Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-01

senior member, returns to his station at Fort
Lincoln, Major Hughes resumes duty on Gen.
Terry staff, and Lieut.. Hare the junior, is ex-
pected to 60 to-Texss. The board inspected
l,O46 horses and filled out the contract by ac-
cept.ng 325. 1t il remarked that the board is
the contractors, and the Seventh cavalry for
which regiment the horses were purchased, is
yet to be heard from.
The arrival of two patches of recruits were
reported at department headquarters yester-
day. oapts. sohindel and Wicoff, Sixth infan-
try and Lieut.. Quinley, Eleventh infantry
from the recruiting depot at Columbus arrived
with eighty recruits destined for the Eigh-
teenth infantry ut Fort Assiniboine, and forty
for the Sixth infantry at Fort, Buford. Lieuts.
fanny and Bryant from recruiting headquar-
lers at Povernoes Island, New York harbor, re-
the Sixth infantry at Fort N'': Buford
me several detachments were ordered in camp
at Fort Smelling and will be distributed to
their proper stations from that point.
sad case of mental ALTERATION was report
ed on yesterday, which may briefly be given as
| follows: A few days since a well-connected
and bright young man named Michael Con-
| way, was committed to the county jail for
thirty days on the charge of disorderly con
| duct, the sentence meeting with the approba-
ton of his friends. A day or two after his
commitment, he was taken So i'll that his
| friends found it necessary to remove him, and
through tho intervention of two well. known
| citizens he was released and taken home for
! medical treatment. Since his release he has
grown worse, and his sickness has assumed the
! form of poignant mental insanity. His friends
| are grief stricken at the result of the correc-
tive experiment., and every means are being
employed to restore his reason.
I
The people of Traverse county (unorganized)
want to be attached to Stevens county for
school as well as judicial purposes, and have
made application accordingly through Super
| lntendent johnson of Stevens county, who
says they shave one good school house with
| modern improvements and are building others
Their wish will be granted if the auditor OF
Stevens county will receive reports, appOrtiou
money and see that the school officers comply
| with the laws. The schools of Big Stone coun.
ty,, now numbering ten, have been organized
| and supported under care of the neighboring
county. and the plan will doubtless work
equally as we'll in Traverse. At any rate the
| new counties cannot 60 without schools q year
waiting for the legislature.
| Mr.. Charles L. Spencer and Mr.. Henry s.
johnson left this city last evening for Fort
engage in the wool growing business, associat
ing themselves with Mr.. Gibson, the son OF
Paris Gibson, Esq, of Minneapolis. Mr.. Glib
son went out last spring and has now a large
amount of sheep on his rancho, forty miles
from Fort Benton. Messrs. Spencer and John
son. each are to purchase an equal number and
thenceforth the business will be carried on by
them with interests in common. The noun.
tains of Montana are said to be admirably
| adapted to sheep raising. The valleys furnish
grazing the entire year, and the diseases tt
which sheep are subject in other ATTITUDES are
said to be unknown in Montana. These young
men go out we'll equipped and prepared to en-
dure any hardships and privations which may
fall to their lot, and if energy, intelligence anc
enterprise will make success Of wool growing
We predict for them successful career. 7e%t