Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1876-08-19
MISSOURI RIVER IMPROVEMENT.

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Eads to make an extension of the jetty
system from New Orleans to St. Louis,
is one OF the next questions of import
ance to occupy the attention of our en-
terprising citizens, and the accepting of
the project is doubtless in the womb Of
the future. Another Eads has sprung
up in the shape of Commodore ). Il.
Coulson, and if the latter can accomplish
all he says he can, in the way of i'm
proving the Missouri river, the two
should work hand in hand, and could
probably bring about i revolution in
transportation 10 and from st. Louis,
both north and south, which would ut
once place our city as the grand distrib-
uting point for the west. northwest and
south. In a recent letter to Gov. Potts,
of Montana, Commodore Coulson says:
,'.Nith the Missouri river improved,
the proposed appropriation for which is
ampl y sufficient, will undertake to land
| frelghts. at Fort Benton during six
months in the year in twenty-five days
from st. Louis or Chicago, at a cost not
| exceeding $37 so per ton. and will guar
| antee to provide n sufficient number of
tight-draught boats to handle the bust
| ness, even il it should require 4 daily
liilC- NlClSHstuulSc 'tIIlN iuS db pcilOi
| could be transferred to the cars direct,
| and in few hours thereafter be laid
down at the distributing points in
the interior. have taken the trouble
| to inform myself, and believe it IS fact.
that your connection by wagon trains
with the Union Pacific railroad continues
for about six months Of the year, and
consequently has no advantage over the
! RnnfnY, nIIfa in fhnf I f,,,.
ther informed that Montana freights, by
this route, cost, on an average, during
the season, 500 per ton; the present
cost, via river and land transportation
from Benton being about SS5 per ton,
whereas by the proposed improved
route via Benton, allowing very liberal
| tariff to the railroad connection wit, tho
interior, the cost would not be exceed
ing S45 per ton, thus making a clear
saving of $40 per ton over the present
Benton route from Ogden, and taking
nv estimate of the year 1875 OF the
amount Of freight shipped into Montana,
including government supplies, at 5000
tons. it is very easy to see what an enor-
NOUS saving would be made to the ter
ritory." ,'J q. !ar.".Irr ...- 1854
This sounds as if there was to be a
return of the good old days when there
were thirty-five elegant steamers plying
in the St. Louis and Missouri River
trade. Within the last ten years that
number has dwindled into the inslgnili-
cant few owned by the Missouri River
Packet Company, and owing to the
present sad state of the Missouri River
| on account of obstructions, the company
referred to is finding it difficult to make
both ends meet, notwithstanding the re-
duction of the expense of running the
boats in comparison with the days o
more life in that trade. Commodore
Coulson is an experienced steamboat
man, and knows whereof he speaks. He
has had charge of all the government
transportation on the Upper Missouri
: and is just the man to look to as author
ity On this question, and it is to be hopet
that in the proposed improvements IL
: the Missouri River he will be consulted
/. flight dresses' is the subject of :
, letter in the London Sporting Gazette
| Never, says the writer, have l seen tn,
hideousness and absurdity of the presen
+ fashion of tight costumes to CREATE
: advantage than at Lords Cricke
e ground Many ladies were rash enough
. LO ECClluO ou X ICSA swain, tAii ohSi
( frantic efforts to rise from their recum
d bent position were q source of grca
4 amusement to the bystanders. Th
d spectacle appeared to afford as muc
l. fun as a sack race, to which, indeed,
o bore some resemblance. A certai
S duchess, l am told, behaved with tn
C greatest selt-possession under thes
e somewhat humiliating circumstances
If -eI,o riSo in ha orI
c nary way, she ilung herself on all-tour:
l. and by throwing her weight aIternatel
to right and left finally succeeded in gair
It ing her perpendicular. These costume
e are the joke of the season. Crowds {
l. gamins gather round the carriages
II Regent street in order to watch til
m fashion struggle to mount their carriag
steps and the other day was the wi
N ness of 4 very funny scene in Trafalg;
he square. A lady thus bandaged made !
m less than six Intellectual attempts to g
is into bus. The passengers grew abs
i'll lutely apoplectic with suppressed larg
Sc ter, and even the gallant conductor, wi
Id was dong his best to help beauty in di
tress, could hardly strangle his cachin
lg tory inclinations. l am sure that Il
lie street boys, at any rate. will be disco
ne solate when this amusing freak of fas
IS ion dies out. -. ......... .
nd
k, "Eating Crow."-The editor of t
he Cincinnati Commercial explains how t
it phrase ''eating crow" originated; go
vn of the boys said once upon Il time til
nd the foolish prejudices of the people
to tcrfered with their pleasures to a gre
p, extent. There was the crow-the bt
id bird in the world for eating. On
to people refused to believe 1t. He h
no tried the bird and knew. He was urg
to dissipate prejudices by eating
g; favorite game bird in public, and
e's did, but was constrained, in justice
himself, to remark that while he cou
be eat crow, he really would admit that
NJ did not banker for it. So when one l
to take something that he bankers L
for, it is called "eatlng crow"
The Centennial Exhibition at Phi
delphia is half over, and the total
ceipts so far fail to reach one MILL
ny dollars. The capital invested in t
'ut enterprise is SS,500,0Q0. The runnl
iy expenses for the one hundred and tii
us nine days are estimated by compete
II i Judges to be about 81 800, 900. TIE
nc fore, to pay for itself and return
IS money advanced by the government a
ne by private subscribers to the stock, [
las gross receipts must be SIC, 100000.
~ ~ other words, the daily attendance dur
nc the remaining half of the exhibit
iu must be nine times as great as it "
=. VI during the first half.
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