Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1880-10-08
VOL. VII. |...[:I.
NEWS-NOTEs.
The election ball will open next Tues

The election ball will open next Tues
day.
Fort Bufordites 60 out one day and
back the next and kill buffalo. fjr
Stutsman county will have its first
term Of court on the 18th Of Oct.
The public debt was reduced $8,974,-
S31 during the month OF September.
Thirty miles of the Casselten Branch
of the Northern Pacific ia now open to traffic.
-Tilden will preside at the Hancock
mass meeting at Columbus, o., tomorrow.
The agencyIndians at Poplar Creek
and Wolf Point are quiet, the hestiles having
left. .s--.s-
After Oct. 1st no card excepting those
furnished by the government can be transmitted
through the mails except at letter rates.
Judge Hilton, of the firm Of A. T.
Stewart g. Co., is the democratic candidate for
congress from the Saratoga, N. Y, district.
The North Pacific, as located, avoids
both Bozeman and Helena. and sheltens the
distance 100 miles over the old location. Con-
tracts have been let for grading west of Miles
City.
-Pembina's First Annual Fair takes
place on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.
1t promises to be grand success, Gov. Ordway,
and other prominent men having consented to
attend. it tEt 'l .-tls.ze
Hon. Martin Maginnis has been re-
nominated for congress by tho Montana demo-
Gratis, and if elected Will serve his fifth success
sivc term. The Hon. M. 81. is stronghold in
himself. ,...,
Hon. J. W. Dwight, president of the
Bonanza farming company of Richland county,
was rc-nominated for congress from his district,
the 26th New York, on the two hundred and six
second ballot. ". +
Minneapolis accuses St. Paul of''pad-
ding it's census returns with thirteen hundred
and fifty seven servant girls and one hundred
bell boys The girls can stand 1t easily, but 1t
seems rather rough OH the boys.
AT a recent marriage at Hudson, N J..
y, the bride was young damsel who had been
n great hirt. When the Clergyman asked the
usual question, "Who gives this woman away?'
n young fellow prer cnt exclaimed; II can, but
won't"
The syndicate for the construction
OF the Panama ship canal has been formed and is
private undertaking by American and French
capitalist. headed by Sclgman & Co., Drexel,
Morgan & Co., Winslow, Lanier g. Co., and sew
en- other trims. The capital is S120,ooo.ooo.
-Arumor was telegraphed from Sioux
City this week that Alex Mitchell, of Milwau-
kee had himself and three of his men elected to
the directory of the Northern Pacific road and
that the road is now backed and controlled by
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st, Paul road. This
story is revived annually. -"..
The Northern Pacific has recently
built and finished off depot buildings at Aikcr,
Gull River, Sylvan Lake, Wadcna, Perham,
Moorhead and jamestown. A new frost-proof
water tank is abo ut finished at Wheatland.
new turn tn BILE is being put in at Valley City,
and two stall engine house ut jamestown, be-
sides water tanks at Eccleson and Crystal
Springs. .......... A..
Hugh Mccullough, ex.secretary Of
treasury, presided At the great republican meet
ing at Cooper Union hall last week, and after
stating that Hayes was not his choice four years
ago, and that be woul Id not have been among
the mourners had Tilden been elected, he de-
clared that, in his belief, President Hayes ad-
ministraton .'ryals the best, not excepting the
first" q d declaration which was received with
prolonged cheers.
"A mass meeting Of the democratic
conservative party in New Orleans, adopted a
resolution declaring that 1--WE believe in al H.
destructAble union Conference.-The states; we
are equally and unaltcrably opposed to central
lied dcspotiem and to secession. The letter OF
Gen. Hancock relative to southern claims, re-
ccives our h carty approval Whether this res
ulution will meet the approval of the majority
of the ''solid South,'' who are non-conservative
tire proof, XII klux. ante ellum Lee and Jack.
senites, is occasionally do ubtful. . -.
A profund sensation has been again
created in Russia by the second announcement
of the Odessa newspaper, the Testnik, that one
of the local importing firms of merchants has
purchased in addition to previous purchases one
H,nndrcd thousand bushels of American wheat
thr ough a western firm. The rate of purchase is
,onc roube forty-ive ctpccks or three $ three d.,
isay seven ty-cight ccnts), the pood Ia pood il
thnty-six pounds.) delivered in this coming
coal to New Castle, since Odessa is the grain
even OF the ..Imperal Great White Father ofthc
Russas."
The following notice was found
posted on II tree near Round Oaks church, in
Caroline countr. Va, and was intended to in
suit q farmer named Smith and other northern
settlers in that vicinity, who owned theiraprop-
erty and were in the habit oT driving over the
road referred to through the woods as aeshort
cut to the highway leading fronl Round Oaks to
Fredericksburg: ii hereby iremind the travel
ing public that this road is private property, and
warn all scalawsgs, hybrids, and especially, all
blue-nose and red-neck Tanks, against passing
through here nnder penalty of being shot if they
are cnught. A. n. Boulware~
"A scene between English and Scna.
tor Barnum, chairman Of the democratic nation.
al committee if correctly described is destined
to become historical. = The story rirs that the
two gentlemen were alone, and that Senator
Barnum, rutfled by the apathy with which his
representations of the eatc Of the committed =
.exchequer were received by the vice-presideE; r;
tial candidate, finally exclaimed "Well, Mr..
riff yOif