Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-02-01
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Representatives: We hear that q bill is n
fore YOU to grant a subsidy of five thousan1
dollars per mile, for a standard gauge rooa
from the head of navigation Oil the yellow
stone, three hundred miles westward
Should it pass in reasonably practicahlo
form. the Northern Pacific will do all hi \
power towards the immediate constructios {
of that section of the road.
Gro. STARK, Vice Pres,t
Another vein of silver ore has been strurl.
in the Merrimac, Me.-The Chamber f !
Commerce, of st. Louis. favors the Compro.
mise bill for counting the election returns.
Rev. j. G. Lord, of Buffalo, N. Y, died
on the 2lst ult.-France is said to be con.
cocting a conspiracy against Germany
The Senate passed the Compromise bin ~
vote of AZ to T.-John II. Mcpherson lss
been chosen U. S. Senator from New JERSEY /
"A mail carrier was attacked near Red
Cloud on the 23d ult.-The fifty siouy !
who We're sent out to treat with Crazy
Horse, were met by a party ct Cheyennqs !
and dismounted, thus necessltatinp their re- |
turn to the agency.--It is reported that
Violin & papinau's train on the Little Mis-.
souri,, was captured on the 23d by Crazy
Horses band, and twenty men who We're
with the train, were massaced.--Judge
Davis has been elected e. S. Senator OF Till.
nois.-Judge West, an eminent jnrN,
gives it as his opinion that the compromise
bill is unconstitutional.-II. .. Davis has
been elected U. S. Senator from West Viz.
ginia.-The electoral compromise bill
passed the House on the Goth ult., at d vote
l91 to sc.
In the Senate, January q, the Pacific rail.
read bill was called up and read ut length,
when Thurman, in charge Of the bill, yield.
ed for executive session, and when the
doors We're re-opened the Senate adjourned
In the House, Knott, from the Judiciary
Committee, in the case Of Balford, the Col
: orado Representative, report f~avoring his
admission, and said he would callssit up for
action on Tuesday. The four members Of
the Louisiana Returning Board We're pres
ented at the bar of the House, but owing to
the Republican members being absent 1T The
: caucus, they were temporarily withdraw
! The House then went into Committee oftm
Whole on the Indian appropriation bill
! The Committee, without adopting any i'm
: portant amendments, rose and reported 70
: the House and it was passed.
The four members of the Louisiana Re
turning Board were again presented at te
hor Of ti,a Hpnca and f1n G,AaaJ-D, mt tp
formal question to Wells, what excuse he
i. had to make. lie replied that two men,
bers of the Board had just arrived and ash
ed time for conference to make their ansWeF
! The other members of the Board made tie
O same reply, and Lyhde thereupon etlera
q two resolutions, one ~adjudging the witness
in contempt, the other ordering then
to appear before the Investigating COMMITTEE
and produce the papers called for, and y
the meantime that they be kept i'll the cs
tody of the Sergeant-at-Arms.
v The examination of witnesses in regard
.e to the Louisiana election, still continues
Washingto.-The state of affairs in Louis
v lana is still unsettled.-The New lorA
n Herald %renounces the Senate inyestigatlns
committee of South Carolina in bitter terms
n The Muscular pays Hon. w. i. Bass o
Bitter Root the following deserving compN
20 ment:
e The Council, now in session at Helena
Y has given to this county, which has but
~ one-thirteenth of the representation OF th
g body, the Presidency. 1t is a complineD
e to this county that is duly appreciated, aN
IN ic an oy;1anao - AL thn $40