Bismarck weekly tribune., 1884-12-26

VOL. y. No 80.
NEWS COMMENTS.
The Standard Oil company employs
$1,000 men.
Hon. WM. M. EvARTs wants the New
York senatorship.
MALTESE cats are again to take the
place of pug dogs.
JOHN KELLY, the Tamany sachem,
will be GA years old April 81.
Sixty MILLIONS will 60 to pensioners
during the current fiscal year.
JAY GOULD will 20 to New Orleans in
his yacht Atlanta in February.
The editor of Punch, MI. Burnand, has
among his "Happy Thoughts" eleven un-
married daughters.
Poor New York girls get but thirty
cents dozen for making shirts, and
still people wonder at crime.
CoNaREssMEN at Washington are be-
ing flooded with requests for the passage
of some sort of bankruptcy bill.
The office of the superintendent of the
dining car service on the Northern Pa
cifc has been removed from jamestown
to st. Paul.
The eldest son of the Prince of Wales,
heir-presumptive to the British throne,
will attend Presil dent Cleveland's inaugu-
ration.
LIEUTENANT DANNENHowER brought
home to his mother knit bed-spread,
that he bought of young Siberian girl,
not quite finished.
H. T. PRICE, Tennessee farmer, has a
coat made in 1888 by President Andrew
johnson. It will he sent to the New
Orleans exposition.
Mr.. HENDRICKS kissed forty-six young
women at st. Mary's Ohio, last week.
The Indiana statesman still imagines he
is at the head of the ticket.
The managing editor of the st. Paul
Day is considerably more of a man than
the editor of the st. Paul Despatch, and
the former wears dresses too.
The Press and Dakotaian says: "The
various temperance organizations of Da-
kota in executive session, through their
representatives at Huron, have appointed
delegates to stand guard over the legis-
lature at the coming session.
MILES City JOURNAL: Dakota has
more intelligence to the square yard
than South Carolina to the square mile.
The latter, however, was not allowed to
20 out of the Union nor is the former
permitted to come into the same,
LIEUTENANT ScHwATKA says Alaska
was good purchase. 1t already pays
5 per cent on the 100000 investment,
and will do better. It has great rivers
and sea coast greater than all rest of
the United States, with almost mex
haust1ble supplies Of timber.
III HAS been decided by the house COM
nf1ttee on postofices and rost-roads to
recommend the extension of the free de-
delivery system 70 a|l cities of 10000 in
habitants, and to all postoffices where re.
c,ipts exceed $4,000 per annt1nd.
FARGO DEMooRAT: Democrats desir.
ing to attend the inaugural ceremonies
at Washington, and who wish to take ad-
vantage of reduced rates secured by the
committee, should correspond with Capt.
D. w. Martha, of Bismarck. All letters
should reach him by Feb. 5, as a special
train will leave Chicago on the 18th in
order to arrive in time to witness the un-'
yelling of the Washington monument on
the 23d. Complete arrangements will be
made for the accommodation OF all who
desire to attend by notifying Capt.
Maratta within the time specified.
"A PIERRE despatch to the Chicago Tri-
sbune reads as follows: The slander
;heaped upon Da ota by Senator Vest OF
Missouri. regarding the admission OF
Dakota has created q great deal of i'll
feeling among Dakotans, and large in
>dignation meeting was held here today,
in which the leading citizens, including
democrats, expressed themselves bitterly.
RESOLUTIONS were passed denouncing Mr..
Vest. The jobbers have agreed to cut St.
Louis merchants from their list. sena-
S tor Vest sowed the wind and st. Louis
merchants will reap whirlw;nd.