Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-08-28
GENERAL NEWS.

during the past few weeks. The coopers'
strike ola month ago is not yet arranged,
and the action of the cigar makers, two or
three days ago, has become SO general that
nearly all the members of that craft have
stopped work, and quite a number of man
utactulers have agreed to pay the advance
asked. Yesterday there was a movement
among the stove moulders for an increase
Of fifteen per cent. This has been refused
by most of the foundry proprietors, and
nearly all the stove moulders III the city
stopped work to-day. The street car con-
ductors and drivers have now got the fever
to some extent, but they have determined
upon no plan as yet. They do not want
more pay, but less number Of working
hours, They 10Y average about fifteen
hours.
A London telegram of August 22d says:
Sir Garnet Wolsely telegraphs as follows:
Five thousand Swazies are ready to attack
King Cetewayo, and this number will be
increased to 10000 before entering Zulu
land. The British operating with these or
other composite force coming from the di-
rection OF Lunenburg should either capture
Cetewayo or drive him towards Col. Clark's
column, which is moving from the south
ward. There has been further submissions
of Zulus. A special dispatch says a sue
cessful Zulu raid is reported from Utrecht.
The Grand Cross of the Order ct Bath has
been conferred upon Lord Chelmsford.
Lord Dufferin, it is said, will succeed Sir
Edward BulWer Lytton as Viceroy of In
dia.
AS reported by telegraph last week, a
Mrs. Sartoris died in England recently. but
it was a mistake about it being the daughter
Of ex-President Grant.
A Memphis special of the 22d says: The
quarantine fever struck Arkansas to-day.
The sheriff of Crittenden county, opposite
Memphis, issued and order interchangeable
arrest and punishment of Memphians caught
in the act Of crossing the river. The entire
river front of that county is closely ,policed
Ivy mounted armed forces. The order was
promulgated by the authority of the Gov
ernor of Arkansas.
A Phoenix, Arizona, dispatch of the 22d
says IdoU llISut OlC mCSlOShCy ldLdlIy
stabbed John Labarr, a we'll known saloon
keeper. McCloskey wa arrested. This
morning the Vigilance Committee request
ed all the places of business closed. They
then march to the Jail, took out McCloskey
and John Keller, the latter confined for kill
ing Monahan a few days ago, and hanged
both to a tree on the Plaza. After warning
a number of well known bad characters TO
quit the town the crowd dispersed. Every
thing was conducted quietly and no opposi-
ton was made to the proceedings.
A dispatch from Santa Rosa, CAL, says
that at Fisk's mill, in Sonoma county, on
Monday, a tidal wav washed three men
aud one woman into the ocean. All were
drowned.
A Memphis special of the 22d says: Pri-
vate advices from Starkville, Miss, report
four cases of yellow fever there, all being
attributed to refugees from this city. The
National Board of Health have an agent to
investigate.
r. B. Woodwards, proprietor of Wood
wards Garden, San Francisco, died at his
country residence in Napa county Friday
morning last.
Angelo Anfano, alias Larry O'Neal,' =
one of the accessories to the murder of Jo-
seph Frye, in Boston, was captured III
BROOKLYN on the 22d inst, at 81 Hamilton
avenue, a favorite Italian headquarters.
A N. 7. Herald dispatch from st. Johns,
n. F., Oath inst, says: The Franklin
search party, which landed from the Eo-
then on the north shore of Hudson's Bay
last fall, started last April in four sledges
with sixty dogs on the Journey for King