Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-02
NEWS AND NOTES.

Drought threatens to injure the Missouri!
tobacco crop. -
seyen hundred lodges Of Odd Fellows
will meet at Columbus, D., July 4.
The Salt Lake country is being over run
by grasshoppers, and every particle of vege.
tation even to the sage brush Is beng SWEPT
clean.
California, now claims to raise tb: finest
lemons that grow. 1t is said that they have
the smallest amount of acidity and the
largest amount of acid.
The queen has commanded that troop shir
Orontes, bringing the remains of the prince
imperial, shall be escorted a part of be,
voyage by the channel feet.
1t IS reported that at the railroad bond
election held in Columbus, week before
last, "a kegs of beer were drank. The vo-
tiers were generally drunk, but were voting
regularly for bonds.
A Bismarck special to the Pioneer Press
says OF the authority of the post trader al
the Poplar river Indian agency, just arrived,
that the trouble among the Indians at that
agency is over and never assumed q serious
character. The agent was unnecessarily
alarmed.
In the United States district court at Chi
cago yesterday morning VIM. s. Golsen,
convicted of embezzlement of postofice
funds, was sentenced by Judge Blodgett to
confinement in the county Jail one year and
to pay a fue of 81, $50.
The Louisiana constitutional convention
yesterday adopted a substitute for the minor
ity report recognizing the principal of the
state department as consummated under the
funding act, but reducing the interest to 3
per cent. for fifteen years, and four per cent
A meeting of Old soldiers was held at
Terre Hsute, Indiana, Monday night to con-
slider the utterance of Mr.. VOORHEES, lately
in the United States senate that he was as
good a friend to the soldier as the late sen.
ator Morton. A good deal of bitter partisan
feeling was exhibited in the meeting. A
90 resolutions was appointed,
consisting of TIVE republicans, two demo-
Gratis and two nationals, and the meeting
adjourned subject to the call of the commit
tee.
The senate on Monday made the follow
ing confirmations: Benjamin Harrison of
indianapolis. James B. Eads, civil engineer
of st. Louis, B. Morgan Havrad. civil en-
gineer of New Orleans, Lieut.. Col. Quincy
A. Gilmore, Maj. Cyrus B. Cemstock. and
Msj. Chas. R. Suter Of the United States
engineer corps, and Henry Mitchell of the
csast and geoditic survey, to be members of
the Mississippi river commission. Receiv.
of public money-Lewis Hanback, at
Saline, Ksns., and E. ]. Jenkens. Concer-
dia, Kans. Postmaster-O. G. Will. Lanes
MINI. Indian agents -Wm. D.
. A nNrouoo IF T11Snr1oA ~ Vo~Ao~ n-.---
Dakota; Geo. L. Davenport Of Iowa at the
Sac and Fox agency.
The London Times correspondent at
Paris says 8 majority of the Bonapartists
are understood to concur with Rouher in
acknowledging Prince Jerome Bonaparle as
chief Of the Napoleonic dynasty. They ar
que that the will Of the late prince imperial
which asks Ex.Empress Eugene to coop.
crate with Prince Victor was written on the
assumption that Victor would survive
Prince Jerome. This reasoning, however,
il considered . transparent excuse for the
non-observance of the impracticable will
of the prince imperial. Reuhel's retirement
from active politics, is evidently owing 10
the feeling that he and Prince Jerome could
not act together and the latter could not be
set aside. What between Prince Jerome
Bonaparte's positive adherence to the ,epub.
lie and the inpessibility of the imperial
section of the %Bsnapartists leaders without
going against the wishes Of the prince i'm.
periaps will or provoking a distinct disa-
vowal from Prince Victor, the Bonapartists
are in one Of the most perplexing positions
ever occupied by any party. The chamber
Of deputies has voted the urgency of Jules
educational bill.