Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-02-20

part of Russia is still spreading. Sickenipg
details are coming by almost every mail OF
misery, suffering and death caused by it
Some districts are being almost %depopulat-
ed. It Is estimated that ninety cases of
every hundred have proven fatal. The
Russian and Austrian governments are TAX
ing measures to prevent its spread in that
direction.
The vote on the transfer of the Indian
bureau In the House recently, stood SO for
to 101 against the transfer.
The six per cent. bonds, subject to call
for funding purposes amount to 1852 ,648,-
050, of which $22O, 6l6 ,45O are tive-twenties
of 1857, $37 ,405, 800, are five-twenties of
1858, and $l94, 56e 800 are ten-forties OF 1869.
No other bonds can be called in before Jan
uary l, 1881.
"A Westchester county, New York milk
maid, Miss Annie Bartell, has undertaken to
out do Mrs. Anderson in the walking line.
She commenced to walk on the evening of
the 9th, and is to walk 5000 quarter miles
in as many successive quarter hours. Later
telegraphic news says. the milkmaid, after
walking only five hundred and sixty-six
quarter miles OF the 5000, broke down.
"A dispatch from London, dated Febru-
airy lst, says a seriou outbreak of pleuro-
pneumonia has occurred among the cattle
at Hull.
Efforts are being made by the clergy of
New York Cinan fho Lotto Iansc;n., oc AZ
Supreme court in regard to the law punish
ing polygamists in Utah, to root out polyg-
amy in the Oneida Community, that state.
A committee of the Russian ministers
have resolved as follows: "That the Min
lister OF the Interior shall be empowered to
burn Wetliauka and other villages where it
is necessary, the inhabitants to be removed
elsewhere within the quarantine district.
Troops to enforce the quarantine will be
placed at the disposal OF the civil admins
tration. A delegate will be despatched to
Astrakhan and the %neighboring govern
ments with power to adopt extraordinary
measures. He will be accompanied by a
medical commission to investigate the causes
of the Epidemic" III .e.4s .Me
MMfcsutu betwten Sixty anu eIgngy RIOT
ing strikers.
The plague In Russia and Turkey, is
causing considerable uneasiness in italy,
Austria, Prussia and France, though at last
accounts it did not seem to be spreading
The French government has sent a physl--
clan to investigate the disease. A military
Gordon has been ordered along the entire
course of the Volga, to prevent spread Of
the plague.
A formidable rebellion has broken out
in China. The Chinese government has
dispatched troops to put down the insurree-
ton, but a large number OF them lave de-
serted to the rebel forces, including some
high officers.
THE building. Of the Rogers locomotive
works. at Patterson, N. j., which was used
as a millwright shop and for the storage OF
patterns and models, of locomotives in ALL
parts of the world. and filled with machin-
cry costing about $125,0O0, burned on the
l4th inst. Total loss, $4,000; insurance,
ssaaa5 900. A flax mill was also destroyed,
valued at 2 5000.
The second trial of George M. Pinney
before the u. S. Circuit court, San Francis
co. resulted in a verdict of acquital. The
evidence was the same as on the trial Tor
the first charge. After the verdict the
court ordered the remaining indictments
against Pinney, John O. Hanscom and 9th
ers dismissed.
OUR TENURE OF LIFE
depends in great measure upon our regare
for or neglect of the laws OF health. Ii VIZ
.,;nlatn them we cannot EXPECT to s.make OIt