Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-10-09


VOL. l3, NO. Is
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Opium smoking is on the increase in Bos
ton. 5s
Ferdinand Ward will be tried on the 10th
inst.
Ex-Goyernor Talbot Of Massachusetts,,
is dead.
The South Dakota constitution will be
voted for November Sd.
An attempt will be made to boom the
Ceur d'Alene mines next spring.
Sexton Mcnamara, a Virginia grave dig
ger, has buried over 1000 persons.
1t is claimed that Clay county was the
banner county at the territorial fair.
In England the freight trains will average
a speed of twenty-five miles an hour.
Nashville is democratic city, but its two
candidates for mayor are republicans.
A $20OOOO0 bridge, 5000 feet long, is be-
ing built across Hanksbury river, near New
South Wales.
John Alexander, who committed murder
in Texas thirty-two years ago, has just
been arrested.
In far-away Madras, India, the munich
pal authorities have conferred the right of
suffrage upon women.
The average income of the 500 lords of
England is $12O,OOO each. Their gross in
come is over $75,OoO,OOO. ~
The aBig Woods" of Minnesota well de-
serve the name, for they cover 5000 square
miles, or 100000 acres of surface.
Police Lieutenant Mullen, recently par
doned out of Cincinnati Jail by President
Cleveland, has been made inspector of po-
lice. . s,
If some young man wants good deal of
wife and can wait few years he can get
one in Hartford, Conn. The young miss
now is but fourteen years old and pulls the
scale at SN pounds.
The returns of the census of 1885 as ap-
piled to the city of Boston have been made
public. They show population of 186, ,101
males, 2O4 ,3O5 females, total SO0,406. This
is gain of 27 $40 as compared with 1880.
A Grand Forks dispatch Of the 3rd says:
"P. &H. and Hawes & Dwyers elevators are
running against each other at East Grand
Forks, Minn., and bought wheat as high as
ST. per bushel. The fight will probably not
last long,"
Inter Ocean: Cleveland was elected gov
e1nor of New York in 1882 by 192,854 plu-
rality. He received for president in the
same state in 1884 plurality Of 1,O47, and
in 1885 his party is likely to be snatched
bald headed by red headed republican.
s'The noble three hundred" New York
ers who came to Chicago to clean out the
pool boxes with odds on their favorite base
ball team will return with the plumes Of
their pride sadly ruffied. A little exper-
ience in the wild west is occasionally sal
utary to the wise men Of the east, particu-
larly when it touches their pride and their
pockets.
An American girl, who some years ago
married an Italian count has, through the
Intervention of the United States consul at
Genoa, been released from lunatic asy
lum, to which she was consigned while
perfectly sane by her villainous husband.
The instance will scarcely stop girls from
making fools of themselves by marrying
: titles instead of men.
A Washington special of the 23d says !:
1t is said that Mr.. Cleveland proposes to re-
move soon E. j. Downe, of Oregon, who
was appointed United States district judge
for Alaska Downe is one of the federal
judges appointed by this administration,
and it was his appointment that led to the
publication of the Cincinnati letters"
which Indignantly resented the indorse-
ments made for Downe by leading demo-
Gratis, who, knowing the mans unftness,
!. never supposed he could get the place. The
removal of Downe will set at rest all doubt
as to the identity of the democrat addressed
I by the president. ,a 81. ~.
"A New York dispatch says: Two cous-
s ins in the wealthy and fashionable Stevens
family wish to marry and there is no him
\ drance, except their fear that the common
4 idea regarding wedlock between relatives
is sound. They went for advice to a noted
physician, who has for months been en-
gagged in as thorough an investigation of
the subject as can be made. Out of the
amount and diversity Of authorities he de-
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