Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1879-08-02
VIEWS AVID VOTES.

Zealand.
Dakota win be entitled to West Point cadet
ship next year.
Minnesota estimates whea: yield of 100000
bushels this year. KS
During the deluge Mr.. Noah was in the habit
of calling his wife an ark angel.
The Red River country will produce six mil
lion bushels of wheat this year.
Another large installment Of Russian imml-
grants have located near Yankton.
James Gordon Bennett has presented his
sisters first baby with 100000.
Somebody wants Sergeant Bates to attempt to
carry the British flag through Zululand.
New York has had several. cases of yellow
fever, occurring among refugees from the South,
Texas herds OF stock are being sent to Montana
to rccuperate from the effects of the prolonged
,drouth. i. Es@ ~
1t is said that q Manitoba wave would be terri
bly, chilled if it came in contact with Charles
Francis Adams.
The Des Moines Register says Iowa raises
more hogs and less Democrats than any other
state in the Union.
"A Domestic Tragedy is what they call it in
Lcavcnworth when total stranger is found dead
in a citizens pigpen,s 4. -.
Frank J. Baird, ofills Ielty Journal,
came in on the delayed RS ain last night
and returned this mornfA ~
watcrtown, the new. tsy coddington
county, has two hrst-clasasF pers-the
Nescs and the Independent. 5''faS
Lydia Thompson has vicwea$lssfah Bernhardt
and says she would not draw ~ the legitimate
drama of the Thompsonan type.
Fort Meade, according to Major Snyder, who
has visited about every military post on the con-
tinent, is the finest of them all.
: Capt. Ed Maguire's engineering party for the
improvement of the upper Missouri departed
this morning on the fine steamer Helena.
The Milwaukee people offer to iron and ope-
rate railroad to Yankton if the Yankton folks
will grade line from their present terminus.
1t will take a train of twenty-sH cars daily for
two weeks to move the wheat crop on the Dali
rymplc farm (Northern Pacific Rallroad,) to mar
ket.
The first time that David Davis realized his fat
ness WAS when he was boy of fourteen. The
other boys all crawled through the fence and left
MIN alone with mad steer.
All of the freight trains have been hauled Oft of
the Sidney and Cheyenne routes to the Black
Hills, the Hills freight all now going in via the
Bismarck and Fort Pierre routes
Zach. Chandler THINKS his son-in-law is be-
coming too popular. Every time he becomes
pop it costs the old man $4,000; and he is
making the home base in u systematic style that
is alarming ~
Alexander Mcclure informs the In diana par
son who wants to hang all of the ex-confederates
that that policy adopted would destroy portion
of Hayes cabinet, and relieve our foreign SER
yice Of some Of its brightest ornaments.
The Fargo Times has purchased the good will
and subscription list of the late Fargo Independ-
ent. The material of the Independent will be
moved to Caledonia and there be used in the
publication of the Trail County Argus,
Excellent coal has been found six miles north
of Crook City. The Deadwood Times says five
and six foot veins have been opened in the Red
Water country, and that the coal is SO free from
sulphur that it is used for smelling purposes.
Probably no young man in DeadwOod can ac-
tual]y protect his girl from lightning by holding
ueT Oh HIS lup WILL IuC OO"u III IHo
parlOr; but over dozen tried it the other night,
and the girls felt just safe could be, too.
-[Deadwood Times ~ So
1t is currently rumored in army circles that
Quartermaster General Meigs is about to retire
from active service. In that event we believe
the good OF the service would be promoted by the
appointment of Gen. Rufus ingalls, to fill the
vacancy. Gen. ingalls, has been one of the prin-
cipal assistants of this department for many
years, and has the endorse ment OF nearly every
officer Of high rank in the army.
It is singular fact that not one of the imperial
Napoleons has died in France on French soil.
Napoleon l., the fountler,of the family, died a
prisoner at ST Helena; his son, Napoleon H..
died in Austria; his nephew, Napoleon III.
died an exile in England; and now his grand
nephew. .he young man whom the French i'm
periaiists have hoped would one day rule France
as Napoleon ", has met his fate at the point of
Zulu spears in South Africa.
Mandan Notes.