Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-22
G L N Z AL N EW S

GENERAL S.
HAYES, of Ohio, has been nominated b,
the Republicans for President, and Wheele
ofNew York for Nice-President, .47 b.4 }.
The Bonanza Kings, Fair, Mackey, Floo,
and O'Brien, have a net income of 1886, 600,
900 per Mnnum only. naeaa
The following from Pennsylvania is a sam
pie: The beetle which did so much dam
age to potatoes and other vegetation through
the States last year, are already appearing
in immense numbers along the DelaWar,
and LaekaWaxen rivers, and have begun
their work of destruction. The injury tt
potatoes thus far, however, is notvery great
as very few have been planted; but vegeta
ton in general has been considerably in
jured. 7Ht .34SH LHs tFqnnaftt1s II
A great conflagration in Quebec destroyed
about 700 houses, and rendered thousand:
homeless. The st. Louis quarter is nearly
demolished. The money lost is very heavy
The fire is said to have originated by chill
dren playing with matches. sc
The third annual fair of the Kentucky In
dustrial Association commences at Frank.
fort on Tuesday, September y.
New iberia, (La.l Sugar Bowl: Such q
thing has hitherto been unknown in the his
tory Of orange culture in I.ouisian, but the
fact is that, while on most trees a few bios
SONS OF December and January grew into
fruit and are, now hanging ripe upon. the
trees, surrounded by %half-ggrown green or
anges, those Of the size, of a marble and ever
blossoms, on the Orange island, the proper
ty Of Mr.. Joseph Jefferson, the actor, a very
considerable crop has been the result of the
unusual mildness of the winter.
A gold mine has been discovered on the
lot of a Mr.. Dickson, In the town ofSpartan-
burg, South Carolina.
A resident of Franklin Co., Tenn, re-
Gently exchanged his wife with a friend for
So, a quart OF whisky and two pounds of
leaf tobacco: AS soon as he lost his money
at a game of seven-lp, drank the whisky
and chewed the tobacco, he wanted her
back, but didn't get her.
The bones of a mastodon have been found
in San Saba CO., Texas. It is estimated that
the animal when alive must have been TWEEN
ty-eight feet long, WitAtusks sixteen feet in
length. EsEt s38
Jarrett & Palmer made the trip from
New York to San Francisco in eighty hours
and twenty minutes. na4 dsft5q sfts
Gilmore o fjubilee fame, has been placed
III charge of the musical part of the pro-
gramme for the Fourth of July celebration
in Philadelphia. ,I BE i.35s# ss4
The first OF the floating hotels has arrived
and is moored in the S~chuylkill, near the
grounds. 1t is a large canal boat, and is fit
ted up with rooms 4atlf.t. a#
= mass meeting. was recently held ii, Phil
adelphia, and resolutions were passed con con
graduating the commissioners on the course
they had taken in reference. to Keeping the
Centennial grounds closed on Sunday.
Mr.. William Writ Henry of Virginia. a
of Patrick Henry, has accepted
the invitation to- deliver the Grafton at the
opening ofthe historical department. Of the
Centennial exhibition.
II Is thought the attendance will proba-
ply reach $4,000 daily by the last of June.
ihe mouse committee on appropriations,
anended the army bal on the 10th inst, by
auuing 300 to the salary of brigadisr gen.
eral' mus restoring it to IFS present status.
AN additional section was also added to the