Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-11-20

VOL. Is. NO. "a
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Townsend, Mont, had an earthquake
that started cars on the track.
General Fremont is reported in poor
health and almost in abject poverty.
Senator Frye, Of Maine, vouches for the
statement that Blaine is out of politics.
The widow of Baldwin, the great loco
motive builder, has $2,OOO,OOO to live upon.
Small pox continues to take from 800 to
400 lives week in Montreal and vicinity.
Fort Benton offers 100000 bonus for
branch railroad from the Canadian Pacific.
The seasons cattle shipments from Mon
tana, for the year, amounted to about TO-
600 head. ~-s
In Thibet the women do all the hard
work, leaving the men to do the visiting
and gossiping.
Spurgeon has cut down his allowance of
cigars, and says his health is much better
in consequence.
An alligator two and half feet long was
found the other day in the Pittsburgh city
hall water pipe.
Deadwood contains character who
mined in Alaska twenty-five years ago
and averaged SO day.
Rev. Mr.. Kennard says he knows of 200
gambling places in Chicago. More observ-
ing than most preachers
The papers used in the trial of Aaron
Burr for treason are deposited in the new
government building in Cincinnati.
: North Carolina is as large as England,
yet it has only 100000 inhabitants, while
the " tight little isle" contains 26,OOOOOO.
Pat Bennett and John Mahoney, of Wash
ington city, engaged in quarrel. The lat
ter kicked Bennett in the abdomen, causing
death.
1t is said a matrimonial bureau has been
established at Sioux Falls, but it is not
stated whether Caldwell is interested in
the scheme or not.
A Washington special says there is no
show for Ziebach. He has too many in
dorsements. Some of them, in fact, too
many of them, are similar.
There is new sect in Canada, whose
doctrine is that women have no souls, be-
cause the bible nowhere speaks of women
angels. This is curious fact.
The Yellowstone Journal says: Butte
will be dull camp this winter unless the
rate on salt is reduced and Commissioner
Sparks rescinds his timber cutting order.
The Northern Pacific road has shipped
over it's western division since May and
up to October 1st $4,000 cattle, s6823 sheep
and $3.50 horses to points east of the Rocky
mountains.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher says that SO
long as mans memory runneth not to the
contrary" he has not, with but one excep-
ton, prepared manuscript of sermon or
speech. The exception was the eulogy at
the Grant obsequies in New York.
The legislature of the state of Dakota
will convene at Huron, December 14th, this
year, according to the schedule. The con-
stitution makes the regular meeting in JAN
uary, but it is desired to get the senators to
Washington as soon as possible.
Judge Durham, first comptroller of the
treasury, has decided that each United
States marshal is entitled to compensation
amounting to $4,000 a year, provided the
fees of his Office amount to that sum after
paying his deputies and all other Office ex-
penses. Deputy marshals. he decides, are
entitled to three-fourths of their earnings
after deducting necessary expenses in
Cured in the discharge of their duties.
A Wheeling, W. Va, dispatch of the 18th
says: Last night at the Niagara skating
rink, Bellaire, Ohio, Kate St. John, aged
10 years, fell while skating, and was pro-
nounced dead by physicians. She was re-
moved to her home and preparations for her
burial begun. Today, however, the body
showed signs of life, and though not vet
conscious, the girl it is believed, will re-
cover. Syncope is attributed to tight lacing
and over exertion while skating.
Grand Forks Plaindealer: VIM. J.
Hughes, of the firm of Yorkey &sHughes,
Grafton, is candidate for assistant dis
trict United States attorney of Dakota
The Plaindealer takes pleasure in saying
that Mr.. Hughes is a gentleman worthy of
the position, and will fill the Office with
credit. He is young man of ability, and
( with thorough knowledge of law, and
( will aquit himself in the position in man
ner satisfactory to all. Grafton has not