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Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19

SAYS a London letter: aThe fio-
ney y-taker being unavoidably absent,
was temporarily replaced at tho exhi-
bition of the bearded lady and other
natural phenomena by pretty, bright
eyed girl of about fourteen. sHaw, I
suppose the-the-er bearded lady is
your mother observed a swell, as he
paid his money. NO, SIR sesd the
lextempore money taker naively; she's
my father.,D,
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19
WE judge that the writer of the
verses beginning:
We must not hope to be mowers,

We must not hope to be mowers,
And to gather the ripe, gold ears,
Until we have been sewers,
And waterel the furrows with tears,
is not a Granger. Corn, let us inform
him, is not mown, but is first ploughed
up and then threshed; and is not
sown, but grows wild in the umbrage-
GUS forests And, furthermore, the
farmer who should set out to water
his burrows with tears would find in
due season that it couldn't be success
fully done without more irrigation
than the human form is capable Of
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19

THE Secretary of the Treasury has
written to the chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee, recommending
additional taxation that the revenues
may meet the expenses, and enclosing
a bill for that purpose restoring the
duty on tea and coffee, which will yield
about twenty million dollars per an
mum. There is also included in the
recommendation an increased tax of
ten cents per gallon ON distilled spirits
which would yield seven millions an
nuaIly, and four cents additional per
pound on tobacco, which would yield
four millions; on illumination, two
hundred and fifty thousand; on gross
receipts Of railroads from passengers
and freights, six millions; on steam
boat gross receipts from passengers
and freight, six hundred thousand; on
insurance companies, receipts one mil
lion three hundred thousand; on tele-
graph receipts, two hundred and fifty
thousand, making an aggregate of
S22, ,159, 900, and this, with the tax on.
tea and coffee, would make over S42,-
600, 600. The Commissioners says that
If more revenue is wanted it could be
obtained to the extent of ten millions,
by restoring the taxes formerly in
schedule B, which includes stamps on
all legal instruments, deeds, mort
cages, etc.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19

SKEpTlcIsM has never founded en-
pires. established principalities or
changed the worlds heart. The great
doers in history have always been men
of faith.-fC Chaplin.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19

a PECULIAss. way of dischasging
printers exists in the Dayton, Ohio,
Offices. Each compositor has nail to
hang his coat on, and when the fore
man concludes to dispense with the
services OF one Of the hands, he takes
a hammer and drives the nail in to the
head
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19

DEBT is emphatically the poor
mans master. All debts centre in the
wealthy, and to tharn they are virtu.
ally due. If the poor man owes the
merchant the merchant. owes that
same amount, and more, to the whole
saler the wholesaler owes the bank,
or money loaner, and thus all indebta
edness, of whatever kind, places pow
er and interest finally in the hands Of
the rich.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19

THEY have some very smart busi-
ness men in New Jersey. Last week
a young man was struck by lightning
in field near Trenton, and when the
people began to flock to the spot to
look at the victim, they fonnd man
standing by the corpse trying to sell
lightning rods to the crowd.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19

OF THE new National House of
Representatives, 172 are new members
and 120 were members of the last
Honse. There viii be ten contested
seats to be decided. Politically, the
members Of the new House mot count
ing those whose seats will be contest
ed) will stand 191 Republicans, 81
Democrats, and four "Independents.1
In the Senate the Democrats have 10
members, being four more than they
had in the last Congress.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19

THE farmers Of Independence, Ind;
held a mass meeting recently, at which
about six thousand persons were pres
ent. The. sentiment of the gathering
was indicated by the following utter
ance of one of the speakers: ''We in
tend that political tricksters shall not
make up the State entire for us. We
wild say to the Democrats, if they are
in power in our county or State, Give
us good representative men who will
look too well to onr interests or wa
will not vote for them. So we will say
to the Republicans il they a. 9 in power.
If they do not ponder these things
well In their hearts now, they will af.
ter the next election. We would not
close the door of Office against an hon
orable profession or calling of life. We
do not ask to fill the Offices ourselves
as class. There are good and pure
men of the different yocations, and we
are determined to have them to the
'front.'"
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19

THE Postmaster General has issued
an order reducing the regisfrsstios free
on domestic letters and packages from
fifteen cents to eight cents, commenc-
ing on the 1st of January next.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19

The YELLOWSTONE SURVEYs.-A
correspondent asks if the public lands
of the Yellowstone Valley have been
surveyed. During the present year
there were ten townships surveyed
east of Bozoman, embracing nearly all
of Shields river and considerable
portion of the main Yellowstone Vail
ley. As yet there have been but few
ranches located in that direction-not
over Dozen Montanian.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19

BENTON County, California, has
raised pear which measures eighteen
inches In circumference one way and
fifteen and quarter inches the other.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19

PRUss1A's sovereign evidently does
not have much faith in the policy of
changing his tried servants in the army
and has an abiding faith in the wis.,
dom and discretion of old men,
Moltke's great age was a standing sur
prise all through the great Franco
German campaign. How a leader of
his years could take the field and put
forth such enormous energies as he did
was surprise to Americans, who in
sist on the employment OF men of mid
die age or even young men as military
leaders; yet the venerable Moltke's
chiefs of armies were all grey headed.
veterans; the youngest marshal in the
service of. Prussia is Manteuffel, and
he has just completed his sixieth year.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19

FIFTY houses were blown down in
Boulder, Colorado, lastweek. That is
what it is to live at the mouth of a.
canyon.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19

aDAR are,n said al sable orator, HtTo
roads through dis world. de one ars
de broad and marrow road dat leads to
perdi.;on, an de u5der ann de narrow
an de broad road dot leads to sure de-
struction.D ssIf dat am de case,n said
a sable hearer, Adis c1llIud individual
takes to de woods
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19
The people of Osceola county, in

The people of Osceola county, in
northwestern Iowa, are in state of
starvation, owing to the unfavorable
season and the destruction of their
crops by the grasshoppers. Several
women with young babes have died
for want of clothing and proper nour
ishment. Fuel is so scarce that twist
ed hay is used. The grangers have
sent out appeals for assistance, as the
people are destitute OF everything.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19

THE laying of the corner stone OF
the new capitol Of Iowa, the other
day, inaugurated a new era in public
occasions. No speeches were made,
except 9 few remarks by workman
who got his finger pinched, and ley
were brief and to the pcint, bat
wouldn't look well in print.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19

Local notices Is cents per line for the first nser-
kfoR and 10 cents for each additional Insertion.
Sa- Transient advertisements must be paid for
In -dv4nce, and all Job Printing when the work
10 delivered.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19

A. F. ~ "A. M.
q Stated communications of Gallatln Lodge NO.
WAF&AM M. neld at their hall on the lrst oatur-
dvy evening on or before the full of each
Month
Visiting brethren are cordially invited to attend
THOS. II. EDWARDS, w. nj.
r. p MENEFEE. Sec.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19
Decision of1she Eazaias Cours
Martial.
VERSAILLES, December 10.


Lochla,ld, the counsel for Marshal
Bazine, in his peroration, said: q
deeply sympathize with the valiant
soldier, overwhelmed hy terrible ac-
cusation. I fear not death for him;
he is brave and fears nothing but the
loss of his honor for the sake of his
wife and children. / feel most for
France, which will depIore the loss Of
the valorons soldier. Your honors'
patriotism forbids that You condemn
him. Poureet replied, demanding
that terrible example be made, as a
lesson to. the rising generation. Be-
fore the judges withdrew Bazaine
said: :" have two swords in my
breast-honor and country. / have
never been wanting towards this proud
motto dnring forty years of service
I swear before Christ that / have not
betrayed France
After long deliberation, the Judges
declared Bazaine guilty OF the charges
of the capitulation of Metz and Of the
army in the open field without doing
all that was prescribed by honor and
duty to avoid a surrender, and unani-
monsly condemned him to death, and
to be degraded from his rank previous
to his execution. After Judgment was
rendered al tatlll the memb berrss eff ef the the court
signed an appeal for mercy which the
Duke d'Aumale Immediately conveyed
in person to President McMahon.-
Bazaine was greatly agitated when he
heard the decision of the court.
PARIS, December 10.
The crowd at the TrianOn to-day
warmly cheered when the verdict was
rendered. The sentence includes the
payment of costs and expulsion from
the Legion of Honor.
PARIS, December Il.
Soon after judgment was pronounced
against Marshal Bazaine, last even.
ing, he requested that his son be al
lowed to visit him in prison. He re-
fused to avail himself of the right of
appeal. MacAIahen will today de-
eide the appeal of the court for mercy
LONDON, December Ii.
The Times says Bazaine is justly
convicted.
The Telegraph considers hima sacri-
fee to national vanity.
The News hopes that as the eyi-
dence was SO conflicting the sentence
will be committed to perpetual exile
or Imprisonment.
PARIS, December II.
President MacMahon has commuted
the sentence of Marshal Bazaine to
twenty years secl,lsion, and to bear
the effects of degradation from his
rank, but be spared the humiliation of
the ceremony.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19

. WE shall jerk living out of this
city during the coming winter, or we
are much mistaken. We intend to
work both ways, making up with the
hands for the deficiency Of the brain.
You don't catch us " cooling aroundn
by the hour, when we. can make half q
dollar or 50 by hard knocks in our Of
fee. These are times .Hhen people
must work or starve.-[ Duluth Her
aid. ts5
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19

AS A. fountain of water cannot be
purer than its source, SO the laws
which govern community must par
take of the character of those who
framed them. IF we demand good
laws, we must elect good men to make
them. IF we desire their impartialex-
ecution, we must elect men who are
above reproach, whose integrity has
been tried, and whose sense Of justice
cannot be influenced by bribes or
threats, fear or favor.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19

"Oh! sweet were the vanished hours,
When l wondered along he glen,
And wrcathed my brow with tomatoes
And pl cked the ripened hen;
When the donkey climbed on a trellis
And the cucumber chirped in the grass,
And the sweet potatoe whistled
TO its mate in the mountain pass"
This is a remark that it is said was
uttered in q moment Of dependency
by General Samuel Fenton Cary:
II am tired OF seeing the cabbage
Handle the rake and the hoe;
I'm tired OF Waiting and watching
For the grasshopper bnsh to grow;
long for the time when spinach
Shall cope with bread and milk;
When hens shall! lay bananas,
And horses spin raw silk"
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19

A deep gloom was cast over large
circle of friends in this city by the in
telligence received yesterday, that on
Saturday night Col. Clarence Prentice
had been thrown from his buggy and
received injuries from which he died
in few minutes. He had just re-
moved to a farm on the Preston street
road, o few miles from the city, where
he proposed to make his permanent
home. On Saturday night, about mid
night, he was returning home IN his
buggy with his little son, George d.
Prentice, when turning suddenly into
the lane leading from the pike to his
house, the buggy capsized, throwing
him upon the hard ground with vio-
lence that ruptured blood vessel
abont the heart and caused almost in
stant death. His son was unhurt and
ran to the residence of Mr.. Phillips
near by for assistance, hut before any
one arrived the injured man had
breathed his last. Thus has passed
away the last of the immediate family
of Geo. d. Prentice, whose genius fill
ed the whole country with admiration
for many years.
Col. Clarence Prentice was man of
great personal popularity. Accom-
plished, genial and kind, he lent a
charm to every circle in which he was
thrown. He was followed to the tomb
this morning by sorroWing friends. His
little orphan son is now. the only sur
yiyor of the family of the great jour
Ealist and poet, whose name he bears.
May he grow up to a career of useful
ness Louisville Ledger.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19
CHINA is doing what she can to put

CHINA is doing what she can to put
a stop to the coolie traffic. As the de-
portation of the Mongolian laborers is
nothing more than slave trade-in-
famous as that of Africa-the Chinese,
in their efforts to suppress the horrible
system. deserve the aid of the Chris
tan Powers that act in concert for the
determination of the dealing in human
souls as carried on by African slaves.
Abundant raoof is in existence to show
that the coolie ships arc managed on
the. same plan which has made the
slave vessels from the African coast q
by-word and a reproach TO humanity
and civilization. So seldom it is that
the rulers of China take the initiation
in . measure of reform that they
doubly deserve the countenanee and
N ater;al support of Europe and Ameri-
"a IN their efforts to terminate the
Coolie trade.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19
Granger Poetry.

The Cincinnati Commercial gives its
readers the following verses, written
by aspiring Changers, to show fanlili-
arify with agricultural matters. 6
The Hon. Sam Hunt, of Springdale
and Jerusalem, contemplating the
Western world, one sunny November
afternoon, from a lovely hiIlside--a
portion of the farm upon which he
toils-sighed,
1.-The hickory berry vine entWines
|. The brown nuts of the turnip tree;
The cashmere heiter skips and plays
TO the tueeful bleat of the feathery bee.
On tall bouShs mid the buckwheat buds
We hear the low of the finny ployer,
While the bay bull hitehed to The rambling
scythe
Husks out the golden clover
This is d slight observation made by
Jimmy in connection with his Kansas
farm. 1t is but the natural glow of
the poetic aspiration of a great Amer
ican statesman:
dream of great Republic
Whose people shall all go West,
Sow plums and reap tomatoes
Tn the land they love the best;
When jobs OF all dimensions
Shall bloom on every hill.
And chickens low in the barn-yard
And gooseberries toll at the MILL
Here is the lamentation of Jones
one day when he would he were a boy
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-12-19


WHATEVER may the result of the
present Spanish imbroglio-whether
the Administration Of Grant rises to
the height of the occasion or not-the
acquisition of Cuba by the United
States is event which will happen in
the near future. If it is not acquired
by war before Grant goes out of Office,
it will be the great question in the
Presidential election of 1876. The
Democratic party will favor the annex
alton of Cuba as they favored the ac-
QUESTION of Texas in 1874. The Wig
orous, healthy, progressive American
sentiment is for extending the area of
American freedom, especially in the
direction of Cuba A party which
makes that a speciality is sure to tri-
umph in the election. The Spanish
despotism in Cuba might have been
perpetrated for sometime, but the Nir-
ginius massacre will cause it to totter
to its fall. The public sentiment of
this country recognizes that its exist
ence near our shores is not compatible
with our peace and safety. We have
periodically, for the last twenty years,
in consequence of the Spanish out
RACES in Cuba, to our flag and to the
persons of our citizens, been compelled
to make great military and naval pre-
parations at cost of many millions
of dollars. The state of peace we have
had has been about as costly as that
of war would be-. This condition of
things must end. Cuba must be free,
and, If she desires annexation to the
United States, we shall be glad to take
her. If the people Of Cuba and the
people of the United States are united
in desire to be under the one Gov
ernment, we do not recognize the right
of old Spain toforbid the bans OF union.
The parties concerned attend to their
own business without the Intervention
Of outsiders.-[ Cincinnati Enquirer.
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PARIS, December II.

President MacMahon has commuted
the sentence Of Marshal Bazaine to
twenty years seclysion, and to bear
the effects of degradation from his
rank, but be spared the humiliation of
the ceremony.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-12
STATE NEWS.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY.


The Journal says that Prof. Hayes and fami-
ly propose to sail for Europe on the Goth. They
90 by the Anchor Line.
A number of tasty cottages are being built on
the Poland camp-grounds.
AT lewiston Friday, the horses attached to
a hack containing six persons, in funeral pro-
cession, got frightened, broke the pole, and on
ly tree saved the coach FROM going into the
river over high embankment.
Lewiston is building new engine house.
The annual exhibition of the Androscoggin
Comfy Agricultural Society will be held at
Lewiston, beginning Sept. 30th.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
Friday afternoon freight car on conductor
Vests train was badly burned while approach
ing Clinton. The value of the freight burned
is estimated at $500.
The Journal says that the Savings Bank at
Waterville, has Just received new steel box.
weighing 1900 pounds and costing thousand
dollars 1t is made after the latest pattern,
with all the modern Improvements to resist the
attacks of burglars, including patent combi-
nation lock.
The dwelling of E. Foster, of Winthrop was
burnt Friday. Loss not stated. Mrs. Foster
came near losing her life, as the fire was caused
by the explosion of a kerosene lamp which set
her clothes on fire.
PENoBSCoT COUNTY.
The criminal term of the 8. j. Court for Per.
obscot county opens at Bangor, Aug. 18th.
YORK COUNTY.
The French Canadian Convention open in
Biddeford this week.
Saturday afternoon, a boy aged seven and a
girl aged three years, children of John Traynor.
OF Biddeford, fell from the roof of two-story
house, aud ssx@nse DO seJ SERIOUS
ly hurt.
IN GENERAL.
Blueberries are reported to be found only on
the highest grounds, as the late frosts have kill
ed all the blossoms on the low ground bushes,
which generally produce the largest berries.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-12

SOUTHERN EDITORIAL AMENITIES. Here il
a sample of the language addressed by the edi-
tor of the Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer, to the
editor of the Opelika (Ala.) paper:
All, French Strange, you lying coward, you
poor apologist for murder, you illiterate, un-
principled scoundrel, you white-livered whelp,
you champion of cowardice, you upholder Of
murder, you smade fearful mistake in your
mean cunning when you took up the arguments
of Yankees against me because l would advo-
cate decorating. rebel graves" and this in or
der that you, 'spoor, brainless, illiterate cow
arc, might find an argument to sustain muir
Do you think, French Strange, that the words
of your kindred blackguards in the North can
uphold you? dare them and stand here
ready to show you and your friends, the cham
pions of MURDER that l was drawer soldier
for the Union than you were for the South,
and a truer advocate of financial honesty than
you have been of blood. Poor driveling fool,
does the spirit of Phillips never rise agains t
you, when foolish people, ignorant Of your
knowledge of law, call you poor, ignorant, un-
principled, brainless ass, to defend them in
that court near which he was murdered?
Judging from distance we should say that
there is evidently unpleasant feelings between
these parties,