Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-03-20
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The secretary of war says be will nu-
tho,,ze the Mississippi river commission
to expcnd Sl,oO0,oo0, if necessary, in re-
pairing the levees on the lower Missis.
sippi during the present emergency, and
to prevent overflows by the rising rivers
He thinks immediate repairs may avert
disaster.
News has been received OF . disastrous
snowslide at Cory. small mining camp
in Conunirum gulch, seventy miles north
of Leadville, in which five miners were
Killed. Their names are j. F. Fsle.
Mil!ard Thorn, j. E. Steele. Geo. Morris
aud j. P. Steel. The avalanche was
several hundred feet wide and fiity feet
deep.
Blunt Times: Those pnpeis in unor.
ganized counties that have kind words
tor Governor Ordway generally exhaust
the stock by the time counties are organ.
ized; and then there are few 30 poor as
to do him reverence-just about enough
in each county to be awarded the adver.
tisiug of the insurance companies con.
tlollel by his son. ~
Secretary Chandler has written letter
to Representative Cox, chairman OF the
committee on naval affairs, strongly op.
posing the second investigation into the
Jeanette Artic expedition. He says the
friends OF Jerome Collins had every op.
portunity before the court Of inquiry to
ascertain the facts in the case; that in
his opinion the proposed re.opening Of
the case is highly inexpedient.
The Brooklyn health department, at
the request Of the Society to Prevent
Cruelty to Children, analized the candy
known as rock aud rye. The chemist
found the candy favored with essence Of
whisky, or fusll oil in proportion of 1853
grains to the pound. The fatal dose of
fusil oil is from Ia to l.6 grains, or about
the quantity found in two pounds of the
candy. A smaller quantity produces
dizziness, headache. sense of falling and
suffocation. A good deal of this candy
is purchased by school children.
The house committee on judiciary
ordered favorable report on Mr.. fuckers
bill, limiting the time for the presenta.
tion of claims for back pay or bounty due
officers and soldiers, or any other person,
for services in the late civil war, or any
other previous war, to three years from
the passage of the act. The bill also pro.
vides that all other existing claims
against the United States. excepting
claims for pensions, shall be presented
within Six years from the passage of the
act. Claims against the United States
hereafter shall be presented within six,
years from the time they accrue.
Bismarck Tribune: Capt. Marratta
the only rock-ribbed, dyed'in.the.wool
democrat of north Dakota. thinks that
Tilden will be nominated by acclamation
by the democratic convention, that he
will then and there decline, and that
Senator Bayard will then be nominated
and afterwards elected. The captain
says he ia glad to welcome Alex. Nc
Kenzie back into the democratic ranks,
but thinks all converts should be taken
on probation. as in tho Methodist church.
Capt. Marratta thinks that Gen. Grant is
the strongest man the republicans can
nominate.
The general impression in Washington
is that the president will sign the Fitz
John Porter bill. Though very large
Of the members of his party
voted against it, those who know Presi.
lent Arthur best and his feelings and
views upon this and other topics, say
;hat he will sign 1t, or at least will not
7sto it. Perhaps he may permit it to
become law by expiration of the limit.
The hearty endorsement of Gen. Grant,
both before and after the passage of the
dill, will doubtless have strong inau-
snce with the president, while the fact
hat Senator Sabin, the chairman of the
rational committee, supported the bill,
will not lessen the Likelihood of the pres.
dents consenting to its becoming law.
The story printed in Washington, that
Secretary Lincoln had threatened to re-
ign in case the president signed the bill
8 discredited. Secretary Lincoln would
lot be seen on the subject. but
hose near him pronounce it ridiculous
They say that Mr.. Lincoln
8 not the man to go about making
threats of what he would or would not
10 in any case; that in the Fitz John
Porter case he has not taken any such
Itand as that attributed to him in some
If the newspapers. He has nothing to
10 With the Porter restoration, it being
IN act or congress lnstructing the presi-
lent. and having no more relation to the
secretary of war than to General Sheri-
Ian.
Wide Awake Druggists.