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Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-21
THE TREASURER TO the GOVERNOR
MIR. sherman Publishes His Explanation
Of Territorial Financial Matters.
Sioux Falls Independent.
Sioux FAILS, Jan. II. 1879.

10 We x"uNtc:
In the financial statement submitted IL
the public 10 the message Of Gov. Howard
to the legislature, l an made to appear az
being short 10 my accounts as treasurer OF
this territory ola sum bordering on $1,000.
| have only to clear myself OF this charge
by calling the attention Of the public L The
governors statement itself. which shows on
the face of it where the error lies.
He gives the statement. as made BY the
auditor, as follows:
Am 1sos term NJ WARRANTS. ..sa." .4ss %
Amount Of warrants redeemed by
treasurer III on file with AUDITOR. 2V,l4O 81
these there were of the Is.
sue of l61 81
the year of 1876........." 1,7IO a.
the year of lS76....."... 9.s01 ~
the year of 1S77......... 1929 ~
the wear of 1884,. ...... 1882 81
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-21
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YANKToN, DAKOTA
Tuesday Evening, Jan. 81, 1879

The bill granting arrearges on pensions
has passed both houses of congress, but II
is said that the president will veto 1t. The
belief is that ii can be passed over his veto.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-21
BUSINESS DIRECTORY

/ NAKOTA HERALD, Democratic Newspaper
~ published weekly. Taylor Bros. Proprietors
Third-St.
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TRAINS novN0
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Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-21

EDMUNDS L WYNN, Bankers and Insurance
- Agents. Broadway.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-21
EISEMAN, CHAS. l. CO. General Clothing
II House 4 Merchant Tailoring. Broadway.

EXCELSlOR MILL 20. Manufacture Patent
- and other brands Of Flour, Meal, Feed, Sc.
Capital st, near Levee.
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And all Chiefs and Headmen.
, 1879-02-23
EVILS OF OFFICIAL CHARITY.

There are those who contend that the
whole system of public charity is false in
principle, and calculated to promote and
increase pauperism. Such persons will find
strong confirmation of their. theory in the
condition Of things exposed by Col. Brown
as actually existing in Lamont, one of the
Cook County towns. This town is owned
mainly. by Col. Brown and EDw1N WALLER.
the latter being the Courthouse contractor
and tho worker Of the stone-quarries which
furnish the chief employment for laboring-
men. The town may bo fairly said to be
supported by tie county, for, when the
laborers are at work in the quarries, it is to
county funds, throug gh the contractor VALE
ER' that they look for their pay, and when
WORK Is suspended in the quarries the men
fall bnck on the Supervisor who is the dis
penser OF county charity, or so-called out
door relief. The Supervisor, it appears, is a
saloon-keeper as well as Town Supervisor.
In the former capacitythe is one of four or
nVe IN the town who absorb the wages of the
stone-nen IN exchange for poor whisky, with
the virtual assurance that lle will see that the
county shall provide for them whenever work
shall be suspended. Besides this crowd of
occasional paupers who have dissipated their
, 1879-02-23

1t Is one Of the charges which have been
brought against the Rev. Mr. TA1,AaE, and
upon which he is to shortly stand trial, that
he has used decoy subscriptions to attract
contributions towards certain religious pur:
pose,-raising the debt on his own church, we
believe. In plain words, he has started q
subscrption-paper with fraud,-doing evil
that good may come,-f the raising Of his
church-debt Can be called good thing.
Upon this point there is considerable diver
sity OF feeling, many good people not having
very exalted opinion of Mr: TA1afAezs
peculiarly bizarre style of Gospel work.
Mr. TAIuAaE, however, is not alone in the
, 1879-02-23

Amateur thcatrtcals are so prevalent and SO
crowded nowadays that one is tempted to cry
! "Euough!' Not an evening passes without
the occurrence OF one or more Of these social
reunions, usually for the benefit of a worthy
charity, and usually we'll patronizcd BY the
friends OF the performers and of the object to
be benefited. 1t is a pleasant sign Of the times
TINT SO much pains should be taken as goes to
the getting-up Of the PLAYS, and so much money
paid as results from their representation. No
"good society" can be rery bad where half the
members are contcnted to spend their DAYS
poring over worn and tattcred play-books and
their evenings IN tircsomc rehcar5als, and the
other half are willing to spend their money
and their time in attending performances which
are, as 8 matter OF COURSE less satisfactory than
those offered BY professional players for the
same outlays. For various reasons these plays
gire great pleasure. They are judged by a
standard of their own. We compare the actors
with each other and with themselves in other
roles, and not with their professional prototypes
Then, too, in many of the performances
now occurring In Chicago there are one or
more performers who show, even in their un-
taught efforts, powers which would promise
success if carried to the professional stage.
Therefore nc feel moved to say to the PLAYERS.
swell done, or, at least, Well meant,n and to
the patrons, ''Do not scrntinixe 100 closely the
value received for your dollars. This is at any
rate an easy way to pay poor-rates and hospital
dues"
, 1879-02-23

There were filed yesterday, at 1T. Vernon,
tie opinions of the Supreme Court in tho
cases involving the vn1idity of the interest
bearing certificates Of 1877 and prior years,
and the scrip of 1878. In the first of these
cGsas the decision of the1ower Courts, refusing
to graft an injunction to restrain their pay-
n:eut By The City Treasurer, was reversed and
Tie case remanded- The Supreme Court does
Lot modify its views rs to the illegality Of
the payment Of interest, and holds that the
Certificates of 1877 were Illegal in form, 50
lar Us the principle is concerned, but that,
III equity. they should be paid. out Of the
t4xes for tbs years for which they we're is
, 1879-02-23

ROBERT CARTER, whose death at Cambrid ee
on the 18th inst. has already been noticed in the
news columns, was one Of the most hard work
ing literary men in this country. He was almost
entirely self-cducated, owing his opportunities
to his employment as assistant in the New Yor,,
State Library. In 1913 be began with JAMES
RUSSELL LOWELL the publication OF the Pioneer.
OF which the two were joint editors Owinp to
the foolish extravaganza OF the publishers. the
magazine lived but short time. He was for
for some years the private secretary Of W111-
LAM Fl. PEEscorT. Then he took charge Of tie
Boston Commonwealth, and was chiefly instrn-
mental in making HALE the F1ec-Soil candidate
for the Presidency in 1852. He acted at different
times as CORRESPONDENT for the New York Po,t
and the New York Tribune. He was
one OF the associate editors and largest contrib
utors to the -A1nsrican Cyczopc1;a, afterwards
editor OF 4pp'etons' Journal, and of tho Roches-
ter Democrat. 4 series Of letters written nv
him to the Tribune describing vacation yoyare
from Boston to Mount Dcscrct were co,1ected
anu printed in volume under the title IA
summer-Cruise on the Coast Of New England. ,,
and had great SUCCESS :.
, 1879-02-23

Some weeks ago we called the attention o1
the city authorities to an unfortunate defect
III the existing law regulating the condemna-
ton Of private property for public purposes,
as in the case of street-openings and the
assessments Of benefits and damages. The
trouble is, that the business, instead of being
regulated entirely BY one proceeding, is di-
vlded into, two. The first proceeding is to
appraise the value and the damages of the
property taken. On this point all the ovi-
dence taken is to establish the greatest posi-
bic sum to be paid to those who are to SUI
render small portion of their property to
have the value Of the rest increased. The
result is, there is an enormous roll Of dam
ages. But when, six months or year later,
there is another proceeding and another jury
to apportion the cost among those to be
benefited by the improvement, then the
whole tide Of evidence is to show that the
improvement is Of no value to any of tho
property. The result is, the benefits fall far
short Of the damages. Now, what is wanted
is that these proceedings be consolidated,
md that the same jury which apportions the
damages shall, ut the same time aud on the
same evidence, apportion the benefits, and
unless the one can pay the other then the
Improvement should not be- nade. II the
improvement is not worth the'cost, then stop
1t at once. BY dividing this business into
two jobs, there can never be satisfactory
agreement. On this subject We print letter
from Mr. JoHs B1GE1ow, who has had some
experience as to the working Of the present
1nSc
, 1879-02-23

sued when collected. The decision Of the
lower Courts refusing to grant an injunction
against the issue Of the scrip Of 1873
is sustained, and the issue thereby held to
be legal The certificates Of 1877 have been
cleared up with the exception of about
$1,000. Of those Of 1875 and prior years
there remain due but $500, 1000, the taxes to
meet which will, in part at least, soon be
collected. So that the honor Of the
city runs no risk Of incurring 6
stain. This decision of the Supreme Court
in regard to the scrip issues comes just in
time to relieve the nervousness of capitalists
on the subject, and to mako it certain that
the issues Of 1879 will be disposed of on
terms as good as if not better than those
offered by the Syndicate last year"
, 1879-02-23

An inspired and totally irresponsible idiot,
who is allowed by some inscrutable dispense
tion of Providence to have local habitation on
the Cincinnati Enquirer, made an exhibition
OF himself in yesterdays issue Of that paper,
by lntlmating that the low price Of
whisky in the Eastern markets was caused
BY Chicago crookedness. It is sufficient
to answer the fool in his folly bv
stating that there is no crookedness in
| this district, nor has there been since
1875, when the Cincinnati chaps squealed and
appropriated to themselves all the glory and
profit which usually accrue to the informer
and the man who turns States evidence.
For months Cincinnati as we'll as Chicago
has complained that tax-paid, finished goods
have been selling SO close to the cost of pro-
duction that it was impossible to placs any
thing to the credit side of the profit and loss
account There are now on file in this city
aud IN Washington letters from the most
prominent distillers Of Cincinnati. pro-
testing that tho country still-houses in
Southern Ohio and Indiana were in
the habit Of running highwines into
that city md selling them at prices be-
low the cost of production, including freight
and commissions. The Inference was and
Is that the manufacturers received the
benefit Of gauge sufficiently liberal to over
balance all losses by absorption, evaporation,
aud shrinkage OF volume. Of this state Of
affairs tho Cincinnati rectifers have taken
advantage, though some Of the distillers
thereabouts have gone into the market
aud purchased the stuff, so as to
keep up the market for finished goods.
This, thoy acknowledged in the let
ters referred to-, was done nt loss.
Tho idiot of the Enquirer ought to know
that 1t does not cost five cents per gallon to
transport highwines to New York. The
tariff is about three cents. Cincinnati alco-
hol, made from the quasi~crooked highwines
produced in the Immediate neighborhood of |
the Paris of America, has been sold in New
York within q few days at S1.94 per gallon,
and au efforts to secure our alcohol at the !!
same figure have proved failure. Chicago |
has no complaints to make against her |
little friend on the Ohio. She exports at |
a good profit all her surplus alcohol
Why don't Cincinnati and her ta1-eyading
rural neighbors do likewise? That is the
conundrum which they have never been
ahle to answer. # Commissioner RAUM
were to assign Capt. Soa1ERr1l1E to the dis |
, 1879-02-23

The British Medical Journal prints letter
from the Cars Court physician affirming
that the plague in Russia is nearly extinct,
and TINT the epidemic only extended over a
few villages. It will be noted, however, that
this ohicial certificate is dated some two
weeks ago, and it is in conflict with the tone
Of the 1ntest advices, which inhcate continued
alarm on the borders Of Russia Tie en-
forcement of strict quarantine regulations
BY the Russian Government would seem to
imply that the pestilencs hns not disap-
peared.
, 1879-02-23

they will subject their business to such regu-
lations as the safety Of the public demands.
| These viaducts are essentially for the IN
terest, convenience, and profit Of the railway
companies. Wherever their tracks are laid
and their cars are moved by steam-power,
they have monopoly Of thestreet; in return
for that exclusive privilege, the condition
TINT they shall build bridges over the streets
is very small consideration. Where the
railroad company will not build bridges,
then the general public have the right to use
the streets, and cannot be lawfully deprived
of that right by the Intrusion of any railway
company.
The express terms on which several Of
! these railways have obtained the right Of ad-
mission to the city, and the right to move
their trains by steam-power, included the
building Of certain number Of viaducts each
year, as they may be required by the city
authorities. The only cost to the city to
result from the erection Of these viaducts
was the expense Of raising the build
ings to the changed grade Of the
approaches to the viaducts. We cannot
now running trains into and out of the city
upon the express condition Of building these
viaducts whom required by the Board of Pub
lie Works, aud without cost to the city but
even in the cases where there is no express
contract to that cffeot the City Council can
compel a compliance with the same regula-
tion, which regulation is of all others the
cheapest and most seryiceable to tie rail-
roads.
Before the City Council, therefore, vote
away any heavy sums for viaducts, let them
look up the existing law on this subject, and !
wherever it is considered advisable let them
direct the Department of Public Works to !
require the construction of these viaducts. |
Let them further give general notice to all
the railways that the construction OF via
ducts too long delayed shall hereafter be en-
forced on every street where public safety |
demands it.
, 1879-02-23

B1sM1cK's commercial policy of rro-
lection is undoubtedly ginning ground in
Germany, If addresses Of adhesion may be
accepted as true indication Of the public
sentiment. They represent not only The
ofricultusists, but to large extent the man
ufacsurers and other branches OF industry.
Inis bodies no good for the National Liber-
MS, and it is thought that, in the event of q
dissolution Of the Reichstag, that party will
ctase to exist
, 1879-02-23

Tie Senate Yesterday agreed to take up
the Telegraph bill, allowing the railroad
companies to compete with the telegraph
companies, at noon tomorrow, and vote
upon the same promptly at o'clock.
, 1879-02-23

An animated discussion took place in the
House yesterday on the bill for the repeal of
the Resumption act, AIr. GARFIELD and AIr.
EWING lending in the debate At tho con-
clus!oa of the usual talk on this weu-worn
s7lbject, and before BUTLER had chance to
Get off The speech he Ind doubtless premedi-
lated, the bill was laid on the table by a vote
OF 1+l yeas to ITO nays. This cfectua1y puts
q Qu1esus on the attempt Of the present Con-
gsess to tinker with the money of the na-
ton
, 1879-02-23

The National Museum OF Arts in New York
is to be moved to new buildings specially erected
for it in Central Park, and 1t Is hoped the
Directors will in the future be able to encourage
home artists more fully and impartiallY than In
the past. The ill-feeling between New York and
Boston artists and art institutions is unworthy
Of both cities; but it only represents on small
scale the jealousy and hostility OF oil the cities
in the Union toward each other in art matters.
Until there is some harmony among American
artists there can be no American art worthy of
the name. 1t should be the endeavor of the
New York Museum to make itself rallying-
point for national school.
, 1879-02-23

In the seantc debate On the Army Appro-
pr1atioa bill, the scheme for the general reor-
gan'zation Of the army was dropped without
losing time, and the CLAUSE attached by the
House forb:dding the presence of troops at
eiechon-polts met the fate forestalled for all
such projects in Republican body Of states
men.
, 1879-02-23

The latest information from Zululand
indicates that the British troops will not
overcome tho ssyages without hard strnp.
t'Ie. Col PEARSON, one Of the British com
1nanaers, with 1900 men, is reported to be
IN u '*parlous sta:e," being intrenched at
Ekowe, thirty miles within the enemv's
country, and completely surrounded by the
hostllcs He is amply provisioned, however,
and troops are marching thither to his assist
, 1879-02-23

The House yesterday passed the Chinese
Emigration bill with the Senate amendments
without division. Mr. WHITE, Of Indiana,
made strenuous effort to defeat the meas
IRE, but his motion to-}ay the bill and amend
nents cn TIC table was voted down. and it
now goes to the President for approval.
, 1879-02-23

we PRINT this morning = letter on the sub
ject Of fees demanded for transcripts in the
Appellate Court. When an appeal is taken
from the Circuit Court to the Appellate
Court, the fee paid for transcript of the
record is ten cents per 100 words. When an
appeal is taken from the Appellate Court to
the Supreme Court the fee for copy of the
record is fifteen cents per 100 words This
remarkable case of extortion suggests two
questions: I) Why should another cory Of
the record be made in the Appellate Court,
when the Supreme Court has to act on the
original record Of the Circuit Court? Why
not send up the Transcript from the Circuit
Court? (2) Why should any person be com
PEELED to appeal from the Circuit Court to
the Appellate Court, when the decision of
the 1atter is not final, and when to get final
hearing the case must be taken to tho
Supreme Court? In such cases the Ap
pellate Court is 3 mere chamber through
which one has to purchase his way to the
Supreme Court. It is tou-gate erected on
the high-road to the courts of Justice. Is
this requirement to appeal through the Ap-
pellate Court mere provision for pension
ing the Clerk Of the Appellate Court, the
taking care of another official paupar? Are
the courts OF justice in this State created
merely to authorize four clerks of as MANY
courts to levy tolls on litigants? The price
paid for transcribing records in this city
does not exceed three cents per 100 words.
Why should litlgants be compelled to have
useless duplicates Of the record at all? And
why, if this must be done, should they be
plundered at the rate Of fifteen cents per 100
wor1l92
, 1879-02-23

TrR CHICAGO TE1nCEE has established branch Offices
for the receipt Of subscriptions and advertisements
follows:
NEW YoEE-Eoom % Tribune Building. FIT Nc
ALDEN, Manager.
pAl..:. France-So. 1e Euc de ID Grange Batel'ere.
I-Ma nLEE. Agent
LONDON. Enx.-American Exchange, ~ Strand.
EENE1 f. GI11iG, Agent.
sAN flASClSC0. Cal.-PaIacc Hotel
WASHINGTON, D. C.-No. 1873 r street.
, 1879-02-23

Inc agents OF Nine. ANDERSON, who is TO
attempt IN this city next month to walk fabu-
lons number Of quartcr-miles in the same num-
oeF OF PERIODS Of ten minutes each, have orna-
mented the dead-walls and bill-boards with yery
s'sn'neant cuts. In the foreground the Mad
anc Is represented in her pcdcst1ienne costume,
'akns a stride that, we should say, is quarter
ol mile long, at the lowest estimate. Behind
her stalks al old man bearing an hour-c1asa In
, 1879-02-23

Among lerge number of other confirma-
tloas approved By the Senate in executive
session yesterday was that of the appoint
mcnt of HonAr1o G. BuncHARD, of Illinois,
as Director of the Mint, in the place Of the
late Dr. L1sDEnMAs.
, 1879-02-23

The promotion Of Prot. SrUBBs, Of Oxford, to
the Canonry Of st. Paul's, made vacant by the
appointment Of Canon L1GurFooT to the
Bishopric of Durham, is almost as highly
praised bv the English press as the occasion OF
vacancy Was. Lord BEAcoSsR1ELD ut least
knows where to look for able men when he
wants them; and be understands, also, that
nothing is so likely TO commend his Aoministra-
tlon TO the favor Of the English people as the
appointment Of good men to Office from con-
slderations OF merit alone.
, 1879-02-23

IN the sundry Civil Appropriation bill, as
reported to the House yesterday, the sum Of
$3'o,U00 is set aside for the Custom-House
and Sub Treasury OF Chicago.
, 1879-02-23

trict embraced in Southeastern Indiana and
Southwestern Ohio he would undoubtedly
develop something that might possibly be
disastrous to the Ohio "idee," SO far as the
collection Of the revenue is concerned
, 1879-02-23

DR.. WILLIAM e. VAN buren,, the eminent
surgeon Of New York, was put on the stand in
the VANDERBILT will case, and badgercd by 4
provincial lawyer upon every question save
those Of his speciality almost beyond endurance.
The next morning ono Of the great dail.es IN
New York referred to him Us VA physician
na med VAN BUREN, The IForld properly says
that the whole proceeding was a great outrage
upon Dr. VAN BUHES. It would seem at least
that professional men, when they are called into
law-courts to give opinions rs experts, should
be paid as experts for those opinions. =
, 1879-02-23

The credentials Of Mcssrs. LoGAs of IlG-
nois, CALI, Of Florida, and SLATER Of Ore
l;o:, were yesterday received Ill the United
States Senate,
, 1879-02-23

The Natson this week temporarily interrupts
Its outsivings about Scandinavian mythology,
and notices the recent day robbery in Fifth aV-
cnue. It hopes the occurrence will sscheck the
silly habit Of wearing expensive ornaments in
the strcct.'' We. believe American women ara
the only ones who have this silly habit; and in
good society In America 1t is going out.
, 1879-02-23

If every dollar increase to salaries Of city Off
GERS did not nccessitate a like enlargement OF
the taxpayers burdens, the Council might be
pardoned for indulglns in lberality. But they
can't put more money into oticoholders' pock-
cts without leaving less in the pockets OF their
ta9payiDg constituents.
, 1879-02-23

Senator: WINDOW some days ago professed
his perfest resignation In view of the failure OF
certain appropriation bills, rather than have
them rushed through without proper consider
alton; but he seems not to have been resigned
at all to the failure Of the Brazilian subsidy,
with or without consideration.
, 1879-02-23

The. more taxes people have to pay the less
property they have left. O11icehoders can't be
multiplied or have their salaries raised without
consuming the property and impoverishlng the
Taxpayers in an inverse proportion.
, 1879-02-23

The anniversary Of the birthday Of WAsH1Hd~
TON. falling on Saturday this year, vas OBJ
served with enthusiasm BY all the drinking men
in the country.