The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-04-14
NEWS NOTES.

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NEWS NOTES.
| Ex-senator Thurman of Ohio has broken
his arm.
Burns beat Spraguc for the govcrnship OF
Rhode Island.
Four or five thousand bricklayers are OF,
strike in Chicago.
The Pacific slope was visited on the 3Otll
Of March by all earthquake shock,
The steamer Rosebud, of the Coulson
| line, left Yankton for Benton on the Sd
inst.
The Apaches still continue their butcher
les and nothing has yet been heard from
| Black and his command.
A mulatto boy Of sixteen years Of age
was hanged at Leesburg, Va, the other day
Cor raping a ten-year-old school girl.
At the city election held in Minneapolis
| on the Sd inst, a strong majority was polled
in favor Of appropriations for public
parks.
The hotel keepers of Bismarck fear they
will not be able to accommodate the rush
of immigrants who are expected there this
spring.
An explosion Of gas in the cellar oi the
Palace hote, in San Francisco, severely
burned number of persons, two of whom
may die.
Mandan has appropriated 500 for the
purpose of equipping her fire department
with hook and ladder truck and Babcock
extinguishers.
Notwithstanding that they kept pretty
constantly on the move. the members of
the Dakota capital commission have been
served with quo warranto papers.
The Northern Pacific has reduced its
freight rates from st. Paul, Minneapolis,
Duluth, or Superior to Livingston to the
following figures: First class. from $3.50
to So .95 per cwt; fourth class, from 81 to
2.7O. To Miles City, first class, from $3.50
to $685. fourth class, from ;;I.75 to $l.G5.
To Bismarck, first class, from $l.1J to 81 go
fourth class, from Sl.10 to 81 Live stock
To Bismarck, from from $125 to 500 per
car; agricultural implements, nails, pork
etc, from $40 to $3.50 per car; flour, grain,
etc, sfrom 55c to 40c per 100, and a general
reduction on all other articles. Car loads
to Livingston, Billings, and Miles City will
remain the same as published last week.
The cause of Queen Victoria s attachment
to John Brown, which has existed ever
since the death of the prince consort, has
always been mystery. Brown was an
honest and decidedly bibulous Scotchman
of perhaps five and fifty, and is said to have
borne resemblance to Prince .Albcrt-in
visible, however to all eyes save those Of
her majesty. In no other way have the
court gossips been able to account for the
fact that wherever the Queen was seen,
there, too, was John Brown. They were
constant companions. The greater the ex-
postulating anmosity kindled in the bos-
oms Of illustrious subjects and court atten-
dants by Browns oft-repcated breaches of
etiquette, the more firmly did the Queen
cling to him and invest that humble, COM
anatomy with the grace of royal
favor. 1t was entirely proper for him,
when riding beside the carraige of her maj |
csty, to bend and snatch the opera fglass !
from the royal fingers. that he might survey |
the surrounding landscape to.better ad-
vantage. To be found by the Queen dead |
drunk and sprawled across her very path |
way seemed rather to constitute a new |
claim upon her confidential regard than to |
afiix a..black mark upon the credit roll of
this festive and fortunate Scot. He follow
ed her like shadow, from place to place,
in public and in private, behind her chair /
at her meals, and in the rumble of her C.
quipage in her drives. His shade may be
more gratified in that it leaves only one
sincere mourner and the greatest sovereign
on earth than it would be should the whole
world assume sackcloth and ashes in his
With the election of a United States SEN
ator from New Hampshire in June the last
Of the class whose terms began on the 4th
Of March will have been chosen. In the
elections that have taken place the Repub-
I
Judge Davis gives way to Shelby NJ. Gull
om, and in Oregon where Senator Grover
was beaten by Joseph n. Dolph. Rcpub
ican loss occurs in Louisiana, where kel
ogg is succeeded by Randall Gibson The
lose in Virginia. where Riddle
berger, the readjustcr, takes Johnsons seat.
Their gain in Louisiana is offset by their
loss in Oregon, so thatthey really suffer a
net loss of one seat, while the Republicans
enjoy net gain of one. The independent
party hereafter is changed from David Dav-
s. and Malone to Malone and Riddleber-
ger. This will distribute the present senate
IS follows: Republicans, thirty weight; Dem
ocrats, thirty six; independents, two. OF
he twenty-five senator's just elected, four
ecn were reelected, ten of them being
Democrats and four Republicans. Of the
welve new senator's, five, Cullom, of Illi-
lois and Wilson, Of Iowa, Republicans;
md Colquit, Of Georgia. Gibson Of Louis
ana, and Kenna of West Virginia, Demo-
Gratis, have been members Of the lower
house Seven are 'sncw" men, that is; they
nave had no experience in congress. All
If them are wealthy men. Three of them,
Bowen of Colorado, Palmer of Michigan,
md Sabin Of Minnesota, are millionaircs.
Dulph Of Oregon is associated with Henry
Willard in his railroad and steamboat en-
erprises Riddlcberger is Mahone's lieu