Bismarck Semi Weekly Tribune (Newspaper) - May 9, 1877, Bismarck, North Dakota V BISMARCK D T WEDNESDAY MAY 9 1877 C A Editor end I Ooe Year 59 Months 9 09 Months 125 Inch one year 2 1 5 Inches 10 Inches 970 26 Inche one column Ten cents per line first Insertion WWII lent Insertion Ki cents One-half added for I or special place x Per of te first Insertion each nent Insertion 75 cents lines lit additional lines five cents 3 cento per line C A Bismarck Dakota Territory Black Seventeen inches of snow fell In the Hills in one night a few days ago Ex Consul to Egypt Butler been appointed special postal agent and sen to thd Black Carlyle accuses ot intrigue may England into con whict b and Turkey a in the afte I trial at Yank ton foi assault with i to kill The Crookston Journal and Independent and lively North Pac fie have been and we X Packard it is said Wants be tor at bpl will be -A ten dollar which may suit h m better 1 It having been decided to Ft Ripley the Secretary of Wair to continue a garrison that point lor thi protection ot Gen Sherman thinks the Turk will all the great pean powers and will prove to pe th greatest outbreak of the century I President Hayes is slowly but getting rid in office scandalized service Clapp has resigned It is surel have Public veil hundred per week are now shipped from Philadelphia to land and the shipments would farger if the facilities for shipping were greater Tbe Independence pf Romania seems certainly to result from the present com in Europe don Times will favor present conflict ft is said the Lon the Turks in the Alexander H Stephens appeared as council IB a case before the U Court recently from which it would he is in better health than for months previous An impression throughout the west th the grasshopper has run his course ind will this season disappear as the potato bugs last year disappeared The sedson has favored this view so tar will be found a copy of the order of the Secretary War mitigating the sentence of Major Reno Inclining As we do to mercy heartily approve his m Justice tempered with mercy s best in the of offenses of this It will be seen that Crazy Horse has ab ast suri It does not follow that 1 he war is over because three I warriors and six hundred men aid children surrendered here are no less than twenty-five still out took at drop of twenty-five cents There are home ducks i mong the speculators though -some have made fortunes during the t at ions of the paist few weeks Gov Washburn of LaCrosse made doo in his operations The Brainerd Branch will certainly be Constructed this season and as evidence Of its good faith the company has qed the fifteen thousand dollars to be for- it they do not proceed to business by the law declaring the road tts franchises forfeited to the state i new 15th gress r lands i c ral leg i ow id The Pa rific roads a head ands ess has been called to meet Oct ib to be hoped the present Con not fear to meet the just de if the country and that they will ge internal improvements by ion to the end that the masses le may be given employment if encouraged to go will afford employment to destitute without costing the anything but the loan of its BY TELEGRAPH ST The Special to tin Tribune 1 -IN ST PAUL House St aul was destroyed by yesterday m but no Hires were e of and the fire OBt the guests was destroyed however THE WAR reply to the Russis in war lar denies the cause of war alleged by the Russian minister and says Russia is bound by the of Paris and that Russia doys not represent the feeling of powers or its avowed purpose of com ling the Porte adopt in favor of his Christian subjects 1 he character of the letter is so offensive nental journals declare that Russia can only respond by declaration of war if at all Active naval and mil tary tions also indicate the purpose of the British ministry to take pat t an the war against Russia but the House of Com- mons yesterday and to-day considered resolution declaring Turkey's to accept the advice of the powers brought justly upon her Russia's attack In the debate yesterday Cross home Secretary said Turkey was now engaged in a death struggle and that God alor e knew what might be the result but th whole e fort of the British Government should be di- to localize the war and preserve strict neutrality If the Czar kept his promise to Lord Loftees not to take Con but obtain tion of the condition of there would be no question of int with British interests The rumors of a great Russian victory at or neat Kars menia are not confirmed but the Russians appear in overwhelming force throughout Armenia having closely inve sted Kars with one army and moved against with another In European Turkey the Russians notwithstanding tie bad caused by continual rains nave occupied all important points on the left bank of the Danube as far up as Kalafat The Turkish gunboats patrol the river be having frequent als with ow the Russian batteries The Turkish forces have made demonstrations buft no persistent upon several Russian Black Sea ports CRAZY HORSE surrendered on Sunday witl L about three hundred warriors and 600 women and children They give up about one and ponies and two stand of arms Many stand of arms are known to have been concealed by his j eople before the Telegrams from headquarters say that this makes 3 600 hostiles who 1 ave surrender to Crod since March z nd obviates 1 he i necessity for any militar v expedition ti lis season The ht Pension AGENCIES have been reduced to n The j St Paul agency has been consolidated with of Milwaukee The Republican Senate of 1 SOUTH CAROLINA refuses to go into a Senatorial election until all Republican members of the House are admitted THE CLERICAL ABODES which has so long troubled the lope was defeated in the Italian Senate by a small majority Thousands of pilgrims from all parts of the world bearing costly and congratulations on his copal golden jubilee daily the THE SPANISH AUTHORITIES have decreed full pardon to Cubans shed for political reasons and have dered complete amnesty to surrendering r PROGRESS OF THE WAR ST PAUL May Russians made two unsuccessful assaults upon the citadel at Kars but the es returning the Turkish fire at Kalafat silenced the latter The of ROMANIAN ENCE Of s expected to-day A large number AMERICAN OFFICERS engineers and machinists have arrive I at Hamburg enroute for St P WIDE OPEN The first steamers from the lower lakes arrived at Duluth MAIL hree times a week has been ordered from Yankton to Dead wood via MAJ RENO'S The result of the Reno dourt martial announced in orders from he War dated the 8th as the this case forwarded under he One Hundred and Article War to the Secretary of i Var have b most carefully considered and have b to the President who approves the finding sentence but is is of sen PLEASED TO MITIGATE the latter was to be to from rank and pay for two years from the of May 1877 Major leno's conduct toward the wife of an ab- sent officer and using the whole force of lis post to gratify his resentment against icr cannot be too strongly condemned mt after long deliberation upon all the circumstances of the case shown record of the trial it is thought that his grave as they were do not rant a sentence of dismissal and all of its consequences upon one who has for y years borne the reputation of a brave nan and officer and has that reputation upon several battle ields of the rebellion and in contests with he The President las modified the sentence and it is hoped Major appreciates the clemency bus shown as well as the very character of the acts of which he las been guilty Signed I GEO- W Secretary of War PERSONAL B B Hunger of is In the city I Mayor McLean returned from St Paul Henry Gannon ot Helena Montana Is in the L P White of Brainerd was In tVe city M J Harmon of Fort Lincoln has goni to St aul G Vf of St Paul spent In he city Maj Barr and son left by steamer ay for Port Buford D R Mead ond Mrs P Doug las of lock are in the city I A W Wiskart V 43 arrived last for Furl Rice i O L Stephenson Inspector of Galena over steamers Patrick of the Black Hills mail line some days but Is better i Major E H Alden and W P were In the city yesterday Lieut fleo H Roach of Standing Rock Handing evening III is las been of Fort has re- to duty from a three months leave I Mra Gen Miles and Miss Sherman s of Gen barman are in the city enroute for Tongi e River Dr Bergen of the Medical Department a S A ji in the city aud mil take the Mead for Tongue tvet Commodore J Kinney who is interested in MiaJ juri Kiver Steamers to considerable extant is in ie city Major John Garland and St aul on Saturday and are now red at Fort Lincoln Commodore R C Munger of St Paul is in the ty superintending his of ferry boats plying be- reen and fort Lincoln N P Clark C W Carpenter and Peter Seims of e Northwestern and Express Line are in the Mr Blakely will join them this evening Among the evening from the east eie Theodore J Brown of Minneapolis and Stiles and Perkins of 1st tul Hon A H Barnes and wife of Fargo are spend n g some days m the cay For once the J adge de- luies He is m no and will remain all f there in work for him Majors Wm Smith and Seward of the Pay De- on Saturday and will leave Ilia amount of greenbacks and silver at the ry posts in this vicinity I Among the arrivals from the cast last evening we itice John P of Craig Larkin Si Paul army comrade of the witter Col Geo W W Irwm and Frank Hunt Col J 8 Poland and Capt Win Badger of II ig Rock were in tbe city over Sunday Cel just returned from leave and Capl Badger a on lift way east on a three months sick leave Hon Judson Lamore Deputy U S Marshal fo r hie Black Hills district arrived by the first stage from Deadwood He speaks m the highest terms of he Bismarck route and believes the bulk ol travel w 11 come luia way Ben Buell of the Infantry and Col Tilford I the 7th Cavalry were in the city on Sunday lit a Buell will have charge of the construction of He Tongue River potto and Col is the post at Fort Lincoln The extra session of Congress having been called to meet October instead in June new difficulties are being dis- and the cabinet is considering ie propriety of naming an earlier day provision has been made for the army ter June 30 the defaulting navy inspector returned to California and proposes lay wide open a system of fraud and practiced in his department which involve unpleasantly many nent individuals in business and political Judson Lamore depty U S Marshal cr the Black Hills district in the ity declares that the Bismarck stages e making much better than 1 ose running on any other He was eight days on ttre loute from jy to Deadwood and two and one hall ya on the route from Dead we od to smarck Up to the time he le It the ilia the best time made on the ne route was seven days La lore returns to Deadwood in a few Board and lodging for four C 4th street Hotel at a reasonable at site price opposite The chicken thief as well dog iller is abroad in the land The licken thief lifted birds jom the premises of Joe lay evening Frank Donnelly has erected a neat building on the next above p office which will be used ly supt of the contract ne ol steamers for bis office Cousin Tr ey all enjoying the breeze that swept through the wide parlors that evening jt had been so hot of late The month was May and the place was delphia am almost afraid to say t was the Centennial time But be alarmed my reader I am not going to describe the Great Exposition rior tell anything about it nor shall I give any information concerning 76 of either this or the last century I only intend to relate an incident that happened to take place hen and there The people enjoying the were a v by the name of Fenton and con- of a father and mother twb up one grown-up son and a little girl Mi s Fenton had just been saying that she si they would soon be overrun with visitors coming to spend a few days and see the Centennial Well let them said Mr ton as he turned his paper in- side cut I don't know one I wouldn't be gl id to see returned Mrs I am a ways to thankful that we ashar led of any of our relations There's sister could be more ful than she Oil Aunt Kate is perfectly chore sed the young people A id there's Uncle Phil and Aunt Em- taid Mabel the eldest girl Aid Cousin Joe and his added Flore ice the second daughter Ana John and his put in Mr Oh If you go to counting will never get said Tom the son and heir But I say haven't we any ob- table connections at all Isn't there some aid duffer who'll turn up just at the wrong No I haven't said Mr Fenton Mrs Fenton rubbing her thoughtfully I think L remember one Of I wonder I didn't think before But I don't know that she is ble the fact is I don't know anything about Iher She's up in mont all her life She's a niece cf grand- father s and is an old maid at least she ought to be if she isn't married or dead Her n ime is ton always thought it such a pity to spoil uch a fine name as with Jerusha I hope she won't come I'm sure she must be perfectly The two young ladies had been looking at the r mother in blank silence ever since she had mentioned this unpleasant tion Tom had gone off in a fit of ter so that Mr was the only son who spoke 11 if she comes all we can do is to make :hf best of it and treat her as well as we know how i Oh of said Mrs Fenton Tom here looked at his watch and started up exclaiming that he should be late h had an appointment and bolted off promising to be home early Then Mr Fenton settled down for a nap Fenton buried herself in Lorna and girls yawned over their Japanese tearing a dull evening The air gently fluttered the lace tains tie mellow light showa from the chandelier upon the fresh white t the linen draped furniture the pictures and statuettes the three dies in their pretty evening dresses and the old gentleman behind his newspaper all was quiet as quiet could be wh a violent peal at the made tiem all nearly j amp out of their skins I Who on eirth is asked Mr Fenton bounding up Mra i Fenton dropped her book and gave a scared look into the hall I suppose it's Mr said Mabel no he never rings like said Florence The old colored waiter had opened the door by this time and a loud voice was heare inquiring Does Mr Yes ma'am he old James an- swered respectfully then I guess I'll walk right in the tolks through the and apparently before the old servant could slop her the owner of the voice did walk right into thQ tall strong in a dress that a ing hoop skirt showed to advantage a shawl of vivid red and yellow plaid A bonnet of the shape called poke was oa her head and from it dangled a gteen veil She wore gray cotton gloves and one hand firmly grasped a lumpy the other a fat umbrella She looked and common from top to toe Shi peered at the groop through her spectacles and tucking her umbrella under the arm she extended her hand now I s'pose yer know me Jerusha cousin JeruSha ton Tne family were dumb Mr Fenton was first to recover He took the proffered nand shook it warmly and led the lady to a chair begging her to be seated he could not say that she was welcome but he tried to her feel as it she Mrs Fenton then came for ward and sitting down beside her asked some fn questions about the journey and the girls a little conscience-smitten take her tilings I guess I won't jest now thank got to go and about my trunk in eery young man was awful plea a minute I bed it 1 around the ft m a ant when I ro- told hm that I was one yc ur seems t set a heap by you gracious J thought Florence with a shudder I wonder if has been going all through the ity ing her relationship to In the learned Samu b got two fine ikely help their ma a sight housework and sich heap o work to sins an t must take a all the m admiring awe-struck glance abo it the rather Then she went Is all the children you've got Mrs Fenton d that she itwo more a son and daughter offered to send for her little sister ing that a child mig it make c Miss Jerus la such evident disrelish law's sake L can It bear that she drew back chi Mr ut Miss J ton looked unabashed began to c of th drought up in their pi ice while a silence fell upon the r st t A quick light ring i lade the gi s start and fervently hope th t it was npt Mr am su e for the fii in their lives To Mr Van Mabel felt the and down her cold back knew the meaning of j Jerusha quite Mr Vanderpool and ut some s questions with re gard o Vanderpool ly thj studying for the bar I shouldn't hev thought The girls sat shuddering and ing what was coining Fenton were holding i the back Miss Jerusha vassil three minutes gazing with began to feel nervous j You're awful like Limn she exclaimed at beau him when we went They call o gaU frnd when he e only o ie h him My you He'd jest colored hail and I was awful fond ind edged a I ever hed I to the school him Piggy then and could bear the sight o was up I was go to prayer meetin wi but he was powerful 1 the same kinder kinder whity blue o him She sighed nearer the now thorou Mr then and edged still nearer like she said an a big erchi moved nearer still an er sigh and i we pool against a si arp He somewhat when esa 1 over her thn neck dear dear Mr indi to rt e iset but joked e to be unh ence stood Mr and the rescue and ir off came the pok of all beings in the we id see thL fill Vane jj father belonged to the oldest of Knickerbocker families and whose m was anj F F V who was so fast dious and refined It took only i for this to rush through tl sit in Mr Vanderpool walk d He was ed in rather an emb manner by them all and inveigled into a seat is far as possibler frOm Mis Jerusha 011 pre- tense of its being cooli ar by window But Miss Jerusha di mean to be left in the got up her chair and stalked over to the Who is this young nan she blandly inquired indicating with her cotton forefinger Mabel with a Ivery Wed face introduced Miss m grateful that the name wasn't Mull ins or Snooks Mr Vanderpool m de an astonished bow but Miss Jerusha held out her hand and gave his an unme grip ing heartily I'm rea glad to yer mister see here I ain't ashamed of I your cousin yer might hev cedi me as Then ordering Mr set down on the slu took place be- bide him when he had obeyed now I didn sped to see sich a fine young the fust night 1 come beau I she said to Mabel in a loud Mabel wished thai the earth would swallow some one of t yer needn't ji it all-fired red yer ain't got no call to o him he seems a rjice kind o young man shivers running up Miss they'd doin Mabel with For rusha awful awful time and thought she now turned to marching Mr was ext Mr and Mrs council of in nt for the space of he hly uncomfortable she sigh again buried and 3 her ed ner of th tried to dreadful ler face ill ai spasmodic her arms c sola glet up Mrs the m t here My struggled clinging irms r in de to that ensued and green veil and 1 curly cried on the th laughter e di a lightning the and brown Oh Tom yoi the girls as Tom shouting and shaking It took about the spj flash for them to grasp such laughter rooms that it is a wonki hood was not roused hearty lather than a wondrous difference Tom manj how he artg gh the and ccx like regular by Jove when she'd have seen tl sen jou know a out Oh dear r since I left the tc father I oji spot And would wi scamp i get-up all the when Mr Vand an li enj id t the idem Oh beli of rpool er the but then it was and makes and roatS told up with old fi I vyas n acted Idol you gone up to! up in the nur d have let t ill ca Jd fun I I wpi the ng evening and finally his I v leave insisted upon escorting ti door where he hi farewell assuring hkr b him m an nat he was ild I city resides a most lady whose toil who sketch her Hevington THI Western from beautiful and ace ettes all bear will be ished sHe chance to maiden name wa e stamp it this Jerusha MISSOURI I ere from Yankton Mead Yankton i OATS DUE Pugan from St Louis Kute Kinney from St Florence Meyer St Denver from St Joseph The John tf Chambers Barge master arrived from Yankton on day and will leave to-morrow for Fort Benton The brought 220 passengers en route for the Black Hills to Fort Pierre and she brought several from Pierre wbo took he N P trains at this point and proceeded Commodore new steamers Rose Bud and B g are almost completed and will be launched vat Pittsburgh nexi week and will leave for tbe Upper Missouri about the Dr new steamer the Black Hills left Pittsburgh April SOth The Silver Lake whi h has been completely overhauled and refitted has taken her place as a packet plying be- tween Yankton aud Fort Pierre Capt Joe and R C Munger who are in the ferry contract are in Commodore Munger sighs occasionally why don't the ver i The Gen Mead arrived last evening and will load at this point for Tongue River leaving this evening The Mead brought 180 passengers cu route for the Black Hills from Yankton to Pierre Capt Reaney agent stone Transportation Line haa ordered a large amount of coal for the use of his boats believing it to be cheaper than wood Tho agents of other lines intend following his ple The following is a list of the steamers in the Line D W Marratta agent at Bismarck working on the per Key West Far West Josephine E H Durfee Western Rosebud and Big Horn Tbe Gen Mead and Fontenelle are also ted by t lis line The s earners Fanchon Florence ers Fletcher Tidal Ware Arkansas Annie Johnson tory Wi saver Fannie and four others a e working in the Yellowstone Line Capt J H ney agent Bismarck The steamers Nellie Peck C K Peck Silver Lake Dugan and others are in the Contract Lino and tbe lien ion in the Benton Line The Tatum left May and arrive day after She completes Brnton and Will then work in the 1 Line Tno is still undergoing repairs Tho liaty Pf Kountz left Sioux City for and Fort Benton on the 3d The Kate Kinney left ton on the 3d She ried 60 passengers for Fort Pierre The river is rising rtt Bismarck and a fair stage of water for some time is The Red Cloud left Sioux City for Bismarck and Fort Benton May 1st anu is now due Tbe Florence Meyer left Sioux City on the and will arrive this week and go into the Yellowstone trade Tbe Western arrived Yankton and is loading for Fort ton and will leave this evening Stage Line Elsewhere we mention the arrival of the first stage from Deadwood and mention the reception that was given the on at Deadwood We state that thia is the only line i into the Black Hills And this is true Others run light wagons covered but this line alone runs the coaches They have three of elegant coaches and first class teams now on the road in the stage business In addition this company has one hundred mule teams and one hundred yoke of oxen engaged in freighting between Bismarck and the Hills A direct route from Bismarck to the has been located and im- proved authority of the territory and comfortable stations have been built at the crossing of numerous streams as shown elsewhere John Anderson and Phillip vine Co D 17th Infantry were bed the the arm der and the latter in the shoulder about twelve o'clock night but by whom or why neither can give any intoxicated and neither who with them A man who saw the affair by moonlight says some harsh words and of thw party commenced stabbing right and lelt with the result stated Tno both instances were severe not dangerous John Kelley the 7th Cavalry was found in the street a lew mornings since with his head ribly by whom it was done or under what c he could not tell i
