The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1886-03-18

any OF it's predecessors. The president was
assisted in receiving by Miss Cleveland, Mrs.
Mrs. Villas. The judiciary, the diplomatic
corps, the army and navy and congress
were all represented.
Mr.. Gladstone retains SO complete a 81.
lenee as to the actual points OF his Irish
policy that nothing is really known about
it except in a general way.
The arrest OF q rich procuress in London
revives the excitement started last year
by Mr.. Stead. -
The secretary OF war has transmitted to
the house the reports OF Chief OF Engineers
Newton and Maj. Hardbury, OF the engi-
neer corps, in reference to the survey for
the Hennepin canal. Maj. Hardbury rec
ommends what is known rs the Maras
d'Ocer route. He estimates the cost OF the
canal by this route at SIS, 1857, or
about 81, 600, 900 less tilan by the other
route surveyed. This estimate is exclusive
of the cost OF the s'Dixon FEEDER" which is
common to all the routes. and which will
cost 81, 664,117. Mai. Hardbnry says the
Marais d'Ocer route, is better and cheaper,
and affords better regulated SUPPLY OF
water than the other routes surveyed.
Gen Newton address, however, to the pre-.
vlous recommendation of the Rock Island
route and says it offers the greatest COM
mercial advantages.
A 100000 cotton mill burns at Mors-
ley, Eng, throwing 300out OF work.
Lord Cairns whom the American, Miss
Grant. is to marry, in preparatlo for the
bntaille DIES tfeurs ut the Nice carnival, has
ordered 1000 white camelias, and has
hired two elephants to draw one OF the
boats OF his yacht to be arranged for the
day OF the flowery warfare.
DR.. C.. L. Fitch, who has been for five
years in charge Of Kakaako Leper hospi-
tai, Honolulu, thinks that in fifteen years
there will be only enough natives left to
make curiosities. Liquor and leprosy are
killing them off. .jj,.',
The fruits of Bismarck's reconciliation
lnent OF a bishop to along-vacant Prussian
| see. l4 Tx 4sF ,tLs t'Ish's&.stsb,H 100
| Notwithstanding the break in transcon-
tinental rates, and thenecessary reductions
made by the Northern Pacific, the approx
| innate earnings OF that company for the first
week in March show an increase OF nearly
$4,000.
Mrs. benjamin Harris Brewster, the wife
| OF the ex.attorney general, died at her resi-
dence in Philadelphia.
DR.. James Eells, president OF Lane Theo-
logical seminary, died suddenly at his home
in Cincinnati. %
The special dominion medical commits.
sion produce their report pronouneing Riel
an absolutely sane man.
| Imports into England during February
decreased f2,5o0,O00, as compared with
those OF the corresponding month last
year, and exports decreaseds47o, 900.
Dublin Cable: Father O Conner, whose
parish comprises the Island OF Achill, of
the west coast, says that five hundred tons
OF seed potatoes will berequired to prevent
q recurrence OF the famine next winter.
Father Grealy writes from Newport that
three more persons have died from starva-
ton and that many are FRUSTRATED with
famine fever. There is not vestige OF
seed remaining, and ii assistance is not inn
medlately Forthcoming the few people who
may possibly escape starvation now must
certainly snccomb next winter. The shop
Keepers are on the verge OF bankruptcy,
and the outlook" Father Grealy says,
"can only be described as terrible"
The report OF the medical commission
appointed to inquire into the sanity Of
Louis Rel was laid on the tnble Of the
Dominion House. DR.. Jukes, senior Sur
geon OF the prison Mt Regina, states that
after q careful examination OF Riel since he
was under his care at Ottawa, his opinion,
not hastily formed, is that Riel was an 40
countable being sane, clearheaded and
responsible for his actions before God and
man. Or. Valade OF Ottawa corroborntes
this opinion, but holds that Riel held Pc.
culiar views on religious and political
questions, yet could readily distinguish
right from wrong. DR.. Lowell, OF the Kings
ton penitentiary, makes q similar report,
oil three testifying to Riel's sanity.
The college wing Of the Catholic school
known as the Saton hotel, in the outskirts
oil the village OF South Orange, N. j., was
burned: The loss is $50, 900; insurance,
S25, 600. The building contained 80 col
legiates, 81 seminarlans, Is Sisters of
Mercy, u number OF priests, and % SER
wants. All got out ofthe burning building
in safety.
The magnificent female college at West
Point, Ga, burned. It has lately been
used as public school.
The new postmaster at South Hadley,
Mass, has been boycotted by four-6iths Of
the inhabitants OF that place. ..5@
The Comstock lode has been worked to a
depth OF 5000 feet and has produced
about ss5o,ooo, 900.
| Professional boxers arc not allowed ad
mittance into Harvard's gymnasium.
John B. Coughs estate is valued at S75. +
0oo.to 100000. me-
| Homer L. Andrews, arrested for horse
| stealing in Chicago, turns out to be an old
crook OF respectable connections. He once
resided in St. Paul. t.&"
Northern Pacific earnings show an in
crease OF nearly $4,000 the first week in
| March.
| The striking soft coal miners at Latrobe,
Pa, resume work ut an advance OF Is per
cent. 80 ~ = :
United States Judge Dyer, at Milwaukee,
| sustains the petition OF The Goodrich trans.
portation company to limit damages for
the Green Bay fire to the value Of tho boat
and cargo which caused the fire.
j DEL Chandler Harris Uncle Remus) will
soon marry Miss Caroline Muggs awealthy;
young lady OF North Carolina, who is also
a niece OF Gen. Stonewall Jackson.
President Arthur is i'll, but not danger
ously. He has been suffering from n bad
| cold all winter and has been much bother
| ed by it. He will be out again in a few.
days. n. = \. 4
DR.. Henry J. Bigelow, whose fame is
worldwide for his method OF reducing dis.
location at the hip joint, has resigned as
surgeon to the Massachusetts General hos
pital y n. ,.$ GS
Addison Cammack, the New York mill
ionaire. WEEDS Miss Mary Hildreth, a Wash.
fihston beauty. 3 iss 81. isI.
The Boston police have raised liquor Ii
censes in several classes from $50 to 5000,
The dealers are naturally dissatisfied. The
! city's revenue, lis believed, will BIO aug
mented S165, 600 by the increased fees
William X. Vanderbilt has let contract
for q $3.50, 900 steam yacht It will be
built moro for comfort than speed, beauti-
fully finished ind magnifcently furnish
ed. ~ H +.
Nathaniel +. Ferguson, the wealthiest
resident at Reading, Pa, has become in