Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1880-07-16
NEJVs-NOTES.
Grant is in Mexico.

Gen. Hancock will not resign unless
he is elected president
Grant says Hancock's record is 6 ood
but that OF his party bad.
Peru and Bolivia have consolidated
under lame u S. of Bolivia and Peru.
Col Pelton, of cyphcr dispatch fame,
has been gathered with the fathers.
Gen Geo. A. Forsyth, Of Gen. Sheri-
dams staff, is Investigating the White river mas
sacre.
Gen. G.. C. Andrews and ex-Gov. w.
r. Marshall are now the proprietors of the st.
Paul Dispatch.
Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., will be married
to Miss Jennie Flood, daughter of the bonanza
millionaire, in November next ......
= Mai. Chas. A. Smith, of the army, is
now an inma, e of the hospital at Fort Leaven-
worth where he is treated for insanity
-Rochfort's new journal, L'lntransl-
eucte, sold 1876, 600 copies of first issue. Roch-
fort declares he intends to dcmolish Gambctta.
The vote in the first Minnesota dis
trict in 1876 was as follows: ''Dunncll 26,O1O;
Stocy, 16. .O65; Dunncl's majority, 9,945 In 1878
the vote was Dunnell, 1868; Meigher, 12845.'
The territorial committee is called to
mcot at Elk POINT on the 21st inst. to determine
the time and place of holding the republican
convention to nominate candidate for delegate.
John w. Lorncy supports Hancock.
John W is in his dotage and feels hurt that he
was not given the Philadelphia postoffce. he
saws he supports Hancock because he turned
Lee back from Pennsylvania.
The Tribune says Minneapolis NIL :
lers have purchased all Of the wheat in the Du-
luth elevators They do not intend to allow any
North Pacific wheat to pass them except III the
shape of -four if they can help it.
The president signed the commission
of Hon. Horace Maynard postmaster-gensral,
July Tth. Mr.. Maynard is yet abroad and Will
not return before August 18th. In the mcan-
time Judge Key holds by virtue OF the
statute in such case made and provided.
Gen Hancock has received over five
thousand letters and kilograms since his NOM
ination, and has published notice that all Will
be answered in due time. 1t costs something to
oS'0
arc alone will make no small inroad to the S9,-
600 salary of Gen. Hancock
Sixty spies are paid by the state in
Turkey to hang about the bazaars and streets,
attending as much as possible to everybody
cse's business. and to bring to the pa lace regu-
larly their budgets of small talk and gossip,
while five professional takers are always on
hand to retail the scandal thus collected to tn c
royal cars. His majesty, it is feared might be
sometimes dull, and so sixty men are Kept as
gossiping staff to make sure of somebody being
always OH the spot with joke, story, or
scrap Of news.
The Pittsburgh Dispatch charges
Gen. Myer with putting stumbling blocks in
Capt: Howgate's path to the north pole 'old
Prob" may be very good at regulating the wealth
er in the temperate zone but it is generally sup
posed that Providence has put more stumbling
blocks in the Gulnarcs path in the shape Office
bcrgs and glaciers than that vessel can ever
overcome At least semitic men think so and
as far as heard from deprccate the idea OF colon
izins the Arctic regions, for the purposes OF dis
covcry, according to Howgate's plan.