Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1875-12-30
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The British Parliament has been summon
ed to convene on the Sta day Of February, 4
1876.
Prince Bismarck and Prince Gorchakoff, \
in their recent council, have agreed upon a
peaceful solution Of the Turkish difficulty. I
They will not raise the Eastern question, \
and are not in favor of an international con-
ference on the Suez'canal question.
A Constantinople dispatch says the exc
cution of the imperial decree reforming and I
re-organizing the tribunals is officially an
nounced.
Arrangements for sending Chinese :lega- !
tons abroad are progressing. Ministers
have been appointed to the United S&ies,
Peru and Japan.
All tile mail matter, containing valuable
bonds, packages, etc, which has been recov-
cred from the wreck Of the steamship
Deutschland has been dried by order of the
Postmaster General of England, TO be for
warded to America. With the permission
of the Berlin postal authorities, the mails Of
the wrecked vessel will be forwarded to
New York by the Inman steamship City Of
Brooklyn, which will sail from Queenstown.
The surviving passengers embarked for
America in the German steamship Mosellc,
which sailed for New York on the 14th inst.
The London Times is exceedingly severe on
the people of Harwich for their tardiEess in
going to the scene of the wreck. 1t saws
their conduct is a disgrace to the English
name. At the coroner's inquest, the Har-
wichers said they saw the first rocket, sig
mailing distress, at half past six O'Clock OH
Monday evening, 9th inst, bat the fact is,
that they knew of it on Monday morning.
Bismarck proposes to seize the railroads of.
Germany, contiscate them to the Govern.
ment, and compel the stockholders to accept
Government bonds to the amount Of their,
value.
The six British war vessels, with crews
~aggregating 5000 men, which have been
stationed in the East Indies have been or
dered to the MEDITERRANEAN and will pass
through the Suez canal.
The schooner Cornelius 3. Windiate,
foundered on Lake Michigan in one of the
late storms, and carried down with her the
entire crew.
A dispatch from Pottsyiile, Penn, dated
December 9th, says: In consequence of the
oyerstocked condition of the eastern iron
market and the close of navigation, the
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron
Company will tomorrow direct the stoppage
of their forty c~olieries in that region. Twen-
ty-tiye individual collieries will also suspend
operations. 1t is thought that over ten
thousand people will be thrown out of en-
ployment in the Schuylkill region alone.
AT Washington, the St. Louis whisky
fraud seems to be the sensation of the week.
Ex-senator Henderson has been relieved Of
the further prosecution in the Babcock in
~yestigation, by District Attorney Dyer, who
is to be assisted by Samuel Glover, a promi-
nent lawyer of ST. Louis. 1t is estimated
that Gen. Babcock is now worth $40, 1000,
which he has accumulated in eight years
from his pay as Major in the Engineer Corps,
the salary Of which position is only about
S 1000 per annum.
The second official count of the returns
of votes cast for life Senators of France.
shows that sixteen republicans and three
members of the Right have been elected.
Great excitement prevails in Paris since the
publication of the electoral announcement
The total production of all the ale. porter.
and lager beer breweries of the United States
for the year ending May, 1875, was S,ssO.s29
barrels, yielding a revenue to the Goyern-
ment Of So, 1904, 679.
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