Rocky Mountain husbandman., 1878-03-07
REWRITTEN.


passage Of the silver bill.
VICTOR EMANUEL's sword is to be kept b
his old capital, Turin, with his medals.
The Senate Finance Committee his
postponed action on the repeal of tie
specie resumption act
RICHARD GREEN was hung in. I{anss
City March 1st for the murder Of Deputy
Marshal Hughes.
A BILL to abolish actions for breach If
promise of marriage has been INTRODUCED
into the English House of Commons.
In the Vanderbilt case the counsel t.
tempted to introduce evidence that Vandg-
bilt proposed marriage to Tennie Clatlin
The Ways and Means Committee hate
reduced the clause in the proposed tariff
bill from fifty to forty per. cent.
The House Committee have voted 10
recommend the passage of the Texas Paciic
railroad bill as reported By the sub-con-
mittee.
| A FRENCHMAN, a member Of the order Df
the Legion Of honor. with an income Df
$50, 900 year, was recently expelled from
club for cheating.
Mr.. GLADSTONE. may console himsdf
with the reflection that London moIs
smashed Wellington's windows and burr t
Lord Mansfield,'s libEary.
A CARGO of American bituminous coil
has been shipped to. Cape Town, Africa, ty
Boston firm, to test the possibility of con-
petition with Great Britain.
GENERAL SMITH, chief of the appointment
division of the Treasury department., will
be appointed paymaster in the army, ard
Assistant Chief Lampeer will become >chid.
ANOTHER Welsh fasting girl has come 10
light. Her name is Morgan. She is, about
l5 years of age, and. is said not to have. eat
en- nor drunk anything since the Both of o.
tQber last.
. TRp TH states. that an eminent Queens
counsel who. was asked his opinion of Loud
Beacopsfield, replied that he is '' tirst-rate
conrtier, seeond-rate novelist, and a third
rate statesman" @
MAR with Russia would be embarrassing
to the English and Russian royalties. Not
only is the Duke OF Edinburgh the Cars
son-in-law, but the CzarovitoA,s wife is the
Princess OF Wales sister.
IT is claimed in Germany that the drug
known as cnrare is sure cure tor hydro
phobia, as it paralyzes the motor nerves,
without affecting the sensitive ones, and so
stops muscular convulsion.
AN Austrian surgeon says that when the
Russians took Kars they not only pillaged
the shops, but they entered the hospitals
and took everything of value they could
find, even from the sick and wounded.
CLEoPATRA's Needle cannot be placed in
Parliament square, London, because the
Metropolitan railway demand perpetual
indemnity against risk of accident. Appli-
catlon has been made to the authorities tor
peggtmllssion to erect. it between Clarng
Gross and Waterloo bridges, ON the top Of
the Aaelphi steps,
THE public debt. statement tor. February
shows decrease in the debt for the month
Of S2,25Q,2 ,237, and the following balances in
the Treasury: Currency, $4,000, ,765 special
funds for the redemption of fractional cur.
reency, $lo,oOO,ooO; special deposits of legal
tenders for the redemption of certiticats of
1eposit, S2s,552,000; coin, Sl3l, ,3ls, 1855, in
Guiding coin certificates, Sis, ,455, 900: out.
standing legal tanders. $34s, ,6lS,o24.
A CHICAGO man. visiting in Pittsburgh
vas crossing lonely. bridge. when we'll
iressed lady met him. knocked him. down,
md took from his pocket every cent, He
vas Frightened nearly to death, made COM
'laint' and had the ;,weman arrested. IT,
ranspireed that she was his wife, and knew>l