Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-14
SPORTING ITEMS,
NEIeABoRHooo NEWS.

Flax "a inches high in Minnehaha.
The southern part of Cellar county is
catching the immigration this year.
A. j. Parshal of Rosedae, and James
Bryne of Fires!eel have the matter in
charge.
The Illinois press excursion will be q,
Sioux Falls on Sunday, the 22d. So says
the Paragraph.
Geo. Woodwork, of Spirit Mound, Clay
county, has SIS acres of corn which stands
ten inches high.
The passenger and express business over
the Yankton and Sioux Falls stage line
continue to increase.
The Republican Gays that it Is under
stood the Standard has been sold to Mr.,
Welch of Freeport, Ill.
A Mr.. Goddard of Turner county killed
six skunks in one day last week; and it
wasn't good day for skunks either.
New Era: T. B. Martin of Turner has
caught about 200 pounds Of pickerel in the
Vermillion near his residence this spring.
A meeting of citizens Of Bon Homme
will be held on the 18th to consider the
proposition of establishing high school in
that village.
Nermillion Republican: There are some
splendid fields OF wheat in this county that
give promise of the most abundant yield
ever realized.
Firestcel will celebrate, and Gen. John
Lawler of the c., M. & st. P. read is an.
nounced as the man who is to make the
eagle soar on that occasion.
Frank Donnelly, Of Mineral Springs,
Bon Homme county. recently sold two
sheep at Springfield, the aggregate weight
Of which was 4l3 pounds.
A camp meeting, under the auspices Of
the Free Methodists, will commence in the
grove of Mr.. Lowrie, in the northern part
of Clay county next Tuesday.
The over nice grammatical Miss Nancy
Of the Bon Homme Citizen is speculatine
upon what will happen supposing the."na
.ionals carries California and Maine"
The Rockport Pioneer understands that
steps are being taken to perfect an orgsni.
zation of the veteran soldiers of the Dakota
valley. Gen. c. T. Campbell of Sch:land,
During the heavy storm last Sunday af.
ternoon Dane, living about 9 miles south
of Swan Lake, was killed BY lightning. as
also was his pony on which he was riding
at the time.
Bon Homme Citizen: We find the aver
age crop of Dakota for the last two years,
per acre. to be as follows: Wheat, 10; oats,
81; corn. on old ground, 60; potatoes. $50; /;
aud other articles Of produce in proportion.
Union county's court house at Elk Point
is being thoroughly overhauled, improved
and decorated. A new fence has been built
around the square, shade trees set out, and
other proper things done to make the pub
lie grounds and building tasty and comfor.
table.
The village board Of Sioux Falls has
prescribed certain limits within which the
explosion Of tirecrackers is prohibited. As
the limits include nearly the entire city the
Paragraph says the order "drives the iu-
venile patriotism on Independence day into
the rhubarbs of the village-!nto the out.
squirts, as l, we're"
New Era: The ''lonc tree" which has
since the early settlement Of Turner county
beeu the pride axd guide to the Middleton
people, went down to mother earth during
the recent pale aud now recllnes its long
trunk upon the virgin sod. The tree was
cotton wood, about 65 feet in height and
81 feet in diameter al its base.
Tue Paragraph local sbies his castor In
10 tho ring and comes to the scratch with the
following In regard To crops in Minnehaha !:
The wheat has stooled out gorgeously. AID
the stalks s,and up double. listed and broad
shouldctcd, like grausferous giants, while