Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1881-05-27

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Bebel, member of the German
Reichstag, says that ''the German
people have now only one want,
and that is for money enough to get
:. to America.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is proba-
bly, on her death bed at the home
Of her sister, in Springfield. The
secretary Of war will repair to the
bedside of his dying mother this
week.
The Chicago Times had the revis-
ed edition Of the New Testament
telegraphed from New York, and
published it as matter Of news
the day following its appearance in
that city. That IS what we call
enterprise.
The Swedish government contem-
plates legislating against the exodus
to the Northwest. They will find
it necessary to build Chinese wall
around the kingdom and conscript
all of their able bodied male sub
jects do guard duty to check the ebb
of emigration.
1t appears that Gould is now salts
fed. With the help of Willard he
has complete control of the Pacific
roads from the Gulf to the British
Provinces, owns the whole telegraph
business, including a cable to Europe,
and is now like Alexander, weeping
for more worlds to conquer.
The reports from Ireland are very
unfavorable for the future of that
island. The prisons are full, the
people under the lead of demagogues
are on the verge of open hostility,
and, in fact, in some cases have
defed the military. In many parts
the crops are neglected, and gloom
rests upon the whole land.
In reading the reports from AL
bany one is likely to be confused.
In one paragraph we find that
Conkling's reelection is sure, while
in the next it is stated positively
that the administration will succeed
in defeating him. We are content
ed to wait for the vote before ex-
pressing our opinion on the result.
1t would seem by the dispatches
from New York that Willard has Ut
terly routed Billings in the contest
for supremacy in the control Of the
N. P. road. One dispatch intimates
that long i'll health and trouble has
unsettled the latter's mind. From
orders he has issued at times we have
reason to believe this to be true.
Edward Everett Hale, in a SER
mon at Brooklyn Sunday upon the
revision of the New Testament,
argued that the text has been SO
changed as to sustain Unitarian
views, and declared that "the alte.
rations will end forever the idolatry
for a book which has been a dead
weight on Professionalism for three
centuries.
Decoration day will be more gen.
orally observed on Monday next
than for several years. Especially
is this the case in the West, where
preparations are making in nearly
every city, and every graveyard
that contains the remains of one
who fell for his country will be vi
tied by former comrades and friends
This should be the sacred day Of
the American year.
One of the most terrible disasters
Of this disastrous year, occurred
Tuesday at London, Canada, the
excursion steamer Victoria, with
six hundred persons Oh board "col-
lapsing' and precipitating her liy-
ing freight into the waters Of the
river, to struggle beneath the debris
Of the wrecked shell which had
borne many there to the watery
portals Of their grave. One hun.
dred and seventy-fve persons are
known to have met their death in
this unexplained casualty, and the
scenes as the bodies were rescued
were heartrending, the catastrophe
carrying desolation into scores of
house holds.
Press and Dakotaian: The charges
made against Governor Ordw: y by
Delegate Pettigrew are being gener-
ally commented on by the press of the
territory, but we do not understand
that they are creating much of a stir
at Washington. The subject has
there been dismissed with the sugges-
ton to the governor that he could
come back to Dakota and give him
self no uneasiness. The charge were
the outgrowth Of failure upon the
part of the delegate to fulfill certain
political promises, with which the
governor may and may not have in
terfered. One thing is very certain
that this official quarrel is not relish.
ed by the people, and their represen-
tative at Washington, if he acts with
prudence, will avoid them in the flu
ture.
Bismarck Tribune: In business,
when an employe feels that his SER
vices are absolutely necessary in
order to insure success, it always
pays to bounce him. So, in politics,
when any person feel that they are
necessary to the life of the party,
the party would be far healthier
without their services. Roscoe
Conkling ought to be taught that
he is not necessary to the life of the
party in New York. Ifhis disaffec-
ton loses the State to the party,
let it be so. The party and the coun-
try can stand it's loss better now
than at any other time. A party
ought to suffer defeat that would
encourage such arrogance as that
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