Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-03-21
REWRITTEN.

ture field.
The temperance women are again max
ing raids on the saloons in PittsburS.
A MISSOURI girl has a suit of hair eight
feet long, for which she has refused $4,000.
The Rural Press says six feet of water
has fallen in some parts of California since
last October.
The schooner, Carrie P. Morton, and
crew of fourteen men, not having been heard
from since january Sd, 1t is believed they
are lost.
They have rumors at Winnipeg of troub-
lie with Sitting Bull. He is said to be max
ing efforts to embroil the Canadian Indians
with the Mounted Police.
The recent storms extended over to the
upper Missouri valley, lasting three days,
and the snow on the stage road to Fort Blu
ford being from one to fifteen feet deep.
The Secretary of State has addressed let
tiers to the foreign ministers, requesting
that they invite the government to Il con
ference for fixing the rates of gold and sill
yer.
The Illinois State Agricultural Depart
ment reports that there are 342,6S2 acres Of
orchard in the State, and that the produce
last year was worth $3,5S9,672, or $l0,47 pei
acre. sn
AN American firm has just made a con.
tract to build a grain elevator at st. Peters
burg. Notwithstanding there is a large
grain trade there, it has all been handled
an elevator.
STEPs are about to be taken to obtain
quantity of good tobacco seed from thu
United States for cultivation in the north
western provinces of India, in time for thi:
years sewing.
The celebrated Eddystone Lighthouse IL
| the British channel, which has buffeted thu
waves of a century, will probably soon dis
appear, owing to the undermining of tn
rect below it by the waters.
In Lockport, N. Y, the experiment o
heating up the town for three miles extent
has recently proven highly successful
Dwellings over a mile from the steam gen
orator have been kept warn all winter.
2 YIN tuC 1obtl OiiSio "%S VA - oi
Boston Savings Bank. The committee VIII
examined the securities stated that after al
dues are paid the bank would have a surp
lus OF 42D, 900. The run OH this bank cause
q rush on the Franklin Savings institution
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG said to Il S
Louis Gsobe reporter. "You may say,
you please, that there never Wiil be an,
truth ia, reported engagement of Miss Ke
logg to, marry anybody. l am in love wit
myself, and | do not think / shall ever &C
married."
In Edgefeld county. South Carolina. j
the Court of General Sessions, during: til
past two days, tour children named Duff
were on trial tor the murder Of a colore
youth. The jury returned a verdict of nc
guilty, and the sleepy children were restol
ed to their parents.
The Inter Oceans. Washington speci;
says, Nichols will not pardon Anderso
, while he is Collector, and that Anderso
says he will not resign. The stock men
the vicinity of Cheyenne estimate that II
r loss by the late storm will be 2 per cent,
cattle and 8 per cent. of sheep.
, In the United States Circuit Court. a. d
' cision was rendered sustaining the .plail
l tiff's demurrer in the Arlington case. III
/. rulipg is THAT if the sovereign power int
: venes in a. salt in which it is not Il defen
ant on record, with the objection that
!, cannot be sued, tho Court will look into Il
grounds OF its right to intervene, and tn
accordingly the government i'll this ST