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Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-04-09
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The Chamberlain Register says: 81
The Huron Times quotes "A. W. Howard, of
Yankton, as stating that the Press and Dakota-
ian did not reflect the sentiments Of Yankton.
and that the sensible people were giad Of the
:. new nat Howard never said it, another that it
the Press and Dstdt s. So.s no not r reSecs S az ~
true sentiments Of iankton and the whole peo-
pie Nf 1t does not) 10 that it is not radical and
severe enough on the ringsters and thieves.
Outside the little combination which
centers about the governors Office and
residence there is but one sentiment
among the people Of Yankton and that
is, that the entire commission business
is an iniquity and that no words of cen.
sure are strong enough to express pub
lie condemnation Of the manner in
which the passage Of the bill was re-
ceivcd. It is not at all probable that
Mr.. Howard gave the Times any author.
ity for its statement.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-04-09

ton ofIicials-Judgc Edgerton being
named in thts oonnection, and possibly
the eheri6 also AS il = stated tiat
officers are watching the trains to inter.
view the commissioners when they nut
in an appearance This looks like 9, dis.
position to avoid legal inquiry, which l.
certainly not creditable to officials who
assume 70 be acting in conformity to thp'I
law. Whatever else happens We trust
the territory is not to be dis9raced BY
the peFooual conduct. or the methods
adopted, by these capital commissioners.
-, 6cotland Citizen.
The capital removal commissioners
have organized. and the manuer Of their
organization justifies the bad reputation
given them by the press and people of
the territory. and will strengthen the
popular opinion that the whole scheme
u in the interest OF syndi;.ate and not
IN behalf OF the people. The commits
sioners left Sioux City between, three
snd four O'Clock Tuesday morning in q
special trsin, and ran through to Yank-
ton arriving there q little before five
o'clock and while the train was passing
through the northern limits of the city
on the track Of the Yankton and Scotland
railroad, the commission was organized
BY electing Alex. Hughes president, NJ.
w. Scott treasurer, and Ralph Wheelock
secretary. The train scarcely came to .
halt, and the whole time Of passing
through the town organizing did not oc-
cupy five minutes. Thus the dlgnlfied
gentlemen, to whom is entrusted
the location of the capital of Dakota,
complied with that provision
OF the commission bill which
required them to organize at Yankton,
by stealing into the town at the dead
hour of night, transacting their business
in rapidly moving car, and then retreat.
ing after the fashion of gang Of train
robbers or band Of marauding Indiana
But they were not successful in tho OBJ.
ject sought by this clandestine move
ment. They feared an injunction, but
this process was not intended by the
opponents Of the commission. Thelega
representatives OF the people however
have commenced proceedings against tht
commission by quo ,oarranto, and servica
of notice of this. process has been made
upon one or more members of the com
mission, which is all-suffcient, and thl
question of the legal constitution Of tht
capital removal commission Is now regu
larly in the district court for YaBktoI
county. Their nocturnal rush and Gland
estlne organization will not avail to de
prive the people of their rights.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-04-09

Remember you will always find
everything thasas kept in q first
class Grocery House.
Remember the place, TOM
MARSHALL'S old stand, jencks
Hotel block, Capital street.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-04-09

We have omitted to mention that the
Sioux Falls Press has passed from the
control of Mr.. Elwell and is now owned
and directed by Messrs. Caldwell &
Bliss. 1t was when under the control of
MIR. Elwell that the Press defended Ord
wayism and the capital scheme. Since
the change inspropristorship it has op.
posed the man and the measure.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-04-09
THAT NOCTURNAL RIDE.

A Proceeding WHICH Does Not Appear to
Strike the Public Favorably.
Grand RnrLo uorolJ
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-04-09

A Proceeding WHICH Does Not Appear to
Strike the Public Favorably.
Grand Forks Herald.
The shameless and disgraceful specta-
Gle enacted yesterday morning, by the
nine dignifed gentlemen who were COM
mlssioned by the legislature of Dakota to
perform, with due deliberation, one of
the most important public acts ever &C.
complished in the territory, was one to
make angels weep. The attempt to
dodge the service of writ of quo acdrraa.
to, will be taken by the public as q con.
fession of lack OF confidence in the legal
ity OF their operations. They canuot ex-
pect to evade service, and the effort is
childish and silly. The course pursued
is just the one to render the scheme
more Infamous than ever in public esti-
nation if that be possible. 10 stoop to
such low trickery is simply disreputable
and worthy OF man who desires to
jump o board bill, or q criminal who tres
to escape the too pressing attentions OF
q sheriff. This commission cannot be.
lieve it is acting in accordance with the
will of the people in cutting figure
which will bring odium and disgrace tc
the territory. The members certainly
know better than that. Apparently, the
wishes of the public are but small fac
tor in determining their course. The
obnoxious scheme by such conduct il
made utter despicable, and feeling ol
contempt is added to that of distrust.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-04-09

The Dakota capital commissioners are
put in singular plight by the dispatches
given to-day. The law-that is, the law
as published-required them to appear
at Yankton yesterday, and organize for
business; bat after an informal meeting
at Sioux City, in Iowa, they appear to
have become scattered, and it is yet
doubtful where they will turn up, or
when. to begin work in regular way.
There is a manifest desire to avoid Yank.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-04-09
Porter & Caya.

uP. S.-Telephone orders will re.
ceive prompt attention and satisfaction
guaranteed. P.&O.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-04-09
Take. Notice.

A THE NEW YEAR is at hand we would
"A respectfully announce to the people of
Yankton and vicinity that we are better pre-
pared than ever to supply the public with the
choicest aud freshest
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-04-09
Sioux Falls Press.

If anything had been needed to more
firmly than ever fasten in the minds of
the people of Dakota an idea of the dis
reputable character of the methods
adopted to use the capital removal as
private speculation, that feature is sup.
piled by the way in which the conscience
stricken and self-condemned notorious
nine effected their organization. If that
part Of the law which requiresa meeting
to be held in Yankton for the purpose
of organization, shall be considered by the
commission to have been complied with
by the farce which was transacted there
the other morning on flying railroad
tram, what sort of farce may not be
considered as sufficient compliance
with the other provisions of the same
law? If there had been any hope for
conservation of any of the public's in
terests in all this great attempt at pros
titution of public interests for private
advantage, it was founded upon the slight
possibility that perhaps the commission
might refuse to be simply the plant
tools of the schemers, and they might
rise to the dignity and act the part of
honorable men; but does the very fret
act of their career leave room for any
such hope? How much are the people
of Dakota warranted in trusting lot Of
pseudo. officials who are willing to resort
to such twisting and distorting of q
law? 1t would not be unreasonable to
expect that when they come to accept
the capitol building, they would consid-
er prairie sod as the stone, or prairie
mud as the brick, or the Lord only
knows what as the iron of which the law
says the building shall be constructed; /;
and they may consider double-eagles to
be fifty-cent pieces when they pay them.
selves their salaries, and pice uersa when
they take the money, which the syndi-
cate is to pay the territory to secure the
location OF the capital. What glorious
vista Of possibilities spreads before the
enraptured gaze, when the events of
that Tuesday morning are accounted as
a compliance with the law!
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-04-09
9aily gress aaa 9akptaiaa

THE DAILY PRESS 4 DAKOTAIAN
Is PuBLIsHED
VERY EvENING-ExCEPTlN SUNDAYS.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: By carriers. per
month. $l.OO; per year, Sl26o; by mail, per
Office q on Third ST., fress and Dakotai.n
~ BOWEN K1NasBURY. Prop't..
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-04-09
Groceries,,

BUTTER always on hand. A choice lot Of
BUCKWHEAT FLOUR direct from W atkins
New York.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-04-09

Of commission of nine we have com.
mission OF five, and three OF that Ave |
will direct the work Of the whole body.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-30

most binding possible, as was
afterward disclosed, when William re-
moved the cloth with which the chest
was covered and disclosed the authentic
relics of a saint. 1t wal claimed at one
time in the Irish troubles, in James
III. s time that the oath upon the euchar-
list of an Irish Catholic could not be re-
lied upon in the court, unless the priest
who consecrated it was in sympathy with
the English government. For it was said
that the transubstantiation depended en-.
tirely upon the will Of the priest, and if
he did not wish the bread of the wafer
to be changed into the body and blood
it would be nothing but a bit of baked
dough, which everyone could swear false
ly upon without committing perjury.
An Abvssinian chief, who had sworn
an oath he disliked, was seen to scrape
it off his tongue with his knife and spit
it out. And in Germany, to this day,
there are place where the witness when
he wants to tell a lie or swear falsely,
crooks his finger, as if to indicate to his
conscience hat his oath was crooked.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-30
THE NEW GRAND MASTER.
a Sketch of His Somewhat Eventful
Life.

San Francisco Chronicle.
Robert e. Withers, the newly elected
Grand Master, has, in his own state, Vir.
ginia, held every position both in Ma
sonry and Knight Templarism, having
been Grand Master of Masons and Grand
Commander of the state of Virginia of
the Knights Temylar. In public life MIR.
Withers has held equally high positions,
having been lieutenant governor and
United States senator. In the army he
also was very prominent on the confed-
crate side.
Grand Master Withers was born in
Campbell county, Va, September IS,
1921, and is therefore almost go years of
age. He received a good education and
entered the medical department OF the
University of Virginia, where he gradu-
ated in 1S41. For seventeen years he
practiced his profession in his native
county, and then in 1868, removed to
Dansville, Va, where he resumed his
practice as u physician until the COM
mencement of the war. He was a Wing
in politics and a Union man until the
passage of the ordinance of secession
by Virginia, and took his stand by his fell
low men, and in April, 81, entered the
confederate army as major of infantry,
and during the same year was promoted
to the ~colonelcy of the Eighteenth Vir-
gipia regiment, which he commanded
with great credit D himself, until he was
compelled to retire in consequence of nu-
merous disabling wounds. He her was
appointed to command the fort at Dan
vile, Virginia, at which position he con-
tinued until the close of the war. In the
early part of 1866 he removed to Lynch
burg and established there a daily paper
devoted to the interests of the conserva-
tive party, and he continued to edit it
until 1868, when he was nominated for
governor of Virginia by the conservative
party at the convention held at Rich
mond. He then canvassed the state in
opposition to the Underwood constitu-
ton, which the military authorities re-
fused to submit to a vote of the people.
In 1869 he withdrew from the guberna-
torial race in favor of Gilbert G.. Walker,
nominated for governor by the liberal
republicans. In 1872 he was appointed
%elector for the state at large on the
Greeley ticket, and the following year
was elected acknowledgements, as a con-
sentative, by a majority of q, 546 over
his republican competitor, G. p. Rams
dell, and he following year he was
elected United States senator from Vlr-
ginia as a conservative, to succeed
John F. Lewis, republican, and took
his seat March 4, 1875. His term
of service expired in 1881, when William
Malone, the readjuster, succeeded him
in the senate. Since then Mr.. Withers
has led a retired life, having withdrawn
for the present from politics.
At the last triennial conclave, held at
Chicago in 1880, Mr.. Withers. who then
held the position of grand senior Warden,
was elected to the position of deputy
grand master, which position he has filed
with much credit for the past three years.
His election as grand master is but a just
recognition of the many services he had
rendered for and the effective work he
had done in the order.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-30
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Ex-senator Chaffee, of Colorado, says he is
out of politics.
New York has eleven notice judges, and
they each draw m annual salary Of S.
900.
Greenbackers are aiding the democratic
ticket in Iowa US the prohibitionists are in
Ohio.
Ex-senator Oglesby, of Illinois, Is the lead.
ing republican candidate for governor of that
state.
Pinchback, Of Louisiana, favors the re-
election Of Arthur. He says Blaine has no
chance.
Lieutenant.G Governor Ames, of Massachu.
sets, il in the race as q republican candidate
for governor.
There nave been q holdover senators of the
republican persuasion In the Iowa senate, and
one democrat only.
Massachusetts will be the first state in the
Union to choose delegates to the democratic
national convention.
Sunset Cox claims to have as many votes
pledged to him for speaker as Randall. But
he produces M figures.
Missouri democrats complain that Governor
Crittenden Is injuring the party by his firm
position in favor of the high license law.
Indiana democrats say their state will not
be represented on the national democratic
| ticket unless Mcdonald and Hendricks stop
wrangling.
Emory Storrs, of Chicago, rather expects to
SEQ the ticket Of Arthur and Foster elected in
1884. He was confident that Grant would
win In 1880.
MIR. Thurman Ia no small, cold potato in
the affections of the older class of eastern
democrats, and many Of them would like him
to run for president.
A Texan paper advocates holding the next
democratic national convention In Galveston,
pleading that for nearly u quarter Of q century
no party has held a national convention in 4
southern city.
Tilden stock Is booming among the Missouri
Democrats, Editor Munford, OF the Kansas
! City Times, who opposed the old man u,
Cincinnati, in 1850, has been visiting New
York, and is now anxious to see him nomi'
mated.
The results of the canvasses Of Ohio made
by the republican and democratic state com
mittees have been published. The Republican
canvass claims q majority Of 20, 1886 for the re-
1920 majority for the democrats.
Three public officials in the city and county
Of New York have incomes f,om their Offices
amounting tn double the salary Of the presi
dent of the United States. The profits Of the
county clerk from fees range from 500, 900 t.
$50, 900 a year. The register Of deeds is alsc
paid by fees, and squeezes out Of the otiict
every year abont 500, 900. The sheriff's Office
is another gold mine, yielding u yearly income
of not less than $1,000
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-30

prived of the care Of a father when he was a
small boy.
Judge Field, Of the United States Supreme
Court, talks politics too much for a man In his
position.
Field Marshal Won Moltke was taken for a
tramp recently and ordered out Of one Of the
German inland villages.
Emory A Storrs wore q monster sunflower
in his lapel the other evening, and won a
wager Of q box Of cigars.
The emperor Of Austria and the king Of
Servia are about 10 meet Hungary. The king
Of Servia is probably looking for another
place.
Mr.. Conkling roared to the engineer of the
Yellowstone geysers TO turn on cold water,
but the order was not obeyed. Hence the dis.
aster.
Mr.. slade and Mr.. Mitchell will punch each
other with their bare fists. This will be more
satisfactory to all of us. The next best thing
they could do would be to use clubs.
The Duke of Connaught, better known in
this country as Prince Arthur, recently acted
as a bartender at a charitable Entertainment
and sold mixed drinks to distinguished drink.
ers ut high prices.
The three oldest living compositors in Penn.
sylvania reside in Harrisburg. They are Gen.
eral Simon Cameron, aged So years; Geo. w.
Scott, aged 50 years, and Jacob Babb, aged
SO years.
Mr.. Sullivan, the gentleman who punched
Mr.. Slade, has taken the pledge Of total absti-
hence for one year. He did 20 at his mothers
request. Sullivan may yet turn out to be as
nice n man as Ben. Hogan.
Miss Chamberlaine, the American beauty
whom all England is crazy over, has refused
five lords and seven dukes for the hand of the
man who took the first prize in the lawn. ten
mis- tournament. What are lords and dukes
when compared with a champion lawn-tennis
player, anyhow?
Mrs. Russell Greene is n smart old lady
living on Clifford street, in Providence, II. |.
She is eighty-nine years old, does all her own
work, and recently she whitewashed a long
board fence between her own md q neighbor-
ing garden. She rises every morning at 4
o'clock, and gets her work done before most
people are up for the day.
Miss Mary M. Carey, young, fair, and gen.
Gle, is employed by the st. Paul, Minneapolis
& Manitoba railroad at Nazata as depot and
EXPRESS agent. She has charge of yard work
and signals around the station. She is at her
post from 6 a. M. to 10 p. m. much Of the
time. She Is respected by all, and under
stands her duties thoroughly. She is the eld-
est of four orphan girls, who live and keep
house together.
Mr.. Aristide Marie is probably the richest
man of color in America. He was o large
slave owner before the war, and his income
from the rents of his property in New Orleans
is not less than $50, 900 a year. Besides this
he has a large personal estate, consisting OF
irst-class securities. Mr.. Marie is a man of
fine accomplishments, a graduate of one # the
best institutions of France, and lives abroad
about half of each year.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-30
Various Oaths.

SleNelanu Iteralu.
1t was a customary thing in what are
called the dark ages for a swearer to lay
his hand on a crucifix as a sacred symbol,
or touch the altar while he swore by the
God to whom it was dedicated. Soon he
came to swear by the cruciix itself or ''by
the rood" OF kindred origin is the oath
Shy the mass" Shy the wounds, hence
''swounds," and ''z,unds." The sacred
wafer was to the vulgar mind a part of
Gods corporent nature, hence Goods
bodkin," a favorite oath of the Eliza
bethan age.
The custom of placing the right hand
upon some sacred object was considered
of the utmost importance, and there was
quite a difference in the degree of the
solemnity of the oath according as the
object sworn by was more or less sacred.
When Harold of England swore to Will
liam the Conqueror that he would not
push his claim TO the crown, he supposed
that he was only swearing on a missal or
prayer-book which was lying on thechest,
and hence could do so with a mental re-
servation, but the oath was really the
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-30
THE NLW SOUTH.

Eighteen years have elapsed since the
close of the war. The states that we're
devastated by four years Of most bloody
conflict have recovered from the drain of
men and money. A new generation has
spiung up, more thrifty, active and en-
terprising than the shiftless old chivalry.
that subsisted on the toll of four million
bondsmen. The new south is beginning
TO emulate the enterprise and industry of
the north in the number and extent of
their manufactures.
There are already scores of cotton
mills scattered through Tennessee, South
Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, in a
highly favored region, where, before the
war, there we're scarcely half a dozen.
Wooden mills are springing up here and
there, and in certain districts there are
iron furnaces and mills which are 80 i'm
portant that they powerfully incline the
states in which they are toward a protec-
tive policy. All the states mentioned,
MS we'll as Arkansas and Texas, offer
every facility for the manufacturer. The
South Atlantic and Gulf States and Ten
nessee are intersected by the Cumber-
land range of mountains, which is the
source of hundreds Of streams, furnish
ing ample and inexpensive motive power.
| Western Arkansas and northern and
northwestern Texas are similar in physi-
cal characteristics. The whole region
thus diversified is elevated, healthy and
so mild in climate as to offer no impedi-
ment to manufacturers at any season of
the year. Iron and coal are abundant,
railroads are everywhere, and as the
country is fertile and well developed, the
cost of living is moderate. 1t is, there
fore, not strange to hear that the cotton
mills in South Carolina have already
realized more than 10 per cent on their
investment.
There are advantages in this extension
of manufactures at the south not entire
ly material. Common interests are de-
veloped that produce similarity of opin-
ion, and bring the north and south nearer
together. When the south had the
patriarchal system of slavery and was ex-
clusively agricultural, it had little SYM
pathy except with those who bought its
cotton and wool. The north and south
had few points of contact, and those were
aristocratic. Now every new mandatory
opened in the south takes skilled work.
men and operatives from the north,
brings experienced mechanics from the
same section and makes the country
more desirable to northern merchantsand
immigrants from all classes who desire
legitimate Investment. With these varied
interests and increased communication
with other regions the south will become
less provincial and more disposed to re-
gard rs friends those who hitherto seemed
mere aliens. Thus in the process of time
sectional resentments will be displaced by
common interests and sympathies, and
that highly colored bit of political ora
tory, ''No North, no South, no East, no
West" will CO Use to be rhetorical and
become a simple matter of fact.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-30
PERSONALITIES.

Col. Fred Grant has settled down in New
Jersey.
Evangelist Moody drives a fast horse when
ever he can.
Stanley Africanus seems to be building up a
little kingdom on the Congo.
So II seems that Bill Chambers pique
against Rollins resulted in q Pike against him
self.
highlands prize calf, Oscar, evidently
caught the tongue disease while on this
side.
Freddie Gebhard's male friends try to ex.
ouse him by saying that the youth was de-
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-30


THE Denver exposition has proved a
dismal failure. 1t ID now admitted on all
hands that Denver has undertaken moro
than she could sustain. The Denver
Tribune makes the following comment
on the collapse: ''The four proprietors
had better shut up the exposition. 1T is
an honor neither to themselves nor to the
state. We are rather inclined
to respect their intentions, but
the execution has been a failure.
There should never be another expo
sition here until the merchants take some
interest in it and run it. The present
experiment has proven an utter failure.
The thing most to be regretted is that the
names Of Denver and Colorado should
have been used for what has been purely
. private enterprise. The mineral ex-
hibit may be fair, but the fact remains
that, TO q stranger the exposition seems
70 DO . vast emptiness. 1t has done
much more harm than good TO Colorado