Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-06-22
NOTES.

An CArCnQu0kO OccuIAcu Nv No"o"y
mort, Mass, Sunday morning.
A City of Mexico dispatch says that
General Grant has engaged rooms at a
hotel there for September.
Secretary Window has appointed ex-
Secretary Ramsey special examiner to
inspect the mint at San Francisco.
The ssigns of the times" indicate the
nomination of Hon. VIM. Larrabee for
governor by the Iowa republicans
A big railroad war is predicted be-
tween the several lines and branches
leading from Chicago to New York.
Ex-senator Sprague has got rid of
$l2,000,OO0 and his wife and children in
few years. But he never resigned an
Office.
The Mutual Union telegraph compa-
ny's line is being very rapidly built from
Chicago to st. Paul and st. Louis stimuli
taneously.
The Chicago bank olearings for last
week amounted to $39, ,4O6, ,l54S7. For
the corresponding week last year, S31,
146,17l.72,
Since the close of the winter season
Chicago packers disposed of 1,O35,0OO
hogs. During the same period in 1877
the number was 7O5,OO0.
From April 81 to May 2l,117,4 7,4s2 immi-
grants arrived in the United States. For
eleven months ending May 81 the un-
precedented number was 664,294.
General Grant told tho representative
of the Inter Ocean in New York that the
report as to his being director of the
Marine bank of that city was untrue, and
that he would not be candidate for the
senatorship at Albany.
Mark Twain wrote in the Mrs. Hayes
album: ''Total abstinence is SO excel
lent thing that 1t cannot be carried to
too great an extent. In my passion for
it I carry it so far as to totally abstain
from total abstinence ITSELF"
Paul Boyton, the amphibian, who left
st. Paul on the Both ult. to float down
the Mississippi, arrived at st. Louis Sun
day, where he was welcomed by an i'm
mense crowd at the levee and the big
bridge. Boyton is not in good health,
and will stay in st. Louis couple of
days to recuperate.
Ex-Governor Dingley, OF Lewiston,
NJ e., has been nominated by the repub-
licans as candidate for the seat in the
house of representatives made vacant
by the promotion of the Hon. W. p.
Frye to the senate. Governor Dingley
is stalwart, a one-legged veteran, and
edits the Lewiston Journal.
A fight took place last Wednesday in
the vicinity. Of the Little Missouri be-
tween party of hunters and twenty In
dians under Little-man- n-afraid-of-his-
horse. in which the Indians lost four
horses killed, and large quantity of
furs and robes were captured. 1t is sup
posed that two Indians were killed.
Hon. H. s. Lane, of Indiana, died very
suddenly on the 8th of neuralgia of the
heart at his home in Charlottesville
Henry s. Lane was born in Montgomery
county, KY, February "a, 1911. He was
early in life admitted to the Indiana
bar, and served in congress in 1841.43
He was lieutenant colonel of volunteers
in the Mexican war, and in 1850 was
chosen United States senator, but un
seated. He was elected governor of In
diana in 1861, and represented the state
in the United States senate from 1861 tc
1867.
Tables giving the census report of the
wheat crop and corn crop Of 1880 have al
ready been published. Bulletin IA
gives the oats crop for the same year q
4O7,97O,712 bushels, grown on 16,15O,611
acres; the barley crop at 43,149,47e
bushels, grown on 2,OO5.476 acres; the
rye crop at 1865, ,G32 bushels, grown OF
1,844,321 acres; the buckwheat at 1,S5l,
73S bushels, grown on S51,3O4 acres. II
1870 the oats crop was 3S2, ,l07,l57 bush
els, the barley 29,761, ,3O5 bushels, the rye
16,9l8,795 bushels, the buckwheat 9,S21,
721 bushels. Illinois raised the mos
wheat, corn and oats; California tn
most barley. Pennsylvania the most rye
and New York the most buckwheat.