Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-04-03
aEh NEWS.

On the 2sth ult., the officers ri1ed the
Pullman palace cars on the track at Cincin-
natl, for taxes due in 1876. :
"A Boston dispatch of March 2Sth says
the woman suffrage measure was defeated
in the house of representatives to-day. The
vote stood So to 50.
-~Bismarck's speech in the Reichstag, on
the 18th ult., ON the motion in favor of an
autonomous government for Alsace and
Lorraine, was remarkable for it's moderation.
-The Suns Albany correspondent, under
date Of March 20, says: Horatio Seymour,
In spite of his repeated refusal to accept
office, is to-day the most prominent candi-
date for governor in the state Of New York.
The United States grand jury have in
dicted Edward Bertrand for m~anslaughter
for killing the captain Of the bark Masonic,
In the China sea, on the 18th of last Novem-
Der.
-The name of the man who attempted to
assassinate Gen. Won Dreutelh recently at
St. Petersburg, is known. Four councillors
of state, with their wives and a son of one
Of the councillors, have been arrested.
Little Wolf and his band of Cheyenne
Indians, numbering thirty-five lodget, with
$50 ponies, were captured by Lieut.. Clark,
7th cavalry, with IS men, on Box Elder
creek, near the Yellowstone river, Tuesday,
the 25th inst.
The Cincinnati Enquirer of the Goth ult.,
publishes a careful estimate of the wheat
and fruit crop from nearly every county of
Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, from which it
is indicated that the wheat crop will be
%bounteous, but there is a very poor prospect
for peaches and apples.
The following details have been received
OF the loss of the steamer st. Michael, of
six guns, commander Nadal, having on
Board part of the 9th regiment of the line,
of Granada ~riviere, with Gen. Montpoint,
military governor of Cape Haytien. While
on her way from Pert-aux Prince to the
last named port she came into collision with
the British steamer Bolivar, of the West
India and Pacific Steamship company, of
Liverpool, near Geonaves in the bay of the
same name. OF $50 persons on board the
steamer, of whom only four were civilians,
seventy-two were saved by the boats of the
English steamer. Among them are the
captain of the st. Michael and Gen. Mont
point. Among the lost are DR.. Labens and
Mr.. Albert Francis Joseph, brother of the
late minister of public instruction.
The proceedings of the court of inquiry
in the Fitz John Porter case have reached
the President and it can be stated, on good
authority, that the findings are in every
way in his favor.
A San Francisco dispatch of the 9th,
says: The government purchased seventy
five thousand ounces of fine silver here, for
STU. The same dispatch says a defalcation
of one hundred thousand dollars has been
discovered in Montgomery avenue bonds,
by 4. S. Tibbey, the secretary, who was a
defaulter in the Dupont street bonds.
BY the decision of the Commissions of
the general land Office, respecting the claims
OF the McGreggor and'Missouri river rail-
road company. and the Chicago, Milwaukee
q st. Paul railroad company, the latter re-
celved about 10000 acres.
-Hadessah Douglas, while walking with
q female friend, on the 2sth ult., near Du-
phin, Pa, was shot dead by a man named5
Gaynor, who then killed himself.
Major Cavagnari held an interview On
the 18th ult., with the Viceroy of India, at
which he Informed the latter that all hopes
of peaceful negotiation with Yakoob Khan
had failed, and indicated that an advance on
Cabul had; been ordered. Shoutar Gordon
pass is practicable. Gen. Roberts can reach
the crest, of the mass in a week.
The New York Herald of the ~ says
The Fl ret praotical illustration af tba Fd;,or