The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1880-11-10
declares there should be 100000 Roman
Catholic in the United States, whereas there


Catholic in the United States, whereas there
are but 100000. The loss of 5000, 900 he
charges to our public school system.
General w s. Harney, United States Ar
my, on the retiredlst, one of the oldest army
officers in the United States, is stopping ia
New York City. The General fought the
Indians in Florida over fifty years ago and
was bosom companion and life long friend
Of Winfield Scott. The old gentleman, now
over eighty-tWo years Of age, is hale and
hearty still and stands erect as an arrow, six
feet three inches in height
The earnings Of the Northern Pacific
railroad for the year ending June 80, 1880,
were $769,088 60 in excess of operating
expenses, rentals and taxes. The interest on
The entire bonded debt is $411, $40. The
company has, by recent sale of the balance
of its Pend d'Oreille division bonds procur-
ed funds to complete with steel rails the
road now under construction.
Foreign.
The Governor of Australia receives the
same salary as the President Of the United
Seates
Mr. Parnell and his Land League have
found an ally in Mr. John RuskiD. Ireland
for the Irish and no man to possess more
land than he can actually use" is his cry.
It is unkind in the liberal PaN MaU Gazette
to suggest that this language is stdistinctly
seditious," and that the English Government
should proceed against him as it has done
against the Land League agitators.
Burning the approaching visit Of Count
William Bismarck in Hungary he will be the
guest of Count AndrassY, and it is given out
on doubtful authority that the son Of the
German Chancellor will soon be found en-
gagged to marry the Countess Irma Andrassy,
daughter of the Ex-Austrian Premier.
Michael Munkacsy, together with Makart,
the greatest Of Austrian painters, is at Paris,
where he occupies studio in the rear Of the
avenue Montaigne, engaged upon huge can
vas representing Christ before Plate. It
will not be completed for months to come
Munkacsy intends to make the great event
Of the year in art.
The Czsl $ marriage to the Princess Dolgo-
rouki is pronounced myth in London Rus
sian circles. Though the officials at the
Russian Embassy solemnly deny that the
Czar is in an alarming state of health it is
generally believed that his physical and mtn-
tai prostration is SO great that his death is
likely to occur at any moment.
Ii is worthy Of notice that the Schleswig-
Holstein proprietors Of oyster beds are lay
ing down American oysters in immense num-
bers upon the coast of that country. A
recent number Of the London Telegraph says
that few days ago 1850, 900 small and co.
900 large oysters fshed in Newark, Chesa-
peake and Princes Bays, were put down n
the above mentioned waters; and a company
has been formed with the object Of laying
down from Il, 600, 900 to 100000 more of
the American oysters upon the SchlesWig and
Holstein shores. The oysters just trans
ferred to their new domicie will be taken up
again in the Autumn of 1881, by which time
their condition will demonstrate whether or
not they are likely to thrive and multiply in
German waters
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