The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1879-06-27
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Georgia will have splendid grain aao
cotton crops this year.
Pleasure sanctions the excesses 1of-
hidden by Prudence. ~
A Worth court dress costs at least s5eo
exclusive Of lace.
Blackberries are as thick as thieves IN
Avoyelles parish La.
St. Joseph, Mich, pays its night ponce
man y cents per night.
A Mississippi farmer ploWed up a
Spanish coin dated 400.
Butter is selling in some North Caro-.
lima towns at lOc a pound.
Corpus Christi, Texas, has a paper
called the Bull Dog. It is popular among
the fancy.
Atlanta, Ga, has thirtY.nine miles of
wire in the telephone service.
Numerous canker worms are soaring
the orchard tops IN New England.
Potato bugs are stalking with IN inde-
scribe air through 0gemaw, Mich.
Amsterdam" was Garrison's fagorlte
hymn and was sung at his funeral.
A diary of his misdeeds was found on
tonish chicken thief at Kalamazoo.
Two IIiIlsdalc, Mich, children have
died Of morphine giveu for quinine.
The Kansas tornedo's path is as visible
as the track Of reaper among wheat.
A Lexington, O., man fell down the
steps Of hotel and "broke his BRAINS"
Mayor Cooper, of New York, has been
fined for using water without permit.
4 thoughtful invalid took coffin along
VIXEN he went from Boston to Florida,
ard his body returned in 1t.
Nineteen out Of every twenty Of the
baptized male children of the South, born
Of white parents, are named jeff Davis.
A calf in Saratoga county, n. T.,
saved its veal BY Icing born without eyes
or ears and is now assured a soft living
in museum all its days.
Georgia has made her first shipment Of
peaches North. They were in crates aud
brought il New York 81 SO y late,
which we think was d crate deal.
/ Farmers IN Whitfield county, Ga. raise
rye eight feet high, at which they
exaltingly exclaim SLOWS this for
rye ~
A man named sheep died out in Ne
braska, and not one Of the papers in that
State had sense enough to say anything
about t'the late Iamb-ented."
ii IS illegal 10 sell ice IN Philadelphia
On Sundays, according to State law
made III 1874, prohibiting the sale Of
worldly goods on the Lords day.
Naomi was $50 years old when she
married. There will never be another
case on record that viii approach IT, be
cause no woman will ever own up to any
thing like that age.
The correct style Of things now before
entering upon the married state IS to have
ones blood examined BY microscopic
IF either party carries an inferior style o
gore the marriage should be stopped.
/ On Decoration Day in New York
while the graves of General Dix and
others were being decorated, the bells o
Trinity church chimed twenty-five differ
ent hymns.
Symptoms Of paralysis have become 81
apparent in Col. Tom Scott, now travel
ling in Europe, that it is said he car
never again fulfil the important dutie
Of president Of the Pennsylvania road.
A beautiful carrier pigeon fell exhaust.
ed inte g Broad street yard the other day
The bird evidently belonged to some o
the focks that were let fly at Chambers
burg, Altoona or Newport quite recent
for New York and Philadelphia, an.
losing its way few until exhausted ant
fell to the ground,-Ex.
| A Torkyille husband, whose excuse
"at the lodge" had become Intellectual !,
accounting for . .. m. returns nightly
tried d new plan the other evening
Going in quietly and undressing, he com
menced rocking the cradle by the bed
side, as if he had been awakened out O
a sound sleep BY infantile cries. He had
rocked away for ! few moments, when
his wife, who had silently observed the
whole proceeding, said !: aCome to bed,
you fool the baby isn't there
It is not often that an entire city is
offered for sale, but just now there is 9
fine chance for some ambitious speoulator
at Marsala, seicily, which is now on the
market. It is famous for its wines, and
its 81, 900 inhabitants have posted on ITS
walls the announcement that they Fish g
dispose oft because unable any ionger
to bear the burden Of taxation taa1 y
laid upon them. The name means Foft
Iof God. !. aud here il IN opportunity 1or
,;tb go estates but 10 Title