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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-09-22
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BACHELOR.

The Champion Leaper over the backs OF Six Ele-
phants.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-09-22

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Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-02
GROWTH OF DAKOTA
Grand Forks Plaindsaler.


He who visited this country one year
ego, and revisits It now can scarcely rea.
llze that 30 great q change could DO made
watched the rapid settlement, are prone to
wonder when We look back and think Of
it. A year ago the only habitatlons to bo
found Were those Of the few settlers who
had settled on the lands bordering on the
Red river timber. But few claims were
taken west of town, and those al within .
mile or two. A peroon could travel for
miles without seeing . house o = meeting .
person, unless It was some land hunter who
dared to thilk Of locating 20 far from the
timber. Wandering alone over this vast
prairie with no conpaaisn but the grand
and awful stiffness. q could scarcely be
made to believe that In . year nearly every
quarter section would become the h00e Of
q settler and the land then covered with
grass would be rapidly broken up and
made to yield . livelihood to the husband.
man. On the Turtle, the Park, Forest and
Goose rivers, aud on the prairies between,
the transition has been equally great. Hun.
dreds of willing hands have wrought the
change and . rich soil will produce . suR
Gent reward. In the towns the work hai
gone on in . like manner. Our own beau.
tiful village had but just begun its rapii
growth and thought its prospects wer
bright, and is SURROUNDINGS favorable, 70
the advances made have exceeded the expeC
tations Of the most sanguine. New town
have sprung up at Turtle river and Actol
to take the place of the old dirt roofes
stage stations; post Offices have been estat
lished at VAUDEVILLE, Walle, Forest rive
and Dahl In this county, and at Drayto
and other places In Pembina. The cour
try has been transformed from almost
pable of producing over q million bushels {
wheat the coming season.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-02
MILWAUKEE WHEAT GOSSIP.
Milwaukee Special, 9Th.

SpeCIaI, 21tHs
The wheat market opened at got cents fol
June and 09s cents for July. Then came Z
frmer feeling, and . slight advance, at
which The market Wa inactive but steady.
The ring tried hard to create . weak feeling
in order to induce abort sellers, but failed.
1t is now estinated that the line Of shorts
out is at least one and . half millions for
June. Frank Hinokley has bsen the ring
buyer under ove during the last day or
%, and Ass bought . number Of hundred
thousand bushels. The clique operate 6st
through enc broker and then another, and
thus make it difficult to arrive at anything
like the exact quantity they are getting hold
Of; but it il certain that the ring 10 getting
q very large quantity, and that, Therefore,
the line Of shorts must b larger than Il
generally believed.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-02
NEWS mi NOTES.

The Yellowstone valley, spoken Of %
one Of the most fertile regions or tho con.
tiaent, is-now rapidly filling up with cot.
tiers.
So far a The decision of the Paris con-
press determines anything, the interoceanic
canal 10 to take the Panama route, or that
through the depression in the mountain
backbone Of the continent at present Occur
pied BY the railroad. 1t is not intimated
that any money has yet been subscribed,
however. =
Senator Saunders has introduced . bill in
congress, to the effect that that portion Of
Dakota territory lying east Of the Keya
Paha river and south OF 49, OF latitude. Or
Fl. Randall, extending east to the Missouri
soon Is vacated BY the Indians.
Postmaster General Key il of the opinion
that unless there shall be q change in the
feeling between the north and south. Gen.
Grant will surely be the republican nomi-
nee for preaident, and he believes that if
Grant is nominated he will be elected. The
indications, he says, are all in favor Of
Grant.
Forty thousand republican majority would
be about the right thing in Iowa this fall,
and the prospect is good for q verdict ofthat
complexion and size. The party was never
stronger, better equipped or more determin-
ed than it is to-day. It has been aided, too,
by the stupid blunders of the opposition,
and will 60 int the fight with a unanimity
and enthusiasm that presages . glorious vic
tory.
One may Judge Of the heat in Arizona at
the present time by the following, in refer
ence to the railroad which Is being pushed
forward into the territory from California.
The Prescott Citizen says: 1.-THE passengers
BY last nights stage report the track laid
nineteen miles this aide of Maricopa, and
work still going on, but it was feared that
work would have to stop soon, on account OF
the heat Already the rails have to be hand
led by tongs, as grasping them q few times
with the hands raises severe blisters."
Some Of the country doctors in England
are employing bicycles or tricicles instead
of horses, as q means of locomotion. The
bicycles used by them are Of iron, the rim
Of the wheel Is covered with rubber. and
they can move over tolerably rough roads
and up quite steep grades, making from
eight to ten miles or more in an hour,
There are many places in this country
where q doctor could a~dvantageously keel
this vehicle instead of horse, especially il
in view of hard times and the competitio,
among the disciples of Esculap ius.
A new way of swindling the farmer
is becoming common in certain sections o.
the country. A man Comes to q farmers
house, and after buying q quantity of chick.
ems, writes out a receipt for the farmer to
sipa. and the point of his pencil invariably
s5 - of ab just n before the : f] s5gnstn1e n is reach zach
his pocket. The body of the receipt il
written in pencil, and the. farmers signature
in ink. When the Spectator goes to town
he erases all the pencil marks and writes
out in ink a promissory note for 800 OF
$50 and has It discounted at q bank
Farmers be careful what you sign.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-02
DAKOTA.
H~EloaBoRRooo NEWS.

The Harlan house, Canton. has bee
salargsd.
A heavy immigration continues to pou
into McOook county,
Mark N. Farmer has purchased the stocI
ct hardware ownedby E. P. Drake 4 Co. q
Geo. =. Beckstts Ut gyesnillion, In bee,
ap1sintsd toS olsrksktp ID the Sioux Fsll
landsoffce.
Canton Advocate: New buildings, IN
~springing up; some twenty-five within d,
past week have been erected and are /,
process Of erection.
The assessed valuation of Lincoln coun
tyss rsal aad.psrsonal property for 1873, il
$665.57S.96, an Increase Of $61,o22.s6 ovel
last years yaluatioA
The youngest son Of Mr.. and Mrs. c
Snyder Of Yermillion, was kicked by .
horse last Wednesdsy afternoon, and badly
though not ~seriensly injured.
Cedar county Nolpatsil: DR.. H. Van
Vslsss, brother Of d. YanYelsor,so of Yank.
ton, will locate in st. Helena, during the
coming week for the purpose Of piracticing
medicine,
McCook county Pioneer: The reports
that We hear integsrd to. growing wheat are
very favorable. Farmerstel % that, though
rome Of it came up thinly, it il stooling ont
splendidly.
Vermillion Standard: "About the only
capitalist in town who has anything in his
own name is VIM. Moore, Esq, = partici-
pator in the late unpleasantness.'" How
about that lather?
Another newspaper at Canton Il being
talked Of Canton has enough newspapers.
Instead Of. encouraging the establishment of
new papers, let the people extend a more
liberal patronage to those they have.
The Sioux Falls Paragraph thinks the
propositions Of Judge Brookings and DR..
Phillips to sell the e~ighty.acre tract on
which the Falls are situated for $4,000
will be accepted by some New York CAPT.
talists, through President Drake Of the St.
Paul railroad company, and if the sale i,
made it is expected that a mill with thirty
run Of stone. capable of manufacturing s0(
barrels of -four a day, will be built a,
once.
Vermillion Standard: While driving
to town last Wednesday our good looking
young friend H. B. Bierce, of Bluff Centre
met with an accident that will compel hin
to wear his arm in a sling for a few days
When near town the horses started sudden
y, and in trying to check them he Leaned
heavily on the end Of the seat which CAV,
way, causing him to fall heavily to tn,
ground, dislocating his arm at the shoulder
and otherwise iniuring him.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-02

Chew Jackson's best Sweet Navy Tobacco
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-02

There are q few Indian teepes among 10
just tor variesy. The Cliff house is full to
the brim of anxious land seekers and town
site speculators.....The Plat house has just
fniahed quite an addition to ia already
c~onnodious apartments, but is full Of stran-
gers yet......The mill Il progressing a. fast
q the high water will permit Of, but It is
hoped = have it completed in time to &C.
the coming crops.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-02

Mrs. E. J. Coggins & Co., receive each
week attractive additions to their stock Of
millinery goods; these with the combined
taste and skill of Miss L. A. Golligher, from
the Wholesale millinery house of Gage Bros.
& Co. of Chicago, render their place of bus.
mess n worthy q call from all who are de-
sirious Of purchasing millinery.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-02
OLD TIMES.

A half century ago, q large part of the
people of the United Staes lived in houses
implanted, upholstered and utterly devoid
Of adornment. A well. fed fire In the yawn.
ing chasm ofa huge chimney gave partial
warmth to . single room, and it was . com.
mon remark that the inmates were roast
ing n side, while freezing the other; ia
contrast . majority Of the people of the
older states now live in houses that are
clapboarded, painted, blinded and comfor-
tably warmed. Then, the household fur.
niture consisted of q few plain chairs, a
plain table. . bedstead made by the village |
carpenter. Carpets there were none.
To-day, few are the homes, 10 city or coun.
try, that do net contain . carpet of some
sort, while the average laborer by a weeks
work may earn enough to ensble him to
repose At night upon Q spring bed.
Fifty years ago, the Kitchen dressers"
were set forth with q shining row of pew.
ter plates. The farmer ate with q buck
handled knife and an iron or pewter spoon,
but the advancing civilization has sent the
plates aud spoons to the melting pot, while
the knives and forks have given place to
nickle or s%ilver-plated cutlery.
In those days the utensils for cooking
were q dinner-pot, tea-kettle, skillet. Dutch
/ OvO0 ouA AAyAuS 'P0u kV-O0y LuCI0 10 ~
end to Kitchen furniture.
The people Of 1880 sat in the evening In
the glowing light offs pltch-knot fire, or
read their weekly newspapers BY the flick.
ering light Of q "tallow dip" now, in city
and village, their apartments are brigh,
with the flame of the gas jet or the seftel
: radiance Of Kerosene. Then, If the frt
went out upon the hearth, it was rekindlet
by a coal from . neighb0rfng hearth. or BY
. flint, steel and finder. Those who indulg
ed In pipes and cigars could light then
only by some hearthstoHe today we ligh
q fire and pipes by, the dormant fire work
3 in the match safe, ct a cost of one.hundredt
of a cent.
In those d1ys we guessed the hour Z
Il noon. or iscertatned it BY the creeping {
the sunlkght up to the moon mark" draw
ppona thu door only the we'll to-do coul
..ta6eedt dlock. To-day who does not carr
I NstcA and o. for clocks. you may pu
lehaee them at Wholesale, by the car.loa,
at stxty4wo cents apiece.
Were sdorned with p~icturesi How mar
3if11krayf1G, chrome, or lithognphf 10
, many plalos or parlor organs were the
"a thenf Reed organs were not invented Il
1870. and now they are In everv village.
Some who may read this article will I
member that In 1850 the Bible, the altman
E.And! the few Textbooks used in schoC
"a Were Alnest the onlysyolumes of the houl
81 hold. The dictionary was q volume 70
inches square and IN Inch and Q half
II thicknsss. In some Of tho country villse
Z few puSltc. spirited m0a hAd gather
hbrattes coatainfng from thrse 40 1se Er
dIed voiumes; In ccntnst, The public lib
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-02
CARD.

t. all who are suffering from the errors
and indiscretiops of youth, nervous weak
ness, early decay, loss Of manhood, &C., l will
send a recipe that will cure you, FREE
OF CHARGE. This great remedy was
discovered by q missionary in South Ameri-
ca. Send a selfaddressed envelope to the
Rev. JOSEPH 7. Imam, Station D, Nev
York City.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-02
JIM RIVER.

The latest candidate for public favor and
. place inSthe ranks of Dakota newspaper
dom, is the Valley Pioneer. the first mum.
Der Of which was Issued at Rockport, Han.
0 scounty, ON the goth ult. 1t is q four
page paper. elk columns to the page, and
unlike NEST Of its weekly contemporaries,
does not rely upon patent in'ards, 1t is
. home production. all The type setting and
press work being done At the home office.
The paper is neatly printed, and is filled
with well, written and arranged local news.
From It's collsnns We select the following
Jin,riyer valley news:
There Is considerable talk Of 4 new
church being built in Rockport.
The Sroof of the mill at Rockport which
was blown off some weeks since has been
replaced.
The recent rains here. helped matters
cousiderably in this country, and farmers
andslecators are looking much more cheer.
full -|w = =.
The arrivals at the Gale house In this
plsce for the week ending Tuesday last
numbered one; hundred and forty, though
this does not by any means represent the
number OF persons who have visited the
plsce, - many come with c~onveniences for
camping. aAd did not stop at the hotel. Z
A few days since Is Messrs. Dick Lewis
andsF. B. Foster were cut on the prairie
few miles northwest Of this place, they dis
covered two yong antelope e~ndeavoring Il
escape. Chase was given and soon the fngi
tives were svsrhauled and taken into Gus
~ kNIv Thao 900 ~~- - d.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-02

OONNEUIYONH.
I. AtCouncil Bluffs u. r. Tra.sier) with Union
Pacific railroad for Omaha and all points West,
with Kansas City. st. Joe & Council Blufs rail:
lines lines a aivs ~ ! asd from mn" 8. Y !. RSaSsst o1o'n' ana ~
3. At Missouri Valley with the Chicago 4
northwestern railway for Chicago and Ill points
East.
2. At Sioux City with the Sioux City D 81. Paul,
Illinois Central and Dakota Southern. steamer
Tor Upper Missouri river, during navigation. and
Z. 4 blair with Omaha q Northwestern rail.
road ior Omaha and southern Nebraska
=: A. Fremont: Neb With Union Pacific rail-
q Al Wlsner with stagee loe Norfolk and ali
poans In Northern Nebs1SkA
- Aeso yeas TBakses sSsA VIA, sesux (1tv
ao4 SA4l0e Railroad.
r G. HILLS, r. Z. ROBfNaOy
supertht.ndent. Asst Gear fAaa. AT.
". WILLS. 0snssAl Agent, Sioux City.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-02
PLYING BETWEEN
YanktOn and Fort Benton
and all points on the Yellowstone river.
The only Line carrying the
United States Government Freights
Comprising the following
B CLASS
Connecting at

Connecting at
FORT PIERRE for all points inthe Black Hills.
1SMARCK for st. Paul and all points east.
FORT BENTON for all points In Montana
YANKTON with the Dakota Southern Railroad
in the east.
Connecticut western news., 1879-05-28
Good Books For .The People.

People who delight in good books are re- joicing in the good work being done by the AMERicAN Book EXCHANGE, s Beekman street, N. Y. By introducing the plan of publishing and selling books direct to purchasers, instead of giving the large discounts usually allowed to dealers and agents to sell for them by working on the basis of the present cost of making books, which is about one half what it was few years ago, and by printing Ue,'y large editions, which also greatly reduces the cost as compared with small editions, they are able to furnish books at prices which, to most people, seem truly astonishing, but which they say are only reasonable. They publish as fol- lows:
 Chambers Cyclopedia of English Literature,
 8 vols, 16mo. Price, complete, paper. s2,O0,
 cloth, $500 half morocco, $4.75 half mo-
 rocco, bound in vols. $3.75. Rollins Aneient History, 1,!92 double-column
 pages. large type. syo cloth' SPAS; library Josephus' Works, translated by Winston, 1,042
 doublercolumn pages, very large type, Svo
 cloth, $2.00 library sheep, $2.50. Arabian Nights, large type, 12mo cloth, 55
 cents.
 Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress, very large type,
 12mo cloth, 50 cents. Robinson Crusoe, large type, 12mo cloth, 65
 cents.
 Baron Munchausen, very large type, 12mo From the above remarkably low prices dis count of 10 per cent. is allowed to those order ing before June l, and an additional discount of 10 per cent. when ordered in clubs of five or more copies, of either book, or to the amount of sic. .OO or more selected from the list. Pages giving apecimens of type and full particulars are sent free on request.
Connecticut western news., 1879-05-28
FromTexas.

MR. EDITOR Your kindness In publish ing my other eplstle has caused me to try
 a,rain; not that I expect to equal some of your correspondents-espec those from
 the Adirondacks, but Satan still doth fiod
 some work for idle hands to do,' and these things seem instructive"
 MT. Beartown Baebe's weather prognos- t1cations regarding the severe storm in April, must have been intended for thus part of the country, for in the last week of April the worst rain eyer known began at dark On the 23d, and poured for twenty four hours. The wlnd would blow from the southeast for an hour. or two. and then whip around 10 the northwest. and then back again, and kept it up. The clay that
 our chimney is made of melted and ran down the sticks early in the day and quenched the fire. It was tough old tune for anyone raised in Gods country" Trains on the railroad were delayed for days. and miles of fence swept away, and the soil with corn and cotton just coming up, taken off as deep as it was ploughed. Acres of the bottom lands have had to be fe-pIoughed and planted. Fer several days the ground that had been plouRhed was like auaQmire, and one would sink oyer shoe if they stepped out of the path. The place we are on is upland and .stolahle' level, so that we are not injured, ouly de- layed by wet weather.
 Cotton is nicely up and nearly every one is giving it Its first hoeing or ''chopping" as they call it here. Corn that has been tend- ed as it ought, looks well, and is frem knee to shoulder high. according to its age. We have ten acres vast high, and one more
Connecticut western news., 1879-05-28

pioughinR will make the crop, just as Con- necticut farmers are planting theirs. For dinner to-day VIC had Irish potatoes and snap beans. Early garden ''sass" is plenty, and very nice. Plums and blackberris are beginning to ripeD, and by the time you get this. will be plenty.
 Sunday IS the general visiting day here, and all go somewhere or receive their friends. There are several churches in the county. but most of them dc not have preaching more than one or tive Sundays in the month, except those m Palestine. When they do have services the people turn out and all Tn the vicinity attend.
 The manners and social customs of the Texans are queer mixture of formality and prinaitiveness. They are excessively, might say oppressively polite in their in- quirles about your health, etc., while if you take dinner with them the chances are you would have no spoon in your coffee ncr cloth on the table, and if you get anything to eat you will have to grab for it with the rest.
 In my next will send the words of g Texan song. It may not be equal to some as poetry, but the descriptions of Texas customs are good. TEXAN.
 Palestine, May 20th, 1879.
Connecticut western news., 1879-05-28
Women Seeking Bonds.

An extraordinary seene was witnessed yesterday in the New York Post office. Such q scene some sixteen or seventeen years ago would have been incredible. At that time. when the government had hard work to sell its bonds, paying high interest at thirty or forty per centum below par, the idea that time would come when not men only bu' womcn would struggle and fight in competing crowds to get government bonds at their face value: and paying third less of anpu l interest, would have been laughed at as impossible. Yet this is ex- actlY what happened at nipe o'clock in the morning yesterday in the vestibule ut the main entrance on the second floor of the Post office building, where great crowd of women had gathered tp rush ID op the opening ot the doors to buy four per centum certidcat, 8. When the doors finally oprned there was tremendous rush. The four alter dsnt policemen Were swept away like foam on the crest of wave. The eager
 inv; stors tore each others clothes, broke parasols. lost honpets and bags, hair and shawls. and no fe wer than twelve of them were at ene time prostrate. struggling on th' fl or. Fortunately no one was selious-
 y hurt although there WAS danger Tor . few moments that many might be. This morAing Postmaster James had fullequad of officers at hand in order to contIo the crowd and prt vent mischief. We trust that Il g ladies who have so often curls d their pretty lips from the gallery of the Stock Exchange at the ssething roaring crowd ot mnney grsbhers below will under stand TOW that their sex have learned "how it is themselves" Women whe want to make mon=y are very much like men who want 10 make money. after all. We only wish that the fair sex had more ways open to them for such reasonable acquisition than they now have, and that thus one source Of the unrest. the suffering and worse that be- fall women. and especially in great cities, might be tempered or obgiated. Mean while it is satisfactory to know that go many New York women who have little money are intelligent enough to knew how to invest it ". Y. Eoening Post, Mon dGY
Connecticut western news., 1879-05-28

The Cleveland Leader gives the fol- lowing account of a remarkable counter felt of tue new 4l2l grams silver dollar. It appears that the counterfeits have pre- cisely as much pure silver in them as the genuine, and that tue counterfeiters get lB per cent. tor their trouble of manufactur- ing these coins.
 There are now running in this country not less than three unauthorized and illegal dollar factories. They have stamping and finishing machinery similar to that in the United States hints, and are turning out barrels of silver about it, to Secrstary Sherman, is that these bogus dollars are just as good as his own. They are of the exact standard weight and purity, and are so cleverly finished that only an ex- pert, armed with the most delicate instru- ments, can detect them. For all the purposes of circulation they are just as good as the treasury dollars. That the bogus dollar mak- CTS should work industriousy and keep their machinery running night and day is natural enough. There is clear profit of nearly 15 cents on every dollar they turn out, No legiti- mate business of the country pays such g ib- cents' worth of silver a legal tender dollar, and the people whs usually get she 5utt end of every serious joke perpetrated at Washing ton, have to stand the swindle. The very linn tied demand for dollars of the fathers being thus supplied by private enterprise, the two l millions which the government hints turn out every month are naturally superauoas and are dumped into the rapidly growing pile in the l vault of the treasury.