Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-08-31
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The Serylan bulletins announce the cesSa-
ton of the conflict at Alexinatz after tile re-
treat of The Turks on the 25th inst.
The officers of the Washington Monument
Society are preparing papers for transferring
all their property to the new commission.
The ship Golden State, which sails from
New York Sept, lst for Shanghai, will take
out /, 500 bales of domestic drilling and sheet
ings, the largest shipment of American cot
ton goods since 1860.
The feat OF creeping over the steel wire
rope of the Brooklyn bridge, n. Y, on the
Esd inst, was successfully accomplished by
A.. f. Farrington, master mechanic, in
twenty-five minutes. The speed Of pas
sage was four and one-lalf feet per second.
Another rope was gotten over the same
evening.
A party of fifteen men on a return trip
from Deadwood was attacked by Indians on
the 10th inst, ten miles beyond Sage creek.
where Lieut.. Taylor's company Of 23d In
fantry is stationed. Two horses were killed.
three wounded, and six stolen. The men
escaped unhurt into the station, and Lieut..
Taylor sent out a detachment which recoy-
cred the wagons and property.
The steamship G. T. Funch, which was
burned in New York on the 25th inst, off
the Dutch coast, was an iron propeller, seven
years old, with a tonnage OF about 1,5OO
tons, was in good condition, and valued at
5000, 900 was insured there, but not fully.
Her cargo was valuable, consisting in part
of $3.50 tierces of lard, 10000 bushels of
wheat, forty boxes of bacon 161 hhds. tall
low, etc. The cargo was fully insured in
Europe. fssfst s 3
Dispatches from Fort Sully state that the
conduct of the Indians has become very del.
icate within a few days, and in marked con-
,trast to their former insolence, many of them
voluntarily coming in and delivering up
their arms. 1t is supposed that they are in
fuenced in this by the news Of the reverse
to Sitting Bulls bands, which could easily
reach them by this shorter and more direct
line Of communication with the hostile
camp, .G 9ssG III
The Secretary of the Interior recently sent
an agent west to unearth the frauds in the
Land Offices in regard to land entered upon
by soldiers and sailors. Many fraudulent
claims were discovered, more than four-fiftl,s
of the localities being in California, where
land is in greater demand. In Minnesota,
forty-seven Kansas, three Nebraska, TWEEN
ty-fiye California, S57 Oregon, eight; Ne
yada, two; Colorado, eight; Wyoming. two;
Dakota, thirty-seVen Washington, sixty.
Total, LOAF. Il Hf ss#s rH3
About four thousand persons attended the
races at P~oughkeepsie, N. Y, on the oath
inst, and everything was favorable. The
first race was for the 2:36 class, for q
purse of $4,000, among four. Governor
Spraghe won, Mambrino second, Irene third.
Carrie fourth. Time, 2;:26}, 2:20s, 2:24},
2:2l4. The next was in the 2:24 class, purse
OF $1,000. Little Fred was the f~ayorite, but
ne behaved badly aud the judges, after May
Bird had won W heats, changed his driver,
whereupon he took the third heat and was
trotting neck and neck for the fourth when
he stumbled and lost the heat to May Bird,
who Won the race. Little Fred took second
,.a frank nas,, third, anNdaA..nie fourth.
ntu'e :. 1'1'f' ~ =, -.2aa,; 2:s4as. Little Fred
,i#Tr = all the way round, seemingly chok-
and tel from exhaustion, etgfatAa
qois-al superintendent Frost telegraphed
the following on the 23d inst, in relation to
the railroad accident near jackson, Missis-
slppl; An unprecedented heavy flood last
nlssilt in the region eighteen miles north Of
Iacksan, washed out a tweiye-foot cliiYert