Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-04-24
REWRITTEN.

Working hours are being rapidly ex-
tended from 81 to 81 hours a week in Scot
land. Il
The speed of East Indian cyclones sell
dom exceeds 100 miles an hour, but of late
the wind has blown across Mount Washing
ton at the rate Of 1872 miles with a low tenn
perature. Nobody could stand out of doors
during these gusts.
A Bridgeport woman declared that she
would whip the girl with whom she caught
her husband walking in the street, and did
it. She also said she would scratch the hus-
bands eyes out, and tried to do it. Then
she started fo- the water, declaring she
would drown herself, but didn't do it.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis is described by a
correspondent of the Boston Herald as some
years the Junior of her husband, matronly
in appearance, and Intellectually a remark
able woman. She spoke more hopefully
than her husband did of the southern peo-
pie, especially of the negroes, for whom she
said that education would work rapid inn
provement. She regards free labor as bet
ter than slavery for all concerned.
The Maine legislature intended to cut
the Governors salary down to $1,000 a
year, but bunglingly worded the act 50 as to
empower him to draw that amour every
three months.
The Pope has sent 81, 900 in aid Of the
sufferers from the inundation at Szegedin.
1t is especially noteworthy that in almost
every case of public disaster since the be-
ginning of his reign, Leo XIII has been
among the first to send material aid to the
sufferers.
The Cincinnati Gazetts learns that there
is a strong demand for married coacfmen
in that city.
New taxes to the amount of $3.50, 000,.
900, have been imposed on France since the
war.
A cable dispatch reports a revolution in
Panama. There was fourteen hours fight
ing ii the streets, and many were killed.
Quiet is restored.
Chief Moses having agreed thereto, the
President has set aside a very large reserva-
ton in Washington territory for him and
his people, and for such Indians as may
affiliate and the Secretary of the Interior
may send.
DIR. st. Louis, who was to hang on the
18th inst, at Watoo, Kansas, for poisoning
his wife, shot himself, bus not fatally, and
Gov. Vance has respited him until the 10th
of May.
Special postal agent, John B. Furay,
arrested, on the 18th inst, Peter B. Thomp-
son, clerk III the post office at Seward, Neb..
for robbing the mails. The arrest was
made upon decoy letters. Over $12, 900 was
ound on his person. Thompson plead
guilty.
The distress at WATERFORD, S. c.. on &C.
count of the tornado of the 10th, is so wide
spread that the city authorities of Charles
ton forwarded 5000 worth of provisions and
$1,000 in cash for the relief of the sufferers.
"A canoe, with eight men belonging to
Etchemin, Canada, in returning from Que
bee on the afternoon of the 18th, upset and
all were drowned.
Several German prelates, including
Archbishop Ledochowsky, have offered to
1SSiSl oCNo W 11C&Il I iCgOllaIlO us
between Germany and the Vatican.
Don Carlos has Unexpectedly appeared
ut the Vatican and had an audience with the
Pope, who declined to discuss the pretend
er's claims.
"A key of gold amounting to $4,000
was lately recovered from a mill pond,
where it had been hidden for fourteen years.
A guide that was with jeff. Dayis when he
was making his fight through Georgia de-