Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-03
CURRENT NEWS.

Cherry trees are in bloom in certain
balmy California wales.
Ancient ruins, it is said, have been found
near Placerville, Col.
The sum assigned for education in Russts
for text year is $1l,975,0O0.
Cultured Boston insists that the proper
term is trampers, not tramPs.
There, is an agitation for the restoration
Of capital %punishment in Switzerland.
California has this year produced enough
to support IL, 100000 families for : year.
Horatio j. Homer, a colored man, has
been ippointsdson the Boston police force.
The total revenue Of the colony of Victo-
ria. for the year ending November 10,
amounts to $22. 790,110.
An Allegheny City, Pa, preacher named
Russell, has discovered that the world will
come to an end in 1914.
The Russian infantry are being provided
with spades to enable them 10 dig riie-pits
at a moments notice.
The new Turkish ministry has led to the
exchange of satisfactory assurances between
Gen. Todleben and Canaan Pasha.
The Chinese general, Lu Sho, who is de-
scribed IS having been recently ennobled BY
bis victories over Yakoob Khan, is dead.
A telephone company has been formed in
Paris which will aoon become one Of the
most important in the French metropolis.
A Florida editor writes looking out Of his
courtyard, where roses are in bloom, and
there is a watermelon vine with blossoms, a
Gg tree with figs on it and a banana plant
with young fruit.
A German telling the story Of his cam
paigns, gives the following interesting item:
:'In this battle we lost the brave Capt.
Schultz. A cannon-bsll took off his head.
His last words were, Bury me OH the spot
where I fell.'"
The Chicago Inter-Ocean finds food for
reflection to the extent of three quarters Of
a column, in the complex idea that a woman,
when abroad in the severest cold weather,
never has her cara protected, never clasps
them as men do theirs, and yet never apPar.
emily get Them frozen.
The first news sent by telegraph was the
nomination of James K. Polk for president,
in 1874. 1t was telegraphed from Baltimore
to Washington over the experimental line
built from Baltimore to Washington. for
which congress appropriated $4,000 on the
appl cation of Prof. Morse.
1t was 4 coiored preacher who said to his
flock. last Christmas day: "We have = col
lection 10 make this morning, and for de
glory Of heaben, whichever Of you stole Mr..
jones' turkeys, don't put anything on the
plate" One who was there, says every
blessed niggah in de church came down with
the rocks"
Under the head of wanted" the New Or.
Il 1oop, 'rr,ao r,,hIs,lao Tho fnllnusnr. nne
hundred Loui. ianians with clear heads,
purpose Of saving the city Of New Orleans
and the state at large, from further shrink
age and decay. B%uncombo fossils, and mere
politicians working for popularity to secur,
lat Offices, not wanted.
The succession of heavy failures of tn,
leading con. mercial houses in Sweeder
threatened the other day to result in a gen
eral panic, accompanied BY. : run on one OF
the leading banks Of Stockholm. In order
to avert such a calamity Whieh: might have
had the most serious ~copsegNenees, the king
promptly op. ned a heavy Private account
with the bank. This act OF his majesty, at
such a criti- al moment,cannot be too highly
commended.
The London r~evisers of the. Authorized
Version of the New Testimant on the 18th
inst. concluded their second and fnal revis.
ion. The company have held elghty-6ve
sessions, and have spent 337 DAYS on the
work, having commenced in June, 1870.
The whole number Of the company is TWEEN
~ four, and the average rate of attendance
throughout the time has been fifteen. There
now remain the consideration of any further
suggestions which may be made by the
American company, and the adjustment, of
rome questions which have been reserved
till the end.