The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1876-05-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

Dom Pedro, Emperor Of Brazil IS tht
only crowned head that will attend the
Centennial,
There we're III cases Of the plague and
III deaths in Hillah and Bagdad from
March 28th to April lst.
New developments are continually being
unearthed concerning the frauds in the
Mare Island Navy Yard
James z. Toner, a member of the Suf
folk, Mass, bar, has been sentenced to the
State Prison for five years, having been
convicted of blackmailing.
The Democratic State Convention, held
at Lincoln, Omaha, was the largest and
most influential ever held in the State.
Resolutions for hard money and reform
were adopted with great unanimity.
"Cast iron sinks is written upon the sign
of Hartford, Conn, plumber. "Well who
the (hic) said it didn't" chuckled an inc
briated man Of sin, after reading it over
three times,
II am as God made me, is the weak and
cowardly excuse we often make when our
imperfections rise up in glaring distinction.
No, we are as we make ourselves. God
builds the house, it is for us to fill ard
adorn it.
A certain amount of opposition IS a great
help to man. Kites rise against the wind
even head wind is better than none.
No man ever worked his passage anywhere
in a dead calm. Let no man wax pale,
therefore, because ofopposition, opposition
is what he wants and musthaTe, to be good
for anything. Hardship is the native soil
ofmanhood and selfreliance.
There is. some difficulty about Charlotte
Cushman's $ will. The Judge Of the New.
port probate court refuses to allow it To be
FSfi3t II Il ts, Nil az iccessii.
but one is dead, and the other-a sailor
cannot be reached. The court requires
proof of the handwriting of the deceased
and of the signatures of the absent witnes-
es.
Never repeat story unless you are GER
tain it is correct, and not even then unless
something is to be gained either ofinterest
to yourself or for the good of the person
concerned. Tattling is mean and wicked
practice, and he who INDUCES in it grows
more fond of it in proportion as he is sue,
cessful. If you have no good to say Of
your neighbor, never reproach his charac'
ter by saying that which is false. He who
tells you the faults Of others intends to tel
others of your faults, and SO the dish q
news is handed from one to another till the
tale becomes enormous.
An important point is made against Be
KNAPP by the impeachment managers. They
have learned that he drew pay as Secretary
of War for two full days in March, includ
ing the whole of the day ending March q
at midnight, and that he receipted for tht
same. This was practical acknowledgment
that the law recognizes no parts Of days
and the impeachment resolutions having
been adopted on the afternoon Of the I'd
the same principle would seem to settle
that he was an officer of the government
and therefore impeachable at the time h
was impeached.
The Schurz- Bryant overture for a reforr
movement, applicable to the approaehin
presidential election, is 10 be pushed in th
New England States and at the West an
! if the preliminary meeting ng-whieh is to b
7 held on the 18th Of May, in New York
. should meet with an encouraging respons'
it may blossom into National Conventio
to choose ticket Of its own. The reg
e lar politicians, both Republican and Dem
cratic, appear to attach but very little II
portance to it, however, and are sure not
ing will come Of it to change the currel
of the regular Nominations.
In all his iourneyings through this eou
) try, the Emperor Of Brazil can enjoy tel
graphic communications with his Cover
ment at Rio Janeiro, by means ofthe lin
/ which connect with the Atlantic cable
e Europe, and the cable line from Portug
e to Brazil. It is a long stretch in that We
from San Franciseoto his capital, but be g
send message from his San Francis
e hotel at breakfast time to his dadght'
: Isabel, now filing the. Office Of Regent
II the palace in Rio, and get an answer fre
Der before he has finished the perasaf.
the morning papers. he can thus ke
ct. his eye constantly on the affairs OF
!, country, though be relieved himself tre
&c all the cares of State before his depart1
1e on this journey. He left his Empire u
it cellent order, at peace with all bis nell
r bors, and undisturbed even By the ecels
astical troubles of two years ago,