Rocky Mountain husbandman., 1876-11-23
GE N ERAL- NE w S
Gen Martinez Canpos has arrived in

New York City is threatened with wa
ter famine.
The Consular Commission at Mostar has
been Dissolved.
y Great damage has been done by inunda-
tions in Cuba.
Mai. Gen. Giles A. Smith died at Bloom
ington, ILL.,, Nov. 5.
The Spanish Premier declares Spain will
hold Cuba at any cost.
Two lives were lost by the bnrnng of the
Circo Theatre at Madrid.
In France, the Government has compro-
missed on the Amnesty bill.
The Mncing Lane markets have been on
ly slightly affected by Eastern affairs.
The Centennial Judges have decided to
return to the original system of awards.
The Turks are charged with burning the
house Of the Austrian Consul at SerGevo,
Bosnia.
In Turkey, French and italian commits
sioners are setting the limits of the beliger-
ent armies.
A delegation of 100 Sioux Indians has
gone to the Indian Territory to look for a
reservation.
The total number of interments at Savan-
nah, GA, Nov. 4, was nine, OF which six
We're from yellow fever
The Russian iron-clad squadron will Win
ter in italian waters in order to be ready to
proceed to the East in case of need.
Turkey has agreed to all armistice for two
months from the first inst; the Servians and
Turks are to retain the positions they now
hold.
Johanna Turbin, a colored woman, was
sentenced in the Washington Criminal Court
to be hanged on the 10Th Of December for
murder.
The number of postal cards issued during
month of October was %. .1l6, 600, IAN increase
of 2 ,977 800, Or nearly 10 per cent. over the
issues Of October of last year.
Ia the Vermont Legislature, now in ses-
sion, it has been voted to reduce the Treas
urer's salary 25 per cent.-to $500 year,
scaled correspondingly.
The Palt Mall Gazette, in comparing the
most formidable OF the Russian ironclads.
the Peter the Great, with the British Dread
naught, says that if the former can average
twelve knots, her designers may think them
selves lucky. The Devastation steamed
from Malta to Smyrna in IS hours, at tile
rate OF 1i3 knots an hour in point of arna-
ment and thickness of armor plate, the YES
sells are nearly alike, each carrying four 35-
ton guns. The Tnunderer is more nower-
fully armed with two 3S and two 35-ton
guns, and would be still more formidable.
The Dreadnaught is larger than the Peter
the Great, carries four 3s-ton guns, is faster
than either of the others, and probably the
most dangerous ironclad af1oat at the pres
ent time.
BRUSSELS, November 14.-Le horde says
The English proposals for a conference to
support the integrity of the Ottoman En-
pire are not for its independence. lie horde
congratulates Lord Derby on having ex-
cluded from his proposals a formula which
is incompatible with existing facts, and
which the decisions of the conference would
necessarily set aside. The form of the En-
glish proposals gives reason to hope that
England will not refuse to assent to any
guarantees really Indispensable.
LoNDoN, November l4.-A messenger
from Liradea passed through Dover with
dispatches from the Gar to Queen Victoria.
A dispatch from Moscow says that Dr.
Slrousberg and the officials of the Moscow
Commercial Loan Rank racantlv convicted