Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1875-12-23

do not intend to ask aid Of the present n
gress, and there. is no danger that aid will
be thrust upon them, though there is said to
be a growing feeling of friendship towards
the road in the east.
The Centennial Committee on Opening
Ceremonies have selected VIM. NJ. Eyarts
for Orator, Fl. w. Longfellow for Poet. and
a grandson of Richard I'll. Lee, Of Virginia,
for Reader of the Declaration of Independ-
ence.
A diamond, said to be the largest in the
world, found at the Cape of Good Hope,
southern Africa, and weighing 1O7 carats, IS
in the museum of Col. J.. II. Wood, Phila-
delphia.
A bill was introduced in Congress last
week, relating to postage on mailable matter
of the Sd class. It provides that from the
first Of January, 1876, the postage ON PAM
phlets, transient newspapers, magazines,
periodicals, handbills, posters, unsealed cir
culars, proof-sheets, and corrected proof
sheets shall be one cent for every two ounces
or fraction thereof; and that the postage on
other mailable matter remain the same as 1T
is now. 4
Secretary of War, Belknap, gives the X
penditures of the Wan Department during
the last fiscal year at Sal ,273 ,275, a decrease
of over ST. 600, 900 from the previous year.
He reports that 1857, 10S rations were issued
to sufferers from the ravages Of grasshop-
pers in Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas,
Dakota and Colorado.
Hon. Ira Harris, ex-United States Senator
from New York, died in Albany, on Thurs
day of last week, aged Is.
Secretary of the Treasury, Bristosv's esti-
mates Of the expenses of the Government
for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1873,
are SS314, 6l2, COS.
Arrangements have been made by the
u. S.. Treasury Department for the sale, Dec.
80, of lands in Beaufort Co., S. c., held by
the United States for direct taxes. These
tracts comprise several thousand acres OF
Sea Island cotton land. .
Prof. Douglas, of the Michigan State Uni
versity, charges Prof. ?. B. Rose, of the
same institution, with embezzling nearly
$4,000 of the University funds Prof. Rose
says it is not true.
II 10 ISpOi tId tliGS0 GAiSH AAA1f tiAS W thohf
ring will be shown, in the pending trials, to
have been, in Importance and extent of ope-
rations second only to that of st, Louis.
Arrangements have been completed by
the Baltimore e Ohio railroad for a new line
of steamers to run between Baltimore and
Liverpool, and to be especially designed for
carrying grain.
On account of troubles in the American
colonies in Africa, the President has orderd
a man of war to that coast. They grew out
Of E~nglishmen supplying slave-traders with
war material.
1t has been estimated by parties in Mil
waukee that the operators in the recent
grain corner lost $4,000, on No. 2 wheat.
A special telegram from Madrid to the
London Daily Neaos says: The Spanish
note to the United States promises gradual
emancipation increased freedom of con-
science that foreigners when arrested shall
have immediate hearing ; that legal redress.
shall be obtainable for past injuries. Great
anxiety exists in Madrid regarding the re-.
ception to the note in Washington. The
note is Spain's nltimatum.
The Hudson River railroad, for six miles
north Of the Grand Central Depot in New
York, is managed by a system of electric
signals, SO perfect that no collision or DELAY
can take place so long as engineers observe
the signals.
Judge Waite positively refuses to be a
candidate for the Presidency.