Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-19
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The county commissioners are In session.
Don't forget the Uaiversalist social hop
Friday evening. March 2lst. at the chap
on Cedar street.
Mr.. Norman will probably be brought up
for examination tomorrow on charge Of At.
tempting to kill the negro Cain.
The Press q Dakotaian Office will be
moved from its present location, about the
hrst Of April. to Danforth's new brick
block.
Lark Cain, the negro imprisoned for rape,
has waived examination, preferring to re-
main within the Jail walls while the grand
jury works IN his case.
Under tho new school Law. reports Of
clerks Of school districts arc not required
until Nay frst. Heretofore it has been No
cessary to get them in by April first.
The lecture association lost 1855 on the
Cumnock entertainment. The association
is now within nine dollars of bed rock and
proposes to remain at that safe distance.
The weather indications for the upper
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys are :
Warmer, clear OF partly cloudy weather;
light winds, shifting to southeast, and fall
ing barometer.
H. w. Ross, agent for the Oshkosh lum-
Der firm Of r. McMillsn & Co. is in town
looking oyer the ground with q view to the
establishment of q lumber yard here, which
will be q branch of the extensive Oshkosh
concern.
Kramer's overland mail, express and
passenger coach to Sioux Falls broke 10
axle in Clay. creek yesterday and was com.
PEELED to press into service q farmers
wagon from the scene of the accident to
Swan Lake.
Major Sharpe came in Saturday night
from a nineteen days paying off trip to the
various posts in his district. He had a
rough experience with storms and foods
and cold weather, and the general discom-
forts Of an inhospitable region.
r. A. Ketchum has so far modified his
line of business Is to conine it exclusively
to dry goods, carpets and notions. He will
start for Chicago and New York tomorrow
to purchase a full and complete line Of dry
goods, intending to keep such an assortment
as will meet the demand.
Horse stealing up the Jim is becoming
SO serious a matter that summary action
will have to be taken to put . stop to the
practice. 1t frequently happens that five or
six horses are taken in . night, in!tbe neigh
borhood Of Firesteel and it has beeome
necessary to place an armed guard over
stables every night.
The name of J. Parker Hayward is mem
toned in connection with the Office Of
city clerk /; also that of the present incun-
bent, E. T. White, and a score of others,
with one or two wards to hear from. Sew
errl candidates for police justice and city
marshal are also beginning to look pleas
ant and exercising to develop their muscle.
Brinkerhof & Jordan have accepted On
increase of daily service on the mail route
supplied by the Dakota Central stage line.
They now run through from Yankten to
Firesteel, se~venty-eiebt miles, in enc day,
leaving Yankton at four o'clock .. m. and
reaching Firesteel at seven p. n. For
this they receive increased pay from the
department.
The feet footed D. w. Flick, late repre-
sentative in the legislature from Pennington
is winning national fame. The story
of his retreat and the pursuit to Nebraska
and back, BY the sergeant-.t-arms, after be-
ing clipped extensively, has now become an
item in the "patent insides" issues. This
story leaves him 10 . state of siege. We
it in exchanges from the Hills.
A correspondent asks: Is it the correct
thing to say "plant sats" and "sow beansp
Certainly it is. Oats are planted in = thing
called . nose-bag which il suspended from
he head-gear Of the horse and from which
he animal feeds. And the node of dspos-
of beans is alluded to in the saying that
'he.soweth the storm and reapeth the whirl-
Ask US something harder next
lime.
We have been using for . couple Of
months past, in our job room, rollers made
rom competition manufactured by John A.
Slightam, pressman in the Office Of the
Evansville (W~isconsin) Gazette. We have
'ried most everything in the way Of patent
,onposition, and have found nothing which
vas free from objection until the compound
originated BY MI. Sliehtam came to hand
md that fills the bill in every particular.
These facts are not Of much interest to the
general reader, but printers will appreciate
hem and will feel disposed to profit by
,ur experience. Good rollers are a. nee
'ssary as good presses and good type in .
omcs and the slightam COM
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