Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1882-11-24
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NEwSs,OMnENT1.
FARGO people are much dissatisfied with
the management of the street railway. '
The Miles City Journal says all parties who
voted illegally at the late election are to be
prosecuted. Good enough.
PRoF. .tt1s..,EY DRAPER, the distinguished
scientist and professor OF analytical ehemis-
try in the New York university, is dead.
CLARlAoa w. TEsw111AaER, of Hillsdale,
Mich, captain Of the famous boat crew of
that place, is coming to Dakota to live.
The TR1BuNE's rural contemporaries, in
view of the longer evenings which are near
at hand, have begun the usual literary society
boom.
MINNEAPOLIS Tribune: The fact should
not be lost sight of that for all the cutting
and slashing of the railroad magnates the
blood must evs ntually come from the peo-;
pie. -" +. 4@s.
The Grand Forks P!aindealer notices that
the Nelson papers in the Fifth Minnesota
district are not satisfied with Kindred's ac-
knowledgement of his defeat, but keep right
on abusing Kindred just as though the can
vass had but just commenced. -
The Boston Post, which is democratic, did
not like Buffers nomination.. and does not
exult over his election. It :.,ys frankly that
his election il not at ell I: democratic tri-
umph, ana that there are ttorns in his path
as executive, if not lions in the way.
WHEN Sir Garnet Wolseley re-entered Lon
don after his victory in Egypt he was pre-
ceded by the duke of Connaught, who, al
though queens son, was after all only
staff officer under Gen. Wolseley. We're the
would have been soundly snubbed, the Lon
don Truth thinks, for his impertinence.
PRESIDENT HAYES, of the tariff com Ii ission
says that Notwithstanding the newspal ers to
the contrary, the commission has been Going
a good work, which will be recognized when
the report is submitted to congress. 1t is
understood draft of the bill covering the
changes in the tariff which the commission
think necessary will also be submitted.
A WASHINGTON paper published state
ment that Wilbur +. Storey, of the Chicago
Times, he'd greatly failed in body and mind,
was little better than an imbecile; that every
thing he did was under the direction of the
spirit of an Indian girl, and that his paper
had greatly deteriorated. At the head of the
Times editorial columns Storey prom ounces
the assertion a bohemian lie.
IT is reported in New York that the North
Pacific railroad company have sold their en-
tire land grant west of the Missouri river,
amounting to over three million acres, to
syndicate of English capitalists at three dol
lars per acre on preferred stock. 1t ls sup
posed that eome of the officials are in the
scheme, and that the price of all land will be
largely and immediately advanced.
The Helena Herald thinks the homestead
law of the country is responsible for the i'm
mense foreign immigration of few years
past. The people of the old country are not
now oppressively governed, and as general
thing they have nothing to fear from perse-
cutiop OF account of their religious belief;
they are land hungry, and so they come to the
United States, where land can be had for the
asking. !.
MILES O1rY Journal: A steam printing
house and morning daily paper, contain
ing associated press reports, where but a
short time ago Sitting Bull and his blood
thirsty Sioux roamed in search of dtfendle less
people to cruelty murder, where but a short
time ago the memorable battle was fought
which robbed the frontier of the gallant
Custer, is but marker of the booming pro-
eressiveness of life in this far west.
The Congregational church at Easton,
Mass, appears to have pro6ted by the recent
election in that state. Oliver Ames, the re-
publican candidate for lieutenant governor,
promised to give $1,000 to the society pro-
yided he was elected, if the successful canli-
date for governor would do the same. Ames
was elected, and General Butler, having
heard the story, at once sent his check for
that amount to the treasurer of the church,
equal amount. The church people can stand
it if Butler and Ames can.
Dr. Do LEWIS, the hygiene crank, in the
North American Review makes fierce assault
on the corset, condemning it as prolific
cause of disease among women. This calls
out reply from Minneapolis woman, who
SAYS corsets are comfortable, and not at all.
Injurious when properly worn. She concludes
her letter as follows: 'And, by the way,
ladies, do not put too much faith in what
bio Lewis says. He IS an esteemed relative
and Idenounce him as a bright, good natured
fraud always preaching but never practiclng
the same. For instance he pronounces hot
drinks and not bread unfit for use, and have
known him to drink three cups of hot coffee,
eat six hot biscuits and an immense piece of
rich mince pie all at one 10-minute railroad
lunch, and still his gastric organs knew no
disturbance! AS to his corset theory all his
tssisters, cousins and aunts," wear them to
my certain knowledge, and it il my humble
opinion he would be ashamed Of us all if we
did not"
THE friends of Gilmore, the Deadwood
murderer who is under sentence of death,
have succeeded in getting another respite for
him. Aspscial to the Pioneer Press says:
One of the hardest struggles for life ever
made is now making in the case Of James
Leighton Gilmore, who is now under death
sentence at Deadwood for numbering the
Mexican bull whacker, Bioente Oriz in June,
1879. Gilmore has been respited four times
since July, and Gov. Ordway, by direction of
the president, to-day issued another reprieve
staying the execution from next Friday until
Dec. Is. Gilmore has the strongest kind OF
influence at work in his behalf, or rather his