Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-03
LOCAL lAcoAlcs.
Election on the brain,
Election on the street,
Election Is the main

~ NIcCCIOU AT inc oar.
But candidates are aii elected
Now TO pay the treats.
No. ppliee itsmssthis morning.
Another damp and cloudy day.
The Missouri river rose several feet last
light andi Is still booming.
Let there be a full vote polled at the city
election on Monday next.
Thecitys~ council viii meet in regular Sea-
sion n Monday evening next.
Numerous immigrant wagons pass
through this city almost daily.
A dog fight on Third street this morn.
ing sttrsctedsno leesle attention. &
The next legal hSifdsy is Decoration day,
which occurs on the sch of May.
Stackrel and Gadsen are at the Smithso.
MAN hotel, with twenty fine horses for sale.
Persons having claims against the city
will please present them to the city clerk on
or before II aaayzsyenipgsthe 9th inst.
There are thirty.dvSe members OF the Ma.
sonic fraternity in Parker and vicinity, and
a,lodge will soon be organized in that place.
The April term of the! district court com.
III Z -FTE
mences on Tuesday next United States
cases have the precedence and will doubtless
be tried frat.
John NJ. Lyon, Of this city, agent for
Mark Twain's new work, .'Tramps Abroad
has already delivered the first installmen,
of this entertaining book to Yankton sub.
scribers.
A number Of emlgrant wagons passed
through town to-day en- route to Arkansas.
They represent themselves from Firesteel,
and we're doubtless tender.feet who have an
idea thatttbere is luck in exodusing.
At the request Of the Woman's Christian
temperance union, Rev. Mr.. Jewell will
deliver q sermon. upon temperance, at the
Universalist chapel tomorrow evening.
A cordial invitation il extended to all.
Judge Shannon delivered his charge to
the jury In the Livingston case at 9 o'clock
this morning, after which the Jury retired
to form a verdict. Up to the time of going
to press nj sign had bees given as to what
the result would be.
The Sioux City Journal, in alluding to
the advent'of . newspaper man in Beadle
county, Is mistaken in saying the county is
unsurveyed and "without a single inhabitant
except the newspaper man." The lands in
Beadle county are all surveyed, and the
county already contains . population num-
bered by the hundreds. j
The Turner'S expect to have their hall
finished and ready for occupancy by the 25.h
inst. The EpiscopL society has the hall
engaged for one week. after its completion;
but on, and after the 10Th Of May it will be
for rent for theatrical and other entertain.
ments. This is one of the finest halls in the
west, and will doubtless be the cause Of
bringing many meritorious entertainments
to Ysnkton. lis
The official notice of the change of the
boundaries of the land districts in eoutheas.
tern Dakota appears in another column.
The order changing the boundaries goes into
effect on the 1st of May, but filings for land
in that portion of the present Sioux Falls
district, which by the change m to the
Yankton district can not be made At the
Office in this city until the 10th ofsllay:
The. members of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
which recently gave a concert for the bene-
1t Of the Methodist chuhch, hadi reunion
last evsnfnE u The residence of Nh Dun.
lap, which was heartily enjoyed. BY Ill the
participants. The association has another
concert in contemplation, the main features
Of which will be jubilee songs. Az the or
9anization comprises the best musical talent
Of Yankton, and withal our most popular
ladies and gentlemen. any entertainment i,
may give will draw 4 large and appreciative
house.
We are assured By one Of his friends that
John Cunningham has = lse decided upon
thsSline 9 busineas to which he intends 10
si!e hi; attention In the future. A man re-
siding somewhere near the Yankton Indian
reservation arrived In toWn last night with
: most fsarfully and wonderfully ugly jack,
which he states he brought here In response
to . letter from Mr.. Cunningham in which
he expressed . desire TO become the owner
Of euch an animal. Mr.. G. will be in
Yanktoa loAight when he will doubtless
close . bargain and assume possession aud
coatrol Of this animal Of uncouth voice and
shaPs.