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Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-02-07
TIE y. II. II. II. EXTENSION.
We CLEAN the following from the Bis
marck Tribune:

We CLEAN the following from the Bis
marck Tribune:
. 1.-The Executive Committee of the Board
OF Directors of the Northern Pacific rail
road is willing to comply with the request
OF the Portland Board of Trade, to build
the road on tie south side OF the Column
bia river, and has adopted a resolution, re-
solving. That this company will proceed
with the work of construction of its rail
road and telegraph line as rapidly as a pru-
dent use Of its means will permit: and
will construct and complete and equip. in
the manner prescribed by existing laws, at
least one hundred miles thereof by the
3lst day of December, 1880, and at least
one hundred miles thereof per year there
| atter-and the entire road and telegraph
line by the 4t'l day Of July, 1882
'Ot Senator Mitchell's bill the commit
tee resolved as follows: That the bill in
trOduced ut the extra session Of Congress.
which was prepared, drafted and introduce
cd without the knowledge of, or any con-
sultation with the company, directly or in
directly. is in its scope and results. what |
ever may have been its motive or intent. |
destructive Of the interests OF the Northern
Pacific railroad, and its provisions cannot
be accepted by this company
The Chicago Times, in Il leading edi-
torIal. approves the management of the
Northern Pacific railroad, and asks that
the extension bill be passed. 1t says:
The interests Of the Government can SUIT
fer no injury, but would be substantially
benefited by the completion of the road.
All things fairly considered. there does
not seem to be any objection to the bills
passage. The Chicago Tribune and New :,
Y ork Times both hold the same views and
he Philadelphia Times riddles Mitchell, Of
Oregon, and Thompson lin the Housed. of I;
for their bargain to defeat !
1aional necessity. 9
The Chicago Board Of Trades memori-
j on the Northern Pacific to Congress r
makes these three good points: t
Il. That it is simply Justice to tie f
arg. number Of bondho!ders who loaned b
he mol."v that has constructed nearly six O
hundred niles OF the Northern Pacific t;
ailroad, and VITO, under Tie present re- il
rganzation of TIL, company, have become v
and the. '"torc owners OF the n
ne, to give them time IL save their large c
lvestment by completing t,.o road. a
-. That another trans-cont,., enta! rail IL
'ay is needed to reduce the preset high
ost OF freight and travel between the At Ct
mite and Pacific.
ID That the completion of the North
m Pacific railway would practically put
n end to the Indian wars in the northern NJ
alf Of the United States: would speedily vi
title the Territories of Dakota. Montana. pl
iaho and Washington; would bring into Ii
arket belt of public domain several di
undred miles wide from the Missouri riv- til
to the Pacific, and would give to trade til
I'D commerce the shortest route to China in
ID Japan. IA
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-02-07

A dispatch says: Arguments in the
case of the United States VS.. Samuel ].
Tilden. to recover $1,000 as an annual in
come tax for the year 1861, with interest
from June 4, 1862, were begun Saturday
morning in the United States Dist. Court.
There are nine counts in the complaint, to
all Of which demurrer is made on technical
grounds, the merits of the case not being
gone into. 1t was decided to take up each
count separately The first count charges
$1,000 back tax for the fiscal year 1861 and
1852. Tilden's counsel claim that the laws
passed about that time were recognized rs
necessary measures, and annullcd the
law requiring the payment of the income
tax that year. Judge Blatchford sus-
tanned the demurrer. giving Tilden the first
victory.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-02-07
Sitting Bull.

WASHINGTON, January 2s.-Under date
OF january %, Colonel Nelson A. Miles
telegraphed Gen. Terry that on December
I'D, Sitting Bull crossed the border and is
now with 500 lodges on American soil. He
recommends that well-equipped force be
sent against him.
Gcn. Sherman to-day received a dispatch
from Gen. Sheridan, stating that the re-
ported crossing Of Sitting Bull into United
States territory is not confirmed, but
should the rumor prove true, he will at
once dispatch troops to Col. Miles at Fort
Keogh.
ST. PAUL, January 2s.-General Gibbon,
in Montana. tclegraphs from
Fort Shaw, under date of the 26th, that
Col. Macleod is there and regards as i'm
probable the story of Sitting Bulls hostile
movements. There is nothing to confirm
the story.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-02-07
Montana EeWS.
THus5andnaan.1

Gen. A. j. Smith has Just sold his
entire flock of sheep to G. W. Cook &
Bro.
Many farmers of the Missouri Valley
are re-sctting fences. They find no frost
in the ground to interfere with their dig
ging post holes.
Those of our Eastern friends WHO have
read ilazen's report of the stcrility of Mon
tana, were they here to-day and sec ou:
farmers blowing and sowing. would have
but little more confidence i'll the ycracity
of that gentleman than the people of Mon
tana have. And, could they pass winter
in our midst, there are but few of them
who would not believe in the theory of the
northern tropical belt. While the big flat
east and west of lis, on our par
allel are wrapped in snow and ice, here at
IN altitude Of 5000 feet above the sea.
we are enjoying delightful autumn weatl.-
er.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-02-07
Ben. Butler Creates a Sensation.

WASHINGTON, January 29.-Gen. Butler
created considerable excitement in the
House to-day by presenting the resolutions
adopted by the Norfolk, Mass. Unitarian
Conference, in favor of single gold stand
ara, and then asking the Speaker for his
Bible, and causing to be read from the
chapter in st. John, Christ's rebuke of GER
tam disciples and money changers who at
tempted to use the Lords temple for the
purpose of merchandise. Butler said that
after the rebuke by Christ, he had no an
swer to make to the ministers who attempt
ed to instruct him.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-02-07

The Territorial warrants sold yesterday
to pay the expenses of maintaining the
insane and the Territorial convicts in the
penitentiary during the month of January.
amounting TO Sl,55I. brought 80 81 cents.
They were purchased by Mr.. Nash, of Sill
YER City. This is the highest price Terri
torIal warrants have ever sold for.
On Friday evening, Or lather, Saturday
morning, about the witching hour of two,
a general row occurred in dance house.
and was resumed on the street. The result
was few scratches and the loss of some
false hair. One of the fraiI creatures was
nabbed by the minions of the law. and re-
CURED to pay the sum Of 800 for the even
lng's amusement. Three Of the other par
Elephants in the row were assessed in sums
Of from S25 to $50 each.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-02-07
-Nr,y- NOps .Jan,,ar,- 90 T,l,o

NEW \ ORR, January 26.-The Rerald's
Washington spec..,lsays: The dissatisf:,c-
ton felt with the report Of the Canadian
Fisheries Commission is so great and gen.
eral here that Congress will not confirm it
when the President reports it. 1t will be
attacked in both Houses MS unjust. unrea-
sonabe, and not based 81 facts, and kind
OF Canadian Yankee trick. submission to
which would oblige us to pay large sum
OF money and get nothin e for it.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-02-07
kilograms.
Concession to the n. p n. n

WASHINGTON, January 3O.-The House
Public Lands Committee to-day agreed to
recommend the passage of the bill provid.
ing that in all cases where the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company relinquis'les to
settlers any lands which have been settled
upon in good faith and without the knowl-
edge OF their having been granted to the
railroad, the company shall be entitled to
take lien on the lands to an equal amount
within its indemnity limits.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-02-07
IDQiIN Hcrnkd.1

On Saturday last. Jacob Megel, of
Meagher county. was found dead in the
vicinity Of Backtail gulcl, from which
place he was engaged in drawing timber.
lie was seized. it is believed, with heart
disease, and after a short struggle fell by
the way side and expired. He was ma
tive Of Lorraine and served thirteen years
In the French army. He had lived in Mon
tana since 1871. His age was forty-eight
years.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-02-07

Heavy snow storms in New Hampshire,
Maine, New York and Massachusetts, on
the LIST inst, impeded travel and delayed
railroad trains.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-02-07

Wat IS generally Known among river
men to day as the Narrows. is three miles
below He'll Gate Rapids. and is very dam
gcrous place to run 4 steamboat. Coulson
is located at the lower end Of this point. to
which it is believed light-tliauSht steam
boats can arrive during several months Of
the summer. The distance from Coulson
to Bozeman by the route Travelled at pres
ent is $50 miles.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-02-07

A great storm on the Atlantic coast on
the LIST inst. destroyed Il great amount of
property, and 4 number OLIVES were lost.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-02-07
Table OF Distances on the Yellow.
stone.

The following table Of distances on the
Yellowstone, though heretofore published
in some Of the Territorial papers, will be
of interest to the majority of our readers.
1t is taken from Captain Grant Marsh's
table. and gives the distances from the
mouth of the Yellowstone to the highest
point reached by the steamer Josephine in
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-02-07

The Central Presbyterian church of
Denver was duly opened and dedicated on
q ult. 1t is magnificent structure, cost
$4,000.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-02-07

Thousands Of Envelopes Oh ." n;I,,. ~
Heads. Note Heads, Hano BsS
Lading, Bill Heads, 'r~;,repl,'
Cards, Visiting Card'' mimi.
Tickets, Programmes, S S
Posters, Etc, OF Al ..,.
and prices, gotten up
w. on short notice ara
a. tn. v.ry:lo"'"
living rssss
~-0IvE Us A CALI
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-07-05
Don't Stimulate the Young.

If you give to a healthy man of twen-
ty, who has never tasted it, either
cup of tea or coffee, it will keep him
awake all night. If you give to one
who has never drank fermented or dis
titled liquors glass of beer, wine. or
weak whiskey and water, it will make
him more or less dizzy, and perhaps
give him headache. If you persuade
one who has never smoked to try a
cigar, it will probably nauseate him,
and for time make him severely sick.
Now, what is the conclusion from these
facts? Simply that tea, coffee, fer
mented and distilled liquors and tobac-
co, are in their nature medicinal are,
in brief, drugs, and that, at least while
the body is growing, while he still has
superabundance of vital force, it does
not need either the preservative prop
critics of tea or coffee, or the digestive
and tonic ones of wine, beer, or brandy,
or the soothing one of tobacco, to keep
it in health and well being but that
on the contrary, when the youthful sys-
tenn is in its natural state and either is
offered it, disturbance, more or less pro-
nounced, is the result. What terrible
responsibility, then, do not mothers and
fathers incur, who from boyhood allow
their little children to drink tea and
coffee-nay, before the little things
think of asking for it tempt them to sip
1T out of their own teaspoon
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-07-05
VOLUME 41---NUMBER 2136.

At least one Democratic member OF
that committee was unfit for duty, and
had besides mislaid an important en-
rolled bill. AS Mr.. Rainey deposited
the bill the shout went up: "Rainey
you will be worth more now than you
ever were before" And this is the
colored Republican, elected by large
majority, whom the Democrats desire
to unseat. .W-
After the adjournment, Mr.. Atkins,
chairman of the appropriations COM
mittee, also went to the colored member
(Rainey) and warmly congratulated him
for his efficient service, and declared
that the adjournment would have been
impossible until afternoon without him
Directly after adjournment, also, Mr.
Smalls, another colored member stopped
in the deserted chamber to write to his
wife that he had retained his seat and
defeated the plot of the democrats. Mr.
Ellis, of Louisiana, having charge o.
the contested cases against these colOreG
Republicans, said last night that his
reputation depended upon getting thos,
negroes out before adjournment. Ye
they are not out.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-07-05
the wonderful heroine ~

the wonderful heroine ~
81 never saw her; for although Bays
Vile was the next village to Dryden,
/ never went there. But she was de-
scribed to me as tall, strong and mascu-
line.n E.e,.s
SIN short, my dear Lion,n 1 said
gravely, "She was perfect Elephant"
Such "a stare as greeted me j am GER
tain never came upon Leo Roberts face
before or since that hour. His eyes
dilated till l thought that they would
pop out of his dear, ugly face, and his
mouth opened in utter amazement.
Finally, he remembered his manners,
and gasped:
''Pardon me, Twas it really you 2"
"Uncle George" 1 said, twill you
please introduce me properly to Mr..
Roberts? believe he thinks your niece
must share your name."
With flourish Uncle George arose,
and gravely introduced
''Mr. Leo Roberts, Miss Olive Hud-
sOn,-Miss Hudson, Mr.. Roberts"
After that we could not certainly be
strangers, and Mr.. Roberts came "many
time and oft" to dine with Uncle
George.
And one day there was a wedding,
where the bride was very small, buried
in lace and orange blossoms, and the
bridegroom was ugly and good natured
but it was true love match, fit end
ing foI the Irritation commenced at
Dryden and Baysville, oUer the aUires.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-07-05
A Faithful colored Congressman.

1t seems after all that it was a colored
Representative who made it possible
for Congress to adjourn at 2 o'clock
Thursday morning. A dispatch says:
At 6:42 A. M. Mr.. Rainey, colored Re-
publican, of South Carolina, member of
the committee on enrolled bills, rushed
hurrIedly into the chamber from the
enrolling room with very anxious face,
bearing the heavy parchment upon
which the sundry civil bill was enrolled.
He was followed by Atkins and Clymer.
The Speaker extended his hand to
Rainey and warmly congratulated him.
1t was great compliment to Mr..
Rainey, and the fact is worthy of ma
tlonal notice that he has been the only
member of this important House com
mIttee who has thoroughly attended tc
his duties and who could be relied upon
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-07-05

about to purchase was assured that no
money would be demanded for the hu-
name enterprise for years to come
when the heavy mortgage that lay on
the farm was to be lifted by the gener-
GUS but wealthy company who were
seeking to find some investment for
their funds on long time paper; when
each member of the family was to be
insured against accident from lightning
in the sum of $1,000; when only the
interest on the very small cost of the
rOdding of the house was to be required
as payment for the privilege of putting
on the rods, then it was that the
agent secured the signature of the owner
of the building to his very neatly con-
trived agreement-only that the great
head of the concern could know that
the boys he had sent out were meeting
with success in their benevolent work.
And now, in many sections, the owner
of a house is waiting patiently to try
the effect of his rod on the thunder
storm. Whether the electrician has
been fortunate enough to get thing
that will draw the lightning, remains to
be proved. But the owner of the house
may rest assured that he stands much
better chance of having his house struck
than his neighbor does. 1t is a poor
rod that does not attract the lightning
in some small degree, and the chances
are that he may feel the effects of it on
some shOwery afternoon. 1t may only
be strong enough to topple over his
chimney, knock down his baby and
shatter his cooking stove but then, he
will realize just as well the advantages
of lightning rod as though it stove his
whole shebang into splinters. But if it
happens that the fluid, on account of
the high cost of the rod, refuses to pat
rOnize it, the time is soon coming when
the party who owns it will be "struek." !"
Those good fellows who put on the rods
are gone another person appears with
notes, and the victims who were so
electrified" by the visit of the light
ming rod men, will awake to the situa-
ton and curse the day when they were
swindled out of sum of money that it
is impossible to raise.
If men desire to use lightning rods,
that is their privilege but the instances
are so exceedingly rare when loss of life
or property is caused by lightning,
which could be prevented by the use of
rods, that the necessity for them is very
small indeed. 1t should be remem-
bered that an improperly adjusted rod,
or one that gets out of repair from any
cause, only increases the hazard on a
building. Let us wait and hear the
wall that goes up when the last part of
this story is tOld.-BdrtOn Monitor.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-07-05
MacGahan's Adventure Under the
Commune.

The first time | ever heard of him
was during the commune. Huntington
told me the story later, but the date of
it belongs to the closing days of that
mad insurrection, when its fate was
sealed, and when the leaders of it and
their followers were savage with des-
peration and rage. Two of MacGahan's
acquaintances-I believe they we're
not even friends-had fallen into the
clutches of the post set up in the Place
Vendome-One of the military head
quarters of the rebels. They were
guilty of nothing, but they had been
arrested for want of papers, or from
some informality in their papers. Mac
Gahan said he should go and get them
out. In vain he was warned against
the attempt. 1t was almost as much as
a mans life was worth to come within
hail of communist sentry. The Yer
sailles troops were laundering at the
gates of Paris; men were shot every
hour for hesitating to answer a chal-
lenge, or to enroll themselves in the
communist ranks. MacGahan knew it
as well as anybody, but he walked
quietly into the jaws of hell, surren-
dered himself to the first soldier he met
insisted on being taken before the com
mander of the pnst, demanded the re-
lease of his friends, and obtained it.
believe the officers granted it for nc
other reason than their admiration o1
the mans indomitable courage. l have
heard Huntington-who was in Paris al
the time and knew well what the state
of things was-say that the risk thai
MacGahan ran on his memorable jour.
ney to Khiva, was joke to the risk he
voluntarily encountered during that en-.
terprise in behalf of his two comrades
g. W. Smalleg, IN N. y. Tribune.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-07-05
The Voice of the Unseen.
THE soLDIER-DEAD OF PHILLIPs-ANDovRR.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Poem at the Centenni,
Dinner


Stuart Phelpss Poem at the Centenn
Dinner.
You do not lift your eyes to watch
Us pass the conscious door;
Your startled ear perceiveth not
Our football on the floor.
No eager words your lips betray
To greet us where we stand
We throng to meet you, but you hold
To us no welcoming hand.
Faint as the grass in which we breathed,
Far as the death we died,
Dim as the faded battle-smoke,
We wander at your side;
Cold as a cause outlived or lost
Vague as the legends, told
At twilight, of a mystic band
Circling an Age of Gold.
Unseen unheard, unfelt,-and yet
Beneath the army blue
Our heart-beats sounded real enough,
When we were boys like you.
We turned us from your fabled lore,
With ancient passion rife;-
No myth our solemn laying down
OF love- and hope, and life.
NO InytH Jne ciaSpeu anu SeVereu naHuS
No dream the last replies.
Upon the desolated house
To-day the sunlight lies.
Take, sons of Peace, your heritage,
Our loss, your legacy.
Our action be your fables fair,
Our facts your poetry.
o, We who fall on calmer times!
The perils of the calm
Are yours,-the swell, the sloth, the sleep,
The carelessness of harm,
The keel that rides the gale to strike
Where the warm waves are still.
Ours were the surf, the stir, the shock,
The tempest and the thrill
Comrades, be yours that vigor old,
Be yours the elected power
That fits man like rock to tide,
To his appointed hour;
Yours to become all that we were,
And all we might have been;
Yours the fine eye that separates
The unseen from the seen.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-07-05
The Power of Superstition Upon South
ern Negroes

Is fully illustrated in the confession of
Thomaston (Ga.,) colored murderer,
Dick Dawson. He and his brother-in-
working farmers of Upson county, and
the best of friends until Dawson culti-
waited an unlawful love for Cunning
hams wife. She determined to put her
unsuspecting husband out of the way,
and as Dawson was 10th to take his life,
she urged him on with the accusation
that Cunningham had hired an aged
negro, who lived in the woods near by
and was credited by all the darkies of
the vicinity with possessing an evil eye,
to bewitch him. This was the reason,
as his mistress told Dawson, why his
garden did not do we'll why the fish
did not bite his hooks why it was dis
covered that it was he who stole goose
from a neighbours roOst. Dawson was
of course disturbed by the artful con-
struction which Mrs. Cunningham placed
upon every untoward incident, and was
finally placed in terror of his life by
her statement that at her husbands di-
rectiOn she had pulled nine hairs out of
the mole of his head. She said that he
would wind these about a rusty nail
that the wizard had given him and with
one blow daily for nine days drive the
nail into tree on the ninth day she
persuaded Dawson that he would die
an awful death. Dawson at once set
himself at work to break the enchant-
ment before the nine days should ex-
pire. He lured Cunningham to his
house with the promise to give him half
a pig he should kill that evening, and
then shot him, Drained him with hoe
and hid his body where it was finally
found by accident. Dawson was ar
rested and sentenced to be hung, on
circumstantial evidence, and has just
confessed his guilt, duplicating Mrs.
Cunningham, as the day for his execu-
ton had almost arrived. The woman
has been arrested while working in the
fields in another county and will be
put on trial for her life at the next term
of court.