Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-21

petition of sixteen different men for the
same position. III -'.- ~
A movement is on foot to make Senator
Colquitt, of Georgia, the prohibition candi-
date for president in 1883. .,,-. -,
A new broom may sweep clean, but it is
nearly always the girls mother who proves
the truth of the adage.-Cincinnati Mer-
chant Traveller. A -.s.
The wife of ex Governor B. Gratz Brown,
of Missouri, died at Excelsior, on lake Min
netonka, yesterday morning, from the re-
suit Of an appopletic stroke.
David II. McAlpine and Thomas P. Row.
land, of New York, have become surities in
the sum Of 100000 for Messrs. Quintard &
Weed, the assignees of John Roach.
The rich men of New York were exceed
ingly friendly to Gen. Grant while he was
alive, bnt it is intimated that they do not
take much interest in his monument.
General Middleton has been created
knight commander of the order of St.
Michael and st. George for services rem
dered in the northwest during the rebel
lion. "
Chicago now has lead of four games in
the national league championship race New
York, Providence, Philadelphia, Boston, st.
Louis, Buffalo, and Detroit coming after in
the order named. ;." ~.'.~...'.
The Daily Minute is the name Of new
paper in Austin, Texas, whose editor says
he is democrat and Christian Such a
combination can not last more than min
ute, and thus the name.
"Fhe melancholy days have come,"
-. Of which the poets write
When flies buzz round us all day long,
And skeeters all the night.
: ........... ........ Chicago Sun.
Huron Leader: Mckenzie does with his
might whatever he takes hold of, and his
honesty and success in the management of
the Dakota exhibit, at New Orleans, will be
long remembered as highly honorable to
him. I'D
Il 1t is said that there will be contest at
the Northern Pacific annual meeting in
September between the Wright and Bill
lings interest for control. Some say there
is chance for the reinstatement of Mr.
Willard.
1t is reported that the British ship Hart
ingtonshire from Astoria, Ore, for Liver
pool with a cargo of flour and salmon, is
ashore off Point Reyes, forty miles north of
San Francisco. It is also said that eigh-
teens lives were lost. .....
Mr.. Stevenson, the Illinois man, who is
acting postmaster general in Mr.. Villas alb
he will be able to appoint $3.50 fourth class
postmasters, unless the weather is too hot
The present average is 100 daily.
Col. Fred Grant says that his father, dur
ing his illness, received 5000 letters from
southern confederates alone. The mere
business Of reading these letters must have
been immense. They were all kept and
will one day, perhaps, be published.
Fargo Republican,: Hon. John B. Ray
mond has harvested SO far 1000 acres of
. wheat, and has 1900 or 1900 acres more to
cut He says that his crop Is one of the
finest he has ever raised, and that he thinks
it will average twenty y-two bushels to the
acre. " "&. ''.,. r..
], A certain lady, living about seven miles
west Of Bathgate served notices upon all
saloonkeepers in Bathgate and Hamilton,
two years ago and last year, not to sell her
husband any more liquor. They, or one of
them, persisted in selling the man liquor,
and last week it cost him about 800 to set
tie with the mans wife.
Tom Koran, of ST. Paul, was shot by
Frederick Pritch, a Pioneer Press empIoye,
at Bass Lake Sunday, the ball striking
Horan in the forehead but not penetrating
the skull. The wound is not expected to
prove fatal. Pritch accuses Horan of hav-
ing taken $50 from his pocket while he was
asleep. -..
Liquor is directly responsible for another
murder. w. F. Myrick, dissolute printer,
well known in southern Minnesota, while
under the influence of liquor, shot and
killed, without proyocation, man who
was a total stranger to him. OF course, in
vindication of law, Myrick should be hung;
but his execution will not restore the life
already taken, nor will it absOlve the soul
of the man who sold Myrick liquor.
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