can in.
terview the approaching crop of garden
sass.
Charles Mckenzie, Esq, of Sioux City,
recently sent to Jail for thirty days for
drunkenness, publishes a card in the Sioux
City Journal of the 18th inst, denying many
of the newspaper items concerning him, and
attributing his prosecution to enemies acting
behind the scenes. His principal enemy,
we surmise, has been the bottle fend.
Eighteen years ago to-day, 500 volunteers
from Pennsylvania, and 300 regulars, arrived
in Washington City, being the first troops in
Washington after the declaration Of war.
On the following day, 10Th of April, the
Sixth Massachusetts, regiment while passing
through Baltimore was fred upon, and 8
men were killed and Z wounded. Seven of
the mob were killed and eight wounded.
Mother Superior St. Nagitus, Mother De-
soles and Sister Mary Paul, of the Yankton
Catholic school, have gone to Omaha to
make an effort to raise funds with which to
build a convent on their lots in the western
portion Of this city. They intend to put up
about a fifteen thousand dollar building, if
their efforts to procure a loan are successful,
and to organize an extensive school to be
conducted under the auspices of the sisters
of charity.
Mrs. G. A. Lyons millinery and dress
making establishment has been the center of
attraction to-day and her elegant line of
goods fully deserves the unlimited praise it
has received. She has stocked her estab-
lishment with those articles which ladies
most appreciate and in her selections has
exhibited perfect good taste and a correct
idea Of the wants of this market. To-mor.
row will be the best day Of her annual open
ing season. Another large invoice Of goods
will arrive tonight, which will be arranged
for the closing display.
A sample of red Mediterranean wheat
has just been left at this Office by O. n.
Quinby for exhibition. 1t was brought by
him from Illinois where it is now extensive
ly used in the manufacture of patent -four
and commands about five cents more per
bushel than other varieties. It is . winter
wheat and should be sown the last of Au-
gust Nj. Quinby thinks that it will grow
in Dakota, and that our soil will i'm.
proye its quality, and render it ever better
han the Illinois variety. Samples can be
seen at Wilcox & Williams Office.
Lunch can be had at all times at Fred
Jacobs old stand.
Cassimeres in light weights, suitable for
wear just received at
r. A. KETcHUM's.