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Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-10-19

The Mark Lane Weekly Review says:
The weeks weather has been favorable
for sowing, which is progressing rapidly.
Farmers, on account Of the difficulty of
obtaining sound seed wheat, prefer
sowing last years. Our water-logged
native wheats sell chiefly for mixing
with hard foreign, which is thereby en-
hanced in value. In London the sale of
native has been weakening since Mon
day, and sales were difficult Friday at q
reduction of two shillings. The supplies
we're large with decline for foreign and
the demand inanimate. On Friday
prices declined ten shillings, and some-
times more. No. red winter was held
for ffty-eight shillings, which was un-
obtainable. Australian was firm. Half
the weeks supply was American, which
declined in Liverpool to 2 pence per
quintal. Flour is constantly cheaper.
Foreign is in small supply and rates
thereof unchanged. Barley for grinding
continues depressed, while the samples
bring high prices. It is evident that
the level of the values of mailing bar
ley will have to be established on for.
eign basis. Oats were depressed and
prices unchanged. Foreign oats were
dull and q small business was done al
unchanged rates. In maize there was {
very slow trade and prices closed {
pence cheaper everywhere. The sales o
English wheat during the past weel
were 6l,39S quarters at AZ shillings
pence per quarter.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-10-19

Washington, d. @. October 49,
The indications for tie upper Missls.
sippi valley are: Fair weather, variable
winds. falling. followed by rising barom-
eter. rising. followed by falling tempe
rature.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-10-19


London, Oct. 19.-The Standard, refer
ring to the attempt N burn the steamer
Bathnia in New York, says it looks us il
We intended to carry out O'Donovan
Rossa's threats.
The Morning Post says, We consider
the issue OF the manifest by the Ilish
land league ~ direct Incentive to civil
war.
The Standard says war to the knife
is proclaimed explicitly. So far there is
no friendship on either side.
The Daily Telegraph says nothing can
be more explicit than the determination
of the laud league to maintain fierce
conflict with the government.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-10-19
Dsssrsysd ~ 1irs.

st. Louis, Oct. ia Waco, Texas,
special says an entire block ol buildinss
as Whitasy burned. Loss, $4,000; in.
suranoe, 500.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-10-19
GENERAL NEWS.
Rioting Still Continues Among
the People Of Dublin.
The Mississippi River is Breaking
the levees end Still Rising.
An Appeal for the Presidents As.
sassin from His Attorney.
Fargo Did.'t See II.

Fargo. Dakota. Oct. l9.-The rumor
that Kings balloon had beenbeen in this
vicinity u entirely uniounded.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-10-19
Tho Mississippi Flood.

st. Louis. October ia Warsaw, Ind,
dispatch esays the levee broke at the
placs'called Copper slough, four miles
below there. The,water is now four inches
higher than theD big rise .of the spring
and summer and rising. Much damage
will result to crops Of hay and perhaps
stock.
A Hannibal, Mo. dispatch says the
water lacks only few inches to bring it
as high as last spring, and the situation
is hourly growing more serious.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-10-19

An elegant aasortment al bird caeea.
IPno5te.s' Pns5sa.s' etc. just receivedAs Ail6 1
eut0{s.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-10-19
A New War Vessel.


London. October 19-The first class
double turreted ironclsd Intiexible, car
rying four 81 ton guns, will probably
make her first trip TO the Irish coast,
thereby making great increase in the
naval force available in the case Of dis
turbances.
THE GREAT EASTERN SOLD.
The steamer Great Eastern was put
up at auction to-day and was bought in
for thirty thousand pounds.
Credit Mobilier Settlement.
Philadelphia, Oct. l9.-In the United
States circuit court to-day an order was
made authorizing Oliver Ames, receiver
of tho Credit Mobilier Of America, to
execute unto Thos. @. Durant, formerly
president of the Credit Mobilier, o full
and complete release Of all demands
against him by the Credit Mobilier, up.
pom the execution and delivery by
Durant Of proper legal conveyance oi
real estate situated near Council Bluffs
Iowa, amounting to 500 acres. and landi
in Platte county, Nebraska.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-10-19
sickness in Senator vaa wyck's family.

sicknsss in Senator vaa wyck's family.
Nebrasks City, Oct. l9.-Senator and
Mrs. Van Wyck reached here yesterday,
summoned by telegram that their eld-
est child was i'll with diphtheria. This
morning the youngest died and the old
est is now dangerously ill. Their first
born few years ago died with the same
dread disease. The calamity is more
distressing as Mrs. Van Wyok left the
bedside of dying father, Col. Broad.
head, at Washington.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-10-19
Held cri,n,n.,lx Liable.

Philadelphia. Oct. ls.-Harvey. owner
of the Randolph mills, found criminally
responsible for loss Of life in neglecting
to furnish fire escapes. has been com.
mitted to await the action of the district
attorney.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-10-19

The report that Attorney. General
MeVeagh has insisted upon beng reliev-
ed at the earliest convenient day has in
duced Blaine to address letter to the
president in relation to the retirement
Of the cabinet officers. The secretary
wrote that he thought it due to those
retiring that oil should be treated alike
and permitted to go out at the same
time. He intimated in that letter that
he would gladly be relieved at once. and
that his successor should receive as
much consideration as that of any cabi-
net officer.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-10-19

The demand for gold is great, but not
equal to tho demand for DR.. Marshall's
Lung Syrup. the great remedy for
coughs and colds. Try il. Price tw snty.
nVe and fifty cents bottle. Sold Ly all
druggists.
New Home Sewing Machine is The
machine Which all Of the recent improve
.nents are combined in one. A personal
examination II solicited at 0rady's, Third
"sret. weAt of the Jencka hotel.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-10-19
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH

CHICAGO.
Chicago. Oct. 10.
WHEAT-E.sier. $1.siss cash October; s1.s5S
November: Sl.S7 December.
CoRN-Firmer, 60ssc cash; 8114c November
62Sc December, SO May.
OATs-Firm. higher, 4sac cash; 4s:sc Novem-
ber; aye December: 47ssc May.
RYE-Lower. $1.04K.
BARLEY-$l.O6.
WHIsKY-LoWer, $1.17.
$ls.6h January.
LARD-Easier. s1l,7O cash November,
S1l,s7h December; sl2,o1h January.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-10-19
68 --FALL AND WINTER.- 1891
Chas. Ei isenaan
Respectfully desires to announce to
the public that his fall and winter
stock is now complete, and will be
sold at bottom prices.
DRY GOODS

Of all descriptions. A
full line of Dress Goods
at all prices from 6 cents
per yard up. Trimmings
Of all descriptions. All
shades ofSilks and Satine,
Brocaded Satin, Suhra
Silks and Satin, Black
Velvets, etc., etc.
W0OLENS.
Ny stock of Woolens is
unusually large, compri,
sing a large line of Hoods,
Nubias, Scarfs, Mits, La
dies and Childrens' Ho-
siery, Flannels, Blankets,
etc., etc.
Cloaks and Do|mans.
A larger and finer line
than ever before. My la
dies Wraps are bought
from the best cloak house
in the east, and I guaran-
tee a better fit and better
styles and at lower prices
than any house in Yank,
ton. Call and examine
for yourself.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-10-19

At the meeting OF tho general western
passenger agents at Chicago on the 18th.
Commissioner Dixon was instructed to
notify the delinquent Baltimore and
Ohio railroad that unless it squared its
debt to tho western lines on account of
cm;grant rebates its tickets would be
withdrawn from sale from all the Offices
of the association.
Tie governors of sixteen states have
appointed delegates TO attend tho river
convention. to bo held at 81. Louis on
tho 26th inst, and nearly every board Of
trade and commercial organization in the
Mississippi valley will be represented.
The convention promises to be the larg.
ost delegate body Of commercial men
ever held in the valley.
DR.. Thomas preached in the Peoples
church 1t Chicago on Sunday. Allud.
ing to his recent expulsion from the
Methodist church. he said that notvith-
standing that circumstance the confer
ence could not deprive him Of Ills minis.
terial functions, and these he expected
to continue to exercise. He stated o firm
determination to appeal to the judicial
conference.
The Grand Trunk railroad made an
other savage drive at the Vanderbilt line,
on Monday. which will almost inevitably
bring them to fighting again with that
road. It ordered the Detroit and Chlca-
cago Offices to sell to all points reached
by the Michigan Central in Michigan ct
reduced rates. The intimstion was
thrown out that the amount Of money
the purchaser might be able to spare
would be the price charged in each case.
Scoville. in Guiteau's case. ON Mon
day, suggested that both lie and Cork
bill were desirous Of having decision
upon the question of allowance for the
expenses Of the prisoners witnesses. He
did not see how they could get along
with depositions alone. The conrt re-
piled that there was q fund under the
control Of the attorney-general from
which allowances Of this kind had been
made, and lie would communicate with
the atto1ney-general on the subject. He
could do no more than this at present.
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Form OF the Lightning.Rod.

The subject of the proper form G.
Neutrality-suspicious., long disputed
one among scientific men, has recently
been experimentally investigated by
Mr.. w. II. Preece. with the result OF
confirming the position of Faraday, tina
the section of a rod is the essential ele
ment. The advocates of rods of large
surface, such as ribbons, tubes, etc..
among whom was the late Prof. Henry
conclude, from the fact that static
electricity resides upon the surface
that electricity of high tension, such as
a lightning discharge, is better con
Quoted away by large extent of sur
face. Mr.. Preece stated that no direc.
experiments had, so far as he was
aware, ever been made to settle tn.
question, which was an important one
as the acceptance of the surface theory
had led to the employment of insight
ly and costly conductors, when simple
rod would answer all purposes. The
experiments were made in the labora
tory of DR.. de la Rue, and had the ad
vantage of his advice and assistance
In the first experiment copper conduct
ors thirty feet in length, in the form OF
a solid rod, a thin tube and ribbon, eacl.
OF precisely the same mass. were used
The electricity was obtained from 8, 24C
chloride-of-silver cells, and accumula
ted in condenser of capacity of 42.s
micro farads. The sudden discharge OF
this quantity of electricity produced re.
suits similar in character to lightning
1t was capable of completely dehagra
ting two and half inches of platinum
wire of OPS inch diameter, and OF
raising to different degrees of incandes-
cence greater lengths. Such wire, af-
fixed to white card so as to record
the effect, was used to measure the dis
charge after it had passed through the
conductor. Each form of conductor
gave exactly the same result in the de-
iagration and heating of the platinum,
showing that different extents of sur
face had no effect. As it might be
thought that, in copper conductors Of
such length as those used, differences
in conductivity could not be readily de-
tected, the experiments were repeated
with lead conductors, the resistances of
which were twelve times that of copper,
with the same results. An experiment,
to determine how closely variations in
the discharge could be estimated. shows
that change of resistance of five per
cent. could have been easily detected
Mr.. Preece, therefore, concludes that
no more effective lightning
than a simple rod or wire rope can be
devised. Germantown TELEGRAPH.
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The Russian Auti-Jewish Crusade.

The anti-Jewish riots in Southern
Russia resulted in the destruction or
property valued at SO, 600, 900, smaller
amount than the first accounts reported.
All the leading rioters have now been
tried at Kief by court-martial, and sew
eral were condemned to loss of civi!
rights and terms of imprisonment vary
ing from few months to three and -
half years. One individual, at least.
was condemned to twenty years exile
in Siberia. At Odessa. where the
prompt action of the authorities pre-
vented much damage being done, the
rioters were tried by magistrate, and
a few of the principals were sentenced
to undergo short terms of imprison-
ment varying from one week TO three
months. 1t is now considered pretty
certain that these riots may be ascribed
to the impoverished condition of the
country through the failure of last
years harvest; to the ignorance of the
peasants; their hatred of the Jew as a
money lender; their jealousy of his
wealth; their desire to revenge them
selves upon those whom they consider
to have impoverished them, and the
hope in some of plumber.
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Constitutional Government on Trial.

When Prince Albert declared that
Constitutional Government was on its
trial in Great Britain, he was roundly
rated by the British press. although he
uttered what now seems to have been a
truism. But what the slow develop
ment of the events of which the Reform
bill was the most conspicuous did for
Constitutional Government in Great
Britain, the sudden shock of Guiteau's
crime has done for republican Govern
ment in this country. Republican Gov
eminent in the United States has been
on its trial. The abuses some of them
most serious and scandalous abuses
which have grown up in the Republic
founded by Washington are known to
all of us, and all of us are ready enough,
on occasion, to point them out. That
discussion is less trammeled here than
elsewhere, and that public criticism
goes to point which in some countries
positive law, and in still other countries
social opinion, would intervene to pre-
vent it from reaching, makes more con-
spicuous here than elsewhere such DO
litical abuses as neither law nor social
opinion avails to prevent. In no other
civilized country, for example, would
men who occupied or aspired to de-
cent social position or dignided polit-
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Mr.. Jersey Sparrow most agreed that
it was shame mere blackbird should
have made them all believe he was a
crow. But other lady-sparrows, headed
by the little Mrs. Sparrow whom the
Doctor had first welcomed to his bath
float. and who had ever since been his
special friend, stood by him and de-
clared that they knew he was a crow.
though not one of the kind-hearted Lii :
tie things had ever seen crow in her
life!
By this time Mr.. Jersey Sparrow was
very much worked up. He strutted up
and down the edge of the fountain, AMI
his little body shook with excitement.
Finally, he screamed out: eff he is a
crow, let him say, 'Cawr Let him say,
'Caw!'"
"Can he say sCawp'" the Doctors
party murmured among themselves
anxiously, and little Mrs. Sparrow sail
softly in the Doctors ear, "Do say
'Caw!' I'm sure you can!" But Mr..
Jersey Sparrow and his friends chat
tered in a hooking way, Eyes, let him
say 'Caw!' We should like to hear
him say 'Caw!'"
If DIR. Black had been very wise, in
deed, he would still have kept silence,
and scorned the charge that he was nc t
a crow. A good many of the birds
would have believed him. in spite of
everything and everybody. That has
often been the way, with birds as well
as men. But wild idea seized him.
Perhaps he could say ''Caw" if he tried
hard. He swelled up his little lungs
till his eyes stood out, and-tried.
How some of the sparrows laughed,
and others faces fell, and Mr.. Jersey
Sparrow strutted around! The "Caw"
was something between a squeal and a
squawk. harsh cry unlike any crows,
cav that was ever heard. DIR. Black
saw that the game was lost. He
stretched his wings, gave his raft a
spiteful little push with his foot. and
sailed up into the air, up, up-even over
the great church towers and out OF
sight, leaving the astonished birds look
ing up into the sky, and wondering
whether he had flown quite away from
the world.
1t is curious fact in bird-nature that
a great many of those innocent sparrows
believed to the day of their death that DIR
Black was a great scientist and a most
learned crow, and always declared tha
he had been driven away from them by in
gratitude and persecution DaUid d
Loud, in 50. Nicholas.
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Vanity of vanlties: 50 If girl has
pretty teeth she laughs often, If She
got pretty foot she'll wear short
dress and if she's got neat hand she's
fond of a game of whist, and if the re-
verse she dislikes all these small af-
fairs.
The ear ornaments worn by the
women of America are worth $4,000, :
900. Nature thought she knew her
business when she rounded off womcn's
ears, but that township went back on
her by large majority. -Det,'oa Free
Press.
-" had always supposed" said Mr..
Brudderby, twirling his eyeglasses with
an air of resignation, ''that the Ger
man was the richest of modern Lam
guages, but after I got married dis
covered that the English was. brook
Ign Eagle.
81 can't very well express which
it-what there-~I do not-you are very
II am not, sir, unsensible--the fact
is" said the diflident man. suddenly
called to his feet for speech at pub
lie dinner, Il can't make speech and
can't say anything l would under
stand or you would wish to hear, but if
it pleases Won to see the blush and
sweat, will stand here on one leg and
perspire for the next ten minutes"
They let him off.-Buriington Hawk.
Eye.
Billy Gogganheimer, whose father
keeps liquor store on Austin Avenue.
could not understand his arithmetic les
son. He could not grasp the mystery
of fractions. Now, Billy" said the
teacher, - suppose man wants to buy
gallon of wine. which is four quarts,
but your father has only three quarts
what would he do? How many quarts
would he still need to fill up the gallon
measure?' "He wouldn't need any,"
responded Billy. " He would put a
quart of water in the measure first and
thenthe three quarts would fill it up to
the top. "-Teras Syfings.
How to Make Beefsteak Tender
The best and most thoroughly certain
way to make your beef tender is to
stand in with the boy who drives the
butchers wagon. l discovered this
while living next door to millionaire
who dealt with the meat man who sup
piled me. The boy driving the wagon
was corruptible, like the steaks he
served. and fifteen cents or so would
transfer the tenderness of the million
aires forty cents pound portelhouse
to my bundle of eight-cent round. Then
would whet my appetite listening to
the millionaire's hired girl walloping
the other cut with rolling pins, etc., as
advised by Mrs. Leslie. By changing
butchers as often as the millionaire did
secured tender beef until my lease ex-
pired. Two weeks before this, however,
the millionaire died with lockjaw, in
duced. the doctors said. by attempts to
chew tough meat. Chron-
icle Herald.
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LONGINGS.

II were railroad brakeman,
I'd boiler the stations so plain
That the man who was going to Texas,
Would go clear thru igh 10 Name
I'd open the door of the snoking-car,
And I'd give such a mighty roar,
That the passengers back in the sleeper
Would all fall out on the Hoo.
For couldn't afford tenor voice,
And couldn't afford to speak
In the sweet, soft tones of Eolian harps
For eleven dollars a week.
If was a ba9gage-master,
I'd rattle the trunks about
I'd stand them up in the corner,
And I'd tear their bowels out;
would pull the handles out by the roots:
L would kick their corners in,
And strew their stufiing all round the car,
And make them lank and thin.
For couldn't afford to wear kid gloves,
Nor put soft pads on my feet,
Nor to handle things gently, when all my pay
Just kept me In bread and meat.
II were railroad conductor,
As through the train I'd go,
I'd have for every question they asked
This answer all ready: Don't know"
I'd miss connections for lots of men,
I'D run lone passengers past;
I'd tell them twas eight when knew twas
ten,
And I'd swear their watches were fast
For couldn't afford to be civil,
When knew every man in the load
Would look at my watch and ring, and say,
He stole them things from the road
Burlington HdUk-Eyw.
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POLITICAL ITEMS.

"A Cincinnati astronomer is posi-.
tive that he saw the comet split open
the other night. He says the nuclei are
1000 miles apart. This is not SO bad as
the Republican party.
The expressions of sympathy and
sorrow which come from every quarter
OF the South in this hour of National
trouble are evidently from the heart,
and show how greatly the people OF
that section have been misapprehend-
ed.-Ezchange.
mo doubt Mr.. Hayes is right in
rushing out his denial of the remarks
about Garfield and Blaine that were
attributed to him; but who cares wheth-
er he did or did not say these thingsp
He was q mere accident in the White
House, and did not exhibit enough in
dividual and personal force while he
was there to make it q matter of any
importance what he tn 'nks and says
now that he has retired to private life.
--St. Louis Republican,.
- General Fitz John Porter has
been charged by the Republican press
with most of the crimes known to the
Decalogue; but he cannot be charged.
even by the bitterest Of his partisan as
sailants, with harb6ring malice. Al
though President Garfield was mem
Der of the court which convicted him,
he says:
God grant the President may get well say
I, and say II for his c1untry's sake. for bis
own sake and for his f9mily's sake. Having
gone through a trying ordeal myself, I can
appreciate the extent 10 which a family suf-
fers when a husband and father Is even worse
than murdered Yes. can feel for them, and
they have my heartfelt coincidence.
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There is good deal of human ma.
ture in canary bird. He always be-
gins to chatter as soon as the piano
commences to play.
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Lung Wing, of the Chinese EN-
bassy at Washington, is teaching .
class of forty Celestials telegraphy.