Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-25
LOCAL lAcoNlcs.

adjourned until the LIST OF June.
The Livingston plug tobacco Gaze contin-
ues to occupy the attention Of court.
VIM. Scott was released from the city Jail
this morning upon agreeing to leave the city
at once.
Weather warm and mild az May today.
Winter ulsters and buffalo overcoats almost
forgotten.
Candidates who are willing to be voted
for at the city election on the 9th ult. are
beginning to "come on deck"
Capt. Todd says the river at this point is
low for this season of the year, and that the
ice is yet four feet thick at Bismarck.
James E. Witherspoon has purchased the
building formerly used by Shsnnard& Wynn
as a lumber Office on upper Broadway, and
las removed it to a new location on the cor
ner of Linn and Third streets.
George Hendershott, a farmer living three
miles from the city, died very suddenly last
Monday night Of heart disease. The de-
ceased was ffty-four years old and has resid-
ed in this vicinity for the past eleven years.
He leaves a wife and five children.
Christ church, John NJ. Trimble, rector.
On Good Friday there will he services at II
a. M, and services at $50 p. NJ, with a
sermon. This will close the services for the
Lenton season, and the usual Easter services
will occur on Sunday next with a sermon by
the rector in the morning and evening.
Wild geese, ducks and other waterfowl
have made their appearance on our rivers
and lakes. Several of our sportsmen have
been Interviewing them, Capt. A. w. Law
ender aud others. While engaged in this
pastime the captain recently met with an &C.
cident which jolted him up considerably.
On the 25th day Of March, 1865, just IF
teen years ago to-day, Fort Steadman, near
Petersburg, Va, was captured by the con.
federates under Gen. Gordon, after a bloody
fight. Gen. Hartranft's Pennsvlyania di.
vision Immediately after the assault charged
upon the fort and recap,ured it, with two
hundred prisoners. President Lincoln, who
was on a visit to the fort at the time, for the
purpose of witnessing q review. witnessed
this battle instead.
In justices court yesterday before G. w.
Roberts, Frank Petalka appeared as plain.
tiff against John Nicol defendant, in a suit
to recover damages occasioned to grain of
plaintiff by defendants hogs. w. It.
schorogge, Esq, appeared for plaintiff, and
T. B. French, Esq, for defendant. Mr..
French moved to dismiss the ummon in
the case for the reasons, frat, that no COM
paint had been filed az required by law in
such cases, and second, because the sum
mons closed with a money demand, and not
for relief. After argument the motion was
denied, when defendant. by his attorney,
Mr.. French, asked for and obtained a
change Of venue, upon an affidavit filed, and
the case was sent for trial to Justice Z. T..
White. The parties to the controversy are
Bohemians.
A travelling man from Cleveland thinks
1ankton people are far from being distrust-
full of strangers. The first morning after
his arrival here he proffered a ten dollar
bill Chat being the smallest change he had)
in payment for a choice cigar. The dealer
of the narcotic afably told him to pay for
the cigar some other time, as he could not
make the change. An hour or W after
wards he called at George Browns saloon
and drank two glasses of beer, hoping to get
his bill changed in payment therefor. The
keeper looked him in the eye and told
him to pay for the beer later-that be
hadn't much small change. This gentle.
man of the road thought that the above
exhibited a condition of Yankton
monetary affairs nowhere to be met with in
The east, but was of the opinion that our
small change was scarce.
10 the efforts of our reporter Yesterday
10 obtain the opinions Of our citizens with
to the lease of the::5ioux City and
Dakota railroad to the Chicago, Milwaukee
. St. Paul road, he did not make any effort
to ascertain the views of any one specially
and collected the opinions already publish
I'd just as the opportunity presented and
he parties were met. He did not 60 to the
office or place Of business Of any one to get
he opinion Of a particular person, hence
substantial citizens and prominent
men were not copsul,ei at all. He
gave the substance of his interviews in his
language, wi,hsthe exception of Ex-
Gov J. L. Pennington who presents his
In bis " language at some length,
he having handed them to us in that shane.
BE makes this explanation to show that. he
omitted no one Intentionally and tina, 1t
impossible to interview all.
Social at the Baptist church Friday eve.
ming. March 2G. AT which time also the
quilt prepared by the Sunday school will be
disposed of by vote to the most popular
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