Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-05-22

cemetery LneIe. Iue sueiln dHu ieao-
ing citizens made great efforts to re-
cover it while many considered the
matter a joke. Finally the body was
found in the brush two miles south OF
town, blythe aid of hunting dogs, and
buried in the usual way.
Humming birds L being success
fully raised in captivity in California.
The much-heralded Thackary car
nival at Boston last week was a COM
plete tzzle.
ANorth Carolina mar recently elop-
ed with his wife's two sisters, and is
now living with them.
The barb wire manufacturers are
trying to form a pool to handle all
the products and divide the profits,
A bill in the New York legislature
prohibiting liquor selling in the CAPT
tol restaurant is likely to become a
law.
Recorded real estate transactions
at Kansas City Il day last week ag-
gregated S654,0OO, the largest on rec
ord.
The slow sailing vessels I again
reappearing as carriers Of tea to Lon
don owing to the high rates Of
steamers.
Jesse Edwards has recently been ac-
quilted in & Georgia court of the al
legged murder of his wife t~hirty-two
years ago.
The war ships Tennessee, Brooklyn,
Galena, Swatara and Yantic sailed
from Key West for New York last
week.
Edwin Stuart, son Of Gen. Edwin
A. Stewart y. S. A., had his skull
fractured recently by being thrown
from g horse near Wigham, Colo.
7. e. Latfner, a prominent Nom
Der of the New York petroleum and
mining exchanges, committed suicide
by shooting
Unknown dynamiters caused a S13-
COO fire at Laurel. Ind. Insurance
$1,000. The place was nearly destroy
ed by fire recently.
Notwithstanding the great floods in
Massachusetts this spring, the death
rate for April was far below the aver
age for the mouth.
There is said to be a band of sixty
anarchists in Massachusetts awaiting
an order to make an outbreak similar
to that in Chicago.
George Hesserich, a barber at Mem
phis, Tenn, has, by the death of an
uncle in Brazil. fallen heir to an es-
tate valued at SIS, 0O0,O O0.
The ravages of sealions and porpois-
es in the Western salmon streams is so
great this year it is proposed to offer
a bounty for their scalps.
The leaders of Boston culture have
determined to rebuke the ~aristocracy
Of Washington by rendering a recep-
ton to Fred Douglass and wife.
The first steel rails ever made in
the South from southern made steel
We're turned out at Chattanooga last
week, and were a splendid success.
Tennesseeans are urging the ap-
pointment of Col. Felix A. Reeves Of
Tennessee as judge advocate general
of the army, in place of Gen. Swain.
The American refinery of SanF ran
cisco last week reduced the price of
all sugars a quarter of a cent, making
them the same as those of the Cali
fornia refinery.
The Walker (Ala) county court
house has been destroyed by fire twice
within eighteen months. It is believ-
ed some n is trying to destroy all
record Of land titles.
The bill before the New York legis-
lature to provide a humane mode of
putting murderers to death appoints
a commission to ascertain what meth
IS agreeable than hanging.
They are authorized to examine
T. H. Walker, the ex-statistician of
the New York produce exchange,
says the decrease of wheat seeding in |
England is not over 10 per cent, in
stead of "a or so as has been stated.
The average acreage given to wheat
from 1867 to 1870 was 8 $780,,
$50 acres, but there has been q grad
falling off every year since then,
md last year only 2,253,092 acres
apportioned to wheat.