The avant courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1871-1872, 1872-02-01

| The Alta California is opposed to the
| mooteu ideas of government telegpaphy,
government savings banks, and thus com
ments thereon
The question is, shall all the avenues OF
private enterprise be closed, the opportunity
to invest capital be decreased, the Govern
! mcnt become vast and overshadowing mon
opoIy, and the spirit of independence blight
ed and dwarfed until we are a nation of in
tellectual imbeciies? Shall we become mere
grown up children in Government leading
strings. passing our lives in a narrow round
Of frivolous u>eessness. and AS helpless in
any great emergency as the people of France?
Shall all energy berepressed and all individ
uality sunk until a government clerk be-
comes the type Of our energy, and the ex-
ponent and director Of our progress? II the
government is to assume the care of our
money, why not the care OF our horses and
cattle, and the insuring Of our property !?
The greatest beneiactor OF the country to-
day would be the man who should secure an
unalterable amendment to the Constitution,
prohibiting the Government from any farther
encroaching upon the domain of private en-
terprise, ands confining it to its legitimate
function of protecting our lives and the liber-
ties of our individual action.
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REMEDY FOR LIMBs.-We have received q
communication, s'Don't amputate those
feet" from a correspondent, who does not
furnish his name. AS it is remedy for frozen
limbs which he recommends, the name is not
very essential. He states that twelve years
ago young man was brought to him with
his feet 80 badly frozen that the universal
opinion was that they would have to be am
putated. The flesh was Black and literally
rotting off, He wrapped the feet up in wet
cloths. and administered cayenne pepper to
him internally. For the first three or four
days the action of the blood was 80 strong.
that he gould not sit in chair, but had to lie
with his feet elevated. After that period he
could sit up little while at time, and in
eight or ten days he could move around on
his feet, and on the sixteenth day he walked
nine miles. He speedily recovered, and only
lost, by the freezing Of both feet five toe
nails. ,&5 15 @1 E<GE e5136 .%8#g5Es
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES szsgs q a s-F
AN AFFAIR OF HONoR.--A couple of gen-
tlemen OF honor, having found it impossible
to become reGOneiled to each other at one of
our hotels on Saturday evening last, one OF
them proposed to resort to the code, as will
be seen by the following: H*E 75 4
:. Mr.. ----t:y Your conduct was utterly re-
prehensible, particularly the style of y ur
I therefore demand the salts
faction due gentleman Of honor, and refer
you to the bearer who will arrange all pre-
liniinaries with a gentleman to whom you
shall refer him. Time and arms utterly in
different to me. / place myself entirely in
the hands Of my friend. The bearer was
young bootblaek.--ED.1 ! aTfH
% Sa Z ours, 49-ER.
To this the following reply wasspromptly
returned. in accordance with all the rules of
the. dnello: 4aaEas st1s
j N1s - :: Sir Enclosed please find piece
Of. shoe-string :tie yourself up with it till /
can find dirtier scrub Tor a second than
yours. Yours, 5z%s r
q We are happy to announce that the affair
has, been fortunately settled without the loss
of a drop Of blood. d.-saH Lake Tribune. -.
q 1t is said that Roehefort will be confnedl
ii the island of Saint Marguerite. on; the coast
of Provence. and that he il to occupy the |
,ell in which the famous Man ia the Iron |
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