The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-12-15
HERE AND THERE.

MISS VIII was QlarfleQ 10 Mr.
Shall in Alley IN county, Mich, re
Gently.
Sitting Bull is now very good
Indian. He lends himself as a cur
iosity to Dakota church fairs.
The four buildings of the New
Orleans Worlds Industrial and Cot
ton Exposition will cost s255,OOO.
Thirty cases of diphtheria have
been reported in Waterbury, Vt.
The schools are closed, and much
excitement prevails.
The Connecticut Legislature is to
be asked to repeal the law requir-
ing passenger trains to come to a
full stop at dfawbridges.
Nebraska's school board has Z
surplus Of $18l 900 from the sale of
school lands, which three month hs
hence will reach S3O ID.
The Missouri river, which forms
a new bed for itself with every
ireshet, is threatening to make
Leavenworth an insular city.
The Constitution of Michigan
prohibits any form of religious SER
vice in either house of her Legisia-
ture. SO they don't elect chap
lain.
Gambetta's son will enter shortly
Oh a military curriculum in Eng
land. He has receive the greater
part of his education in that coun-
try.
Henry Smith built house in
Virginia City at cost of $2O.WoO.
1t has been Sd to Robert fulton
for 81, so AMI he is moving it to
Reno.
The Duke OF Edinburgh, having
apparently given up the idea of
again going to sea, intends farming
on an extensive scale. and breeding
cattle.
The Detroit Escnins Journal
lates its. afternoon editions 13
O'Clock. ii ., clock and SO on, its
last edition being issued at II (O
O'Clock.
Postmasters have been forbi dden
to aid pension attorneys by fur
nishing them with lists of soldiers
and others supposed to be entitled
To pensions.
The greatest catch Of eels OH re-
cord has been made by the Hick-
man brothers ofSouth Dennis, n. J..
who speared 900 large ones in four
hours recently.
During the past season the lum-
Der mills in Ottaw wa, Can, have cut |
34O, 100000 feet, and the mills out
side the city in the Ottawa Valley |
cut 4UO,OJO,JOJ feet.
The new Lord Mayor of Lon Il on
declines tn take JuJ lis sVl.e car
riages Oh Sunday because it would
give work to his servants when he
wishes them to have a day oi rest
Andrew Mcclellan, a well -:c-.ar-
mer, age one hundred and sixteen,
and Mrs. Martha Wilson, a widow
OF twenty seven, were married at
Blythwood, ). c., one day last
week.
Mrs. Ruth Everett of Salt Lake
City says that the Utah women,
who signed the petition to Con-
gress protesting against any legis
lation upon polygamy, did SO under
coercion,
The Ameer of Afghanistan has
eau sci t, d. execlta Il no.r of
persons suspected of tavoring the
project of AYoob Khan, and has ex-
peiieu a nu.lib II of others from the
country.
The German minister of war has
rece ..ilv made u tour Of inspection
Of the defense OF A! SAGE Lorraine,
and has ordered an IN :rease in the
number of guns at Ne: anl Died
enhoten.
Mr.. Jacob Thomson, who was
President Buchanan's Secretary of
the Inteior, threatens to write a his
tory OF his Canada Mission,"
IN the interest oi the
late Coufeieracy.
The time lock on the safe of the
bank i'll Cunningham, Mo-, having
run down, the blnA's o.licer hal to
send ;ne safe t. the factory where
it was made. Tney suspcn led bus-
ness until it was returned.
To say that procession was
three hours in passing a given
point doesn't, according to the Chi
cago Times, necessarily show that
it was a long one, since the given
point might have been beer sa-
loon.
The income Of the irarl pro-
perties in Philadelphia and alse-
where in Pennsylvania has been in
creased over s7OO.OOJ in the past