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SATURDAY, NOV. 27, 1886.
MICHAEL DAVIrT, the Irish patriot,
chooses a California lady for the life
partner of his joys.
THE erratic Bob Ingeraoll is rapidly
coming to the front as the political
leader of the laboring-men.
As eastern fashion journal says tall
girls a e the fashion now. Well, hic
here's hic to the tall girl. hic.
The strike at the Chicago stock
yards was about the most groundless
affair in that line which has ever been
precipitated by bull-headed stupidity.
CONTR.CTs for twelve new brick or
stone buildings have been let for ear
ly spring work. Most of these struc
tures will be elegant two story build
ings.
H. M. HOXIE, Gould's general rail
road manager is dead. He came prom
inently before the public during the
great railroad strike in St. Louis last
spring.
EVERYONE exclaims "Couldn't be
beaten" when referring to the Thanks
giving Dinner at the Park Hotel. It
was certainly a great success, gastro
nomically and artistically.
RIGHT REV. JOHN MCLEAN, D. D.,
Bishop of Saskatchewan,"and a grand,
good and noble man, who has done a
great work in that far northern coun
try, is dead. Peace to his ashes.
MAYOR AMEs is angry because the
Minneapolis gamblers did not help
elect him Governor. He proposes to
get in his revenge upon them by seal
ing hermetically, every gambling
house in town.
SIR ALEX. GALT the Canadian pseu- i
do railroad magnate, has revived his 1
railroad scheme again, and will likely i
be sat down upon again by parliament. 1
Alex. is a schemer, but is evidently i
not well balanced.
WE are pleased to learn that Phil.
Gibson is going to commence in earn
est, the organization of a Hook and
Ladder company. We trust that he
will have the hearty cooperation of
every man in town.
THERE is talk about laying two-foot
pipes from the wholesale liquor houses
in Chicago out to the Cook County
infirmary. During the past three
months the inmates of that institution
have consumed 382 gallons of $3 whis
key.
THE last edition of the Century
Magazine weighed over 188,000 lbs.,
enough to fill six ordinary freight
cars. The amount of white paper be
ing consumed daily in the printing of.+
newspapers, magazines and books
would be an interesting fact for some
curious statistician to figure out.;
THE once illustrious Chas. Francis
Adams, Sr. of the most distinguished
family which this country ever pro
duced, passed quietly away a few days
ago, at the advanced age of seventy
nine. Mr. Adams is chiefly noted for
his able services at the court of St
Jamesa duringthe time of the Rebell
ion.
GovERNOR HAus$z has done much
good to the Montana cattle industry
by quarantining against the cattle
disease in our neighboring territory,
Dakota. Dakota is now in season for
sending us something more disastrous
to the stock interest than any disease,
and that is the great North American
bliWsard, the firatinstalment of which
arrived the other day. Get out your
1 ,.amation : typewriter, governor,
" and puts stop to this.a-Inter-oun
ftaro
DEATH HIS VICTORY.
The death of ex-President Arthur
:alls out the eulogiums upon his life
and character which during the prej
idica and strife of political crises was
strenuously withheld. Coming into
rational repute suddenly, favorable
public opinion was reluctantly giv n
she then, Vice-President. The bitter
controversy between the stalwart ele
nent of the party and President Gar
eld, immediately preceding the trag
c death of the latter, served to in
reuase the general hostility towards
President Arthur. Never did an un
:ried oficial enter upon such great
:nties as did Chester A Aathur when
soe took the presidential chair. The
sand of almost everyone was against
aim. He was even accused of corm
passing the death of Garfield. It was
penly declared that Arthur's admin
stration would turn back this coun
ry's civilization a score of years. But
juietly, modestly did the much ma
igned president take up the reins of
government. He at once arose from
;he pettiness of mere polities to the
;rand principles of statesmanship.
As his term of office drsw to a close,
few were found who had the cour
oge to sound his praises. In his dig
rified retirement his popularity has
ncreased and now at his grave his
:rue merit is fully recognized and his
great public services since:ely coLn
.neaded.
AFTER TILE STRIKE.
One result of the strike is likely to
be the application of the co-opera
tive plan to the pork and beef pack
ing business. This will afford a
thorough test of the co-operative sys
tem. Much interest will be taken in
it. The Minneapolis Evening Journ
al comments upon the matter as fol
lows: Thirty-five thousand dollars
on a plant to cost $50,090 have alrea
dy been subscribed by workingmen
and the incorporators are all Knights
of Labor. They propose to put in
practice also their own demand for an
eight-hour day. They expect to be
able to employ three shifts of 400 men
each, each shift working eight hours.
They will no doubt meet with stiff op
position from the big corporations
and encounter many embarrassing
obstacles in the general market if they
should attempt to compete there.They
ought, however, to have a very large
local trade among the working peo
ple of Chicago who can do much to
make this enterprise a success if they
will give it their extensive patronage.
It is not improbable that the K. of L.
brand may become the most popular
in the local provision malket of Chi
cago. If this experiment succeeds it
will give a great impetus not only to
the co-operative idea, but to th e
eight-hour movement, and may event
ually be worth to the workingmen all
that the strike has cost them.
THE gigantic immensity and exte'it
of the mail service of the United
States, is at the best, but faintly under
stood even by the people of this coun
try. In the report of Postmaster
General Viias, we find the following:
"In the matter of the expenditures,
performances and results, the postal
machinery of the United States ex
ceeds, in some points far exceeds,
that of any other nation on the globe.
The entire length of all the railways
employed by the United States mail
.service nearly equals the combined
extent of those of all other countries
of the world, while our other post
routes more than equal the total of
any single people, besides, and the
mileage of our mail transportation
exceeds by more than. 125,000,000
miles the service rendered to any
other government. The postoffices
of no other nation is one-third our
number. It is.estimated that I0;000,
000 more letters were mailed in the
United States last year than in;Great
Britain, and nearly that number more
than were minailed in Germany, France,
and Anstria combined. The propor
tion to each inhabitaitis tisiiated in
the United Statetsat b Great Britain
55, and Germany 19.
Iis reported that Gay. tiierce and
Delegate Gif ferd have both endorsed
It looks .Sn~mucb ý , though the
successeta in Deýde something
besidescertain defeat beore his keen
eyes when he made his splendid run
for delegate against Gifford. Con
gressman Springer will urge his man
Orendorf on the ground that he de
served something of the administra
tion, but the friends of Day will not
tail to urge upon Mr. Cleveland the
claim, unprobable as it may be, that
Dakota would stand a good chance of
joining the Democratic column in
1888 if such a popular man from the
territory as Day were made governor.
IN his annual report to the secreta
*ry of war, Paymaster General Wil
liam B. Rochester says that a tote ,f
$13,444,733 was disbursed to the r y
during the fiscal year, without d. .ý i
luency in the prompt payment of the
troops or loss to the government. Of
this amount i5.273,i9 :was disbursed
in the field, re;u:ring the pay officers
to travel 234.040 mnedcc.
COL. JOnS MooE has ibeen appoint
ed surgeon general of the army. For
"gallnt and me ieoiians services"
during the Atlanta camipaign he was
made a lieutenant colonel in recogni
tion of his faithful services. Ho was
made assistant surgeon in 1t53, given
the rank of captain in 185S and that
of major in 1862.
THE Cincinnati Times-Str re
marks that it is rarely that the whir
iigig of time fails to bring around its
revenges. We. note that fact in the
recent theft of a valuable package of
papers from ex-Prssidont Hays by an
zealous hibernian admirer of the late
S. J. Tilden.
IT is reported that there is going to
be a big row among the heirs of the
Stewart estate over the manner in
which it has been handled by Judge
Hilton. It is expected that when an
accounting is made, there will be
some sensational developments.
CUTTING is going t.) lecture after
all. The New Orleans Picayune says:
"We knew Bayard was going to get
this country into a terrible scrape
when he demanded the release of that
vagabond, and here it is."
NoRTnERa Montana stockmen make
Geo. M. Robbins a handsome gift in
recognition of his manly action in
quarantining his herd of cattle there
by preventing the spread of a con
tageous disease.
TH$ Northern Pacific railway has
shipped almost 2,000 more head of
cattle this year than last, while sheep
and horses will fall below the preced
ing year.
J. R. DANIELS of Minnesota, has
beoe appointed'Indian commissioner,
vice Bishop Whipple, resigned.
Tam jury disagreed in the case
against Boodle Alderman McQuade,
of New York.
Mortality at Assinaboine.
From the River P ress correspondence
we learn of the remarkable mortality rec
ord at Assinaboine since the 1st of April.
More deaths have occurred there since
that date than during all the previous time
since the establishment of the post. There
have been three suicides, six accidental
deaths and six natural deaths during this
brief period. The latest victim is private
McDonald who opened the wrong door'
fell down cellar and fractured his skull,
from the effeCts of which he died in a few
hours.
Canadian Ranges.
Fort McLeod Gazette: Mr. Murphy, man
ager of the Powder River Cattle company,
has employed the greater part of his time
since his arrival in this country in looking
up new ranges, outside of those most gen
erally known, and his search has appar
ently not been in vain. He informs us
that he has found a country where there
has never been a hoof of cattle, and which
will do to bank on. The country in ques
tion is along the west side of the South
Saskatchewan to the mouth of the Red
-Deer, and up the latter over as far as he
went, and for all he knows further. There
is buffalo and bunch grass there in abund
ance, and Mr. Murphy is sure, from this
fact and the appearance of the country
generally, that the snow does not lie there
in the winter.
A Scenes at Dickinson.
Dickinson is one of the greaests14.pin
points for cattlimen on the oitiethe Pa
.fic. It is the heart atleOR e eunn
try, and in the fall of the year- the town
is "alivef' with the muuehiabe d,, much
tcowboys.. Wedtaesday morning as the sun
began to wink at the depºrtiuan*A eer of
L nighty '°u asvSiethe f oi6mbibIaB swS it
down upon the little community, and the
air was filled with the whoop of the whoop
ers. Several Bismarck citizens were in
the town and, with the desire to gaze upon
a boom, even if it did not last more than'
an hour, they adjusted their suspenders
and s'rode forth to gaze upon the show.
It was learned that eighty car loads of cat
tle had arrived and were to be loaded in
the afte:naon. The cowboys, havin7 driv
en the cattle into the yards, proce ded to
"take the town" in the good old fashioned
way. More money was thrown over bars
and counters in two hours than is spent in
an ordinary business center in a week.-~
Bismarck T, ibune,
The Admission of Washington.
Walla Walla, (Wash.) Union: One of
the results of the late election in the states
is to make the senate very close politically,
so close, in fact, that the political com
plexion of ths next senate will depend al
most entirely upon how Iliddleberger of
Virginia chooses to act. We dismi;ss, as
unworthy of serious cunsideration, the in
timation that Mitchell of Oregon will act
with the Democrats. Already the Demo
cratic leaders are figuring on increasing
the vote of that party in the senate by
aiding the votes of two Democrats frbm
the State of Wa hington. It is plausible
argued that Waslhington is Democratic
because two years ago it elected a Demo
cratic delegate and has just re-elected him
by a majority te tun times as great as that re
ceived when first chosen. This argument
receives renewed force when the returns
from North Idaho, a portion of the pro
posed state, are examined, and it is seen
that the I)emocratic candidate for dele
gate from Idaho received a heavy majority
from that part of the territory. Adding the
Democratic vote of North Idaho to the Dem
o:ratic vote of Washington makes the pro
pos.rd state appear democratic by ýt very
large majority. The senate has already
passed a bill providing for the creation of
the state of Washington out of the territory
of that name, with boundaries extended to
include North Idaho. All that is now nec
ess try to create the new state and two
democrats to the senate is for the house to
pass the bill as it left the senate, for Cleve
lani to sign it, for the people to elect del
egates to a constitutional convention, for
the delegates to frame a constitution, for
the people to adopt the constitution, for
the people to elect democratic state officers
and legislature and for that legislature to
elect Charles S. Voorhees and another
democrat senator, and the deed is done.
All this can be done before the opening of
a new congress on the first Monday in De
cember, 1887. We sincerely hope the
Democratic house will do its part during
the coming season to carry out this pro
gramme. Admission was never so near
as now.
Another Arctic Explorer.
HALIFAX, Nov. 28.-Lieutenant Pearcy,
who has been on an expedition to Green
land for the purpose of satisfying himself
as to the feasibility of traveling over that
country and thus opening a new route for
explorers, arrived here yesterday on his
way home in the United States. Landing
at the Danish settlement on the west coast
of Greenland, he journeyed eastward one
hundred miles over unbroken fields of
snow. He then returned to the starting
place. This was his principal journey, and
he was accompanied by the Danish offici
als. He made several short journeys
alone. His observations and experience
satisfied him that Greenland can be cross
ed from west to east by future expeditions
to the North Pole. On the one hundred
mile trip Pearcy and his companions had
to travel on snow shoes and haul sleds con
taining their provisions themselves, the
snow being too soft for dogs. The expe
rienced no hardships and returned to the
coast in good condition. On reaching a
point one hundred miles inland, the ele
vation above the sea level was found to be
7,500 feet.
Crows Drowned.
BrIMAncr, Nov. 24.--It is reported here
that seven Indians, Big Thunder, the Crow
chief, among the number, were drowned
while attempting to cross the Missouri
river at a point about 100 miles north of
s here. Big thunder was one of the most
famous chiefs of the CrJw nation, and his
son, White Eagle, is said to have been
with the party when the accident occurred.
The Indians were crossing to join a band
of their tribe which had started out. to
Swreak vengeance on the Sl1 x whq killed
a number of Crows several days ago.
Quarantined Cattle.
Glendive Independent: Mr. Wilson of
Martin.dale, Mont., who has a'large num
ber of cattle on the Musselshell, was
quurantined herew.Mond4ay. He had seven
. y-tnn&head of ;rll ta em York
overnor's proclamation. Mr.Wnilon has
gene back to'Dakota to find a range for
hiscattle, rather than hold them inthe
stock yards her ninety dys.i
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