Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1877-01-10
NOTES AND NEWS.


county, New York, rev days ago. -
Hon. Stanley Mathews is contestinS the seatin
Congress awarded to Gen. Banning: ,.sa
The sn ow is knee deep in Washington; nothing
like it has been kn oHa for thirty years.
No meti.ions Of the ineligibstty ofsfWatss was
made unslf NE days after the election.
nc. w. Head has aeeigned his ptGton as General
aspaRer II the Atjsntc and Pacific B. 4.
The Chief Justice Of Florida comedies that the elec-
toral vote Of that SsstsNas airy cyst for nay
The screass,ss ,s$ sss CO. ~ g kaees
Brevet major General Bankseo, OF Pennsylvanis.
suc,ded days ago. because OF financial disressa
All railroads leading east from the Mississippi have
considerably increased heir freight rates for the
VI SSr india1ponas. ssA.tk k1nk,on brotsat pficsa
ranglnk flpmh hveito asaaesk dollars TIE ayersse
one hundred and fsty pories Of the herd sent from
Cheye' lie 70 Yanktsn bsiag exhausted were sfss
while enroute. S-ss Sais
Crooks expedition has,1eturned to Fort Laramie
and is oisbandec. NoinPortant result was accom-
plished by it. r. (
j. Proctor Knott, of,the House Judiciary Commit
tee reports for majoity in favor Of the admis-
sion OF the Colorado member.
The chairman OF the Oregon Republican Central
Committee tesies that he did not learn that Watts
was ineligible until after election.
They .alk Of reducing the salary o. Queen Ficso :
ria IRON IS 0UO TO ID 5UO per day, and that too In
the face OF an unusually hald winter
Rhode Islands Lieutenant Governor produced
$50 bushels Of last year-an within the limits
OF his state, the reporter cruelty adds.
, All business has been suspended on the Grano
Trunk Railway until protection against striking en-
gineers can be furnished by the government.
David Dudley Field was elected to Congress from
the 9TH New York District last week. TO MI tue va
cancy occasoned by the resignation ef SInlt" Eay
Hon. J. L. Gibbs, of Freedom county, Is the Spea-
ker elect of the Mnnesota House OF Representatives
Ole Johnson we'll known in this vicinity, sergt. ut
Arms.
d A boarding house was buried in a snow-slide near
Salt Lake. Utah a few days ago. - number Of lives
lost Traisis Oh the u. T. are much delayed by
snowsiides.
weeks ago, held one nill,cn dollars confederate
bonds for which he paid goll in the early days Of
the rebellion. :. =. ,
Gen Koss.r who has lately rttarced from Wash
ington says tue North Pacific Extension Bill will pass
and that the ru will be extended to the Yellowstone
Railroad Grains fsA.blocxadsa in Mississippi
Tenn. ssee,, ,spd Virginia last week. lhe storm
throughout the Easss was the heaviest for
several years past. Il S tasN <sEEsa r5.assfsE.
Duluth offers One Hundred Thou ssnd Dollars I'D
her. foar hn,idfed hoasand idoIiats ipdeSteq
Gen Hunph ies reports that fthe proposed eah4l
across the. .lsthrlus or Dareu Will cost
ccmn'isson ueems :hs project of bpi!didg such
South Caro- ina is conceded to Hayes on the
face OF the original returns by 6UO majority. These
returns give hampton aud the Democratic state
ticket about l1UU majority.
Tt,e friendly Inuans at Red Cloud killed two cou-
riers n.ai. carr ier, and another person the
Cheyenne route to the slack Hills, within 20 miles Of
the agency. "a lew days ago. II - 4 =
Senator indom very sxusihly returned to WASH
ingtOD utter The holidays leaving the matter Of his
re-eectlon III the hands Of his friends. there is
' little or ITO opposition to HIN.
Louisiana also enjoys the Luxury OF a double
headed legsl ture, but the Repu blican end has q
quorum i'll each house Of thosewtose election is reg
ularly certified by the returning board.
Tie forty thousand stand OF stored At St.
Louis have hs-n removed to the arsenal at Ro1k
Island, ILL., in view OF the war talk INDUCED Ay he
ST. Louis lines and other democratic papers. +, !
MIjor Bingham. late OF Cheyenne agency, VIII" re.
signeu last SUMMER, has been repea edly urged by
the Department. take the agency at cpotteu lail
being recon,lIend by Bishop Hare, but he declines
Au Indian who TOOK hold vi the poles of galXan.
ic battery, suddenly began to Execute vigorous
war dance, excainlny at the sans time ''wl00pee!
do 'en, SMALL whoa haw! Stop e wagon!"-Sydaey
IeleQruDA.
IL 10 avsid an swering questions :.tWho is
elect-d!' some tOnans have provided themselves
with printed cards bearing the legend ''Damfino."
They are al~aysready to hand item out to all anx
ious lnluirers. "..- - 81 ..'
Congress will count the vote Cor President on the
14tii vi February and Hayes will be declared duly
eecteu. He will be .inaugurated without serious
objection aud he will give Us an .admiDist alton re-
lnarAabie Tor It's purify, II s--a -.-n .:
lie NepuDlEanS join with Southern Democrats in
Congress 10 Garry al worthy appropriation bills,
white Holman aud hlsioli, unite to kill every
thing tat LAS cett i'll it, expecting by that means
to galn favor with the people.
bialton Duncan says The people.kave observed the
condu Ct Vi Governor hayes and that Of Governor
Tiiden s'nce election, aud we're the election to come
oil to-lnorrow Hayes would carry all Of the Northera
States and live oi the southern.
Naue Hampton calls upon the people Of South
Carolina to come forward with subscriptions to
tain his government. Hampton Is himself bang
rupt with assets $i47 lNO and liabilities over mill
ion, rs appears by his swo1n statement.
h'le the Democratic papers generally are de.
nouncng Ben Hill for his nauly and straight for
ware opeu letter to : constituent, the New York
Herald colunends him he deserves and coDgratu-
lates him and the country on his position.
The questian ast who is Governor ia South Car
.olna is now III the courts, coming up on writ Of
y.hobeas corpus, Gov Chamberlain hauing issued
pardon TO Prisoner in the penitentiaty which the
superintendent, OF the prison refused recognize.
SeLator Hamn, of Msine, has heen in the Senate
twenty-fv years. Senator Window, Of Minnesota,
aas been in Congress sixteen years ia the House
and now nearly six in thv Senate. His term in the
Senate expires March 4h but lie gill be reelected
Almost every house and barn la Minneapolis /
which contains forty thousand inhabitants, Is sup
piled with drive wells soRe of which base been in
use ten fifteen years. Now comes one Green who
demands = royalty of ten dsllars each well In Use
and the citizens have handed together aod propose
to conteG his claim at every noiut until decisiOn
from the Supreme Court OF The u. g., IL the Gaze is
carried tkzt 4sr, is abtaiaed.
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