Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-29

business than these figures represent.
The potato crop throughout Warren,
Washington and Saratoga counties, N. "
bids fair to become the victim of the Colora-
do potato bug-the latter having made hs
appearance in large numbers.
The President has nominated James a.
the general land office, and James Davis for
Indian Agent at the Southern Apache Agen-
cy.
BIuford Wilson, Solicitor of the Treasury
Department, sent in his resignation on tho
Doth inst, to take affect July 1st, 1876.
Treasurer New has written a letter of res
ignation, to take effect July LIST, and handed
it to the President ON the Goth inst.
f. Fl. Rollins, Republican, was elected U.
s. Senator for New Hampshire, Oh the Doth
inst.
A Berlin dispatch says that apprehensions
exist of further violence and a general up
rising in Constantinop}e.
A party of Indians killed forty men on the
18th inst, at point sixty miles south Of
Sidney, Nebraska. They belonged to the
Colorado roundup. Over 100 white men
have been killed in that section within n
week. The Indians belong to..the Cheyenne
Agency. Indian Territory.
Almost the entire crop on French and
Broad rivers, Tenn, has been destroyed by
the recent freshets. The fields and Islands
are submerged from five to ten feet. Some
of the farmers will replant corn below Knox
Vile. Farmers will lose about one-fourtfl
of their crops.
The House Of Representatives on the Goth
inst, passed, by - vote of log TO 70, a bill al
lowing women over 81 years Of age who
hold property to- the amount of $500 to vote
in school, borough and town elections.
Great excitement prevails in Jerusalem In
consequence of the Turkish authorities, and
a rising of the people is threatened. On the
I'd Of June the Christians, fearing an attack,
barricaded Their houses. The Germans met
at their Consulate and organized for mutual
defense, and sent to the Rome government u
formal application for military assistance.
Turkish soldiers have eDcamped on the pub
lie squares. ~ y
Every yearFshe. material condition of the
South grows better arabetter. From every
State, comes most cheering accounts Of the
crops In marry States such promising crops
have. not been seen in years, anAI all in all.
the prospect is better sfan in any year since
the war. The last cotton crop, being mar
keted, has already reached to 3.sl3, 900 bales
and will probably reach 100000. There
has been in increase ct 10000 bales over
the preceding year,
The cutoff au Vicksburg. has greatly
alarmed the citizens. Thu yicksburg Herald
admits that the river is gone, inc that tho
only hope for a current past the city is in
changing the channel of the Yazoo river, SO
as to bring it through Chickasaw Bayou,
and thence by canal in front OF the city to,
the Mississippi. The Herald thinks this can
be accomplished at a cost of about 500. 600
and adds: : The. MAN volume of the Yazoo
could be diverted Through the bayou thence
into Fish Lake, and finally into the Missis-
slppi river at the National Cemetery, by
means OF a breakwater at Yazoo, by clean.
ing and deeping the bayou ansE by. the cut.
ting OF a canal from the sonthem end of the.
lake to the Mississippi. This effect of the.
plan proposed will be to keep open a chan
mel in the Mississippi from the National
Cemetery along the mvar border of the whole
city +; and should this be practicable. the
influence Of the cA-off will, not
only be avoided, but We. should be. brought
INTO closer andlinore direct communication
the rich and populous Yazoo BASIN.
which Vicksburg mainly relies tor her