The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1884-12-27
HOME HAPPENINGS.

--iOlu w hell WE sioutu Say
The little snow-bird is now appar-
emily happy.
Judge NJ. J. McCann spent Christ
mas in Pierre.
Henry Potter started for Pierre on
business, this morning.
Com. b. T.. Hoover departed for
Pierre, Yesterday, to attend the District
Court
Miss Emma Spencer, sister to Mrs.
Scott Bruner, has returned TO her old
Ohio home.
Hauling water is now the most
unpleasant task some of our people
have to perform.
John A. Buck, of ll5-1S, has gone
to Miller, Hand county, where he will
remain until spring.
C. l.. Franks, the celebrated roller
skater of Chicago, is giving exhibitions
i'm the west, taking i'm Blunt and Pierre
The Frost King has been carving
weird, fantastic and artistic work
on the window panes for some little
time.
A special term of the District
Court was to convene i'm Pierre on
Wednesday of this week. The regular
term will open on the 9Th Of January.
If any one tells you that the farm
ers in Dakota are plowlng, call upon us
TO testify that it is a bald headed no
such thing. They did plow for several
days the first of the month. however
-Frigid as the weather has been for
some time, not day has passed but
what numbers have gone to Pierre
Blunt and elsewhere. and we have yet
to hear of any one getting seriously
frosted
A dozen of Tom Phillips young
cattle took Il notion to 70 off on an ex-
pedition on their own account, last
week. He found them about mile
and half from Blunt and returned
with them, Monday. He hoofed it l6
miles with the mercury fooling around
between 20 and 81 below zero. Tom $
rustler
Mr. Valentine Bohn has lately ar
rived in town 1I7-76 from Fillmore
county, Minn. He reports that when
he left Minnesota there was two feet of
snow there, and in Dakota at the same
time the roads were dry and duty. He
is very much pleased with Dakota
Gettysburg Herald,
Daniel Howe left for his old Wis
con sin home the first OF the week. At
ter "A season of visiting he will again
accept the position of travelling agent
of big map publishing house, with
which he was previously engaged.
Dan is a fine young fellow and we shall
miss his genial countenance. He has
two choice claims 3 aud miles north
of Clifton, and we hope to see him back
with us some large day next year
The cold wave of the past few days
has not been confined to Dakota by
any means. Back i'm several of the
States the mercury has marked nearl y
or quite rs low degree as here, while
the weather has been much more un-
bearable. There Is no use in trying to
controyert the fact that it is much
more endurable i'm our dry and pure air
at even 30 below zero than it is lack
in the damp and penetrating atmos-
phere of the East at 10 or Id below,
1t is the universal verdict
To-day has been set for the argu-
ment before Judge Smith, at Pierre, OF
the mandamus in the Sully county seat
case. The County Clerk has been or
dered to apnear with the election re,
turns and departed for the scene ofac.
tion yesterday. We are not prepared
to outline the points of either side, but
if the matter does not end with the ar
ment of this writ there are several othei
things which will enter into the case
From our point of view we cannot helI
but think that the Commissioners did
the only thing left for them to do un
der the law, and must think that tho
Court will SO decide and sustain then