Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-05-16
REWRITTEN.


john Morrisey died at New York or
the lst instant.
"A snake 81 feet in length was recently
killed in California.
South Australia is likely to become a ri
val to us in the matter OF canned and drieC
fruits.
1t is estimated that Brigham Young, il
his life took possession of $l,O00,0 900 worth
of property, belonging to the Mormon
church.
Berlin has a population of 100000 Prot
%estants, for whom there are but "a churches
and 90 ministers-that is, one shepherd to q
flock of S.463 sheep.
The largest bronze statue in the world
is at Nara, Japan. 1t weighs over four hun
dred and fifty tons, and q man can climb
through one of it's ~nostrils.
The Office of the Detroit Free Press. was
destroyed on the Goth of April by fire. The
presses and forms were saved, but the loss
is put at $40,000-partly insured. =,
John Bright said in a recent speech at
Rochdale that one-third of the whole land
OF the United Kingdom, being no less than
100000 acres, belongs to 935 men.
A gardener at Goleta, California, accord
ing to the Santa-Bdrbara ADVERTISER, has
grown a rose that measures seventeen inches
in circumference. 1t is of the Cloth of Gold
variety.
In Agra and Dude, British India, the
number of the starving is very great, officers
reporting in the latter country that they
find the water courses streWed with dead
bodies.
1t is rumorvd that the Pope is going to
send Queen Victoria the golden rose for al
lowing the. reestabl sbment Of the hierarchy
in Scotland, provided it be found that she is
free to accept it.
In the year 1877 marriages in England
fell, for the first time in. six years, below
200, 1000. In Scotland the number was the
lowest registered since 1872. A significant
sign Of the time.
The Russo-Turkish war was declared on
April "a, 1877, and peace was signed March
3, 1878, 313 days afterwards. The cost per
day is estimated by a Russian. authority at
about ST 1850, 900.
-Aime Millet's statute of America, order
ed by the French government for the Expo
sition, has been placed upon its pedestal in
the Trocadero. 1t is a female Indian figure
Of bronze, surrounded by the attributes OF
agriculture, commerce, shipping, and the
arts.
M. Brossais-Saint Marc, Archbishop. OF
Rennes, in France, died recently, His pref
udices were violent, and his tendency reac-
tionary to a degree. He was once invited
to bless a new locomotiye, and he replied by
a furious attack upon railroads and locomp.
tlves as a work of the devil.
A man was scared to death at Berryville
Mo-, the: other, night. He was passing 6
graveyard, at, midnight, when two young
men sprang from behind a monument anG
shouted at him. He ran home aud went tc
bed, but was so nervous that he could, NOT
sleep, and before morning died in convul
sions.
Postal statistics show that of all the Eu
ropean countries Russia probably excepted
the fewest letters are written in Spain
Thus in 1856, only 81, 900, 600 letters pass
ed through the Post Office, being but 5.4'
to each inhabitant-a delightful feature il
Spanish life not a few OF US would be dis
posed to think,
In Nelson county, Va. a hawk was seel
at q considerable height with a large snake
writing in its claws, when suddenly TIT
bird closed wings and fell heavily to thu
earth. The snake-a moccasin--had bitter