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Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-18

portance of the political events which it has In
store, or the necessity OF .%resolute vigilance on
the government that the founders gave us. The
debates and acts Of Congress, the mtterances of
the press, the exciting contests Of the Republt-
strength throughout the country, the varying
drift OF public sentiment, will ali bear directly
and effectively upon the twenly-fourth Prest-
Years ago next November. the N wiil Of iihe r 1al
ton, AS expressed at the polls, was thwarted by
an ab9minsble conspiracy, the promoters and
s geaenc' VIII I'll 9be ~e erime sun af i n9la tn the f 1t,,ess they ,y
1880: The past decade OF years opened with IL
corrupt, eXtrayagant and %insolent Administers
ZION ,Rire'chsd = washington. u sun did
breaking its power. The same men are now in
trigutng to restore their leader and themselves
iSol eIasss tr0m me w paep, eney M %sFe tS Ss,ye sae by sas
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Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-18
NORTHERN NEBRASKA

Dakota county has its first Presbyterian
minister.
Ponca ships two car loads Of hay east
every week.
Regular trains are now run from Niobrara
to Milwaukee.
Niobrara is making an effort to organize
a literary society.
O'Neill City boasts Of the best arranged
postofice in Holt county.
Forty children have died Of diptheria at
Beatrice since midsummer.
There are 1920 Methodists in Nebraska
who own Si76.ooo worth of property.
A sort Of revival is going on in Ponca,
under the auspices Of the Lutheran church.
The Niobrara Turnverien society gave
their first ball on Saturday evening, assisted
by several members Of the Yankton
order.
Capt. j. C. Thomas Of the ferryboat Bee,
at Nlobrara, has crossed on an average of
so teams per week from April 18th 10
November LIST.
A free love preacher in Seward preached
an eloquent sermon to a lady not long since
quoting scripture %luently, and it is said the
lady met his seductive arguments with a
butcher-knife.
Niobrara has the reputation Of being a
very wicked town, yet four religious denom-
%ination are represented there-Presby,e-
rians, Congregationalist, Methodist and
Episcopalian.
The Ponca coal company has secured the
services Of an experienced miner who will
commence operations without delay. He
proposes to drill to q depth Of 500 feet, un-
less he strikes a paying vein of coal at a less
distance.
The new town Of Pomeroy is situated a
few feet back from the line of the nearly
defunct own Of Covington. If Covington
succumbs and peters out before the relent'
less march of the river, then Pomeroy. high
and dry, and safe from watery inroads, will
be the gate city Of northern Nebraska.
The contract for another hundred miles
Of grade for the Fremont and Elkhorn
Valley railroad has been let. This will
take the road into the Niobrara country
1t is still a mystery as to whether The
new railroad will run up the South creek
valley and take in Martinsburg, or &c
through New Castle.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-18

The house judiciary committee has agreed
to report the following substitute resolution
upon the subject Of pay Of the officers of the
United States courts:
Resolved, By the house of representatives,
the senate concurring, that q joint committee
Of three senator's and five representatives be
appointed to investigate the present system
Of .~alaries, fees and emoluments allowed t.
officers Of the several courts Of the United
States and to acertain whether any, and il
any, what, abuses now exist, orhave existed,
or may take place hereunder, and to report
by bill or otherwise.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-18

The Washington correspondent OF the
Chicago Inter. Ocean has taken pains to can
vass the national committee on the Grant
question, and discovers that they are nearly
unanimous in favor Of Grants renomina.
ton. But very few Of them, however, fall
to express a serious doubt of the probability
Of Grant becoming a candidate, and each
has very decided preference in reserve 81
second choice. Western men are ali fol
Blaine, southern men are generally for Sher'
man, and men from the eastern and niddl.
states are divided. No one but Grant, Sher
man and Blaine are epoken Of as candidates
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-18

The last gale which swept from the north
brought to our ears the clatter of a Bismarck
who writes as follows in the Trib.
une.
\ The question of vital interest
10 US is the division Of our territory on the
forty-sixth parallel, and to effect this We
must cut of from southern Dakota. The
only way to do this Is to run our own can.
didate for congress next fall, independent
of party. Let the votes of northern Dakota
and the Black Hills be concentrated on our
v candidate. Let that candidate be
Barnes, Stoyell, Lounsberry Spencer, Myers,
Walsh or the prickIy Cactus. Situated a,
We are on the line Of one of the grandeat
railroads on earth, in a land Of rich coil
capable Of raising wheat ard cattle enough
to feed half the world. We must be free.
We must not pay tribute in a provincial
shape to the political buzzards of southern
Dakota, who are striving with all their pow.
er to hold northern Dakota and the Black
Hills as outlying green pastures to send out
their relatives to and elothe them with fat
BY all means, be free. Cut loose from the
political buzzards of southern Dakota. A,
the writer who penned the foregoing
paragraph sagaciously suggests, thu
best way to effect a division O
the territory on the 46th parallel is 70,
northern Dakota to be cut oAfrom southern
Dakota. In the discussion of this Intricate
division problem a great many heavy idea
have been advanced. but none Of the new
papers seem to have struck into the yer
vitals of the subject as has this enthusiast
correspondent Of the Tribune. Hereafe
no one can truthfully say that an easy Va
Of dividing Dakota on the 46th parallel b.
not been laid before the public. The pr,
petition to FIRE the northern heart by Ii
creation Of . sectional 6lht may serve
furnish diversion for few democratic e,
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-18

voorhees, has introduced . resolution into
the senate for the appointment of commit
tee to ascertain whether or not the exodus
of blacks from North Carolina to Indiana is
a political move. It will be interesting to
learn what Voorhees, proposes to do about
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-18

The Joint committee on the completion of
the Washington monument has reported to
the house that $67, 900 has been expended
in strengthening the foundation and $4,000
remains for that use. In the treasury are
800, 600, but TO complete the work will re-
auire $676,O0
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-18

The va department. continues its prepa.
rations for an Indian wal in Colorado and
evinces a we'll deserved contempt for the
vasaries Of the interior department.. Prac-
teal warriors of the west cannot be made to
believe that any guilty Utes will be deliv-
cred up.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-18

The legislature Of Virginia voted on
Tuesday for = United States senator to sue
ceed Senator Wlthers. On the joint ballot
General Malone received s%eventy.nine votes
and Senator Withers seventy. The former
received tho posiion.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-18
1le 2sily 4res, md 2xtstsiss
vANkToN DAKOTA
Thursday Evsdlns, Dec. 70, ls79.

Argument "a the case Of the lottery agent
70. Pottmaster.G General Key VA concluded
Tuesday, and the court took the papers,
reseryins its decikion.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-18

The house committee on naval affairs has
instructed the chairman to report favorably
Representative Congers' bill to authorize and
equip an expedition to the arctic regions.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-18
TERRITORIAL DIVISION.

original ideas Advanced BIZ Ono who is
TryinE 20 iFit the state OF Dako,a 10
the Capitol sf Mitehsll.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-18

Nv. ENGLAND. Publisher of .The sum-" New York CT
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-24
a FrfshtfuI Calamity.

A three,story tenement house, 1913 Odd
street, South Boston, was entirely consum'd
by fire on the 18th. The house was occ,-
pied principally by Germans, nearly all O.
whom were asleep at the time the fire broke
.-',- sne names making such rapid headWay
LndI DetUro- <Aas0 i,.+I--~srT70i SUITES Cou1u
descend, ali avenues Of escape were cut off.
Mary Huldreth was burned to death. Fer
dinand Mayruth jumped from the roof of
the burning building and was killed. His
wife, Emily, aged %, jumped from the third
story window with her son. The woman
had a leg and arm broken, and was other
wise injured and the boy was badly hurt in
the spine. The body of man, supposed to
be Christian Fifer, was found in the ruins.
young woman and two children known
to have been in the house at the time are
missing and are probably burned. The
damage by the burning of the house is about
So. 600.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-24
Adipcse to the Last Degree.

The Daily Telegraph tells this story
"SYdney Smith once remarked of ar
inordinately stout lady, whose dimen
sions were being somewhat humorously
commented upon in his presence, that
were she to rise in revolt against the
constituted authorities, it would be neces
sary to read the riot act and disperse
herp We wonder to what extravaganoes
OF comical speculation the witty Canon
would have been stimulated had he lived
to take cognizance of young person Of
Russian birth who is about to visit
central and western Europe for the pur.
pose OF turning her extraordinary cor.
pulence to profitable account, and whose
fatty fame has gone before her, prepar.
ing the public mind for surprise upon
scale Of unprecedented magnitude. AT
present this adipose phenomenon resides
at the lowly village of Bolschin- Grodni,
in the government of lula. She is but
10 years old, and she turns the scale at
418 pounds. A damsel who, within q
decade, has attained weight of nearly
thirty stone, is indeed marvel hitherto
unrecorded in the annals Of physiology.
When she shall set forth upon her tray
els, which she is about to do under the
guardianship of an eminent Snowman,
she will be compelled to take her place
in the luggage van, for no entrance to
any railway carriage at present in ex-
istence is wide enough to admit of her
passage through it. A subtle provision
of her ponderous peculiarities would
seem to have inspired her godfathers and
godmothers at her baptism, when they
gave her the singularly apt name under
which she will make her appearance
before admiring throngs. She was chris
tened Fatinitza
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-24
Political Notes.

Hon, Alexander Mitchell having persisted
in his determination to decline the Demo-
cratic nomination for governor of the state
of Wisconsin, the state central committee
met at the Newhan House, Milwaukee, on
the 10Th, and nominated Jas. G. Jenkins, of
Milwaukee.
B. F. Butler was the choice of the con-
vention of Independents at Worcester for
the position of governor.
The Butler Democratic state convention,
at Worcester, Mass, on the 18th inst, nomi-
mated the following ticket: For governor,
BENZ. F. Butler; for lieutenant governor. A.
L. Woodwork; secretary of state, Michael
j. Donohue; treasurer, D. N. Stalings;
auditor, D. j. King; attorney general, VIM.
D. Northend.
The following is the Massachusetts, Re.
publican ticket, as placed in nomination by
the convention at Worcester on the 10th j:
For governor, John D. Long; for lieutenant
governor, Byron Weston; attorney general,
George Marston; auditor, Charles R. Ladd !;
secretary of state, Henry B. Pierce; treas
urer and receiver, Charles Endicott.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-24
VERY Like a. Whale

Assuming the particulars given by
Cptain Larson, Of the Columbia, to be
ccrect in description, his first notion
tht the animal had struck his bark was
on of the two whales engaged In COM
bs is probably the true one. Whales do
fiat, and display tremendous power.
Tire is an account of a whale fight
TIT occurred just off the coast Of
NDster, Scotland, which was witnessed
by number of fishermen. "The two
wIles rushed against each other with
gret velocity: one would leap twenty
or hirty feet in the air and fall upon
hisfoe with crushing force; the sea
arond him, lashed into foam, soon ex-
hihed bright red tinge." This battle
lash three hours. One of the whales
waikilled in the fight, and this, when
dram ashore, was found to be sixty feet
in hgth. A monster like that, moving
wit velocity that would carry it
twety or thirty feet out of the water,
migt stave in the planks of an old YES
sci sch as the Columbia was.-Philadel-
p55oLeaQer. rfr.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-24
Bird Toilets.

Tbre was one lady at the Ocean
Houe who wore with evident pride a
turbn lat composed entirely of the
breasts sad wings of tri-colored "spar-
rows Don't you think of the poor
little cestures suferings every time you
put it OF asked more sensitive friend
one day Ono, indeed" was the reply.
"Do yoithink of chickens suferings
every tie you take bite" At re-
ception well-known New York lady
created / Juror" by wearing peacock
dress. he foundation was creamy
white SAT-; the "boufante panier took
the fornof two wings, which were of
satin, bdered with deep band of
many-hul peacocks' eyes. The deep
train simated the outspread tail of the
bird, and7as profusely decorated with
it's pluma. In her hair the lady wore
peacock aigrette," studded with bril-
iants, enralds and rubies. Another
startling ,velty was the an-dress,
miracle ofowny feathers, and a delicate
cobweb lal It was worn by one OF the
wealthiesthicago ladies. Newport Let
ter, Formed PROGRESS.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-24

u Co.'s vinegar works at Clncln-
natl, Ohio, burned on the 2ist Loss 1900.
The Russian city ofSerpuchoff was nearly
destroyed by fire on the 18th inst. Serious
confagration1 also occurred in Torsok and
surrounding districts.
At Chicago on the 10th inst, HulPs car
rage factory on Bushnell street was partial
ly burned. Loss $4,000.
At stings, Neb., on the 10th inst, flames
licked up block and half Of buildings.
Loss $780, 900; partly insured.
The State Deaf and Dumb institute ct
Delavan, Wis, was destroyed by fire on the
the 18th inst. The inmates all escaped with
their effects. The loss to the state will foot
up to nearly 100000. No insurance.
The glove factory of John Hale & Co.,
Gloversville, N. Y, burned on the 18th.
Loss 100000; insurance $4,000.
The shaft houses of the Caribou, Idaho
and Monitor mines, at Caribou, Col, were
burned on the 18th instant, together with
several dwellings. Loss $4,000.
Rindskopf's distillery at Milwaukee, Wis.
was totally destroyed by fire on the 18th
instant. Loss $4,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-24
Outrages In Cuba.

A dispatch has been received from Ha-
vana to the effect that the slaves of Cienful
Jos, in Ciencovillas, Cuba, have risen in re-
bellion against the Spaniards, and have
joined the patriots, taking with them a
large property. There is great indignation
in Cuba over the massacre Of about II Off.
GERS who served in the last Cuban revolu-
ton on the patriot side, but have of late
been residents in different places, and fol-
awning their different avocations From
their past records they were suspected of
being in sympathy with the present revolu-
ton. Some were killed in their homes be-
fore their wives and children's eyes by
Spanish troops, and others were taken into
the woods and slaughtered. The captain
general is causing an investigation, and has
cited governors of Color, Cientuago and
Matonza to appear before him to explain
the cause of the butcheries.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-24

The poll tax was lately abolished in
Russia and committee appointed to
find out some new source Of income that
should cover the deficit created by it's
abolition. The committee worked for
over six hours, but in vain. Then
another committee was appointed to find
out what state expenses might be reduced
or altogether abolished, but this was
equally unsuccessful. Now the Russian
government is perplexed with the ques-
ton where to get that $S,00O,OOC Of
roubles which in any event could not
have been collected, whether the poll tax
were maintained or abolished.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-24

THE California board Of equalization
has fixed the state tax rate for the pres
ent year at 623 cents on each 500 worth
of property. The assessment roll shows
falling off of $37, 100000 from last
year, the figures then being in round
numbers 1854, 100000, as against $751;
100000 this year, and this is the occa-
sion for an increase of the assessment
rates from 55 cents, the amount of the
levy last year. The Sacramento Union
says that the new constitution fight,
Kesrneyism, &C., are believed to be the
cause of the shrinksge in the assessment
list.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-24
Eupania,s Wealth.

Howard Paul says in his letter to the
Philadelphia Times that the ex-empress
of France is said to be one of the richest
widows in England. In addition to her
Hungarian estate she has a castle in
Spain and a nice place in Switzerland.
But hard cash is what becomes most use
full to dethroned sovereigns who hope to
return, and of this the empress has long
had abundance. It is estimated in Paris
that she is worth at least million ster-
ling. Only recently she sold large
block of house property in the Rue d.
Alba, in Paris, and M. Rouher's house, a
well.known political center at the cor
ner of the Rue de 7 Elysee, was hers, in
her own right, and was sold last year for
el5,0O0. The death of the prince adds
to her property, since he left to her q
considerable amount Of landed property
in Italy, as well as the Toulouse
property, bequeathed to him by the
grizzly general who had been equerry to
the prince when he toddled about the
corridors of the Tuileries nearly three
feet high and weighted with the minia-
ture uniform of a colonel in the cent
garde. This vast property was no in
cumbrance to the empress while yet she
had son to live and scheme for. It was
drained pretty freely by the Bonapartist
organs of the press in France. The
Ordre and the Poys were lavishly sup
ported by the empress, and she also drew
handsome checks in favor of the redac-
ton of the Go&lois. The need for keep
ing these fires warm is now dead. The
empress is not likely to keep newspapers
alive to work for her good cousin
Jerome.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-24

A STRONG feeling of animosity is
growing up between Russia and Ger
many, and there are politicians and
journalists on both sides who make no
secret of their wish for trial of strength
between the two countries. Germany is
certainly taking precautions that seem
to provide for the worst. Ten thousand
workmen are laboring on the fortifca-
tions of the fortress of Thorn, which is
called the Strasbourg of Germany's east
ern border. The fortress of Posen has
also been immensely strengthened and
enlarged, and can now accommodate
large army. A considerable part of the
indemnity payments made by France has
been expended upon these Notifications
and IN furnishing them with enormous
stores Of provisions and ammunition.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-24
MurderOus Deeds.

On the night of the Goth, at Warrenton,
Mo-, a young blacksmith named John
Hurtgen, disputed with George Lee about
due bill, when Hurtgen was killed.
Jacob Irwin and James Hazel were way
laid and killed by unknown parties near
Doggy depot, Choctaw Nation, on the even.
ing of the 10Th instant. The murdered men
are accused of extensive larcenies, and this
is the supposed cause of the killing. Vigi-
liant committees are being organized in va
rious parts of the Indian nation.
Tom Ford, a government teamster at Fort
Duncan, Texas, returning from the Mexican
independence anniversary celebration in
Piedras Negras, Mexico, was murdered in
the outskirts of the town.
On the 18th, the body of Martin Hogan
was found in the canal, about three miles
from Chicago. The left ear was cut off and
the shoulder and neck contained two stab
wounds.
On the night of the 14th instant, in row
at Hannibal, Mo-, George Greenwood was
shot and killed by Frank Moffat.
DR.. Sturman, an old resident of Charitan
county, Mo-, was assassinated while travel
ing on the road in buggy near Glasgow on
the 18th inst. Some twenty bUckshot and
4A~aU-x-.zs~.a.ys,,-oz4eo <
hin instantly.
On the 14th, the terribly mangled body of
nan supposed to be that of Harry Merit,
travelling agent for soap company, was
found on the railway track near Conner
station, Wyandotte county, Kansas. Exam
i nation showed that tho man had hoon rour
tered and robbed. A pistol shot wound
vas found in the head and terrible stab in
tie left breast.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-24

PROF. LOOMS continues his expert
ments in the mountains of West Vir-
ginia, to demonstrate his theory that
at certain elevations there is a natural
electric current, by taking advantage Of
which telegraphic messages may be sent
without the use of the wire. It is said
that he has telegraphed as far as eleven
miles by means Of kites flown with cop
per wires. When the kites reached the
same altitude, or got into the same cur
rent, communication by means Of an In
strument similar to the Morse lnstru.
ment was easy, but ceased as soon as one
OF the kites was lowered. He has built
towers on two hills about twenty miles
apart, and from the, tops of them has
run up steel rods into the region of the
electric current
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-24
An l1nviJed Contestant.

They we wrestling. Plug was fiat
on his backbut had a good grip on the
head of Gsagher, who still kept his
footing andresented at side view the
form Of an tyerted V; at the angle OF
the v, 4. e. bm his hip pocket. waved a
bright red lndkerchief, and the goat
which camsaround the corner didn't
miss his cahlations on 1t by an men,
and the yio]tce with which Gallagher's