Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-03-12
tle Of Bull Run and the battle of oeds,

A man living near Wakonda brought
a large wild cat into town Wednesday
which was killed by his dog. 1t rs I
large animal and the dog must kass
been decidedly nervy 10 tackle such 1
beast.
A representative of an eastern firm
which manufactures asphalt sidewalks
was in town a day or two ago, but did
not not succeed in interesting the city
authorities in the superior advantages
of asphalt walks.
A merchant said to-day, that he had
the finest lot of goods of his kind that
were ever shown in Yankton, aud that he
never had such q large trade, at this
time OF the year; all of which is coed
newe to the people of Yaukton.
Mr.. Geo. %. HawIey will shortly an
nounce an auction sale OF q big bunch of
thoroughbred live stock, which will take
place at his farm in Hutchinson count
The stock is all valuable ana MIR. Haw-
legs sale should be well attended.
Mrs. II. NJ. Barker, president of the
Dakota w. O. L. o., will deliver an ad-
dress in the Methodist church at Yank-
ton next Sabbath evening at 1880
o'clock. All members of the union and
friends of temperance are invited to Mt
tend.
A ftrmer who lives some seven or
eight miles north Of the city was heard
yesterday inviting a Yankton man who
has several greyhounds to visit his farm
on q wolf hunt. He said the wolves had
taken, the night before, one of his best
hogs and made q meal of it.
The stockholders of the Yankton ferry
company held @ meeting this morning
and appointed a committee tt wait on
Captain Wasson and see if he desired to
buy up all the stock and assume the
proprietorship of the boat. The result
of the conference has not yet been made
public.
The stock train which left this morn
ing for Chicago over the Milwaukee
road, consisted of eleven cars of cattle
and one of hogs. The train did not
leave until ten o'clock, and as the daily
freight train lad to follow along behind
it, the freight was late in making its re.
turn trip and did not arrive until $50
p. M.
Dudley, Rlchey Dc Gross received by
yesterdays freight a machine for max.
ing iron cornice ia half mile lengths
This firm has been manufacturing cor.
nice by hand, ever since the building oil
the block which they now occupy and
they have found that it takes a long
time to create a small quantity of the
goods, hem &c the purchase OF the new
machine.
Gal Warner was the victim of a very
painful accident this forenoon while al
work IN the tin shop of Dudley, Richey
u Gross. He was engaged in emitting
some galvanized iron on a piece of ma
chineiy known as quartefine shears
when his left band was caught in tn,
knife and the two middle fingers SLICED
nearly off. Mr.. Warner is taking q res
from his labors to-day.
Brother Sargent, of the Herald, is in
receipt of an average of three circular
per day from his constituents, SO he says
warning him to beware of Bohemian
oats. He is getting SO he can't look
horse i'll the face without embarrassment
and q bag Of oats has the effect of waite,
on a hydrophobia patient. Oat meal il
to him but q dream of the past and b.
he's even quite carrying anote book
Why should the good be thus perse
cuted?,
Under the charter the annual munich.
pal election will occur on Monday the
9th of April. Caucuses and conventions
may be called at any time. The repub.
llcan city committee upon whom this
duty devolves consists of: l.. B. French
chairman; VIM. NJ. Powers, LIST ward,
Phil K. Faux, I'd ward; e. t. White, Be
ward; B. S. Williams, 4th ward. The
democratic committee is: 8. w. Swift
chairman; e. M. O'Brien, LIST ward
Chris Hameister, I'd ward; Robert Cox
3D. ward; John Noonan 4th ward.
There is q recent belief that the Mil
waukee company will not care to NOV,
its Yankton depot to the river front nov
that it has decided to close the Scotland
Mitchell gap. The theory is that tn,
road will oon be operating through
trains aud that when Yankton ceases tt
be a terminus the company will not care
to u it's trains upon a side track Il
reach the depot. The Milwaukee ha
been more than half inclined to selec
Its permanent depot site at the Dougla
avenue crossing and it may yet deter
mine upon that location.
Beginning with April first the sub
scription price OF the Weekly Press an,
and .Dakotaian will be reduced from tw
persyear, in advance, without deviatio
from the rule. The Weekly Press an
Dskotaian furnishes twenty Ion
; columns of solid reading each week, a
: of which is prepared and printed 9
4 home. 1t is peculiarly a Dakota pape
making q specially of matters pertain
ing to our territory, and contains eac
week, more Dakota information Cha
any other newspaper published.