Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1879-08-09
NEWS AND NOTES.


France. FRI " t%A
The New York Herald's daily circulation is
115,OO0.
Cattle and wool items are frequent in the Ben
ton Record. ''-.
Fort Benton wants frst-class hotel and ma
Itwas Sitting Bull that ''got it id quick
and not Miles, ....-g. .u~
Governor Howard is visiting the old folks in
Detroit. Mich.
Paris Gibson, of Minneapolis, has lumber
yard at Benton. rn
Talmage is getting $500 night for his lectures
in London. %ftgf
Bear Lake, near st. Paul. .1-E -'sa..5 1""
Delegate Bennett has been visiting points of
interest in Southern Dakota. 'r
Forty million bushels is the estimated yield of
the wheat crop of Minnesota,
The town of Volcano, West Va, was totally de
stroyed by fire. Incendiary.
The jamestown folks dined the Eastern editors
and gave them two hours drive i q & tg
England was swept by terrific storm last Sat
urday night. Millions of property destroyed.
The Richland County Gazette appropriately
trots out its rooster to crow over the harvest
Samuel G. Cook, of Washington county, Pa,
is the latest addition to the lawyers of Fargo.
& The grave of the mother of Abraham Lincoln,
at Lincoln City, Ind, is unmarked by stone or
tablet. ....-. ,a,. E. ,, .....--. .- s.
U. s. District Attorney Campbell has purchased
six lots In Fargo, 48O acres of land down the
Red River.
The Custer monument at West Point will be
unveiled the last Of this month or the first of
September.
Adirondack Murray (Rev) is financially embar-
rassed. Too much horse flesh and too many
buckboards, 81 .ga
The Chicago Tribune says Jim Blaine is still
"the plumed knight, whom Ingcrson eulogized
:. so eloquently." ",3#r I. et@.-i nj. fs5
A fire at Fort Meade burned out W. S. Fan
shave 8 Go. The loss is $5OOOo and the insurance
:, $27000.. Incendiary. .s.~1s4s$<i .-'
There is a probability of Gen, Butler and Gen.
Garfield Grating at the Minneapolis fair, in com
pany with Horatlo Seymour
The War Department doesn't think Sitting Bull
has been south of the line and that is all the War
Department knows about it. Fl a
Chicago is to have four mile boulevard
of the finest drives in America. It will be an ex-
tension Of Michigan avenue.
The Lanesboro (Minn.) Adrocate says Sitting
Bull is getting notorious again. That is mis-
take. Miles has made him Aighty. IF
The Republican convention of Mnnes ota will
meet in St. Paul on Sept. I'd. Pillsbury and
Wakefield lead in the'race for governor.
Schurz and Surveyor General Stewart are, like
Gov. Austin, in the of the railroads, shaking
the fraudulent Sioux scrip. holders over h-l
In the three past months the Fargo land office
has disposed of 6S9,42 acres. That means over
four thousand entries, and probably 10000 pco-
. pie.
f. Duluth will have anew brick block next week
Duluth, makess sport of the feeling in Minneapo-
lis and st. Paul over the loss OF the Duluth rail
road. =
The Duluth Tribune makes an inquiry of the
Bismarck TRIBUNE that if answered would lead
to religious controversy Excuse us; this is a
secular journal. <',~sS- t'--s- "-.<- "a - Y
Drifting Goose burst out crying like a child
"uCu NC uSdiu Iuc 1TCS1UcuI'S -OEUcE SeCLlOE
aside a reservation for him, read. He is CRATE
full old goose. 49, .
Among the big booms are the Grant BOOM the
the Hayes boom, the Sherman boom, the Win
dom boom, the wheat boom, the Miles boom, and
the Sitting Bull boom. Miles was at the bottom
of s. BIS boom. - -
U. S. Marshal, RAYMOND has advertised his
$1,000 house for ealc in Y Yankton, ordered mater
{ ial for residence in Fargo, and with a banker
: friend from JACKSON, Miss, has contracted for
three sections Of wheat land north of Castle
ston. e @f ~ $3.50
John I. Blair, the owner Of the Dakota South.
.ern R. R., is making for the Black Hills via the
Niobara Valley. That move was the cause of
the Milwaukee road sending it's engineers up the
same route. 1t will be struggle of railway
giants yr r,sr ~-gr-.v -e-., "a.
The Black Hills Times reviscs it's impression
that Gen. Sturgis was an old man. and says:"sOn |
the contrary he is well preserved, sctive, and
apparently middle-aged msn, round and plump
as one could wish to be, with but very light
rprinkling .af the 'silver threads among the
gold'' & VI s
.knsley Greyssesseos as aApeaker of the Dakota
negislatnre,was not brilliant He was often 90
S.drunk as to beincOhereRt, and his heavy expend-
itures drove him to raising money by worthless
checks. At the close Of the session he went
!, eastward on;a Apree, leaving debts to mark his
way, until an alleged forgery, compelled him to
fylfrom the officers of the law.-[New York Sun.
\ TIE IAneeboro Journal says that Governor
Pillsbnry can never again be- = Republican, can
EisateI for governor, because he lPillsbpry) is
'.lost in the sombre shades q, Wilson's nose. y
Some little idea may be gathered as to the size
: ofthoee nose when, Il is renemberad that the