Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-05-15
GENERAL NEWS.

The race between the Yale and Harvard
s~cullers took place near Worcester, Mass,
on May 9th, and resulted in a victory for the
Harvards. The time was II minutes and
30 seconds over a course two miles in length.
May 9th was generally observed in the
South as Confederate memorial day.
In the Brooklyn p~resbytery, on May Sth,
the final vote was taken on the charges
against DR.. Talnage. Forty-five votes were
cast, of which twenty-five were against the
charges and specifications and sixteen in
favor of sustaining them, and four for sus-
tanning them ia part.
Richard Lee, a negro burglar, was hung
at Fayetteville. N. c., on May 9th.
The bill to prohibit military interference
at elections passed the Senate on May 9th,
in the precise form in which it came from
the House, by a strict party vote, and now
goes to the President tor his action. 1t is
supposed he will veto it.
The Metropolitan board of works of Lon
don, England, after a recent experiment on
the Thames embankment, find that electric
lighs is a failure. The report declares that
the defects connected with electric lighting
mNst prevent its general adoption.
President Hayes and wife have abandoned
their intended trip to California this summer.
IN Quod." the Detroit Free Press funny
man, is in the insane asylum of Michigan.
His real name is David E. Habbaugh.
The Ameer of Afghanistan arrived at
Gundamuk on the 9Th. He was met at the
frontier by Major Cavagnari and a detach-
Inent of the 10th Huzzars and guides. Tn
British troops of all arms lined the route to
the camp, two and a half miles Gen.
Brown and staff received the Ameer at the
end of the line, and a salute of twenty one
guns was fired. The Amer was announced
officially to the Viceroy Of India, and ex-
pressed a desire for the establishment of
friendly relations between India and At
gianistan.
Parole won the great Cheshire stake cup.
Parole has retrieved his loss of the race for
the Chester trades cup yesterday, by win
lling that for the great Chester handicap
stakes, which took place to day, the last of
the Cheshire meeting. He won by three
lengths.
Lord Duferin's four-year old chestnut
gelding Refer, which won the Chester
trades cup, got the second place and Lord
Leigh's t~our-year-old bay colt Sir Joseph,
third. There were s starters. The distance
of the course is nearly one mile and a quar-
ter, n the race was for three year-olds
and upwards. Betting at the start was six
to~one against Flat Sam ; five to one against
1sidetto; seven to one aga inst Lord Weltons
colt; nine to two against Parole.
The cholera is decreasing in India.
The liabilities OF Swan, Clough & Co..
bankers of Cork, whose failure was an
nonnced Thursday, are estimated at two
million pounds.
TIL vote on loves motion is regarded as
indicating that the government is certain OF
a majority on the tariff bill, even if all the
Liberals oppose it.
TIT %ipdisposition of General Garibaldi
has increased.
III Socialist leaders of Chicago, assert
that they, with the trades unions, are organ
ling a strike to begin July 9Th, and to be
general throughout the country. They will
demand q universal adoption of the eight
hour system, and will settle the matter of
wages after their demands on that point are
acceded to. This strike has been decided on
by their privy councils, but is no secret.
Their purpose is political in its nature, and
the object of the workingmen is to secure
better wages.
The ". Y. Herald of the LIST has the fol-
lowing to say in regard to the apprehended
trouble in Romelia In q few days the Rus
slams will Withdraw their troops from East