The Dillon tribune., 1882-04-01
Bots and Asshes.

Forty new cases Of smallpox and five |
deaths reported in Cincinnati on last Tues. |
day.
Assassin Guiteau spends his leisure
time in reading newspaper accounts Of ex.
ecutions.
The Democrats, in Congress, have de.
c,d.d to oppose the admission OF Dacota as
\ state OF the Union.
F. A. ireland, merchant of Salt Lake,
has been nominated by the President as
u. s. Mar al for Utah.
Colombia wants to be relieved Of the
obligations impos ID BY the treaty Of 1886
with the Z nited States.
Telegrar',ic reports from the overAowed
aud inundated districts, in the South, re.
mort much suffering among the people.
On the 2oth, the Senate confirmed
Henry =. Armstrong Of Kansas, as agent
at the " Agency, Montana.
'i..iug Bull wants to be granger, and
,nxioas to see his people tiliiny the soil
H.. the Yankton Agency reservation.
The funeral Of Longfellow, the poet.
took place at Boston, ON March 26th. lie
was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Alec. II. Stephens will retire to private
III. at the expiration Of the present Con.
uress. The old man Is growing quite tee.
bile.
Railroad Commissioner Armstrong has
written letter favoring vigorous prosecu-
tion Of the suits against the Pacific rail-
roads.
Gov r. .ntlcn, Of Missouri has called
mn ezra ...ssion Of the legislature tor
April roth, for the purpose Of redi>tricting
the ST..
Til, publican Campaign Club was or.
paajz,.ei in Washington last Monday night
With J. A. Habb,ll, of Michigan, as chair
man.
One of the train robbers, named Laird
confined in the jail at Kansas CITY, has
turned states evidence, giving the entire
gang away.
Rev. Henry Ward Bcecher, in his las
SUNDAYS sermon, called our National leg
i>lature "a fool Congress" for passing tn
Chinese law.
Lucretia A. Garfield, Sarah c. Polk ane
lula 6. Taylor widows of ex-Presidents
nave each been voted a pension OF 5000 I
year by Congress.
It is reported now that General Beal
will be appointed Secretary Of the Nav,
instead Of w. E. Chandler, as has been pre-
viously understood.
The telegraph announces the death q
Longfellow, the Poet. Since the death q
Byron no English poet enjoyed So wild
popularity as Longtellow.
It is thought at Washington that Teller
nomination tor Secretary Of the Interio
will be sent in about next Monday. 1t
understood that kirkwoOd will stay In uil
til that time.
Col. G. II. Mendell has made tavorabl
report to Congress upon project to pro
t.ct the navigable sire; ms of California
from the effects of hydraulic mining.
Agent Miles writes that the crops of tn
Arrapal,oes and Cheyennes. last yea
failed entirely, and unless rations are l.
sued, a disastrous outbreak is likely.
The Judge Advocate General has sui
mitted u report to the Secretary OF WA
holding that Sergeant Mason Is not Lawful
" confined, and that the proceedings
the Cou,t Martial; that condemned hin
were invalid.
A dis,atch, from Fort Assinaboine: say
that the column OF tbs EiRetseath kAtAf
trv, u.,tier o,n,uand q S1Pss tksi1e On y
18th of March, drove the Indians az
half-breeds over the Montana line, and I'M
tine British possessions. ,....
A dispatch Of the goth, says TINT II
Cincinnati and New Orleans packet Go'
en- City, en- route from. New Orleans
Cincinnati, burned at the Memphis what
Between 20 and 50 lives were lost, pr'l
cipally women and children.