The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1881-12-31

mania is settled
Building operations In Chicago the pas,
year have cost $11,soo,ooo.
President Arthur received 4 number o.
callers at his home Monday.
A band of Arabs made a cattle raid ON
Sunday within sight Of the walls of kair.
waun.
Corkhill received Monday by express
from Kansas, package found to contain q
very ingentously devised gag for Guiteau
which was made out Of corn cob.
WAsHINoToN, Dec. 77.-The distribu.
ton Of standard silver dollars for the week
ended December 24th, was 41I,48o, against
500 4o7 for the corresponding week last
year.
Scoville IL In receipt Of several letters,
one containing q miniature gibbet with
Gniteau suspeneded upon It. Another con-
tained number of liver pills labelled
"Wholesale advise for Guiteau."
There was in Chicago, IN Christmas day,
notable absence OF criminal events The
police reports only give two suicides. G.
A. Tilton, carriage finishec, and'a religious
crank who shot himself and Miss r. Gillett
A special from Washington says: Of
the 3so bill introduced In two DAYS in the
House, California presented 70, Colorado
., Nevada B Oregon IA, Dakota ., Idaho 9,
Montana 8, New Mexico 3 and Wyoming !.
The prosecuting Attorney declares that
he will insist upon having Guiteau remov.
ed to the prisoners dock If he undertakes
70 renew the TRADES Of abuse whic:, ne has
INDUCED In since the opening Of the trial,
and especially last week.
The japanese government is about to es.
tablish . Central Bank with capital ol
$2ooooooo. The object 10 be accom-.
plished Il to render the japanese govern.
iment independent OF foreign banks, and
TO encourage direct trade.
Appeals have been taken in sixty per
cent. Of the land cases decided by the assis.
tant Commissioners, and there aie now on
the docket 600 appeals. The Chief Com.
missioners will sit for the first time as an
Appeal Court at Belfast on the 10th of
January.
The bonded warehouse of Covert, Acker
h Co., ~ to n South street, New York,
stored with silks, tobacco and spirits, burned
Monday evening. The loss is said 10 prob-
ably be in the neighborhood of $2,ooo,ooo.
It is believed to be covered for the most
part with insurance. Several explosions
occurred.
The only change In the complexion Of
the Guiteau trial seems not to be in the
amount Of the prisoners cheek, but a
marked WEAKNESS on the part Of the court
and prosecution In listening to the brilliant
sallies Of wit from the dotk. 1t Is now be.
twentieth century.
A lawyer long siilled in watching juries
who has been present throughout the Gui.
foAs tvS 70 hat thA S,,rv, mill
vict. He says from his study If their faces
he thinks for time after the trial began,
they were nearly equally divided. He
now thinks they are unit and will find
a verdict of guilty.
PHILIPPE, Marshall, & Co., of London,
have just concluded the purchase Of l,3oo-
ooD acres Of land from the State of Missis-
sippi; 10000 acres are known as level
lands, located mostly in the Yazoo delta,
comprising some OF the richest cotton and
timber land In the South. The intention
10 to improve and co:onize 1t.
Special dispatches report brutal mur-
der Of "a man named Black, Deputy Tax
Collector, last Friday afternoon at Hamil.
ton. Boone county, Kentucky. Mitchell
Rich and Pascal Lumpkius had quarreled
over trifling matter at a saloon and
Lumpkins cut Rich, not seriously. Black,
% an officer, interfered to keep the peace,
when Lumpkins literally disemboweled
him. Lumpkins escaped by swimming
the river amid shower Of bullets fired
at him.
Commander Cheyne of the United States,
Sir Joshua Macdonald ard Sir Samuel
Leonard Tilley, Of England, are engaged
In scheme for visiting the North Pole by
balloon. The cost of the exhibition is es-
tmated at $4,000. Lieutenant Schwatka
has arranged to accompany the expedition,
provided he can obtain the consent of the
Government. The three balloons, which
will cost $4,000, will Se made in England
and will be shipped to this country. New
York will be the starting point OF the ex-
pedition, which Is expected to start in
June next.
The cost Of mail transportation for the
year ending June goth, 1881, was $I9,323,-
300. Tie cost Of the star service for 1881,
was $6os7,3sS; decrease, ~ per cent in
cost compared with the amount expended
during 1880. OF the cost Of this service for
1881, It Is thought that an estimate can be
safely placed at $7,s5o,ooo, a decrease Of
$6so,ooo from the appropriation for 1882,
and $7o7,64s more than the rate Of expend'
iture to June, goth. 1881. Had no orders
~S"u tsuooC SSVuNuSk sAS "sns o.. v W. ss'SsS
would be needed, at the rate Of past In.
creases, about 100000 for 1889.
A Portland dispatch says: The Oregon
Ian publishes an interview with Lieut..
Schwatka, regarding the cruise Of the Jean
nette. He believes she wintered at Leak
hor Island, or near by, on the Siberian
coast, passing en- route south of Wrangle
Land, which would account for no traces
Of her being found by the Corwin or
Rodgers. Her previous discoveries cannot
be inferred from her position when last
heard from, but NAV be extensive and In.
teresting. DeLong did not follow the axis
Of the warm Japanese currant north Of
Behring's strait, which should he dime be.
fore that avenue is condemned as imprac-
ticable.
A Washington letter, evidently written
from Stalwart standpoint, discusses the
question of Elaine's candidacy in 1884. It
says Blaine though out Of Office, is not by
any means out Of politics. He is as active
and ambitious as ever. He finds himself
opposed, however, by the man in the White
House who is as great politician as himself
and who is making no mistakes, and who
knows that his acts arc being ..eenlv Oh.
served bv Blaine and that errors will be
used to Blaine's advantage. Blaine is es.
pecially anxious not to have Chandler ap-
pointed to Cabinet position. He would