Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-10

be given tomorrow evening, instead
Monday evening.
LOCAL LAcoNlcs..
Mercury IS in the shade this noon.
Now that there is no dust to kick up Il
winds have ceased to blow.
Building operations are seriously emba
assed BY q scarcity Of brick.
The Wakefield horse stealing case went I
the jury about four o'clock this afternoon.
A marriage is arranged for next Monda'
which will be further announced after it &C
ours.
The United States grand jury-that por
ton not on duty-was discharged this after
noon.
Our rainy weather has been succeeded by
warmer spell that will make vegetation
jump.
The cases of Wilson, Russell and LAT
ming will come on before Commissioner
Congleton this evening.
A children's Temperance meeting, ut the
Congregational church this afternoon, was
addressed by Mr.. Hoofstetler.
Dewey & Powers are making over the
interior of their ex livery stable and will
have q couple of good stores to rent.
A lady member of the temperance alli-
ance was found in the ditch a few evenings
since, by her husband. 1t was a dark night
and she stepped of.
The supreme court convened to-day
Chief Justice Shannon on the bench, and
effected an adjournment of the term. The
spring term will open Tuesday with a full
bench.
Those who were out of doors about five
O'Clock this afternoon had their attention
attracted BY q brilliant meteor. which was
first observed at the zenith and lost itself
In the northeastern sky.
Charlie Bates surveying party will leave
on the eteamer Western for Mandan and
will go from there westward on the line Of
the extension Of the Northern Pacific, where
it will put in its seasons work.
Captain Lavender and Captain Raymond
drove into town this morning in time for
a late breakfast with a wagon box full Of
dead ducks which fell before their shot runs
in the sloughs west of town.
The Moody county horse thief. confined
10 the county Jail, developed a new species
Of c%ussedness yesterday and burned up the
clothing and boots Of q fellow prisoner. He
was given twenty-four hours in the dark
cell.
Springfield Times: "Clark Rowe came
up from Yankton Yesterday evening. He
says that after the rain had set in down
there in good earnest, the people felt so
good that most every man he met on the
street wanted to treat" We were all a lit
tie excited over the event. 1t Was before
Mr.. Hoofatetler got here, though.
SchorregGe has placed a hand force pump
in the basement Of his Third street block
and has arranged piping and hose so that
he can in a few moments food with water
any portion OF the building and can throw
. good stream upon adjoining buildings.
By this apparatus he has decreased his in.
surance n quarter per CEN and added
materially to the safety of his premises at
an expense Of only about sixty dollars.
The United States court is closing up its
Affairs today. During twenty-eieht work
ing days seventeen days were devoted TO
the Livingston cases, eleven days to other
cases aud there was about q week in which
nothing was done. On the motion of the
prosecution to continue the balance of the
Livingston cases the ruling Of the court is
still pending, but there is . strong suspic-
ion in the minds of the defence that they
will 60 over.
We are informed by the receiver Of the
.. 8. land Office at Springfield that no order
or instructions have been received At that
Office, as yet, for the removal of the rame
to WATERFOWL; and that should such order
be received at once, it would be impossible
to close the Office preparatory to its removal
before the end Of the fiscal year. All rum
ors of an immediate change IN the location
of the Office are therefore hardly worthy o.
credence.
L. B. Partridge's object in visiting th<
Black Hille is to work up insurance bushes.
in that region and if necessary to establish
. branch Office at Deadwood. Nj. P. thor
oughly understands the insurance business
and is an indefatigable worker, of which
facts tbs insurance business he has estab
lished in Yankton is satisfactory evidence
he represents strong companies, and thus fa
he has promptly and satisfactory adjustet
all losses which his agency has sustained.
The efforts Of the ladies Of the allianc
and the reputation of the speaker. for elo
quent pleading, induced another large audi
ence to attend Mr.. booksellers temperate
lecture last night, at the Congregation
church. He took up a fresh line of argr
ment for his discourse and invoked pure an
c~hristianlike sympathy for all who are j