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Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-26

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Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-26
A NATIONAL CONSCIENCE DEMANDED.
New York Herald,


Because the pastor of Plymouth church
has for a long time been silent ON national
affairs he has been suspected of dropping
back into religion az it is taught by books,
but his sermon of Sunday morning shows
that ne has "been keeping up a powerful
thinking" He vigorously asserted The need
Of a public conscience, particularly in re-
publics, where exceptional rights imply
greater moral dutiea'; but that such an in.
duence does not exist ia the United Statea
he proved by instancing our vaciIlation re-
garding the Mormons, negroes, Indians and
Chinese; the shameful failure of great states
to pay their debts, the unrebnked openness
with which facilities for vicious indul-
gence are sold and the low character of
most public officials. The worst thirg about
the preachers charges is their truth. A
public impulse to determine national ques.
tions on moral grounds has never been Gre
ated by any parry; the press, with very rare
and isolated exceptions, has never been
free enough of partisan letters to express
itself according to its desire and abili-
~, while the pulpit, that selfafirmed
source of moral teschlngs-well, MIR. Beech.
er himself has characterized the supineness
the pulpit more vigorously than any lay
"ou "VuAu uoTS ~ 10. MOsL OF Inc men
who pray on their knees on Sunday may
prey on their fellow men during the re-
mainder Of the week without any pu pit
to modest or make them afraid.
Who is to start the needed reformation that
Mr.. Beecher demands? No influence is
more independent, more familiar with moral
truths or better able to utter them with all
than the pulpit itself Gratefully
acknowledging for ourselves and our con-
temporaries the Plymouth pastors com.
to newspapers as winged pulpita,"
must yet declare that the duties of the
are multifarioua, while those OF the
pulpit merge into a single one, which is to
make men better. The strength Of a chain
is only that of its weakest part, the fountain
rise higher than its source, and pub.
lie morality in matters of general impor.
lance will never exceed that Of the individ.
usls of whom the public is composed. Let
The pulpit cleanse the source if it would
have the healing stream broad, pure and
powerful.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-26
COMING EVENTS.
Detroit Pree Press.

The month of March will be an e~ventful
one for Detroit. A prominent citizen, we'll
known on Change, will, during that
month, make the attempt 10 walk three
million miles In three million hours, TAX
ing no retreshMent except ginger beer and
raw clans. No butcher, grocer or milk
man suspected of having a bill against him
will be admitted IL the hall during the
walk. Ii he succeeds 10 his enterprise the
man who inYented the washboara will no
longer be liontzed by the public. His walk.
ing costume will consist of three hats and
q pair of socks.
Another citizen will begin March LIST the
attempt to walk from his home to his
Office, a distance Of six squares, four times
per day for one month"; feat never before
attempted by any human being in the
west. He has already gone into tue hands
of a trainer. and even in three days he has
made such progress that be can stand a
fifty. pound sack Of -four on end without
looking red In the face. His friends arc
confident that he will succeed in this great
undertaking, and are willing to loan him
money at twelve per cent interest. II this
tact is accomplished the citizen will be on
exhibition in front Of the City Hall for
three dsys-admission free, children not
permitted 10 approach nearer than ten feet.
An es,imsbie lady, whose name is spoken
with praise IN every street corner, has
been advised by her physician to attempt
the experiment OF wlnking her eyes one
billion times 10 one billion SECONDS, She
will probably engage one OF the opera
houses, and tine price Of admission will he
81 low that every lsboring man can afford
10 have loasF chicken for dinner. II aLv
man in the audience imagines the lady is
winking It him and proceeds 10 wink back
in return, seven policeman will be GU hand
To drag him down stairs ieet first. There is
no wager involved in this m%eritorious en-
.e,prise, but the lady is simply melted b.,
a desire to recover her health. All money
taken at the door will be donated to the
purchase of bronze busts TO decorate ice
wagons and street cars. The lady is a
guine of success, and can any day be heard
singing, And many a wink she wunk,"
with great ENTHUSIASM.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-26
THE COURSE OF EMPIRE WESTWARD.
New York Star.

As the time is near when the usual decen-
NAL census of the United States will be
taken, statlsticians and the press begin to
discuss the probable result a. to the total
population and the relative increase in diff.
terent sections Of the country. Prof. Elliot,
who has been connected with census bureau-
has made some interesting calculations. He
concludes that the = puIa,ion now, or on
the frat Of this month, could not be far
from $4,000 600. If he be right, the pop
ulation, according 10 the rate Of increase,
will be in 1880 rot less than $4,000, 900.
The census will show, undoubtedly, a re.
markable increase in the western states.
Out of the estimated so, 000, 900 the western
and Pacific states, exclusive Of the
southern states west of the mountains,
will have probably, over 100000.
states, will have about the same number.
This would leave II 1000, 600 for the eastern
and middle states. Aud this increase of
growth Of the west over other sections of
the republic must, from the nature of things.
60 on. Already the ~preponderance of poll
teal power lies there, and the time is near
when it will be overwhelming. Do ac-
QUO Of the issues of the late war, aud the
feeling relative to them. which 10 not quite
ex%tineu,shed, the vest. east and north have
acted tovether politically In . great meas
ure; but other issues bearing upon the in
forests Of the west, aud particularly those
pertaining to agriculture, must arise. The
west and the south, having interests mostly
Identical, will act together in political mat
ters. probably, 40 sO0n % the war issues
and the Intense s%ectionslism that grew out
Of them shall be entirely extinguished. A,
any rate, it 10 evident that the population
vest Of the mouotains must hencefoTth b<
the ruling power of the United States.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-26
1te Daily $ress aud 9aketaiaa
yANkToN DAKOTA
Wednesday Evening, Feb. 26, 1879
FOOD FOR REFLECTION.

The unusual amount Of jobbery an
trading which characterized the operation
of the last Legislature is one of the fact
which cannot be lodged and can only b
deeply deplored. The Constituents" o
Dakota do not like to feel that measures Q
importance to the people stand no longe
upon their merits, but are made dependen
upon the number Of votes which some othel
measure, less meritorious, shall receive
for their success. The system impela
legislators, who have normally more sell
respect than to indulge in such practices, to
the support Of doubtful schemes, that the peo-
pie whom they represent may receive that
which is due to them in the way Of legisla-
ton. The practice therefore becomes
demoralizinR in the extreme. Before .
session of forty days is half ended men
who entered upon legislative work with
pure motives and q conscientious intention
to urge the cause Of right and equity for
the sake of the good within it, find them
selves the medium by which 3 systematic
barter Of votes is carried on. They are,
perhaps, led into the practice by the diff
culties they encounter in the contamination
of legislation which i, worthy Of adoption.
Combinations are formed against them by
designing men. who are not statesmen in
any sense Of the word, but mere tricksters,
whose prestige depends upon their ability
to whip in the crowd by holding over un-
willing victims the rod of defeat. unless the
prescribed line is promptly toed. Thus
corruption enters into legitimate Legislation
and corrupt legislation follows as the natural
sequence. II, out of the many instances of
this method Of passing measures, any glar-
ing illustrations are needed, We have only
to point to the living enactment for the con.
solidation of Jim river counties and to
the dead enactment locating the penitentiary
at Sioux Falls. Even SO highly moral q
measure as the improved liquor Law receiv.
ed strength through the same NEAR and
perhaps for the reasons given above.
The practice is but one grade removed
from bribery, and being go dangerously
near, the transition into a criminal act is
the more easily taken. 1t proved a step
ping stone during the late session Of the
Dakota legislature, and it isthecloa alliance
Of these two practices and the liability Of
going from one to the other which induces
us to write SO plainly upon a eubject of vital
importance to the commonwealth.
The tendency to look lightly upon
matters akin to this is becoming too preva
lent and ahalt should be called before more
serious I'M ury results thercfrom.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-26

A London inventor, E. A. Copper, has in
vented q telegraphic writing machine. The
apparatus works in this way:
The writer in London moves his pen and
simultaneously at Brighton another pen is
moved, as though by phantom hand, in pre-
cisely similar curves. The writer writes in
London, tie ink marks in Brighton. Those
who have seen the instrument work say it's
marvels are quite az striking az those Of the
telephone. The pen at the receiving end
has all the appearance of being guided by a
spirit hand.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-26
rL,crs F~ooLlsnnEss
III Writes . Letter 70 the Sioux City Jsur.
mai and u Badly E1ckcd Up. sSss

Gnalana IL Badly kk14cked Up.
10 the Editor eGtne Journal.
In reply to an article ~ Sioux City Jour
nal of the - inst. wrlltsd BY 6ne John u
Penpineton cAstlsg some reflection on
mem6ef Of GenT assembly would beg U
state the member spoken Of. In changing
the name of Pennington County to that ol
Sumner, was only earring out the wishes o.
q large majority OF the citizens Of that sec
ton OK the country. the we'll known schoun-
drelism of Gov. Pennington in appointing
nonresidents to Office In the Black Hills
counsies IN direct violstion OF his oath OF
office and bis vlllanous attempt to sacrifice
the interests of the people in the interest OF
his Y private purse-has made she name
Pennington odious to the people OF that
section and the getting rid OF the unprinci.
pied Carpet-Bagger as Gov wasa godsend
better to have o whe deservesa room in
the Palstisl residence north of Yankton
built at the expense of the Territory
D w FLICK NJ d
THE JOURNALS COMMENTS.
At the solicitation of DR.. Flick, the good
runner of the late Dakots legislature. We
print herewith q card ofbis composing. II
is intended to be severe upon Gov. Pen
uington, who has referred to Flick In cor
re~srondence to the Journal in terms that
Dr., Flick has construed as other than com.
In this construction. on the
part of the Black Hills representative. the
must say there is some indications
If correct Judgment. But when DR.. Flick
lakes occasiont to put his best judgment into
print, he exposes himself to the suspicion
hat he is not 4 statesman, nor yet q man
knowing how to give or 10 take medicine.
Dr.. Flick evidently has it 10 his heart that
Gov. Pennington ought to be odious.
Therefore he struggled With q bill TO
change the name of Pennington county
md the bill proved a rather poor card for
Dr.. Flick. Now. he struggles with . card for
print; and, if we are to judge, this card also
i~iscloses the poverty OF. the hand of the
member from Deaowood.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-26
A CARD

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c.. Send = se~lfaddreased envelope to the
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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-08-02

oook and examining his log ac>
count, '.you never sold me twenty
seven logs CT the same measure
ment.''
II know it," said the vender in
logs. "By the drawing back and
forth, the end wore off, and Al it
Wore, kept cutting the end Oft
uhta 1t was only ten feet long
Just fourteen feet shorter than il
Was the first time | brought it !:
ana when it got short, | drew it
home and worked it up irto shin.
g'es, and the next week Won
bought the shingles. and | conclu-
ded L had got the worth of nv
wagon b*ck-and slowed away
III my pocket book"
The eXciamations cf the iuege
were drowned in the shouts of
the bystanders, and the log man
found the door without the prom.
ised treat.
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A Good Yarn.

In the village of Palmetto lived
a man who had once been a Judge
Of the county, and WAS we'll
known al! over it by the name of
Judge. He kept Il store and
saw-milI, aud was always sure to
have the best of the bargain on
his side. by which he had gained
an ample fortune; and some did
not hesitate to call him the big>
gest rascal ia the world. He was
very conceited withal, and used
to brag of his business capacity,
when any one was near to listen.
One rainy day, as qnite a mum
Der were seated around the stove,
he began, as usual, to tell Of his
great bargains, and at last wound
uy with the expression: ''Nobody
has ever cheated me, nor they
can't, neither"
- "Judge,' said an old man of
the company, Give cheated you
more than you ever did me-"
"Hew so I" said the judge.
'If you will promise you won't
go to law about it. nor do any
thing, III tell you; or else won't,
you're too much of Il law charac
ter for me-"
s'Let's hear" cried half a do
zen at once.
"r.l promises" said the judge,
''and treat i'll the bargain if you
have"
"Well, do you remeabat that
wagon you robbed me Of !"
II nj yer robbed xo,l ofsaafy
wagon [ only got the hest of the
bargain," said the judge
"Well, l made up my rhsinA to
have it back, and -. =.
"You never dfd,'1 Interrupted
the Judge. fssA
Eyes, / did, and Interest too.''
"How SO ?" thufndered the now
enraged judge.
! swell, you see, judge, / sold
you one day a very nice pine log,
and bargained with you for lot
more. Well, that log l stole of
yonr pile down by the mill the
night before, and the next day /
sold it to sou. The next night |
drew it back home, and sold it to
you the next day, and SO kept
on until you had bought your
log of me twenty seven times"
THAT'S u lie.', exclaimed Che
hinforiated judge, running TO bin
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-08-02
Curious Facts about
Ants.

hr' p. Gittins. of Ti,oli, Queens
land, III a letter to the editor of
the Journal Of Science, commupi.
Gates some interesting facts cou.
cernlng ants. He writes: "If
meats shows the least possible
tendency to dec0mpose-and it
VIII 90 50 in the course of twelve
nours III sUmmer-the ants will
ind it, though suspended by a
wire or string trom the housa>top
or the top OF IL tent. The ant per
cel'es decomposing animal mat.
ter at a long distance, and does
not go exploring iog such matter.
but goes straight to it from the
a't.hlll. A snake killed in the
bush is generally placed on the
oianch OF Il tree, so aS to be seen
Dy travellers, and as soon as de
composition sets in the ants find
it. aud the flesh is soon carried
Off to the ant>hill; even their
own comrades, when killed, are
Carried off to the underground
cells. They never stay to feed.
but they take up the booty and
OFT they Co." The writer then de
scrlbes number Of experiments,
showing that portions of meat
placed near ant-roads we're over.
looked till putrefaction set in,
and were then eagerly carried off.
He remarks that 'samts that feed
on saccharine matter are as diff.
cult to keep off us the carrlon-
feeders; they smell the sugar.
and endeavor, to get at it where.
ever it may be placed. The larg.
est kind of sugar ants will feed
until the cold air of night comes
on, and then fall into IA stupor
and there remain during the day.
We shOnld feel much obliged,
says the editor, if our correspon-
deilt would determine the two
following points: Whether his
nr.at ants prefer tainted meat ITO
fresh when both are placed equal
~ near, as, G. g., close to one Of
their roads ;and whether they will
attack animal matter in an ad-
vanced stage of decomposition !
1t certainly seems that they oc-
cnpy more prominent place
among "nature's scavengers''
than has been hitherto supposed.
Scientific american.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-08-02
(For the SENTINEL.;t
Shiloh Hill.
Air the Watcher.

Come all you gallant soldiers story I will
It's of a noted battle you all remember well
1t was an aw full strife and it will cause your
blood to chill
It was that famous battle that was fought
or Shiloh Hill
Twas on the 9th of A pril Just at the break
of day
The drums and flies We're playing for us to
march away
The feelings of that hour | do remember
still
For the wounded and the dieing that lay
on "ShitOh IiiH.'
IL ere were men of every nations fighting
on those bloody plains
Fathers, sons, and brothers were numbered
with the stained
This has caused 50 many homes with deep
mourning to be filled
All from that bloody battle of".Shiloh HuI.'
The wonnletl men We're crying for help
from everywhere
While others who were dieing were offering
God their prayer
Protect my wife aud children if it be Thy
holy will
Such were the prayers l heard that night
Of ".SAiloh Hill"
Early then next morning the hattie roared
again
Unmindful of the wounded and forgetful
Of the slain
The battle was renewed and ten thousand
inen We're killed
This Was the second conflict of the famous
.'SAitoh EiN'
Before the day was ended the battle ceased
to roar
And thousands of brave soldiers had fell
tn rise no more
They lett their vacant ranks for some 9th
erS 10 fill
And now their Wondering ho.ics all lie on
'!Shi!oh UiN."
And now my song is ended lt,oGt those
bloody plains
| hope the sight by mortal man may necr
be seen again
pray TO God onr Saviour If consistant be
His will
To save the souls Of all that te: on ".Siiiioh
uW"
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Adam interviewed.
By JoEL SL6pER.

! have met Adam AND inter
I viewed him. The. geHnii,e, origi.
nal Adam. Edison andi I found
him. Winding p.the .negather-
lone, and pointing it eastward,
Edison said.
: "Now, Sloper, look through
while l turn the crank, and tell
me when you have the right TO-
Gus"
"Hold on easy now Darwin's
missing liuk' just pass before the
lens.c ..-.
"Oh, no, it was only that chap
with the eye glasses" replied
Edison; an have you out of the
range of Washington Square
Soon."
A few more turns OF the crank
spread the rosy Orient out be.
fore me, and aside the curtains
of its dreamy past, as mighty
centuries were passing ih review
like q panorama before the mons
ter lens of Ei.isonss latest. inven-
ton. Oh. fbeautitnl,s grand and
glorious were those spictures of
the dead and misty ages, in their
tints aud lines of purple and
gold; there they Were, rushing
past with the centuries, seen for
moment in the flash of burnish-
ed steel; heard for a moment in
the clash of arms. the blast Of
trumpets and the shout of con
quest; crumbling into ruius as
they vanished away.
Ten, twenty, thirty centuries,
they rapidly whirIed along. |
| caught a passing glimpse Of Jo-
seph going into slavery, and then
the sound of the timbrel 'o'er
Egypt's dark sea-" as, backward.
time swept away the dust.
81 think we have got him."
said Edison, as, far away over
the plain, IA solitary object stood
at the last outpost of human ex:
istence.
| 1t was Adam! He was sorts
ing beans. He shook hands with
me, and invited to dinner. | sug-
gested that we go at ouce.
He said, ''No it wasn't ready.'
| was disappointed Ia Adam,
but l hoped the dinner would be
be all right. Adam gave a shrill
whistle. and the hired girl came
out of a clump OF bushes. Said
The:
I'VE are, going to have Mr..
Sloper to dinner, Nancy; so boil
a nice cutsot hipopotamus, and
warm up theelephant stew
. q asl glad .teSee you," he COZ.
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A DUTCH VkCTORX.-A crowd

A DUTCH VLCToEY.--A crowd
OF young chaps about town were
III one of the popular ceer saloons
yesterday, where they met Jolly
Old German, who often gets soak
ed in beer and is maudlin funny.
''Hello, Kaiserlicher, have you
heard the news.M said one.
''NeiD !! vat ish das ?''
1.-The water-works are busted"
s'Vel, dots bad mid dem tenn
brance beeples, don'd id poys!"
Laugh all round.)
eyes; and the rolling mills
gone up!'' said another of the
boys.
"Vell, chust don'd got skeered
about dat; it's so heffy dot it
goom down agin. eh ?" "a grand
peal of laughter.)
"And-and-the ice machine
has exploded g. cried a third.
! ,..Ish dot bin pozzible i? Den
doris bad, midold some misda1e,
|.ahd;1d dOn'd rain rnidoud it pours
de yasser9 oud-de Ioiling,mill
pb-nO more ize-unt all you
y9nng sliackasses broke oud of de
slRatable lot. Dot makes me cry.
T, And nobody thought it necessa.
rX to laugh at this point.