Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-03-29
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President Hayes has addressed a circular
letter to Wade Hampton and Chamberlain.
requesting their personal attendance at
Washington. to confer on the state of affairs
in South Carolina, looking to a solution Of
the difficulties there and a recognition of
one or the other governments in that State
by the Executive. Chamberlain has prom
ised to come, and it is generally thought
that Hampton will also accede to the re-
quest.-Brigham Young, in a published
letter, denies that he was implicated in any
way in the Mountain Meadows affair, any
statement which may have been made by
Lee before his execution to the contrary
notwithstanding.-The President has put
his civil service principles in force at the Ex-
ecutive Mansion by promoting various old
employees to fill Misunderstanding
Hall, of New York, has been missing since
the 10th, and all the circumstances would
indicate that he was murdered in Brooklyn
on that morning.-Itis said that negotia.
tons have been entered into by which it is
expected that Boss Tweed will be released
from custody in a few days. He is to turn
over all his property to the city. The cases
against the balance of the ring have also
been settled, but it is not expected that much
over a million in all will be recovered by the
people.-It is feared that the Niagara Sus-
pension Bridge is in II unsafe condition,
and, in consequence, it is now undergoing
thorough examination by sklllful engineers.
The public debt statement shows a le
crease for the month Of February amount
ing to $780, 29 06.-The epizootic has
come again, and commenced on the horses
in Brooklyn and New York.-A Fort
Collins party recently captured ten wild
horses, and others were lost after an unsuc-
cessful chase of forty miles.-There are
quite a number Of new machines being in
vented for the purpose of destroying the
grasshoppers.-Mr. Robert Grant killed
at his slaughter house at the Atkinson,
Topeka and Santa Fe stock-yards, Greeley,
Col, recently a number of fine beef cattle,
which will be sen to New York in a newly
invested refrigerating car, and thence to
England.-The European powers are arm
ing and buying ammunition, and mobilizing
troops. Yet war is not declared.-A new
industry has been formed at Oakland, CAL,
in the manufacture of rope from sleeps eL.
trails, to be used in mines tor hosting pur-
poses.-The Galveston Common Council
passed an ordinance ordering the closing OF
saloons at midnight. Then four of their
number went to a billiard saloon and played
and drank until the morning.-May Cham
berlain, twenty years of age, a pupil in the
Normal School at Geneseo, n. Y, poisoned
herself through fear that she would not sue
cessfully pass the requisite examination
next tall, she having failed to do so at the
completion of her first year at the school,
The Woman's Mining Bureau OF san
francisco has for its President an aunt"
Clara Louise Kellogg, the singer. The III
stitution Is intended to furnish facilities iW
women to gamble in stocks; but it is nos d
success. the women who speculate p%referf'"s
TO operate in the usual ways. The amour"
OF stock gambling done i'll that city oy W.
men is represented to be large. Laura
Fair is one of the heavy and successful ope
ators.