The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-08-03
DRIFT WOOD.

DRIFT WOOD.
The Marquis of Lorne's term of Office will
end in December of next year, and it is likely
that he will then quit Canada.
Five thousand persons, or o%ne-sixteenth of
the population of $4,000, have joined church
at Indianapolis in the last six months.
Col. j. a. Sumner, Of Akron, Ohio, wit
messed the launching of the first steamboat
west Of the Alleghanies, at Pittsburg, in 1916.
He rode on the first steamer, "Walk-in-tbe-
Water" that %navigated the lakes. He is
is three feet in length.
"Billy the Kid" one Of the most noted
murderers in the West, was shot through the
heart by the sheriff Of Lincoln county, New
Mexico, a few days ago. The murderer was
only twenty-one years Of age, and boosted Of
having killed twenty-one men during his
short life.
George W. Ingalls,, formerly United States
Indian agent at Quito agency, is an alleged
d~efaulter to the government for more than
800, 900. He has been indicted, but as he
soiourneth in western wilds traversed by no
star routes, his exact Whereabouts are not
definitely known.
4 Berlin correspondent says: Statistics
published by the Hamburg police authorities
show that the number Of emigrants passing
through Hamburg alone, to America, from
January LIST to June 10th, 1881, amounts to
II, 63333, being twice the number for the same
time in the year following the late war be-
tween France and Germany.
There is q tribe of hairless people among
4ho A T1ctwo1trr hort rira Is 1iuirr capro E0N
miles west Of Brisbane, near the Balonne
river. Several Of them were brought to
Queensland by Baron Macleevy, the Russian
explorer, who had them photographed there.
Their heads and bodies were entirely free of
hair, and the former was perfectly smooth
and shiny.
Three colored men have taken ST. 900
worth of stock in a new cotton factory being
organized at Augusta, Ga. A colored man,
q slave up to the end of the rebellion, is,
with two or three exceptions, the largest cot
ton planter in Mississippi. The assessors
returns show that the colored people are in
creasing their ownership Of property with
most satisfactory progress in all the Southern
States.
Mr.. Willard, Of the North Pacific, tele-
graphed from Altoona, Pa, to Mayor Rice Of
St. Paul, contributing, in behalf of the Ore
gon Transcontlnental Company, the sum Of
ST. 600 for.the New Ulm sufferers. He added:
Yea may draw on me for the total amount
in New York. and I will endeavor to raise
more funds upon my arrival there" Com
ment is unnecessary. The generous act
speaks for itself.
Of gold mining in Australia, the statistics
furnished in the report Of Mr.. Hayter Statist
Of the Government of Victoria, continue to
exhibit q most remarkable decline. The
quantity raised in all these colonies since de-
posts of this metal were first discovered in
1851 is estimated at SO, 600, 900 ounces val
ued at ST., 355, 900, 900. By far the largest
proportion has gone from Victoria, where
the gold-fields in 1879 produced only 1885,
947 ounces, which is less than half the aver
age annual yield Of the same colony during
1870-78.
Warner Miller, the new New York Sena-
tor, is o wealthy paper manufacturer, resld-
ing at Herkimer, a little place in the county
ectady, from Dr.. Motifs college, in the class
of 1860, and is only a little over forty years
of age. He was reelected by over 1000
majority last fall. The Miller boom was or
iginally started by ex-Speaker Geo. B. Sloan.
Miller served two terms in the State Assem-
bly,, and took an active stand in support of
Tilden's reform measures in opposition to
the Republican machine leaders. He is now
serving his second term in Congress.
Boston claims to supply most of the capital
for Western development. 1t projected and
built the first trans-continental railroad in this
country-the Union Pacidc-and a good part
of its 5000, 900, 900 Of property still repre-
sents Boston ownership. She also projected
and built the second trans-continental line
via the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, and
this company, by the way, represents $780,
900, 900 of property, almost entirely Of Bos-
ton ownership. The third tra%ns-continental
line will be the Atlantic s; Pacific, q Boston
project started fifteen years ago.. Upon this
$40, 900, 900 will be spent this year, and more
than half of this is referable to Boston in
vestment,
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Josh Billings P~rayer-New Revision.