Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1878-04-12
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VOL. 5:
The Deadwood papers report the dis
coverv OF rich placer digg,ngs in stream
Eitributary to the Little Missouri.
/ The Japan Current still survives but
| the recent blizzard IN the Red Kiver val
lley was tough OH the Banana belt.
I The Cheyenne and Sydney coaches
take e hours to reach the Black Hills
the Bismarck coaches only 80 hours.
Mother Peterson, the Deadwood Times
s,v. recently searched Deadwood several
| hours for Bible for the Bible Society.
| A pauper farm house at Bath, N. Y,
burned recently with fifteen paupers as
victims, An inmate fired his ewn bed
Dan Harnet, one of the Black Hills
quartz kings, died frora an overoose o'
morphine at Deadwoed a few days ago.
The Deadwood Hook and Ladder COM
pany has disbanded because quorum
could not be secured for the TRANSACTION
| Of business.
l Omaha has noticed that when her river
| is muddy her milk and beer arethe same:
and she calls it a curious dispensation OF
Providence.
The Central City Herald says the
largest transfer Of mining property yet
msde in the Hills will soon be made AZ
Central City.
.sIn private watch your thoughts; IN
company watch your tongue; IN the lam,
lily watch your temper, IN crowo
watch your watch.
The Times estimates chat the assessed
valuation Of Lawrence County, Black
Hills, will reach two million dollars TINS
year, as against $42s, ,oco last year.
Deadwood. is moving in the matter OF
schools and it is now proposed to rent the
Congregational Church for scheol pur..
poses during the construction of q school
house.
The Bismarck Stage Co. is buying in
St. Louis I3o large horses to STOCK the
road for the daily. Twenty-Five halfbreed
horses have been also purchased Tor the
outrlders.
A poor boat caulker Of Oswego, N. r.,
called Louis Severn, has just fallen heir
to 81 5000 900. He discovers now what
he never knew before-everybody in Cs-
weeo likes him.
Chas F Hatch, formerly supt Of the Mich
Southern, and lately publisher Of the
Railway age, Chicago, has been elected
! supt. Of The Minneapolis & St. Louis
(Washburn's) railway.
/ A large gold brick was cast in Helena,
Mt, from product Of the Penobscot mine.
Its value is over $4,000. The brick was
the product of 1so tons Of ore, and the
| cost Of production was 1000,
The House passed bill placing the
| gallant General Shields upon the retired
srmv list by vote of co6 to six. The
Senate now has the bill. Buffers STRAIT.
erv will gladden. the old mans heart yet.
The longest sentence on record was
| constructed by western judge. He SEN
fenced man for life, and afterwards
slapped two more years to the sentence
because the prisoner called hin, "no gen.
| tleman."
The Republicans If Congress in caucus
considered a resolution requesting the
president to rescind his Office holders or
der. 1t was referred to the congression-
al commlttee with power to confer with
the president. ;.
Thesisters have established hospital
at Deadwood. Wherever human suffer-
| ing is found those noble women are on
hand to relieve it whether it be on the
battlefield or in the crowded cities. God
will surely bless them.
! The Black Hills Tunes says Mr.. Ross,
of Crook City has twelve cows that have
fed and grown fat, while giving milk, all
winter on standing grass to be found in
the valleys about Crook and on the prai-
ries east Of the city.
The Senate committee on military at
fairs has agreed to recommend the pas
sage Of Spencel's bill aPpropriating $780,
900 for a military telegraph from Dead
wood to Fort Ellis, Mont, embracing the
line of military posts on the Yellowstone
and Big Horn rivers.
The Black Hills Democratic Committee
again talks of moving toward sustaining
their delegates in Washington in their
work for the DIVISION OF the territory. 1t
is time the Black Hills people were NOV
ing in this matter and it is shame that
the pockets Of the delegates were not
long since replenished.
Mark w. Bailey, of Canton, D. T., is
brought out as candidate for Congress
by the Sioux Valley News. Mark is
| good man, but things will be terribly
mixed in Dakota politics this fall. and we
believe that Judge Kidder is the only
southeastern Dako IA man that would
stand ghost Of show.
| 1 The following was recently sung at
religious meeting Of colored men in the
south:
s'Ifyou ~ Peter aslesp At Dc gate,
Kase Do night bsfo' he was up y late.
You nssdpt 'spect with your load Of 3D.,
| -r Dat yourl slip pAH and steal right In;
D. angels always aets 9. &C., ds ;,qaar.; quar- ,,d.r,
It's now reported that Mr.. Edison, the
inventor Of the wonderful talking Phono-
graph, has also nearly perfected a ma
chine far in advance of that, both as
specimen of ingenuity and for absolute
value to the human race. Edison him
self declares that"it is as far ahead Of the
phonogr2ph As the phonograph is ahead
Of toy whistle
The Fairview quartz mining company,
Central City, Black Hills, has struck a
body of ore yielding sixty dollars per ton
the cost Of mining not exceeding four
dollars per ton. The writer Of this item
was once offered 4 half interest in the
Fairview for 4 mule and two sacks OF
-four. He could have "borrowed" the
mule but the money market was too
stringent to enable MIN 10 secure tne
-four.
Ben Butler stirred up the animals on
Monday. He made speech for the gal.
liant old Shields for doorkeeper Of the
l-house and scattered his bricks in every
direction. It was no use, the Democrats
stuck to the exconfederate Gen Field, of
Georgia, and elected him byl22 to 1oI:
It was a Democratic blunder that will
give the Republicans the fall elections,
Lmake Shields fresh hero, and probably
give him presidential appointment.
Brother james on Brother Henry
| Ward.
N. Y. Sun.
The Rev. James G. Beecher, of Ulster
county, brother of Henry Ward, occu-
pied Plymouth pulpit yesterday. He