Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1880-12-17
NEWS-NOTES.
-Parnell is IN a pickle.
Senator Lamar is very i'll.
"A scarcity of fuel is reported at Win

the last season.
The knights of the middle ages are
historically dark. .-.... .....
1t takes an old woman we'll versed in
herbs to give sage advice.
1t is rumored that n. B. Harwood
Will again resume business.
The November reduction of the pub
lie debt will exceed S2,0 600.
The Towpath club will participate in
the inaugural procession next March.
If Justice Hunt is retired, rumer says
Senator Edmunds, ofVermont, will succeed him.
Secretary Ramsey will hold two cab
met positions but ten days, as the law prohibits
a longer period.
Another land league demonstration
was held at Craughwell, Ireland Monday, amid
much excitement.
The secretary Of the navy asks for
900 for the expenses of his department
the next fiscal year.
Gen. Howard is Christian gentle
man, and will do honor to the position as COM
mandant at West Point.
"A French priest is raising subscrip-
tion to aid in dredging for the remains OF Pha-
raoh's band in the Red Sea.
The government compounded a fel-
ony with Brockaway, releasing him upon the
surrender of the counterfeit plates.
1t is rumored that johnny" Daven-
port will be appointed superintendent of police
to succeed Mr., Walling, Of New York.
Frank Leslie's will has been admit
ted to probate, the surrogate deciding Leslie to
have been Of sound mind when it was made.
The Irish question grows more
serious hourly. The whole country is agitated
and excited by the threat of the land leagues.
Since the first instant Chicago pack
ers have slaughtered and salted 935,OOO hogs,
against 707, 900 for the corresponding period in
1879.
1t has been decided to coin monthly
ten million dollars of 81 and $40 gold coins until
the $780, 100000 of gold bullion in the treasury is
exhausted.
Thomas A. Edison will now light the
City of New York with electricity at cost Of
!S2,OOO,0oO. So Edison says. More light on the
subjectlater.
Justice Strong, Of the U. S. supreme
court, has resigned, and an Ohio man temporari-
ally residing in Alabama, appointed. His name
is VIM B. Woods.
Secretary Thompson makes a strong
point when he says that it is as legtim ate for
foreign capital to build a canal as it is to build
railroads in this country.
1.-THE Maritime canal company ofNic-
araugua'' has been organized. Gen. Grant and
F. P. Billings, president of the Northern Pacific
railroad are among the board Of directors.
The New York Graphic says that
President Porter discontinued Sunday morning
prayer at Yale, because they were found to in
terfcre seriously with the Sunday night poker
games.
Emma Abbott, with her superior ope-
ra company, will attempt the feat of pleasing
the aesthetic tastes of st. Paul1tes next week.
She must beware Of ''them literary fellers,'' or
suffer schorching at their hands.
Hon. w. D. Kelly has prepared bill
as substitute for Fernando foods, providing
1Of pCPuliI UOuuS tCu yCAAo W Auu. IAC AAAA
mum denomination to be $40, and hear three
per cent interest. A slight improvement on
Mr.. Woods idea.
Tenders for $17,500,000 Indian three
and a-half per cent bonds were opened recently
and bids therefor were made to the extent Of
S7s 900, GOO from SO to 1044. If this be done
with an Indian loan certainly the United States
ought to float loan at three per cent.
The executors of the late A. T. Stew
art will erect theological colleges at Garden City,
L. l., for male and female, and cndcavor to make
tAat suburban city the ecclesiastical center of
the world. Money to the amount Of s., 600
has been appropriated to endow the institutions.
Col. Jarome Bonaparte is spending
the winter in Washington. He is grandson Of
the king ofWestpha'ia, who in his early days
married the beautiful Miss Patterson, of Balt-
more, and who was afterwards separated from
her by decree of the Emperor Napoleon, his
brother.
Governor St. John, Of Kansas, states
that the negro exodus from the south to Kansas
continues. Of40,0o0 wte settled il, that State
only 500 are receiving aid. The governor says
that when once they were off the relief associa-
toms hands they never came back and many own
houses of their own within two years. ,