Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-05-30
REWRITTEN.

The Murphy movement is spreading
like ,wild-fire in Missouri
Anew motor has been invented (carbon)
whose power is said to be triple that of
steam.
In the Indian Territory the style of
mourning has been changed from black to
spotless white.
The first bar OF steel ever manufactured
in the South was rolled last week at a mill
in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Caleb Cushing is the only survivor of
the large company raised in Newburyport,
Mass, for the Mexican war.
Bishop Elliott, Of Texas, is trying to eff
feet a repeal of the law under which bull
fighting is licensed in that State.
1t is stated that as many as 1000 salmon
are often taken at one haul of the seine in
Alaska, some of them weighing from 45 to
100 pounds each.
The graduating class OF the Women's
College, at Binghampton, has voted to pray
for Bob lngersoll's conversion Ito religion
and common sense"
Another good man, astray George S.,
Stevens, Treasurer of the Pittstield Temper
ance Club, has been arrested for the embezzl
ing money set apart for free soup.
HI the schools under the control of the
London School Board, teachers, male and
female, usually Begin at $350aa year, and
the'greatermumber doAnot get*beyond $3.50.
Russia preserves eight w of prov
inces conquered at various times and Joined
to the empire-Siberia, the Crimea, Kew.
Astrakan, Kasan, Finland, Poland, Krus-
.sinia.
The Roman Municipal Council has re-
solved, Tin homage to liberty of conscience"
to limit religious instruction in its schools to
those scholars whose parents request it, and
at separate hours.
India is becoming a very serious COM
petitor with the United States in the wheat
market. The value Of wheat she exported
in 1875 was e14,l4l; in 1876, e223, 473, and
in 1877, $780, 33.
Alaska is reported to abound in silver
and gold mines, and experienced miners
predict that the Territory wall eventually
J iSaNt isholC PtSCAONSt Cldio Ulfttu UWdkii Odll-
forniaand Nevada.
John Morrissey was ~supposedrto be al
most a millionaire but since histdeath it, is.
discovered that he has property valued only
at $4,000. He leaves all to his wife except
$4,000 to three sisters.
There is a factory in Davenport, Iowa,
for making sugar from Indian corn. The
product somewhat resembles maple sugar,
ardsells readily in the neighborhood.. The
syrup is especially liked.
We hear OF odd things sent through the
New York Post Office, such as live snakes,
turtles, etc, but a short time ago a goose
berry pie was forwarded through the Lon
don General Post Office.
Bull fights have just been introduced at !
Marseilles, and attracted an immense crowd.
i%ncludingy however, very few women; but
the danger and cruelty of a Spanish exhibit
ton were to some extent avoided.
1t has cost the Lake Shore and Michi-
gan Southern Railroad $3.50, 500 to settle the
claims of one hundred and thirty-nine of the
victims, Living and dead, of the Ashtabula
uisasteN. lhere are seventeen cases still
unadjudicated.
The Pope has recently received a mag
niticent present. The Marquis Duplessis
Bellieri has presented his hotel at, Paris to
him for the Papal Nuneio at Paris, and be
sides that given him lands to the value of
two millions OF francs.
Some montlsago o man named Packer
organized a large colony :of emigrants in
ALLEGHENY county. Nc. COLLECTED conSidor- /