Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1879-07-26
VIEWS AVID VOTES.

NEWS AVID VOTES.
s Texas has ISL murderers.
Smith was rcnominated for governor OF
Wisconsin.
The sauk Rapids bridge was blown into the
Mississippi, last week.
Dick oglesby says Senator Logan is a candi-
date for the Presidency. sR
Think of it. Fifty bushels Of barley to the
sacre is reported at Jamestown %
Mrs. Dorsey's will, giving million dollars to
JEFF Davis, will be contested. a-
Russia has determined to move the natives
from the mountains Of Caucasus.
The condition and prospects of the wheat crop
in Minnesota are much improved.
The Iowa political situation is badly mixed,
there being five state tickets in the field.
The North Pacific Railroad is building new
!. machine shops and round house at Fargo.
sharp decline in wheat occurred the first of
the week, resulting probably from speculation.
Even the Chicago Inter- Ocean is satisfied, now,
with President Hayes and advocates his re-elec.
:tion. &s8a# sd ."
VIM. Arnold was hung last week about twen-
ty-hve miles above Fort Thompson. probably by
vlgilantcs.
. The thermometer reached 148 in the sun in Cen
trail Park, New York, last week. and 104 in the
shade in Virginia. ~ t5E
Over fifteen thousand terror stricken inhabi-
tants Of Memphis have already fed in order to
escape the yellow fever. f,&a&.G Il
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feyer on Sunday. Trains and steamers carrying
refugees have been stopped. II
H. j. Ramsdell, for ten years Washingto ton cor
respondent of the New York Tribune, has pur-
chased the Sunday Republican.
Harry Brintnell has accepted the position of
editor and business agent of the North Pacific
Farmer, published at Wadena.
The Chicago thieves have arranged to go West
and grow up with the country. The police has
become too vigilant for them.
London banks discount prime bills at two per
cent per annum. There is q slight difference be-
tween Bismarck and London.
Bitter anti Page men were elected delegates to
the Republican judicial convention by the
Mower County, Minn., convention.
The postal earnings for the last quarter were
$1,000, ,oOO the largest receipts for any quarter
since the department was established.
It is generally conceded, now, that Mitchell's
trip abroad has little relation to the Northern
Pacifc-to any possible transfer of stock.
There is q red hot canvass for the governorship
-of Minnesota between the present governor and
his lieutenant. Both are able and popular.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad
company have purchased the Davenport &
Northwestern Railroad, line 14o miles in length.
Brick Pomeroy's Lacrosse Democrat now ap-
pears daily and weekly. Brick employs no man
who drinks or habitually uses profane language.
Tramps captured railroad train in Iowa, last
week. Two of thirty were captured after fight
in which the tramps were fred upon by the sher-
ifs posse. n ~ ' Fl ~
Zach Chandler, like Conkling, is trained box
er and says if he is attacked those assailng
him will find he can defend himself without the
aid of fire arms. $50
The postmaster at Logansport. Ind, has been
>churched by the Presbyterian organization of
that city, for keeping the Office open an hour Sun
day morning.
The sale Of pork is suspended in Winnepeg on
account Of an unknown disease having made it's
appearance among the hogs in the slaughter
yards of the city. .oEf
Wheat for September delivery is now quoted
ate and 81 against IS last week. The prospect
is gloomy enough from Europe; hence the ap-
probation in price of our home product.
.Workmen are engaged in an effort to divert the
river Oxus to its ancient bed and thus establish
easy water communication between the Caspian
sea and regions bordering on Afghanistan.
Secretary Sherman is making an effective cam
.paien, and gaining golden opinions in New Eng
land. Its the Ohio idea that Sherman should be
the next President as Hayes will probably not
be o candidate for reelection. ---
The religious editor of the Duluth Tribune is
becoming profane. He heads a baptism local,
''Soused in Lake Superior for Christ sake.''
That is as bad as the Chicago Times head on
hanging notice, ''Jerked to Jesus =,
Blanchard, a heavy mine operator and mill
owner, at Central City, Black Hills, killed ma
named Hedges at False Bottom, last week.
Hedges fred first, shooting Blanchard in the
arm. Blanchard shot him through the heart. -
A second loan of two million dollars for; the
North Pacific has been taken by the bondhold-
ers Of the road. This provides capital for extern,
sion to the Yellowstone, 2O5 miles west of Bis,
marck, and for 200 miles on the Pacific end of the
line.
John Haggert gobbled the Casselton horse
thieves, Chas. Cross, alias. F. B. Williams, and
James Stanton, at Pcmbina, and re turning they
were indicted, plead guilty and sentenced to four
anda half years each in the penltcntlary within
a week. bHA
Minnesota has been holding convention. of
business men at St. Paul to protest against the
Chicago railroad pool, which resulted in obtain
ing pledge from the railroad corporations that
no discrimination shall be made against Mime
sofa interests. ss3
It is now learned, says the Buffalo Exprcss,