The Fremont County record., 1881-03-12
ASSAYS FOR THE WEEK.


ASSAYS FOR THE WEEK.
President: Garfield is overrun by Of
! fice-seekers.
A heavy snow storm prevailed in
Nebraska on tbe 7th.
One thousand iron workers are on
strike in Springfield, Illinois.
An armistice has been agreed upon
between the Beers and British.
Judge Bancroft Davis has accepted
the position of assistant secretary of
state.
The revised New Testament will be
published by the English University
presses in May.
Simon Cameron celebrated his
eighty-second birthday in Havana,
Cuba, on the Sth.
The president has nominated Hon.
Levi P. Morton to be United States
minister TO France.
A Colorado club has been organ
lied in Washington.
The newly elected United States
| senators were sworn in ON the 4tfi
and took their seats.
Twenty vessels were wrecked on
the coast of Scotland last week and
200 people were drowned.
The senate extended to General
| Hancock the use of the floor during
his recent visit to Washington.
A printer named Chas. F. Kurger,
from Leavenworth, Kansas, asrsob-
bed of 81 1897 in Chicago on the 9Th. y
| A terrible snow storm visited Wis
consin last week. Trains were
abandoned upon all of the railroads.
The president has nominated Ex-
Secretary of the Navy Golf, to be U.
S. district attorney for West Vir-
ginia.
The British government is enforc.
ing the coercion act in Ireland. A
large number of arrests have been
made.
pany has declared a dividend of one
and tbree-fourths per cent to be paid
on April 1st.
| Ex-President Hayes arrived at his
old home on Tuesday and was enthu-
siastically received by large nun.
Der of citizens.
The state insane asylum at Dan
vile, Pennsylvania, was destroyed
by fire on Saturday night last. Nc
lives were lost.
Connection was made between the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and
Southern Pacific railroads op Tues
day at ) 80 p. m.
President Garfield has sent large
number of nominations to the senate
Most of them are of consuls to cities
in foreign countries.
The governor of Iowa has appoint.
ed j. w. McDill to fill the uueXpired
term of Secretary Kirkwood in the
United States senate.
The city of Cassamacco, island OF
Ischia, of the coast of Italy, was de,
stroyed by an earthquake last Friday
In that and other towns 800 people
were killed.
A representative from every coun.
ty in Colorado called upon President
Garfield on Monday last. Speeche:
were made by Judge Belford and
Senator Teller.
At Almy, Wyoming, on the 4tl
twenty-five Cinnamon and two white
men were killed by an explosion o
gas in coal mine belonging to the
Union Pacific railroad company.
Dispatches from Kansas City, Pue
bio and other points say that through
trains to California over the Atchi
son, Topeka \ Santa Fe railroad will
commence running on the 18th, mex
Thursday.
The president has nominated anC
the senate has confirmed WIN. NJ
Evarts, a. G. Thurman and I. o
Howe commissioners on the part OF
the United States to the monetary
conference at Paris.
The first great wreck iii the histor,
of the Coney Island beach took plac,
on the Srd. An Italian bark wa
washed ashore and the crew, consist
ing of fifteen men, were all drowned
with one exception.
On the train, which conveyed Elk
President Hayes and family from
Washington, two people were killet
, and seventeen wounded by collision
+ near Baltimore. None of the ex-presi
dents family were injured.
About 100000 people witnessed the
inaugural of President Garfield
About 5000 attended the ball, anon,
the most prominent of whom wa.
General Hancock. The meeting be-
tween Garfield aud Hancock wa:
very cordial.
The house of representatives of the
Forty-sixth congress broke up ii
confusion because some of Its mem
bers had been prevented from enter
ing the capitol at the senate wing by
soldier who had been placed there
upon police duty.
The severest frost since the con
quest OF the country by the Spaniard
visited Antigua, Central America, OF
the 10th of February. Ice of respect
able thickness formed in water yes
sells. The leaves and branches Of tn,
coffee trees were blasted, and tho in
jury will not DO remedied for years
Standing sugar-cane was cut dow
The damage Is estimated At from on