Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-04-06

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extreme high water. The river had risen
five inches, and was then s3feet, 10 inches.
The Greer-Turner Sugar Refining Com-
pany, of New Work, have dichargsd their
workmen and will probably go into liquida-
ton. Their capacity is about 300 barrels y
day.
On the 2Sth ult., the Senate was in excel
tive session for three hours on the nomina-
ton of Dana. No action was taken. One
Senator, while asserting that he has not
made a canvass of the Senate, says that Da-
ma will be rejected by at least - majority.
In this event, it is whispered i'll Senatorial
circles, that e. w. Stoughton, of New York,
will. be the next nominee.
The Boston Post publishes an interview
with Gen. Fitzpatrick, in which he denies,
that he left Washington to escape testifying
before the investigating committee. He
says he is ready to swear that Gen. Butter
field offered him 500, 900 to assist him (But-
tertield) in securing the New York Collec-
torship, and that he can bring half a dozen
witnesses who saw the offer in writing.
Babcock, Luckey and Bradley have pro-
nounced the statement of Detective Bell,
before the Committee on Expenditures in
the War Department, as being a tissue of
falsehoods from beginning to end. They
denounce Bell as utterly unworthy of belief,
and say they have been aware for some
time that he has been trying to dispose of
this same story to any one who would be-
come a purchaser.
The Committee on Expenditures in the
War Department OF the 2Sth ult., examined
Alex. T. Gray, clerk in the Attorney Gen
erals office. He testified that B. G Daniels
was DESTROYS Of obtaining the post trader
ship at Fort Stanton. He promised witness
81, 900 if he would get it for him. Gray
went to Senator Carpenter, who recon-
mended Daniels, and the appointment was
procured. Daniels never paid him the ST.
900.
The bill ~amendatory of the bankruptcy
laws. reported favorably from the Senate
Judiciary Committee on the Doth ult., is the
measure recently introduced by Thorough
man. with som amendments. As reported,
it provides that no voluntary assignments
by a debtor Of all his property heretofore or
hereafter made in good faith for tie benefit
of all his creditors ratcably, and without
creating any preference, and valid according
to the law of the State where made, shall OF
itself in the event of its being subsequently
adjudged a bankrupt in a proceeding of in
voluntary bankruptcy, be a bar to the dis
charge of such debtor.
A dispatch from Akron, Ohio, on the 1st
inst, says: The office of the United States
Express Company was robbed last night of
I. large sum of money. The Office Of the
company is in the Atlantic and Great West
ern freight building. The express messen-
ger and clerk sleep up stairs over the Office.
An inside stairway leads to the bedroom.
The parties went to bed at IL o'clock that
night. Before retiring they placed an iron
bar across the door. This morning the
clerk found that the key to the office safe
had been taken out of his pants during the
night. He hurried below, where the safe
was found open with the key in the door.
The robber carried off ST., 600 in cash and
several sealed bags of money. The loss, it
is thought, will amount to $25, 600 or $780,
600.
The Committee on Expenditures in the
War Department OH the LIST inst, heard d.
p. Dyer, District Attorney at st. Louis, in
reference to the testimony of G.. S. Bell, a
detective, who testified the day before. Wit
ness first met Bell in St. Louis in the fall of
'75. He came to the District Attorneys Of
flee one day and showed an enyelope with a