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Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-04-10

The Pleasures OF Royalty.

London. April ga dispatch from Ra-
veni says thai the Italian government has
recently received an anonymous letter CIV
Ing warning that an attempt would be
made TO assassinate Queen Victoria be
tween the frontier and Turin.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-04-10
Sla We Traders.

London. April Am Egyptian officer,
sent to break up the slave depots at BAH
relgazal, kordocan. reports an engagement
with Sueiman. the chief slave trader, and
owner OF twenty-five depOts, in which the
women alone waiting transportation into
Egypt number 10000. The Egyptian
forces numbered 5000, part armed with
improved rifles. and were entrencIled.
with j 1000 Arabs, made several
assaL is. but were completely defeated and
fled in disorder. leaving 1857 dead. The
Egyptians lost 20 men.
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TeIegrams.
Defeat of ACghanS.

Lahore. April 3.-lhc British under
Capt. Cough defeated 5000 Afghans. kill
ing 400. The British lost officers. and 3
men killed and 81 wounded.
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Newport. (lnd. April 3.-Walter Wat
son was hung here to-day for the murder
of Ezra Compton last January. His young
wife, who was weeping bitterly, accom-
panied him to the scatiold.
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PROPbSi AIS
FOR FRESH BEEF. MUTTON AND
BEEF CATTLE.
T.AMENDED.]

AMENDED.1
OFFICE PURCHASING AND DEPOT .
HELENA, NJ. r., March 20. 1879
The contractor for Fresh Reef ON The block at
Fort Assinaboinc, under ms advert ement of
March Is, 1873, will be required to put up suili-
rlehi ha, before August LIST with which 10 Iced
his cattle during the winter. failing in which
ne subsistence Department will purchase and
feed t. the cattle The requisite quantity of hay
charging the contractor for HE same
This amendment 10 said advertisement will bp
attached 10 each proposal offered for SUPPLYING.
above post. JF WESTON
20 CaDfaiu and 4 : y =
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Long On.-Presi:lenf's Declare.
ton.

New York, March H.-The Telegram
Washington special says: Garfield ex-
presses the opinion that the present session
Of Congress will last all summer, and is
making his arrangements with tina: expec-
tation. lie and other Republicans have re-
ceived from President Hayes the most pos
tive assurance that the army bill will be
vetoed if it "esses with the rider now pend
in the He -
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The CamerOn.Otiver Case.-Rress Ex.
DreSSiOnS.

CftCI"c'Ip PtS'tsH1N3 ttfIe' 11'o7 u WIZ
ticipated.
The Cam erOn.Ouver Case.-Rress Ex.
pressiOnS.
New York, April 1.-The journals with
out exception commend the verdict in the
Cameron-Oliver case, believing that the
Jury could come to no other conclusion.
The Tribune speaks of the efforts in some
quarters to degrade and bring in disrepute
for party purposes the bearer Of WE'LL
known honorable name. The World, on
the contrary. wonders that even one juror
shorld actually have been found disposed
to give verdict for the widow of a living
man,
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key, made. as anyone can see. a famous
Thanksgiving dinner. The phantom
remarked that if he could only imagine
himself "to be in the kingdom of Heaven
his ''cup of happiness would be full"
On the opposite side of the river, stand
ing entirely by itself, is an immense rock
which with little propriety has been named
Pompey's Pillar. 1t is wedge-shaped.
rising abruptly from the prairie to height
of 100 feet, thence sloping gradually back
to the earth. The Indians. drawing COM
parison from wild. free nature. more fifty
call it the CrOuching Lion. Like war
horse checked and thrown upon It's
launches, it rests facing the splendid
valley which stretches away to the west
for many miles. Its stony face is wrinkled
by the storms Of ages. but grim sentinel
of the centuries, ii stands cold. silent and
while the tribes and genera
tons OF man come and go. live and die. as
do the beautiful flowers which adorn with
their sweet presence the prairie at its feet.
FRED. NJ. WILSON.
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NOTE.

We will here state that the outrageous
hardship to whici, travellers over that stage
line were subject ut the time of our expert
ence. has been entirely done away with
since the line came into the hands of the
new manager. +. NJ. w.
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u MON MILL S
SPRING HILL, MONTANA,

The undersigned, proprietor of the Old Eelia-
bic Union Mills, would respectfully announce to
its patrons and the public generally that he has
had this mill overhaued and repaired, and has
added thereto new machinery, among which is
4 large sized
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ROYAL FF6 $XE @S
Absolutely Pure.

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Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-04-10

committed other depredations. Much en-
element prevails, and more trouble is an
ticipated.
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The AvANT COURIER
ANNU AL
IN FOB 1879.

ttcontains, among other things. twenty
pages Of just such information as is de-
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Three views of Eastern Montana in the
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OF obtaining reliable information about
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Its principal feature is the valuable infor-
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III general. and Eastern Montana in partic-
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piled.-Madisonisn.
The commercial and other resources of
u illatin Valley are fully explained in a
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inducements to Immigrants are plainly
stated without exagSeratiOn.--B Rec
ord
1t gives thoroughly accurate account
of the present condition of Gallatin Conn
ty. and great deal Of information relat-
ing to Montana.-New North Vest.
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Copies are presented fee to subscribers
of the AvANT COURIER.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-28

warm concentrations ofthe proposed change,
claiming that the Genital is now The legal
weight there, at the present time, an ''order
in council" having been issued making one
hundred pounds the hundred-weight, instead
of sometimes one hundred and twelve pounds
and sometimes one hundred and twenty, as
hitherto. The New York produce exchange
is at work endeavoripg to secure the adoption
of the GENITAL system by all the chambers of
commerce, boards of trade, and commercial
people everywhere throughout the country;
and notice has been posted on It's boards that
the Liverpool quotations of corn and -four
will be made by the GENITAL. As New Orleans
has large grain dealings with Europe, the
chamber of commerce of that city has taken
formal notice of the change in Liverpool, and
last month, February, it adopted resolution
approving of and recommending the GENITAL
system ''to determine the weight in the sale
Of all articles of produce in this country, and
that it assures its earnest cooperation to es-
tablish this system in this market as soon as
its adoption by the majority of the boards of
trade of this country is inaugurated srd &C.
copied" 1t would be well for our own
chamber of commerce to take similar action,
and to communicate with the produce ex-
change of New York, ia order that concerted
movement may be agreed upon for introduc-
ing the use of the GENITAL system everywhere
throughout the United States. In the mean
time, why should not our feed dealers and
others charge by the one hundred pounds
That would be reckoning by the pounds they
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-28
FLORENCE, ALA.
Good Friends OF acknowledgements
ments-A New RaiirOad-ssO0d
SchO0le-A StauuchIy Dem
Oeratic County A
state Debt
Settled.
occasional CORRESPONDENT Appeal. !

OccdSlOual OOEToSpOuucul Appcdl-J
FLORENCE, Ala, Marcn 25.-As north
Alabama, north Mississippi, north Arkansas
and West Tennessee all look upon Memphis
as a common center, thought perhaps that
an occasional letter from the different sec
tons might be of interest TO your readers
this Is my apology for writing to you. We
feel a deep interest In and sympathy with
Memphis, and think it rather Shylockish In
her creditors to demand more than ifty cents
on the dollar, knowing, as they must, her in
ability to pay more, and also knowing that
great portion of the debt was not created by
the true citizens, but by hordes of irresponsl-
BILE varlets owning no property and paying
no taxes. Florence feels bound to your city
by many ties. The social and business inter-
course between the two places is constant
and pleasant. Oar people have intermarued
with yours, and Memphis has always patron
lied Bailey springs freely and educated many
of her daughters at our female college, which
Is under the control of the synod at Memphis.
Last, but not least, we all know Colonel Gal
laway sometimes affectionately called "old
man }, who for several years lived with us
and edited the Gazette. So you see Flor
eutine feels very much al home in Memphis.
Our little city is improving, notwithstanding
the. hard times, and we look for great i'm
provement when the canal is completed and
we can get coal cheap by hatboats. There
are two railroads, besides the Memphis and
Charleston, which will center here-the
Nashville and Tuscaloosa, now building un-
der charge of Major Z. F. Falconett, which
commenced at some point on the Nashville
and Northwestern, and the Tennessee and
Alabama, which is now graded out to Mount
Pleasant, Tennessee. We have the best of
schools here, the State having handsomely
endowed the normal college at this place.
And now If any one running plantations on
the Mississippi or tributaries is looking for a
point where his family will enjoy good So
ciety, good schools and good health, let him
come here. But enough OF this. Politics
is very quiet here now. Our county is
staunchly Democratic and so is our town, in
consequence the latter owes nothing and the
former very little. Our State adjusted her
Indebtedness in a very satisfactory way, by
giving I'D her lien on the railroads, and CIV
ing new bonds with small interest, grad
ually increasingly for ten millions. l hope
your State will be able to settle honorably
and satisfactorily to all parties. Wishing
the APPEAL long life and success, will now
close. FLORENTINE.
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CetewayO Knocks Overheard CompetI-
tive SOIdiership.

London World, March IL: "The army
would literally have been starved if the Zu-
lus had not been repulsed at Rorke's Drift
and the provisions saved here. The position
could never have been maintained against
overwhelming numbers If the Zulus' had
possessed a gun to batter down the feeble
wall; but the only two guns in the place
were spiked before their eyes by Lieutenants
Bromhead and Chard, to whose pluck and
presence of mind the salvation of the army
Is due. 1t is a ludicrous proof CT the absurd
ity of the examination system that this very
Bromhead, whose brilliant SCI Fices in the
field have just been rewarded by brevet
majority, was plucked the. othee day by the
board of examiners who did aot consider
HIM qualified by his scientific attainments for
promotion to the rank of captain. Colonel
Reilly, who has just gone out TO South Afri-
ca In command of the artillery, has been en-
couraged by Bromheads success to set at de-
hance the queens regulations, which pre-
scribe that appointments on the staff
are to be limited to officers who
have passed through the Staff college When
Reilly went down TO the Horse Guards, on
his appointment, he was called upon to
choose his brigade major and a list was put
into his hand of officers eligible for the ap-
pointment. He coolly ans wered, after read
ing 1t, 1 will not have any one of them, and
l mean to take Poole, one of our own adju-
tants, whom / can depend upon IN case of
emergency. The authorities urged that
whatever might be the merits of Captain
Poole, he had not qualified himself By ex-
animation at the Staff college in tactics and
languages. But Colonel Reilly was firm and
declared that unless they could find him a
qualIhed officer who could speak Zulu, it was
quite useless 10 talk about languages being
any qualification. And as to tactics, he sand:
The Zulus do not play at Kyisg- spiel, and
warfare in the bush Is not conducted on the
Prussian system. / will have a brigade
major whose pluck and presence of mind are
known to me- He eventually carried his
point, and Captain Poole has gone with him
in spite of the regulations. The salvation of
Rorke's Drift by lieutenant who had been
plucked by the board of examiners threatens
to make a revolution In the system of mill
tary appointments
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TIE LEGInLATOnis.

Thanksgiving will soon be in order. The
legislature of Tennessee adjourns on Monday
next. There are only three more days for
work, and if this body of grave and reverend
seignors have frittered away seventy-fve days
n dong nothing, it is too late for them to do
something. Governor Marks probably does
not intend it, but his message on Thursday
recommending the calling of State conven-
ton to settle the State debt, is a singing re-
buke to the present legislature. It says in so
many words that the present general assem-
bly, is incompetent to the task of discharsing
tbe duties which the people elected it to per-
form, and he therefore proposes to select
men to DO what one hundred
had not the capacity to do. The few good
men in the legislature have been unable to
stem the tide which the do-nothings had re-
solved 90, and consequently the one hundred
lawmakers who marched up Capitol hill in
January last will, on Monday. march
down again. Never has there been a more
stupid and Improbable legislature since the
organization of cur State government. Some
laws of local Importance have been enacted;
but we defy any one to cite single really
important law passed by this Legislature.
Governor Marks, in his short message rebuk-
ing these worthless public servants, in speak
ing Of the State debt, says: your present
session ought not to close without some de-
CisiEs step toward the settlement of the pub
lie debt. The public welfare imperatively de-
mands that this question shall be eliminated
from the politics of the State" This has
been the universal cry of the people of Ten
nessee, from one end of the State to the
other. The members of the legislature were
elected and sent to Nashville to make a final
settlement of the State debt. But the mem
bers have been deaf to the voice of the peo-
pie. They have acted on the bshef that they
we're elected 10 prevent any adjustment, ana
hence they have resorted to unworthy pre-
texts and subterfuges. Smelling committees
have been nosIng into the private trans
actions of private citizens, and the liv-
ing and the dead have been as
sailed alike on er-parts testimony. Thou
sands of dollars was expended by this inves-
tgatIng committee, and the taxpayer, who
Ioots the oil and discovers the folly or the
investigation; will place Just estimate uron
legislature which Governor Marks Is anxious
to exchange for another body of seventy-fve
practical men. But it Is a relief to know
that the legislature expires on Monday next.
The attendance at the funeral will not be
large, for it was not respected while living
and there will not be much iameutation over
Its grave.
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ST. LOUIS.
Rapid Progress of Work ON the
Construction OF the Leadville Ex-
tension Railway A PIucky
Woman Too Much for a
Thievin9 Tramp
ETC., ETC.

ST. LOUIS, March ga Pueblo, Colorado,
dispatch says: -Four miles of the Lead
vile Extension. Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe railroad west of Canon City was COM
pleted tonight. The track is now laid a
distance of one and half miles in the Grand
canon of Arkansas. Work is being pushed
forward rapidly, and the Royal gorge will be
reached by Saturday night. Large quantities
of ties, rails, etc., are going to the front
daily, and Leadville will have railway con-
nection with the outside world by way of
Natures great route-the Arkansas valley
at an early day
A Topeka, Kansas, dispatch says: "J. B.
True, who murdered Rev. Samuel Woolpert.
near Wakefield on the second of
November, 1877, was tried in Louisville,
Pottatum county, to-day before Judge Nor
ton. He was allowed to plead guilty of
murder in the second degree. and was sem
fenced to hard labor in the penitentiary for
life."
A tramp applied at the house Of Nick
Ernel, three miles northeast of Topeka, to-
day for a meal, which was furnished him.
Seeing watch on the wall he attempted to
appropriate it, but was prevented by Mrs.
Ernel, who shot him in the arm, wounding
him severely. He was not captured.
The eastern railroads have declared off the
agreement of December 9th last, which es-
tabIished the passenger rates to New York
at tweBty-four dollars, and to redeem at full
rates all tickets in ''scalpers' hands.
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ground It remains to consider the sugges-
ton that the repeal should be effected in the
regular order of legislative business. That is
a short horse soon curred. Mr.. Hayes,
whose fraudulent title is based on these I'M
constitutional election acts, will veto any bill
abrogating them. The Democrats lack the
numerical strength required to pass an act
over his veto. Therefore, if they are to effect
their purpose at all, they must tack the repeal
to an appropriation. If the man who was
defeated Tor the Presidency by more than
two hundred and fifty thousand majority, is
to be permitted to spend the public money,
be must be made to accept such conditions as
the representatives of the people see fit to
impose. If he wants to stand out against the
law-making power, let him take the conse-
quenees. Meantime congress should, without
days unnecessary delay, act on the repeal
of the ederal election laws"
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FRIGHTFOL CATAsTROPHE
lucky. Destroyed by EEre-FIve
Persons Known to Have
PoeiShed.
Special to the Nashville American. ]

HICKMAN, KY, March 25.-By further in
vestigation of the disaster Of last night, it is
ascertalned that there were on board the
wharlboat Mr.. C. A. Douglas. clerk; H. G.
Comstock, operator; James MaYes. watch
man; West Campbell and two unknown
men waiting for a packet. A man known
as jerry Ryan Is missing, and it is supposed
he was ION board, as he was accustomed to
90 there TO sleep at night The watch be-
longing to James Mayes, the Waterman, was
found tdis evening on the debris, where the
body was recovered last night, and it is gen
orally supposed to be the body of Mayes, the
only proof being the watch, the remains be-
ing charred past recognition. The deck fall
ing prevented the recovery of the other
bodies, as they were buried beneath in the
hold. All on board persisted except Douglas
and Comstock, who reaches the shore safely.
There was very little freight on board. not
exceeding five hundred dollars in value. The
clerk lost sixty-two 1llars in cash, besides
his clothing. The operator lost about twelve
dollars and his clothing. The boat, which
had been completed only two weeks, is a to-
tai loss, there being no insurance. II was
valued at SIX thousand dollars. II is con-
coded to be the work of an incendiarv. as
there was no light or fire in the cargo box
where the fire originated.
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MEMPHIS APPEAL
FRIDaI. MARCH IS, 1879.
A RADICAL skNsATIsN SPOILED

a RADICAL - ENSAEE SPOILED.
When il was announced Ia at Porter had
been foully murdered in Texas another dark
spot vas added 70 the bloody-shiyt. 1t was
heralied over the north that northern man
bad beeu assassinated IN cold blood by the
kukiux rebels Of the south. The Radical
papers were preparing Tor n general howl
against the reb.liious spirit of thu south.
May were the tears shed over Porter's muir
Ger, aod many were the execratlons hurled
against the southern uthan who killed an
innooen,, defenssiess man for the sole crime
~ having been born north. But this sensa-
ton Was spoiled when it was announced that
Curg.s, the murderer Of Porter, was a north
ern man, Federal soldier. Kansas Jay
haEksr and an outlaw. Thus did toe pre-
text fer waving the b,oods-shirt come to
gTiet. A campaign gun WAS suddenly
spiked. Many lugubnous editorials on the
law.ess character Of the southern rebels were
n preparation. Porter was murdered in
Tsxgs by Currie jas. as jim Fisk was muir
dsred IN New York by Stokes. Fooled in
thsIr Efforts 10 iujurs the southern people
On soc3ant cf this diabolical murder, the
northern Radical papers cannot permit the
occasion to pass without slandering Texas.
She 5 represented As the abode Of thieves
and high Waynsn. This IS partly true, but
Il 3 also trus that most Of these outlaws are
fuEitives from the northern States. Bass,
the railroad robbsr, was a northsrn man, as
Vas Carrie; and 50 are most OF the murder
era who have given to Texas whatever char
Actsr she mly havs for ouGawry. Texas
seems u BE- the refuge FOX flgitivss from
iustsce from every other State In The Union.
Bat tie Old citz=as Of Texas are law-abidinR,
and II freed from the outlaws of other States
Texas w1aid compare most favorably with
any STATE In the Union in an observance OF
IaF aa5 order. The Indignation which the
people manifest for CurTie, the rufiaRly as
sassia o. Porter, Is as great as that expressed
in the north. s. great IS the excitement at
Mar.hali. that it Is said the dss2erado Cur
sis lives IN constant dread of
lynch lav. I. Is wlth difficulty That the mob
can b rsstrzined from executing this north
eru man tor his asroci0us murder Of 4 north
ern nan. Ia every part OF the State the
people condemn this outrage. AS evidence
~ have ONLY 10 refer 10 what has already
been Published IN the APPEAL, showing the
sympathy winch has been expressed for the
theatrical company to which Porter be-
lo1Eed-
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An Editors PalatiaI residence.

Chicago Tribune: "Wilbur F. Storey, of
the Chicago Times, is about building for HIM
self an hundred thousand dollar residence,
and is also creating magnificent park at
the corner of Forty-third street and Grand
boulevard. For month past the man who
planted Grand boulevard has been transport.
ing immense trees of over sixty feet in hight
from Indiana to Mr.. Storey's land. One old
red maple, two feet in diameter, over sixty
feet high, with ball of earth nine feet in
diameter and three feet thick, had to be
moved like house to a ten ton truck. and
was hauled by six horses"
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hear, deems himself the pink of financial
propriety. General Schenck is persuaded
that he was model of diplomatic deport-
ment. And there is little doubt that the di-
rectors of the City OF Glasgow bank, in the
leisure for meditation which they enjoy in
their present temporary seclusion, believe In
the rectitude of their Intentions. So with
Baron Grant. For aught know, he kept all
the ten commandments; kept them as other
men in similar positions kept them in those
days. But he has not kept the eleventh.
g, w So