Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1885-11-21
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER q, 1885.
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Some patrlotlc cltlzen ceieDrateu tne
democratic victory in New York by
placing a dynamite cartridge under the
bases of the Andre monument the day
after election, and blowing them all TO
smitherines. The shock broke windows
at a distance Of half a mile.
A New FORK despatch says Congress
man McAdoo, Of Jersey City, returned
from a tour across the continent with ex-
Senator Thurman and General McCook.
He says that the chief feature Of western
life that attracted his attention were
the sham settlements Of alien land
owners, anu he intends to introduce Il
bill in congress this winter to put a stop
20 the practice. Most Of those engaged
in it are wealthy Englishman. who take
MP whole sections of land and hire men
10 manage il in their own name. They
never afterwards invest their profit, and
never take any interest in it so long az
il gives q fair return on the money in
vested.
a new depart ure in the stock ship
ping business is about to be inaugurated
by the f., L. & NJ V. railway company.
They will shortly put on a new kind of
stock car. They will be SO constructed
that each head Of stock will stand in "a
stall by Itself, enabling it to lie down at
will. A feed box and watering trough
will be in front Of the animal. This will
do away with the necessity Of unloading
the stock en- route, M will save much
valuable time. This is certainly a great
advance step in the cattle shipping bust.
ness. 1t Is not only more human, but
will prove a great saving in shrinkage.
The run from Chadron TO Chicago, a
distance Of over nine hundred miles,
will be made in AZ holrs. This company
has got control of the western stock
business, and evidently intend to keep
it.-West Point republican.
In an almost inaccessible cliff of rocks
near the head of Wind river, is located
q colony of wild dogs, near twenty in
number, that are predatory and fierce
TO a degree unknown to the native
mountain wolf. They are large and
powerful, and with the blood Of the
commop cur seems to unite a strain OF
both the bull dog and the blood hound,
and they easily pull down and devonr
six nlonth-old calves, and have been
seen in full cry after grown y%earlings.
And they are a terror to the vol yes
proper, attacking and destroying them
without mercy, and the entire lupine
fraternity avoid the den with "A fear that
is wholesome. The savage animals, not
content with their victorious forays
among the brute creation, bid fair to
develop a taste for human gore.-Cor.
Leader.
The books Of the treasury show that
the payment Of the gold and silver GER
tificates does not decrease the currency,
as the silver and gold that represents
these certificates are in the treasury to
be paid out If needed with money at 2
per cent per annum The amount Of
standard silver dollars in circulation on
June 80 was, in round numbers, S3S, 800
600. The amount outstanding to-day is
$iS, 100000, an increase Of $4,000, 900.
The maximum Of fractional silver in the
treasury on June / was $Sl zoe, 1000 to-
day there is $2l 100000 in the treasury.
Deducting from this the $5,9l5,OO0 de
posted by the New York bankers, there
Is shown 50 increased circulation of
about 5 2,900.CC0, a larger increase than
has taken place in any year from 1879,
the year of the redemption, until now.
On June, 1879, the fractional coin in the
treasury was $6,s0O,00O, from which
point it steadily increased year by year
until 1t reached the high figure on June
LIST.
In speaking Of. the late Gen. Nc
Clellsn, ex G W Van ,Zandt, who has
been very intimate with deceased
since ls6A authorizes the following !:
In aslons eonysnstion with Gen. Nc.
csslisn tie pest scS-s. - IichfA,d