Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1880-02-20
VIEWS AND NOTES.

3 81 s.
Senator lamar, though still on crutch.
-, took HE seat In the senate Monday.
The Chicago Inter Ocean foolishly
flies the ticket of Grant and Blaine AS If Blai ne
would accept seco
The New York state convention will
be held at Utica next Wednesday to select dele
gates to the Chicago convention.
A prominent Irish statistician esti-
mates the loss sustained by the failure Of the DO
tato crop last year in ireland ut S23,0OO,oO0.
-Grcat preparations are being made at
chicago to receive Parncl, the Irishman's friend,
on the 23d. Wisconsin legislature offers him the
use of Assembly hail.
The Intercollegiate Rowing Regatta
effort will be made 10 secure the presence Of the
Oxford and Cambridge English crews.
-Ex.Indlan Commissioner Hayt was
eDvictcd on the testimony of his own son who
was engaged in buying mi ncs from cx-Indian
SCENTS under the name Of Edward Knapp.
A Sherman boom has been inaugu-
rated in New York City by the organization of
q Sherman club, but clubs will probably not be
trumps in the coming political ,ut-throat game
MIR. E. B. Washburne, of Illinois, ex-
minister to France, has authorized the Chicago
Inte,-OceQn to deny that he is candidate for the
Presidency and that he is for Grant first last
aud all the time"
The Bible Society reports 5000 tami
lics without Bibles in the state of Missouri, says
the Globe Democrat. Moody and Sanky are try
Ing to redeem the state and ut present are la
boring arduous1y, the initial point being St.
Louis.
"A desperate duel was fought at Han.
cock Va, between two females, one armed with
club and the other with pitchfork. Both
were terribly damaged and it is probable nei ther
of the bunged up belligerents willlive to snatch
baldhcaded the man they both loved.
Herald Irish relief fund $183,000 up
to the 14th inst. 1t is estimated, says a cable
dispatch from Dublin, that over three hundred
thousand Of Ireand's people are slowly starving
and can only be kept alive by the super human
efforts OF their fellow creatures.
AT a meeting recently held in Syra-
cusc New York, by the representative men Of
NAOP
personal feeling and prcdjudice now existing be-
tween the different factions throughout the state
and mite in one harmonious party. Anything
to beat Grant"
The word pers is not derived as COM
monty supposed from the adjective new but from
the custom of early periodicals of placing the
initial letter of nts of the compass,
north, east, west and south owe. the items from
each distinct section Of the country, as repre-
acnted by its letter Of direction from the point
OF publication, from whence sprung the name
newspaper. ...
-Ex-Gov. Joel Parker, of New Jersey,
at one time Democratic aspirant for the Pres-
dency, was admitted to practice in the U. S. SUI
prcme court recently. Mrs Bclva A. Lockwood,
also practitioner of the court, moved the adj
mission of a thoroughbred negro of the South.
The ex-governor and the negro were sworn in at
the same time. The presence of the trio under
such ncongruous circumstances caused the bust
Of Chief Justice Taney to move in its niche.
-Drexel, Morgan & Co., the famous
bankers of New York, London aud Paris. have
notified Parncll and Dillon that they cannot
longer act as trcasulers Of the Irish Relief Fund.
Notwithstanding the efforts of Parnell and Dillon
to alay the distress and starvation now extant
in very many counties of ireland, and rails
ing large fund to aid suffering humanity. these
luxurious bankers, these favored ones in the lot
terry of life, refuse to become the holders of the
fund because it may loose them customers who
buy exchange between England and this coun-
try. It is easier for camel to go through the
eye of needle, ETC.