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Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-04-11

IN our issue of March 22d, we made men
ton of a correspondence of 20. j." in the
Independent concerning mail robberies, and
it is due him that we correct the error. We
find from a more careful notice of this let
ter that he made no especial reference to
any particular postofiiee or person, and we
very much regret to have SO mistated it as
to reflect upon any innocent person. There
is no question but that letters containing
money from Phjjppsburg has been stolen,
BY whom we have no knowledge or means
oil knowing. The safety of the mails for the
transmission of money, is a matter in which
every citizen is much concerned, andit is the
duty of every honest postmaster and citizen
10 lend their influence in hunting ont the
guilty person.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-04-11
FROM DEER LODGE COUNTY.

EDITOR E~EsBANDMAS:
Ny attention has this moment been called
to an article published in your paper OF
March 2lst. calculated TO reflect upon the
management OF the Philipsburg postottiee
not justified by the correspondence to which,
it refers. 1 have 40 knowledge Of any mis-
management at. that Office, or any other
particular postotiae. so tar as the roobing
OF registered letters is concerned the guilty
parties may possibly be found among the
recently arrested postal agents upon the
Union Pacific and other Eastern roads. But
The ~picayune scoundrel who so adroitly tin
gers subscription funds and other unregis-
tered moneys from letters entrusted to our
Uncle's mail can scarcely ike East and op-
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-04-11
THE UTAH

From the Salt Lake Herald of March y
we condense the following items Of the p
gress of the road towards Montana.
Kicks & Hendricks have the contract
about thirty-siX miles tor laying track, \
will continue as fast as possible, expeGa
to reach Bear River, two and Il half NH
from the end of the track now, in a n
days. The bridge owe the Bear b1
built by Knox and Thurston, is compha
with the exception of the stringers, d
will be ready for the rails by the time N
reach it. After crossing the river, the ~
follows Battle Creek at the old grade
feet to the mile. until it reaches a point
same height as the sand ridge south, /
from that the grading is not gene'1
heavy. The work done on the eXttAI
last season was about 100000 cubic !Ha|
the largest job being Kicks u Hendricks
on Battle creek, containing 60O.OW cl
yards. For this work 100000 has n
paid out, all finished work being settled I
monthly. In addition to that amout aI
$4,000 has been paid for iron.
MIR. Dunn, as agent for Jay Could u'I
for such sums as he needs and there y
delay in securing pay. Last month NJ
$40. 600 was used. and it is thought, VI
the work is we'll started again. that sNI
per month will be, required. On MS ~
to franklin. Mr.. Dunn received lers1
authorizing him to proceed with lnesI
ing as far as Wutson's-forly-sA Il
north. and to make. the best terms neu
1t is probable that Bishop Merrll Oh
mond, in behalf of the people 0ul
c. ATTY, will take the contract 1or AZ
work. The price will average son''
near ten cents per yard. u
When the track gets from SIX 70 tn,
beyond the Bear, river it is the lnle1'~
put up a warehouse 60 by l33 fee'' "
freight that may be shipped tbs wa.
New iron is being received 1T tue ~
three-fourths ola mile daily, anu '|
enough on hand to lay twelve hiile,
have & 5000 ties onshand, and OH N" :,
will receive about ) $4,000 more ffon'
er and Young. whose contract !"
will then be filled. Prospects are 'i ~
couraging, and the Utah "JacA -
to open upon an era Of pfosl'.' ~,
new engagement is severely :, III
and as soon as the road IS sow ~ \
] doubt push ahead with al posslON
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-04-11

WE give elsewhere an account OF the ter
rife. storm which swept over Colorado and
Wyoming a short time since, entailing great
loss to the live stock interest OF those sec
tons. We regret to learn OF the misfortune
of our neighbors, since the disaster, though
terrible. enough, will be greatly magni1ed
abroad. and is liable to deter many from en-
terino the business in that region. 1t is for
tunate. indeed, that such do not happen
more than once in a decade. Were it other
wise, the stock business could not flourish
under such heavy losses. Well may our
stock and wool growers congratulate them
selves that they have cast their lot in the
favored land of Montana. Here our pastoral
lands are not crowded, and we have no
parching drouths to cause starvation among
our focks and herds no floods TO deluge
our valleys and sweep them away no mer-
CHESS storms of snow. sand and sleet TO en-
tomb them alive or drive them headlong
over perpendicular bluffs into the rivers.
Montana has been inhabited by whites for
sixteen years. and no such reyerses have yet
occurred. nor have we any evidence that
such ever have, from which we draw the
the conclusion that such are not liable to
occur. We nave had some long, cold Win
tiers. vet we have always been able to find
beef on our ranges in the spring. The Win
ter of 1S74-75 was the toughest on stock OF
any we have witnessed, yet the loss was
comparatively small. Out of a herd OF more
than 100. head of cattle. which roamed at
large on the Muscleshell, the writer lost but
three fall calves. The greatest loss of any
valley did not exceed five per cent, and did
not reach this except in a few places, mostly
agricultural districts, where stock were kept
about the place on half rations. We do not
pretend to deny that we may, some time,
have such a storm as has swept over Color
ado, and we may even have a flood like Cal
ifornia. but as we have no record of such
ever having occurred in this region, we Ger
tainly do not anticipate anything OF the
kind. Those of our people who love to Dor
row trouble, or always climb mountains be
fore they are reached, may be deferred from
entering into stock speculations here, but
the calm. reasoning business mar sees nc
cause for fear. The only objection that ear
be urged against Montana as a stock country
is its distance from market, but our facilities
and slight risk to be incurred greatly over
balance this, and place it in the front rank:
OF the stock and wool producing sections o.
the world.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-04-11

government is a ~well-known fact. But no
means of remedy has ever yet been provid-
ed. True. the law provides that the several
districts whose lands have been settled upon
thus shall nave other lands in lieu thereof,
but it does not designate how, where, or by
whom such lands shall be selected. The
appeal to the several school superintendent,
so far as this matter of restoration is con-
cerned, is without avail, for they have no
authority in the premises whatever. Neither
can our Territorial Legislature provide the
remedy. The matter rests with Congress.
and until that august assembly see tit to
give it their attention the people are power
less.
OFFICE TER. SUPT. INST. Mon. IER.,
HELENA. April 2, 1878.
DEAR S4R:-Permit me to call your atten-
ton to section Is of an act entitled flown
Sites found in the Codified Statutes of
Montana. page sol, and to inquire if any
town in your county has availed itself of the
privileges contained in said section Is, rela-
ting to setting apart twenty acres or less for
college purposes. and if it has not been done.
and is still feasible, will you please call the
attention of the proper authorities in the
different townships to it at your earliest con-
yenience and aid them in securing the bene-
fits OF this act.
By referring to the laws enacted by the
Ninth Session of the Montana Legislature.
page las, entitled. An Act in Relation to
Schools you will find that lands thus set
apart as above for college purposes may at
forwards, by compliance with the law as set
forth in the said act in relation to schools.
be diverted from the same and become the
property of the school district for the bene-
fit of public schools in the township where
you, as County Superintendent, to see that
the provisions of the act securing to the
school district twenty acres in every tow
site located and surveyed are carried into
effect,
By inquiry at the Land Office in this
place, | learn that several thousand acres
given to the Territory for school purposes
as designated by section IA of the Organic
Act, have been patented and have thus pass
ed into other hands, and although Congress;
has provided that other lands may be Sc
lected, there is no law designating the per
son who shall be authorized to select land:
in lieu of those alienated, and so making
the law imperative.
The future welfare of our schools demand:
that we should avail ourselves of every pro
vision of law donating property, OF which
will in any way hasten the time when WI
shall have a permanent endowment fand tt
aid in their. support, and thus reduce tn
taxation now necessary tor their very eXis
tence.
Believing this matter of vast importanc'
to educational interests in your county,
earnestly ask your prompt and faithful at
tention to the subject.
Very respectfully, yours,
c. WRIGHT,
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-04-11

We publish herewith, at the request Of
the writer, a copy OF a letter addressed to
the several county school superintendent
by the Rev. Clarke Wright, our Territorial
superintendent of Public Instruction. We
are pleased to know that this f~unctionary is
taking a lively interest in the welfare OF the
common schools OF our Territory, for edu-
cation is the surest source of greatness that
any country can possess, and the training of
the rising generation properly isa matter
which should first engage the attention OF
any and all people. IA q young Territory,
such as ours. the placing OF the. common
school interest upon.a proper basis eonsti-
tutes the fest. step towards political emin-
ence, and it is highly important that every
means calculated 10 advance this interest be
iHdicionsly Employed That thousands OF
acres of our school lands have been located
by settlers and decided away to them by the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-03-27
Eneland,s Military Strength.

!. Maior-G General Sir Garnet Wolseley,
in an English magazine article justpub-
lished, says At no previous period has
England been 80 strong in a military
sense as now Were war declared to.
morrow about 400, 600 drilled men would
fall into line, if required, supported by
372 field, guns, manned and horsed by
the royal artillery. That number would
be roughly made up as follows Stand
ing army at home, SO, 900 men !; army
and military reserve, 10000 ; militia,
IS, 900 volunteers, $4,000, and second
class army reserve, 10.000- total, 4l4,O0O.
In this calculation I have put the figures
very low, and, have left out altogether
the 10, 900 yeoman, who would be avail
able for home service. I have not taken
into consideration the lumber of regular
troops that would be available for war
when the Mediterranean garrisons were
furnished by militia. 1t will thus be
seen that we could at once take the field
with two fully equippeararmy corps OF
more than thirty thousand soldiers each,
leaving q similar force of regular troops
at home as a reserve. When | compare
the military strength of England now,
with what It was in 1854, I am amazed
at the conditions of military weakness
and helplessness into which we were
when we began the Russian war of that
year, as T am at the ignorance OF those
who are now croaking over u supposed
want of strength, and alleged inability
To FIGHT
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-03-27
Foreign News.

The Gear Of Russia has received the follow
ing telegram from the Sultan vt Turkey On
the occasion of the anniversary Of your males
tvs accession to the throne, I offer my con-
ordinations, with the desire Of renewing on
friendly relations" The Gear sent the follow
CONGRATULATIONS, which I received simultane-
onsiy with the news Of the signature OF peace.
I perceive in this coincidence q presage Of
good and lasting relations between u.s." .
Cardinal Franchi has been appointed secre-
tary of state by Pope Leo XIII.
The treaty, signed at San Stefano bears the
title "Preliminaries Of Peace" and contains
%twenty-nine articles. The opening articles re-
late to Montenegro, Servia and Bulgaria. The
indemnity is fixed at 1,410, 900, 900 roubles
(s1, 119, $40, 00O), but LOO, 600, 900 roubles are
covered by territorial cessions. Nothing is
fixed concerning the terms and period OF pay
ment Of the 80, 600, 600 roubles ($246, 140, 0OO).
No guarantee is stipulated, nor is there men,
of the Turkish fleet. The treaty simply states
that Russia and Turkey shall agree subse.
quently about the payment.
Adyices from Bopne Bay, Newfoundland,
state that great distress prevails there, as the
result Of the ~!scarcity Of fish last season, and
that half the people Of the place are living al
together on behring's.
There has been a large fire in Panama. The
flames spread over three blocks Of business
houses. causing a damage estimated at $780,
900.
Count Sclopis, the Italian statesman and
president Of the. Geneva Board Of Arbitration
on the Alabama claims, is dead at the age Of
eighty.
A dispatch from Trieste says the Austrian
steamer Sphinx, from Cavallo, with $500 Cir
cassians on board, caught fire and went ashore
near Cape Ella. Five hundred lives we're lost.
The Kafirs at Cape Town, Africa, Fere de-
feated by the British in a severe engagement
and had many killed.
John Tammore, foreman of Riordan's pulp
mills, MERTON, Ontario, was instantly killed
and two others seriously injured by an e1-
plosion Of dynamite.
A London dispatch says Trustworthy pri-
vate advices from India state that the Moham-
medans are greatly excited in consequence Of
the overthrow Of Turkey. Serious trouble Is
even ~apprehended unless the governmenttakes
some nti-Russian action shortly. It is be-
lieved that 200, 600 Moslem volunteers to serve
against Russia could be raised without diff
of,1fv --- ----.sa-'-. .
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-03-27
One of Mr.. Greeley's Letters.

The Cleveland (Ohio) Herald says
that the following letter from Horace
Greeley would have been printed long
ago but that it was lost, and has only
been unearthed within q few days among
some old letters of the Zetogathean
Literary Society of the Wesleyan Uni
versity, at Delaware, Ohio:
New YORK, June %, 1849.
Dear Sir: Ny attainments anywhere
near the boundary of scholarship are so
very meagre that I dislike to receive
such a compliment as your society has
paid me. I never spent a day in any
sort of a seminary above a common
school (Which was exceedingly common
in my time.l Since I vas eight years
old I have only seen the inside of a
school house in winter since fourteen
not at all =; and our terms did not aver
age five months per annum in those
days. I know a little newspaper Latin
and French, and might have mastered a
little Greek the same way, if the bar
barians had known enough to use an
Ineligible alphabet. Of mathematics
I learned what is contained in Adams
arithmetic I; of grammar just enough to
see clearly that Linalay Murray knew
very little and Numbered shockingly.
As to cnirography, mine speaks for it.
self, not very clearly Is to matter, but
quite distinct enough as to manner
However, T know a little of what may be
fshed up on q ~tolerably busy and
rugged Journey through the world,
having always loved books better than
play and devoured newspapers with in
sane avidity. Thanking your society
for the honor intended me, and meaning
to justify 1t by a faithful obedience to
the maxim, olive and Learnt remain
yours truly, HORACE GREELEY.
James b. Baker, Corresponding Sec
rotary Zetogathean Society.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-03-27
On a Coffee Plantation.

Coffee culture is very interesting, and
the growing crop is very beautiful. The
trees at maturity are from five to eight
feet high; they are well shaped and
bushy, with a glossy d~ark-green foliage,
and planted eight of nine feet apart.
The flowers are in clusters at the root Of
the leaves, and are small, but pure white
and very fragrant. The fruit has a rich
color, and resembles a small cherry or
large cranberry; it grows in clusters,
close to the branches, and when it be-
comes q deep red is ripe and ready to be
gathered. The trees are raised from
seed, and do not begin to yield until the
third year. In Central America they
bear well for twelve or fifteen years, al
though, in exceptional cases, trees
twenty years old will yield an abundance
of fruit. The tree is particularly beauti-
full when in full bloom, or when laden
with ripe fruit.
The process of preparing coffee for
market is 81 follows: the ripe berries
when picked are at first put through Q
machine called the "despulpador,"
which removes the pulp; the coffee
grains, of which there are two in each
berry, are still covered with a sort of
glutinous substance which adheres to
the bean; they are now spread ont on
large "patios," made specially for this
purpose, and left there, being occasion
ally tossed about and turned over with
wooden shovels, until they are perfectly
dry. They are then gathered up and put
into the "retrilla," a circular trough in
which heavy wooden wheel, shod with
steel, is made to revolve, 80 as to thor
oughly break the husk without crushing
the bean. The chaf is separated from
the grain by means of a fanning-mill,
and the coffee is now thoroughly dry
and clean. After this, it is the custom
of some planters to have it spread out on
long tables and carefully picked over by
the Indian women and children, all the
bad beans being thrown out. It only
remains then to have it put into bags,
weighed and marked, before it is ready
for shipment to the port. On some of
the larger plantations this process is
greatly simplifed, with considerable
saving in time and labor, by the use OF
improved machinery for drying and
cleaning the coffee. -Scribner's Maga-
rhine.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-03-27

"Radi1," in one of his recent New York let
ters, makes q good point apropos OF ife insur-
ance Investigations and troubles generally, by
calling attention to the fallacy' OF judging OF
the reliability of companies according to their
bulk. Many such institutions seek to dazzle
the public eye by printing their large gross as:
sets in the heaviest type, and by laying great
stress upon the nominal millions unde their
control to win confidence and prevent any close
ANALYSIS of the whole statement. He points
out the plain, but often forgotten fact, that
even conceding the equally good quality OF the
assets Of two companies, It Is not necessarily
the one with the most millions which Is safest
for the policy holder, but the one whose net
surplus bears the largest ratio to its whole pro-
perry. Judged from this sound and searching
principal, " Radix finds the Etna Life Insur7
ance Company, Of Hartford, to be one OF the
strongest, II not the very strongest, institutions
of the kind in the country. With o little over
twenty-four millions Of assets, it has about four
and a quarter millions Of clear surplus. The
special commission appointed by the Legisla-
ture OF Connecticut q year ago to investigate
all the life insurance companies Of that State,
saw of the Etna that tits not only solvent, but
financially sound, and under the management
of officers and directors Of large experience,
sound Judgment, and unblemished character,
and entitled to the entire confidence OF policy
holderse and the public" Taking the above
facts and this official Endorsement together, it is
evident that the writer's estimate Of the Etna
8 one that can be everywhere safely indorsed'
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-03-27
New York,s Potter's Field.

The New York city cemetery or Pot
ter's Field as it is commonly called, was
started on Harris island in 1869, and has
consequently been in use for nine years.
It covers about four acres of land, less
rather than more, and there are buried
in it between 30, 900 and 10000 bodies.
It is impossible to tell just how many,
because for the first five years they
were buried helter-skelter, without any
record or any system, and their number
can only be estimated. There were so
many buried in these first five years,
however, that the whole ground is full
of them, and it is impossible to dig q
pit in any part OF the lot without turn
ing ont dozens and dozens of decaying
collins. In 1874 the burying in regular
order was begun, and now any body
that may afterward be claimed byfriends
can be exhumed, as many bodies are
every year.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-03-27
The New Silver Dollar.

We give in the above two cuts a rep
resentation of the new silver dollar now
being coined, as directed by the silver
bill just passed. The new coin is the
work of Nj. George E. Morgan, an
English engraver, who has been in the
service of the United States since
October, 1875. His design was selected
from the two specimens submitted to
the finance committee having the matter
in charge. The new dollar is two per
cent. lighter than the trade dollar, but
there is no apparent difference in either
the size or weight of the two coins.
The cuts represent the actual size of the
dollar. The minis will coin the new
dollar as fast as their facilities will
allow, but some time will elapse before
it can be put into general circulation.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-03-27
Ballad of q Baker.
Joe Brown he was a baker man,
A baker man was Joe;

Joe Brown he was a baker man,
A baker man was Joe
He ne'er wa known to want for aught.
And yet he kneaded dough.
And he WAS rugged, hearty, too,
And had a long life leased,
And all because he rose up with
His early rising yeast.
To never cheat bis customers,
This man was early taught,
And yet his loaves were always light,
His pie-crust rather short.
And he was generous-hearted, too,
And kinaunto the needy
And nest and tasty in his dress.
Although his cakes were seedy.
With him none dared to handy jokes
Whene'er he sought the marts,
For we'll they knew his repartees
We're sharper than his tarts.
.AUQ Wueu 1 cay uis ehHi WOO 6i0"s
In getting up a muffin,
His pastry filed the mouths OF all,
And needs no further putin.
lis said he was a temperance man
If 80 I can't tell why
He mixed with wheat and corn meal, too,
4 trifie Of the rye.
When age at last o'ertook the man,
His form grew bent and sore,
And, like the cake he used to bake.
His head was frosted DER.
Aud Wien he died all mourned his loss,
With no sectarian bias,
For he had been a friend to all,
A good man and a pie-ous.
HIS EPTrAPH.
Beneath this crust Of upheayed earth
A well-bred baker lies,
And like the rolls be used to mould,
We hope .atassfhellr rise. =
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