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, 1879-08-28
Professional Ipvalids.

Many years ago. says the New
York Times, American women used to
be regarded as invalids by profession,
and there was reason for SO regarding
them. They were accused, also, of
fondness of being considered fragile, as
if they believed physical delicacy to be
evidence of sensibllity, They have not
been so accused of late, nor do they de-
sire to be. They have gained in health
and common sense, and are now compar-
atively robust. The folly they are said
to have displayed seems to have passed
to many of the Partisan women, who
now certainly indicate prejudice in
favor of corporal weakness and ailments.
These are very apt TO represent them
selves, and to be represented by their
writers, as always more or less ill; as
livingon their nerves and will; as invalids,
chronic and graceful. Their actresses,
notably those Of the Sarah Bernhardt
stamp, play this role and it is very un-
pleasant. They would better attempt
another and more welcome part. Par
isians are inclined to be morbid, as much
of their literature is morbid. The women
of Paris are, as rule, well. enough and
strong enough, or would be, if they
should be half natural, if they should
loose their corsets, wear shoes sufficiently
large and obey the instincts of prudence
and intelligence. American woman can
look the character of invalids, but Paris
ians cannot look it with their usually
thick figures and heavy weight. They
should give up the impersonation of in
validism. 1t does not fit them; it is not
becoming, and it is ridiculous as we'll as
repulsive. They have not, though they
may fancy they have, stepped out Of
Balzacs novels, which have we'll been
called literary museum of morbid an
atomy. Persons who have known Par
isian women intimately must recall their
tendency to exaggerate their ailments,
! to make mountains out Of mole-hills. Ii
they are i'll once in a while, they declare
they are always i'll. A headache is dis
played as serious; touch of rheumatism
is paraded as alarming. They are for
ever threatened with death from heart
disease, or appoplexy, or paralysis They
were born sensasionalists, and illness
appears to them romantic and alluring.
, 1879-08-28

o. livery team and went to Philadelphia,
and left the team at a stable and the
owners got it back week afterward
only by advertising for it. Then the Of
fcers of the law got on his trail and fol-
lowed him to South Carolina, where an
old uncle sold his little farm, all the
property he owned, to raise the money to
refund to his nephew's employer and
keep the rascal out Of prison. Then he
came up here to live with you. The
day that letter was mailed at this office
you left it about five o'clock in the af-
ternoon, and after supper you went to
your lodge, and did not see the inside Of
the office again until the next day"
After delivering a lecture to the
country official on his neglect of duty in
failing to put the letter on the cars the
day it was mailed at his office, instead of
leaving it there over night for the dis
honest relative to rob at his leisure,
special agent Barrett left him, the post
master promising to call on Mr.. Bar
rett yesterday.
"Instead of waiting until Friday"
said Mr.. Barrett, "he called on me yes
terday and planked down the $50; and
though Presbyterian elder, he actually
said damn me, if I get hold of that ras-
cally brother-in-law of mine I'll shoot
him. He found out the thief had
bought sewing machine in this city
with $50 of the stolen money, and |
told him where he had bought it."
$50 you see the date and hour Of
mailing letter forms an important item
in tracing it up, if any information is
wanted concerning it.
, 1879-08-28
SUNSET.

Beyond the mountain S dusky mass
The sun his warm descent delays;
The lowering cloud its 10th last rays
Suffuse with crimson veins, that pass
To melt in mellow haze.
Der the great hills ruddy sea :.
The cloud.rack lifts and underlles;
Above tn aerial headlands rise,
Glowing with hues that change and flee
To faint in orange skies
Where like pilgrim band, depart
OF russell clouds lessening tram.
That as in distant heights they wane
Quick into delicate flame out-start,
And die in splendid pain.
Watch how the deeper fires die out;
The clouds that thicken from the west
Dark on the somber Catskills rest;
GRAY grow the mountains round about,
And dim Taconic's crest.
From the broad valley comes no sound;
But from the thicket's close retreat
The birds sing drowsily and sweet;
The twilight throbs with peace profound
Peace for the soul most meet
Now draw the infinite Heavens near;
And swiftly blending into white
The last tints deepen into light
Intense and tremuously clear;
Days message to the night.
, 1879-08-28
Low Physical Sensibility.

In the curious histories OF malinger-
ing, which we receive from the medical
officers of our prisons and public services,
many instances of self-inhicted injuries
occur which doubtless might be traced
to the existence of q low standard Of
physical sensibility. A remarkable in
stance came under my own observation,
many years ago, in quite young child,
which makes it all the more striking, as
infancy is very intolerant of pain. A
little pauper girl presented herself one
morning in the surgery of a country
doctor and lisped out request to have
decayed tooth extracted. The tooth,
which, for q child, was large and firmly
fixed, was taken out without the small.
est expression of suffering on the part Of
the child, and a penny was given her
for being so brave. The next morning
the little thing again reappeared, and
asked to have a tooth extracted, this
time pointing to perfectly sound one,
and it seems probable that she would
have consented to the forcible extraction
of the whole set at penny tooth
The Contemporary Review.
, 1879-08-28

"Most people neglect the eye" says
writer. Prize-fghters don't They
always 60 right for it.
The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1879-12-19
No Cross, No Crown.

Decorations are dangerous distinctions
sometimes. A Partisan photograph deal
er was invested with the cross Of the
Legion during the siege, an honor secured
by his galIantry, which had ended BY his
having bis jaw smashed by rife ball.
Unfortunately his conduct in civil life did
not bea1 out his military record. and in
1873 decision of the council Of the
Order deprived him of the right to wear
it's symbol.
Ee took no note Of the ban under
which he was placed, continuing 10 orna-
nent his lapel with the red ribbon so
dom to the Gallo heart. He did nore'
On the basis Of letter once received
from General F, Of the French
army, he forged most bombastic and
fulsome epistle, addressed to himself
whom he beslayered with praise. On the
strength of this letter and the ribbon, he
succeeded in swindling number of con
fding tradesman out OF heaSy sums
When they began to clamor for payment,
he kept out of their way till one Of them
accidentally encountered and dunned
him. His proud spirit chafed under the
indignity, and he boxed the dunntr's ears
most magnifcently. The sorid COM
mercial man then had him arrefted.
He talked so much of h. exalted
estate before the magistrate thai the latter
became suspicious Of a gentldnan who
thought so much Of himself, I'D finally
investigated him to the extent of discov
ering his imposture. He is pw in the
hands Of the police awaitiD trial on
charge Of forgery, false pretnses, and
illegal wearing Of the decoratin. Having
borne his cross he is likely to secure
crown, too, but thornY one.
The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1879-12-19
FORT BENTON. N. T. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 19. t879,

his eminent public career has had some
thing to do with the change in him thai
is now SO painfully observable. Another
evidence of his approaching affection is
the unevenness Of his conversations. At
times he will talk with aueney aud ease,
and then in a few minutes relapse into az
attitude of perfect silence, and only
answer questions by 'Yes,n or a NO"
We most sincerely hope that the great
calamity of "a mind o'erthrowno may
never be visited upon the illustrious
general and statesman whom San Fran.
cisco and all the world has delighted to
honor. It would be national af1iction
were he to become incapaeitated for
future usefulness.-So,s Francisco News
Letter.
The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1879-12-19
An Electrified Pine Forest.

St. Eln's Fire is the name given by
mariners TO a weird glow and lightning
like flames sometimes seen around the
spars and rigging of ships at sea. 1t is in
reality a species of lightning, in the form
of a silent discharge Of electricity from
the loftiest points of the ship into the
atmosphere and it is produced by mass
of electrified clouds or air over the ship,
inducing charge of opposite, electricity
on the sea underneath, and drawing it off
by the masts of the vessel, which in this
case acts as lightning rods. A splendid
instance Of the same phenomenon was
!, lately witnessed in the Jura at St. Ger
CUES, where whole forest of pine trees
was seen to be aglow with light, like a
phosphoreseent sea in the tropics. A
thunderstorm was raging at the time, and
at every fash of lightning the iIumina~
ton suddenly disappeared, but soon
shone forth again until the next fash
came. Before the appearance Of this St
Etno's Fire, heavy rains had fallen and
soaked the forest so as to render it con-
duetiye Of electricity, and the thunder
cloud overhead heavily charged with
electricity had induced an opposite
charge, on the ground below, which dis
charged itself into the air by the pointed
needles of the pine trees.
The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1879-12-19
Il Grant Becoming: In.ane F?

Rumors are afoat that Geeral Grant
shows signs Of malady that is heredit-
tary in bis family. It is sal that his
father, Jesse Grant, was af1ioed with the
softening Of the brain before ! was fifty
years Of age, and that durig the last
wears Of his lie he was little more than a
imbecile. Qrville Grant, Whse eccentric
conduct in California less tha a year ago
will be remembered, has sine been IN an
New Jersey insane asylum It IS also
said that one OF the General sisters has
been afflicted in the same mnner' MANY
people who have seen GPeral Grant
since his arrival in San Ftnelseo, have
noticed an occasional wild strange look
i his ere. Often when cogersing with
gentlemen, and even with q friends, he
stopped short il the middlpf sentence
and hesitated, sometimes ff fall mo
ment, before eomI letting i. At san jose
he was introduced TO nutbet u hea
who fought under him at pft ponelson'
Instead Of greeting then cordially, he
t,,rrAd half around, and siply stared at
them over his shoulder, 81 never sald .
word. again It stockto1 ana Maaena
be Vas presented TO nanIaf O ms olo
oaara51es il the Mezieanwar, bnt the
Gena4-i treated them in Y coolest man
nor, and il way thai lei4ae impression
on every one present thafhe vas Us
I,.ssaa j. maetipg Their These, aud
.saz other instances Of h peculiar con
a,at ii II show that ii isk sad probabll
q +ba4 his mind is convincing % weak
en, While il the presiaf1al ehalfi gen.
Grant was noted foE bis able gfeseass
ID all his visitors, aud ono other hypoeh
esis can the great changer BIS manners
| Be placed than there is netting wrong
II bis mental faculties. Fhaps the great
strain upou bin. ioF ths asea yesss 9
The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1879-12-19

funny but saw him scratch one foot
with the other. Then | ran.
so you did, my dear I never saw
ach running.
''And you were trying to scare me,
we're you ?" asked the young lady, sitting
bolt upright. "Now. I never take such
practical jokes. and that man Clipper and
[ can not live in the house togetherl'
ooh, Amelia y
II mean it" said the teacher Il have
been imposed upon. I would not be SO
scared again for all the men in the world.
Clipper is miserable, mean fellow.
That man fro Oshkosh is hero beside
Of him, and will not stay if Clipper
remains"
Just at that moment there was knock
at the door. Tt was the doctor. He had
note for the landlady. It read:
"MY DEAR Mrs. KRULLER-The event
Of this eyeDing-the result of my folly
has been Of such character that | can
not return to your house. / will send for
my trunk in the morning. have not the
the courage to face the victims of my
| 3oko
The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1879-12-19
The Power of Judgment.

sr1rmises and suppositions cannot fill
the place Of opinions formed 5y peaetrat-
ton and discernment. A man Of pene.
tration is as slow to decide, as he is
quick to apprehend, calmly and deliber.
ately weighing every opposite reason that
is offered and tracing it with most
judicious penetration. All these one must
possess to have the judgment of Plutarch,
to discriminate between right and wrong;
while to have the clear perception of
Goeth one must be willing to breath a
foreign atmosphere, and, freed from pre-
judice, feel the inspiration of other scenes
and conditions. II, in fact, we wish our
life structure to be perfect, we must give
it our personal care, lest, while we sit
with folded ha ds and placid minds, the
tottering structure over US falls with
crushing violence TO the earth, burying
Us amid the ruins.
The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1879-12-19

Law, phyaic and divinity are well sup
piled with feminine members in the
United States, The lady doctors number
$50, and feminine dentists 42o, while So
breaches and five practice as lawyers.
Some ladies adopt two or three calIings al
once. A Mrs. Gibbs, living in St. Louis
notifies on her door plate that she is an
seloeutionist, poetess, washer, and an
ironer.n
The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1879-12-19

"Sympathetic pipes" are a recent nov
city. The bowl of meersehaum may be
colored in five minutes, by first tinting it
with solution of nitrate of silver in
ether and alcohol, to which essence of
roses and eanphor are added. Figures
of any pattern are produced by the heat
of the tobacco, and when produced are
permanent,
The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1879-12-19
Very truly yours,
CHARLES s. CLIPPER.

Mr.. Kru1ler would not, IN her dilemma
undeceived him and so Amelia Dana
emaned-remained until Bitler was
cured, until Mordaunt made fool Of
himself for her until, in fact, q middle
aged gentleman named Smith came from
California and married her, spoiled the
sequence of her surprise party, and broke
up the circle of the "Happy Family"
The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1879-12-19

When the President of Court martial
or the Chief of Police have occasion to
cross public square in St Petersburg
they duck their heads and assume a dog
trot, Itis not pleasant to be made
target for the pop guns Of Nihilists.
The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1879-12-19

a Londoner Of fortune, named East
lake, mas committed suicide il a singular
manner He filed the pockets Of his
coat with stones, tied q rope to the center
seat Of 4 boat, fastened the other end
round his body and then threw himself
into the water. In note found upo1 tue
BODY the suicide explained that he mad
resolved 70 be 'tornented no longer By
the riddle question: il natural
nistoaY or geology winch he had ya4nIy
tried to solve.
The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1879-12-19
Groceries. /.
General t'orwarders, F'reighters, and
Commission Merchants.

Owning six Of the largest noroanti. uon,..
s1pSf's Harts the and 5 boye4 oSa
furnish outfits prices e 5fe b ds to sell and
facilities for 1q sD51p a1 warehouse benton and having the
I p p IN any part of the Territory des;-n m M Inducements
'D''D w pay the highest price for so0os VI"
Buffalo Robes Beefzz1aes and pe,trt..
to their Interest," ~ Parties m esrous of purchasing goods Will a
elsewhere ~ a1o examine our prices before rurobas;r
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-04
THE ADRIAN DISASTER.

DETROIT, Oct. 3.-Further particulars from
Adrian, where the terrible disaster on the coun-
ty fair grounds occurred yesterday, state tina {
the total number of deaths from the accident
SO far is sixteen. The following persons
: ri HAVE DIED FROM INJURIES
since the time of sending last nights report:
Henry Hart. secretary of the Michigan State
Insurance company; Aschef Henderson, Willie
Hall, and a Chinese washerman, Adrian; Dan
iel johnson, Dover, Mich; Peter Egan, Man
chester, Mich. MIR. Hume, Medina, Mich;
aud Eva Sherard. Tecumseh, Mich. The
atg5 z'a 81 SERIOUSLY INJURED ta.s~
number seventy-fve, some of whom tbs physi-
clans say oannotlive the day through. The ar
chitect of the grand stand is the person blamed
for the occurrence of the fatal casualty. The
stand was built unusually high to admit space
for the exhibition of wagons and carriages un--
derneath and the timbers were simply spiked
together, instead of being morticed and braced-
ANOTHER Fab HORROR.
DETRoIE, Oct. 3.-A Vassar, Mich, Free
Press special reports q cyclone, accompanied
by heavy rain. passed over the county fair
grounds at Watersville, Tucola county, this af-
ternoon. doing great damage. Cloth tents
were torn to shreds aud fences blown down. One
tent, where tables were set for hundred per-
sons, was blown down, overturning tho stove
and a large reservoir of boiling water, severely
scalding six ladies; one of whom with an infant
a few months old probably fatally. In the
main hall the exhibits were considerably in
jured by the rain.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-04
ScIa1srs on the Utes.

Only little more than week ago the
Hon. Carl. Schurz, secretary of the interior
department., arrived in Denver on his way to
Washington. He had been on an extended
trip to the Indian country OF the Northwest,
visiting many of the agencies, but amongst
them, it is needless TO say, he did not 60 to
the one where poor Meeker was, even then,
beleaguered by the red devils, and endeavor.
ing to get word out to have an armed force
sent to his immediate aid. When he reached
that city MIR. Schurz was asked the following
questions: r.. -..s
"Have you received any further advices
about the Utes?"
To this Mr.. Schurz made the following
answer:
81 have received nothing, either from pri-
vate sources or from the department., that
has not already been made known through
the papers. Gov. Pitkin, who is very we'll
informed on the subject, and who, as we'll as
myself, takes very great interest in the
matter, and myself, do not from present ap-
pearances see any reason to apprehend &c.
rious trouble. I have had very full consul
tations with the governor and other
gentlemen about the Indian situation in the
State, and We are in complete harmony as to
the policy to be followed to bring q solution
of existing difficulties. think understand
the Indian situation here now much better
than did before, and shall, as soon as pos
sible, have instructions issued accordingly"
There is feeling in Denver that the Gin
structions''-if they be of character that
will determine the complete and severe pun
ishment of the red savages-ought to be
forthcoming about now.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-04
ScCretQrU SCkUrS.

CAUSE or THE UTE OUTBREAK.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 3.-Secretary Schurz ar
rived here Unexpectedly this morning and
will hasten on to Washington tonight to
look after important matters awaiting his
attention. It was intended by a number of
German societies, and citizens generally, to
give him formal reception, but the neces-
sity for his immediate return to Washington
has compelled the postponement of that
compliment until some future time. When
asked by Post-Dispatch reporter what he
thought of the outbreak by the Ute Indians
in Colorado, he replied that he
knew nothing about it except what he had
seen in the newspapers, and when asked if it
was not caused by the failure of the govern
ment to pay their money past due, he said:
mo! Mr.. Meeker is agent for the Ute res
ervation and we have the fullest confidence
i'll him. l believe he has been entirely hon
est with the Indians under his charge. I
think the trouble arose from the encroach-
ments of white settlements and especially
miners, who were prospecting for gold and
silver mines. The Indians saw they were
gradually losing their reservation, and they
grew desperate about it. The appearance
of the soldiers was the signal for an out.
break and tho country already knows the re-
suit. s..
When questioned as to what he thought of
the condition of the Indians generally, he
replied: L am we'll pleased. Many of them
are making considerable progress in civil
cation. was especially gratiied at the con-
dtion of the Sioux agencies, and all of the
nrTtheru agencies. The only place where
there is eny trouble is in the Uta country and
thai arises from the causes mentioned, and
rot from any lack of good faith on the part
OF the government. ~ I@@
Count Dorhoff, secretary of the German
legation, and the other gentlemen who have
accompanied Mr.. Schurz on his trip, are
still with him, and will leave with him TO,
Washington tonight. ..s-.,r 81.
Gen. Tuner.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-04
IMPALING INGALLS,.
Additional Testimony as to tho Use of Brib
cry in His Election.

Additional Testimony as to tho Use of Brib-
cry in His Election.
TOPEKA, Kan, Oct. AT the session of the
commission to investigate Senator Ingalls,,
Calvin Hood, who has figured prominently as
one supposed to have used money in securing
votes for Senator Ingalls,, testified that while
lying on a bed in j. 8. Danford's room, he had
heard part Of a conversation between Danford
and man whom he was afterwards informed
was Geo. L. White. Heard Dauford urge him
to vote for Ingalls,, but did not hear Danford
make any promise to pay any money for his
vote. %
Miss Lizzie Rudolph, of Topeka. witness
for the memorialists, testified that she had heard
man on the flonr of the house say he had re-
ceived 5000 or $3.50 for his vote, but did not
know how he voted. .s.5a
John A. Lay cerroborated her statement. and
said that the men sitting on the seats, from
where he heard the talk. were Hamilton and
Anderson.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-04
Increased Currency Circulation.
WASHINGTON, Oct. s.-The comptroller of

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.-The comptroller of the
currency reports the whole amount of add
tional national bank circulation issued since
the publication of his annual report of 1878 as
$11 1888, 1875. The amount of circulation issued
in the months of November and December and
in January, March, June, July and August,
1879, was considerably less than one million
dollars for each month. The amount issued in
February was 81, 64S, 40l; March, &1,O8l, OPS;
April, S2,0lS, 634. The amount issued in Sep
TENDER, 1872 was S3,480, 973, which was more
than twice the amount issued during the four
months preceding. The total average amount
of additional circulation issued during the past
eleven months has been at the rate of little
more than one million dollars per month.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-04
Reputation in Indiana.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, Oct. Sou Tuesday last
United States Marshal Adams went to Mount
Vernon, Indiana, with an execution authoriz-
ing him to levy on the personal property of the
city in satisfaction of an execution obtained
by the Newark, N. j., savings institution
against the city for $4,000. He was not able,
however: to find any property liable to seizure.
In view of this steps were taken to procure
writ of mandamus compelling the city council
to levy special tax sufficient to pay the claim.
HIGHT at which under ad
vice it was determined to abandon the city
government. Various members of the council
at once handed IN written resignation to take
effect Immediately, and the council sitting in
special session promptly accepted the resigna-
tons, approved and signed the. minutes of the
meeting and dissolved, leaving the place with
out any city government whatever. There is
great speculation as to what the outcome will
be, but under the existing order of things
nothing can be done with the Newark claim.