Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-07-27
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been prepared.
The Senate confirmed the nomination of
James S. Delano, Ills, Deputy Seconds Comp
troller of the Treasury.
A telegram to the Reuter- Agency says
that the Monotenegrans have had real sue
cess at Padgoritnea. Prince Nicholas has
taken the heights commanding Mostar and
a decisive engagement is imminent.
BY the swapping of a small steam yacht
on Hudson River near Troy N. Y. on the q
inst, Geo. Fox, Thomas Edgley, Joseph
Bloomfield, James Faulkner and one other
man were drowned. Four others compos-
ING the party saved themselves by SWIM
ming ashore.
Clusters troops had just been paid off, and
it is thought that the Sioux got away with
$4,000.
New Orleans manufactures 200 tons of ice
daily, and Philadelphia $4,000. 900 yards of
carpet annually.
The Senate, by q unanimous vote, has
passed current resolutions to complete the
Washington monument.
There were over 10000 paying visitors to
the Philadelphia exhibition, the day after
the 4th,-or more than in any day before.
The damage from bugs and other causes
in wheat in Wisconsin is confined to small
areas, and the yield will be large. Corn will
fall below the average. The yield ofoats, bar
ley and rye promises to be unusually heavy.
The Moravia (N. " Register says that a
blight has appeared upon the fruit trees in
that section, particularly the apple, which
is likely to seriously affect the production Of
the fruit, if not the life Of the tree.
The new whipping-post law in California
for brutal husbands has not yet resulted in
any 1loggings, the justices of the peace
shrinking from the foolish barbarisIn. The
case Of one Reynolds, sentenced to receive
twenty-one lashes, has been appealed, and
the question of constitutionality will be rails
ed. The State Constitution says, Excess
sive bail shall not be required, nor excessive
fines enforced, nor shall cruel or unusual
punishment be inflicted"
Among the lost by the capsizing Of the
yacht Mohawk, are Commodore Garner and
wife, Miss Adele Hunter, daughter of Des-
brosses Hunter of Hunters Point; Frost
Thorne, brother of Mrs. Garner; two cooks
and a Comm odore Garner was the
millionaire print manufacturer Of New York,
who had invited a party Of friends to sail
with him on the Goth inst, and they were
preparing to start when the storm came up.
The Mohawk had all sails set except fore
topsail, when a squat struck her and she
capsized.
On the 21st inst, the bodies of Commo-
dore Garner and wife, Miss Adele Hunter
and the cabin boy, were recovered. Frost
Thorne, brother Of Mrs. Garner, is still
missing. He is thought to have been
swept into the bay and drowned. The dis
aster is generally ascribed to the criminal
negligence and poltroonery Of the sailing
master (Rawlings) carrying such a press Of
canvas in the face of a squat and then neg
Letting the ordinary precautions for right
ing her.
There were 10,55S immigrants landed at
the port of New York in the month OF June.
Don Carlos visited the main building and
agricultural hall on the 14th inst, and after
lunch took a cup of coffee and smoked at the
Turkish pavilion, when his brother, Don
Alfonso, and his brothers wife, Donna Ma
III de Los Neuvas, passed by and recognized
him. The meeting was unexpected and
most cordial. They have not seen each 9th
er since Alfonso's defeat at Catolina, n1S74.
On lives a refugee in Austria and the other
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