Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-02

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Adjectives Fired at the Fellows who
Once . Week.
Feadwood Pioneer.
This dispatch. which tells its own story,
was received yesterday by Mr.. MCPHERSON,
the gentlemanly and popular agent of the
Sidney stage line:
CHEYENNE, WYOMING, FEE. %. 1880.
D. A. McPhereon, Deadwood:
We have been ordered by the P. o, de.
psrtment to run mail only once a week to
Deadwood, commencing March first. We
will run coaches az usual, but no mail.
LUKE VOORHEES,.
What does Mr.. Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral Brady mean? Whatdoes our drunken
congress Of idiots think it is doing? Ia this
ls idea Of retrenchment and reform I? If 40.
in the name Of common sense and 25, 600
outraged people, We spit upon its whole per
formance.
Do the fools who have Just agreed to pass
a deficiency bill of 81, 500, 900 for pitiful
little one-horse swindlipg mail routes all
over our southern and southwestern back
woods, that do not carry on an average one
letter or q half-dozen papers a month, know
what this asinine freak of bogus economy
means? Does the official ~blockhsad at
Washington, who issued the order, know
what it means? Will they pause in their
carousals and donkeyistic burlesques on
statesmanship, long enough to let us tell
them?
1t means that $4,000 busy, enterprisine,
prosperous people. with business connec.
lions all over the United States and Europe.
are to be put on the same footing with the
obscurest crossroads village of one doeeery
and . blacksmith shop in the land. 1t means
that our city, which does more busineas than
Raleigh, North Carolina, Alton, Illinois. or
st. Joseph, Missouri, is 10 be raced to a
level with unheard Of Slabtowns and Suck
e~rvilles, whose annual trade would not foot
up three green postage.stamps, a bolt
of calico, and a kit of epoilt
mackerel. 1t means that our merchants,
many Of whom do q business running into
annual hundreds OF thousands of dollars.
and our banks whose Iem,t,auces are great.
er than those of any old state cities of 90
600 Inhabitants. are 10 be cut off from ten
thousand connections with their cOrrespop.
dents 10 all the great metrOpolises of the
country. that their checks are 10 be delay.
ed, jumblcd snd protested, and endless
losscs and confusion entailed upon them.
1t means that our great mining COMPANIES.
which are contributing over $1,000, 900 in
gold TO the wealth of the country and the
world. are 10 be reduced 10 The isolated
condition of Al Arkansas swamp store,
with 40 assortment of checked linsey. mus.
fang Imminent, horseshoe nails, calico and
crooked whisky. and that the capitalists
who have hundreds IF thousands, millions,
at stake 10 them. are 20 be virtually shut
of from communication with them. ,xcep,
by . telegraph line. which tumb!es down
whenever . cock sparrow flies sgsiust 4
pole or wire. II means that the grandes,
gold region In the world, with lis busy cit
les. its mighty stamp mills aud its growing
and enterprisiug population, is To he re-
mandcd 10 tho condition Of an Indian
camp, and left dependent on special cour-
iers and scouts FIR communication with
he civilized world. II means that. from
Q O00 10 $4,000 pounds Of mssl matter ba,
got to accumulate ., the railroad, aud Their
come 10 on a nnersl procession III Stage
coaches-for no one cnach can ~ro.sit,s
carry half If Il. II mcsna ,hsi msll-roh-
berry snd miscsrrisEe ot letters arc tn be-
come tso Of the great Industries Of ths
northwest Il mesns that the consress, II,