Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1880-06-11
NEWS-NOTES.

G57lceS.
Northern Pacific preferred stock 4711%
common, &c.
Not that they loved Caesar less, but
that they loved the country more.
The unoccupied quarters at Fort
Meade were burned last week. Loss $4,000.
The Deadwood Pioneer reports $75,.
900 cleanup from two weeks run on Father
DeSmet ore.
When Gen. Grant received the news
of Garfelds nomination, he said, ''It is all right
am sausfed.''
"A coroner's inquest over the death of
imperialism at the Chicago convention was
deemed unnecessary.
= Senator Hoar called to the chair for
short time the colored Senator Bruce, during
the famous convention.
The democrats are devising some
means of relieving their Payne. The nominee OF
the Chicago convention is q good doctor.
The Standby mill, in the Rockford,
Black Hills, district, has made it's first cleanup.
The result was much greater than even
hoped for.
Miners returning from the Yogo
mines say that they no-go, bedrock being
struck at from twenty to thirty feet and poor pay
in placer dirt.
Tho New York Herald correspon-
dent, speaking Of the crowd at the Palmer
House the evening before the convention met,
says, 'Sardincs nothing to it, 1t was the
jamdest jam ever saw
The gold medal for the best patent
process flour, granted by the national millers'
association, was awarded to Washburne, Crosby
& Co., Minneapolis, Western Dakota's dele
gate did not reach the convention soon enough.
Eugene Schuyler, the brilliant young
author and diplomat, has been transferred from
the consul generalship at Rome to the same pos
ition at Bucharest and is also accredited as d-
plomatic agent to that country The latter pos
ition is the same as Envoy without the salary
that attaches.
The total debt Of the United States
May 21st, $780, less cash in the treasury was ST.
952,sS6719.85 Tthe Pacific railroads Except the
Northern Pacfc) owe S31 ,91 ,141. 30 for interest
paid on railroad bonds guaranteed by the gov
crnment. The debt has been reduced since June
1st, 1879, S74,S ,536.52
"A million and a. half of gold dollars
weigh three tons. The Black Hills mines in five
years have produced $1,000 900 worth of gold or
forty tons of the metal and have the largest gold
mills in the world. An incompatible showing
and in a country that five years back the
home of the savage Sioux.
DIR. Mary Walker has been before the
n hn Of hio
advocating the establishment of home for
friendless women and children, with herself as
matron and physician. She Is persistent little
creature and the house will probably appro-
pirate $4,000 to get rid of DR.. Mary.
Admiral Ammen, DeLesseps and
Gen. Grant will now have ample opportunity to
push forward the Nicarauga canal scheme. The
whole country is interested in it's successful ac-
complishment and congress will see that the
right ofAmcricans are III way abridged. The
details with the sSouth American governments
have been arranged,
The German papers of Cincinnati,
New York and St. Louis speak in high terms of
the nomination Of Garfield and Arthur, and
>concede the entire vote of the Germans for the
Republican ticket. Gen. Grants defeat may be
man republicans and their antagonism to any
thing t.lat sayors of Imperialism. It was the
principle involved, not the personality, that led
the convention to reject Gen. Grants nomina-
tlor. He is yet the most ilustrious man in the
country, but his election would have establish
ed a dangerous precedent in the young republic.
The phunny man of the Denver Zri-
1une has been ''bucking'' the goat of King Gam
brinus, and thus soliloquizes unto himself:
''Who hath woe? Who hath babbling? Who
hath lcdness of eyes? He that gCeth to seek the
schooner of buck beer. Who hath sorrow: Who
striveth when the middle watch of the night hath
come, to wind up the clock with the Is puzzle? :?
lie that kicketh against the buck beer and get
teth left Verify, the buckness Of the buck beer
buckcth with mighty buck insomuch that the
buckee riseth at the noon hour with a head that
compasseth the town und about, and the
sweetness thereof waxeth more and more, even
from Dan to Becr-Sheba. (Current joke in
the Holy Land)
The first political convention was
held in Philadelphia in 1880 and was called the
United States AnliMasonic convention. No
business of Importance was transacted The
same convention met in Baltimore in 1881 and
dent. Previous to this time nominations were
made by congressional caucusses or state legis-
latures. The first republican convention was
held also in Philadelphia in 1856, which nomin-
ated John G. Fremont, who was defeated by Bu-
chanan, whose administration brought the re-
belious element to a focus, from which sprung
secession and the war of the states. Since 1856
conventions have been regularly held for nomi-
mating presidents and vice presidents, the con-
vention at Chicago being of the longest duration.
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Disastrous lIanL-Car Ride.
Mr.. E. A. Webster, foreman of the spile-
driving gang at the landing, jumped upon
a hand-car attached to the switch eng inc
and rode up town last night. He now
wishes he had walked When in front of
the Sheridan House the car jumped the
track, throwing Mr.. Webster with such
force AGAINST the tic1 tO hrook hio 1ar