The Montana post., 1868-09-18
THE EAST.

Beecher makes $1,000 year at farm-
ing. and $4,000 by preaching.
Millard Fillmore suffers from the gout,
aud frequently cannot walk without
support.
The New York Tribune has turned
out about fifty authors from the different
members OF its editorial staff. /
Ii is expected that the Niagara Falls
bridge will be opened to the public on
or about the 10th of October.
The cornerstone of new Baptist
Theological Seminary was laid in Chi
cago on Tuesday, with appropriate cere-
monies 1t is 10 cost 100000.
The income tax paid in Marion county,
Indiana, this year, amounts TO $65 200,
OF which the farmers pay only $1,000.
Robert Lincoln is said to be beginning
TO resemble his late father in personal
appearance. He is very successful in
business.
Wendell Phillips is said to be revising
and collecting his speeches for publica-
ton in a volume to be issued by Ticknor
& Fields.
The reduction of the whisky tax has
increased the number of murders and
robberies in the INTERIOR Ex.
Young ladies at Saratoga take daily
lessons in the "Grecian bend" Young
men at the same place practice the
American bender.
An Indianapolis locksmith has just
been arrested for unauthorized trials of
his skill upon she locks of the Post~of
fee in that city.
Out of six hundred and seventy in-
mates of the Auburn On. \. Penitentie-
ry, six hundred and thirty-si& are Demo~
Gratis and thirty-four Republicans
The highest salaries paid to teachers
in New York. before the war, were ST.
500 TO males, and 5000 10 females. At
present they are $1,000 for males and
81 ZOO for females.
IL is limited that the story OF a pro-
posed surgical operation to cut apart
the Siamese twins is one OF Barnum's
advertising clap-traps, as he is shortly
to have the twins on exhibition.
During late hail storm at Wellsboro,
Penn, a sheet of ice measuring about
two feet square and three inches thick,
fell from the clouds with the hail stones.
Mrs. August Belmont drives lovely
pair of cream-colored ponies in low
basket phaeton; value of ponies, 5000.
Her husbands fourth hand light bays,
sixteen lands high, are said To be the
finest team at Newport.
The hall in which the late Democratic
Convention of Kansas, at Topeka, was
held, was festooned with one rebel flag,
and one belonging to a colored Union
regiment They were entwined with
each other.
They are putting up a building in
fremont street, Boston, which will hold
100000. 1t is to be used for musical
festivals, but it's name, the Boston Rink
indicates that it is for skating also.
W. c. Raymond near Cedar RAPIDS,
Iowa, lost his voice for two weeks, in
consequence of sun stroke. He suddenly
recovered il the other day by an almost
compulsory effort TO halloO AT team
likely to run away.
The Geneva, IN. W Co,lri.r SAYS; AT
an auction held in this village a few
days ago, biography OF ex-President
Pierce, with a steel plate engraving, was
offered, and the highest and only bid
that could be obtained was one cent, at
which sum it was struck off"
There are now twenty-five wells in !
and around Pleasantville. Pa, Welding !
about l 800 barrels of oil daily. The |
agent OF the Titusville Pipe Company is |
sending off over 1000 barrels a day |
Nearly hundred wells are being sunk !
Open ard positive threats have been !
made in Marian county, Kentucky, that !
If Seymour and Blair are elected, every |
Republican in that county will be driven |
out of the State or killed-the threats |
not only embrace that county hut the |
entire State.
The articles of agreement for the |
sculling championship OF America, be- |
tween Walter Brown and Henry Coul- |
ter, arrived at Pittsburg recent y, and |
were accepted by Coulter, with one or |
two minor exceptions. The race is to |
take place September 10th. at 8 p. NJ, |
over the Monongahela course.
The tribute hook to the memory of |
President Lincoln, conceived by Secreta-
ry Seward, has been printed at a cost to |
the Government of $37 90 a volume. A |
very large edition has been printed, and |
copy is to be sent to every government !
and nationality in the world.
The leak of National bank notes from |
the Office of the Comptroller of the Cur |
rency in the Treasury Department has
been explained by finding some of them |
in the possession of the wife of a colored |
messenger in the office, who was de- |
tected in the act of attempting to pass
one of the missing notes.
A popular clergyman at Troy, New
York, who married couple the other |
day. "in a most beautiful and impressive !
manner" was handed, after the service, |
an envelope supposed to inclose the |
usual fee. Imagine his feelings when |
he found it's contents were simply a |
restaurant bill of fare.
One of the chief peculiarities of the |
Missouri bottom is said TO be the great 1
growth of suntiowers. For miles and
miles they extend in unbroken and pro.
fuse luxuriance and utter uselessness.
They were first brought there by the