Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-14
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YANKToN, DAKOTA.
Friday Evening, Nov. IA. 1879.
LOCAL LacoHIcs.

Carpets received to-day at r. A. Ketch.
um's.
Twenty-Five teams wanted to load for Fort
Pierre, at Bramble, Miner & Co.'S.
Clay and Union county mills procure
most of their wheat In Yankton.
There was a delightful surprise party at
]. E. Bruce's new residence last evening.
The steamer Josephine reports a heavy
snow storm at Rosebud landing night before
last.
The ladies of the Universalist parish will
hold a sociable at the residence of Mrs.
Vance Friday evening Nov. IA. All are cor
daily invited.
Those of our people who sat up to see
last nights promised meteoric display were
disappointed. Not a single shooting star
has been reported.
There has been another reduction in the
price of carrying wheat from Yankton 10
Chicago. Twenty-eight cents per hundred
pounds is now the figure.
John Ross will retire from the Hubbard
house, in Sioux City, the first of next
month. He has conducted tia. hotel since
he left Yankton, in the summer of 1876.
Hirshstien, the Yankton cigar mauufac-
tarer, is doing q rushing business. Though
he is constantly increasing the capacity Of
his factory he is hardly able to keep up
with his orders. Coed goods win.
The weather indications for the upper
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys are
Partly cloudy weather and local rains
northwest to southwest winds, slight change
in temperature, and slight fall followed By
rising barometer.
The ladies Of Christ church spread out q
most tempting array of eatables at thei,
last nights public dinner and their dinine
room was crowded during the few hours i,
was open to the public. They sold every.
thing they had and realized about q hun.
dred dollars in hard cash.
H. VanTassel, deputized as a special
United States marshal for Sand Lake pur
poses, came in laat night from that histori,
spot, bringing with him a prisoner in the
person Of j. R. James, arrested for cutting
government timber. The grand jury vii
take up his case. Mr.. York came along
with the party as q witness.
Last nights meeting for the considerable,
Of the gas light proposition was so poorl,
attended that no action was taken. TIL
last proposition to the council, was ths
the city invest $3.50 in lamp posts and US
Its own judgment about keeping then
lighted at three dollars per thousand fee
for gas. This seems to US a REASONABLE
proposition. A good many of our peepl
would enjoy the luxury of gas, and the ex
pense to the corporation would not b
great.
Mrs.. ]. Ellen Foster presented last niel
in a mastery manner the legal aspect I
the prohibition Law and succeeded in chr
vinclng . great many that prohibitio
against the sale Of liquor is as legal as Il
restrictions placed upon crime in gener.
Notwithstanding other attractions, she b.
a full house. She delivers her last lectu
this evening at the Congregational churc
Everybody should take advantage Of Il
final opportunity.
Sioux City Journal: "The Yankt,
Press says wheat in that market was wor
% t"s.SS cents on Tuesday. Down Ii
way millers and dealers were glad to b,
at 95 cents anything that would make saI
able four 1t costs nine cents a bushel