Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-02-14

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tbs and utilizing the land reclaimed, handin,.
over to the Viceroy a stipulated proportion I
of the crops expected to be raised on ,ha
$4,000 acres.
a PROPOSITION is being seriously cons,
cred to dam the Arkansas and Platte rivers \
and thus turn the waters in the great dese,t \
in the western part of Kansas and Nebraska I
whence, by tapping the artificial Lake
Streams may be secured for irrigatinp mn
poses.
The winter of 1S29-30 surpassed the pres.
ent one in mildness. Farmers plouohcd
every month of the season, and no snow fan !
until February 2. 1t was followed. how
ever, by u cold. backward sprinr, with . /
snow storm in May which killed the return |
ing swallows.
THE Sioux Indians under Red Cloud hell
Il council recently and determined that thew |
would like to 90 to White Clay river, in the |
vicinity of Old Spotted Tail. near Red
Cloud, Nebraska. 1t is said that the chief |
is bitterly opposed to this. He has lone
been in favor OF going to Tongue river 70
live.
AT Augusta, Georgia, on the evening Of
the Sth inst, that city was visited with a
shower of hail, followed by d rain storm. |
accompanied by thunder and lightning and
the rumbling and tremor of an earthquake.
This was followed a little after / O'Clock by
a cyclone, which struck the city on tie
southwest, near Centre street, and demol.
icI,n1 tbo bx,,.nr Ul,n 1o.,,, u,,Iu. -
was literally lifted and smashed into atoms,
Several brick and wooden buildings Were
wholly or partially destroyed. The cyclone
travelled from southwest to northeast. and
covered a space about 800 yards wide. Soae
casualtis are reported.
In England they are adopting a horse
shoe made of cowhide, and known as the
lates shoe. 1t is composed OF three thick
nesses OF coWhide compressed into a Steel
mould, and then subjected to ii chemical
preparation. 1t is claimed for it that it lasts
longer and weighs only one-fourth as much
as the common iron shoe; that it will never
cause the hoof to split, nor have the least
Injurious influence on the foot. 1t requires
no calks; even on asphalt the horse never
slips. The shoe is so elastic that the horses
step Is lighter and surer. 1t adhere so clos-
to the foot that neither dust llor water can
penetrate between the shoe and Ioof.
H Russian Empire is divided. for acad-
emlcal purposes into ten circuits, st. Peters
burg, Moscow, Dorpat, Kew, Warsaw, Ka-
san, kharkov, wilma, Odessa, and the eau
casus. Each OF these Is presided over by a
curator, who is chosen less Tor his learning
than for his urbanity us a courtier. In thu
DRY he is o%mnipotent; in practice he does
nothing without the advice of his Acadelni-
cal Council, a body of six members, two of
are retired professors, three military
officers, and one a police official. These
people settle what books are TO be used in
the schools, grant professional diplomas.
and act as a court of appeals in questions of
academical discipline. All the educational
funds pass through their hands. and it is
that a good share OF them remains
there.
IN the case Of the trial of Anderson, of
The returning board. at New Orleans, Feb
'"i ''ouuSe hiil'dhei cllaiSeu tne jury
at $3.50 p. M, and they retired. Nobody
a verdict so soon. but in a halt
hour a loud knock from the jury room an
bounced that a verdict had been reached.
forty persons We're in the office. The
counsel were C II for, and Judge Cullow,
.or the defence, having arrived, the court
opened and the jury called. Judge
Whitaker asked the foreman the usual ques-