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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-07-20
ksOsaai Changes.

The following are some recent changes in
service on Montana mail routes. If the De-
parment would turn its attention this way a
few moments we could point out some lines
of sci vice that are badly needed, notably SER
vice from Benton to the Barker District and
from Benton to the Highwood settlements.
While the Montana service is receiving some
attention, we hope these points will not be
overlooked. Here are the changes:
Service between Coulson and Martinsdale
has been reduced to one time a week, and
from Martinsdale to White Sulphur Springs
three times q week, to take effect July 10th
inst.
Service from Butte to Helena is changed
to embrace and end at Boulder, emitting
Wickes after August LIST.
Special service, once a week, from Parker
to Carol, fifty miles, has been ordered to
commence forthwith.
Service once a week has commenced from
Virginia City to Farrell, Madison county.
Special service has been ordered from
to Puett, Gallatin county, Is
miles
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-07-20
BENTON,
AS Seen Through the Glasses Of Judge
Hedges.

Judge Hedges, of Helena, was in the city
a few days last week waiting for a boat to
convey him down the river. While here he
wrote an interesting column letter to the Her
aid from which we take the following ex-
tract
In the interval OF five years since I saw
Benton last It has grown out of recognition
except by It ampitheater Of bluffs and the
placid river that laVes its feet. Tn adobe
warehouses have given place to others Of
kiln-burned brick OF magnificent proportions,
elegant in appearance within and without,
and filled with ample stocks Of freshly landed
goods. The old part Of the town which was
Eli that | knew is now, though much i'm
proved, inferior IN appearance to some of the
newer streets further back from the river.
TIL presence of fine churches, school-houses
printing offices and handsome residences
mark the full dawn of an era that contrasts
strongly with my recollections of the place
as | first saw it in 1875. The poor old fort
around which clusters so much early and in
t%eresting history, still stands, though totter-
ing to its fall 1t is but a cumberer of the
ground that it now occupies and will soon
disappear forever with the Indian, the trap
per and the buffalo. We always thought it
an actof inspiration that they gave the name
Of Benton to this place. Not even yet does
the full wisdom Of the choice appear, but it Is
surely coming when indomitable, untiring,
enthusiastic spirit of this earliest and most
constant and persistent champion OF the great
Northwest will be fully typided in this city
that bears his name.
The growth of Benton is much retarded by
the lack of building material, especially lum-
Der. Fuel is another scarce article and the
price it attained last winter when the Their
mometer was registering 400 below zero,
are simply incredible. There is not the least
necessity for such peril and prices, for coal
is to be found in abundance to the four points
of the compass and %notzfar away.
The day is coming when Benton will be
as much favored by railroads as by river.
The road that is building west toward Blu
ford will be continued on to Benton it will
meet here the road running north from Hell
eIa and will continue on into British Amer
lea, giving that vast country the advantage
Of another outlet for its immense wheat pro-
duct. Northern Montana and the country
still further north has resources adapted to
make it the favoriteabode Of those thousands
now crossing the Atlantic from Northern
Europe.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-07-20
RIVER

The Red Cloud has passed the Coal Banks
The Nellie Peck brought W. s. Wetze
thirty live porkers.
The river is falling at about the rate o.
two inches every tWenty-four hours.
The @. Z. Peck left Bismarck on the 18Th
and the Helena on the 14th for Benton.
The Big Muddy isn't near as big as Il
might be. Twenty inches above low water
mark is the showing.
It is feared that the larger boats can not
come farther than the Coal Banks for the
remainder Of the season.
The Josephine, Rosebud, Dacotah and G,
K. Peck have left Bismarck for Benton,
They may get here and they may not.
|. q. Baker 6 Co. received by the Nellie
Peck 1880 sacks Of flour. There is no i'm
mediate danger Of starvation in Benton.
The Nellie Peck arrived last Thursday
evening after . somewhat difficult trip. She
brought up a large amount Of government
freight for Fort Maginnis.
The river is now said to be at about its
worse Doatlng stage. During the next few
weeks a well defined channel well be washed
out and the large boats will experience no
great difficulty in getting to Benton.
The Shonlin Bar ought to receive the at
tention Of the powers that be. Delegate Ma
ginnis can win the everlasting gratitude of
Benton by getting an appropriation for the
special purpose Of getting rid Of that bar. Il
IS the most troublesome one in the river.
The steamer Butte arrived at Bismarck on
Monday last, and will load for Benton and
On her up trip tomorrow Thursday.
and especially families, going East
should avail themselves Of this chance and
meet the Butte here on August 4th. Her &C.
,o%mmodations are excellent and her corps Of
officers deserY lly popular.
The owners Of the steamer Red Cloud have
brought suit against T. G. Power & Bro. to
ecover the sum Of $16, 900, for damage in
1icted by the steamer Butte during the fall
# 1879. It is claimed that the Butte was
lot properly tied or anchored, and as it was
icing raised from the water ct the end of
be season the wind carried it against the
red Cloud indicting damage to the amount
amed.-Bsnarckl Iasbuue.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-04

The American Cultivator says in response
to q correspondent who asks how long it is
since the present system of green manuring
was adopted, and with what general success,
that it would be difficult to tell when and by
whom this system was first adopted. Keno
phon, the Grecian general, historian and
philosopher, recommended and taught the
use of such manures. Cato, Pliny and other
Roman agricultural writers also taught the
value of blowing under green crops. But the
farmers of the country now called Belgium
were the first among modern cultivators to
raise crops especially for green manuring or
ploughing under. Their soil was the poorest
that could be we'll conceived of for raising
wheat, as poor as any of the sandy plains in
New England. 1t was white, loose, porous
soil, like the sandy districts upon the sea
coast in New Jersey and Maryland. This
barren land was converted into one of the
most fertile loans in Europe, being accom-
plished through ploughing under green crops
to depth of three or four inches, and by de-
grees ploughing deeper till this sand was fill
ed with decayed vegetable matter to depth
of two feet or more This system, in con-
nection with that of the alienation of crops,
is not abandoned at the present day. In the
cultivation and improvement of the soil of
Belgium the spade has accomplished more
than the plough. The greatest changes have
been made in the Campine district. A writer,
describing this district in 1872, says: "a
large part of the Campine seems destined to
perpetual barrenness, dreary, silent, ire
claimable waste, but wherever it has been
possible to rescue patch from the stubborn
heath or the relentless sand these agricultural
colonies have been planted, and cornfelds
shine and pastures brighten in the heart of
the immemorial wilderness. In this district
the care of bees and the silkworm afford
quite profit" The system of working the
land in Belgium would never be resorted to
in this country, but the method of improving
the soil can be easily adopted here, though
on larger SCALE and with our improved i'm
plements at a much less cost
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-04

Some of the railroad corporations of New
Hampshire, claiming that their property was
assessed higher in proportion to its actual val
ne than other property in the towns through
which their lines run, have obtained from the
registers of deeds an account of all the sales
of real estate in New Hampshire since the
last appraisal to Aug. l of the present year,
and the papers of that state are publishing
tables giving the prices at which real estate
has been sold in each town, and the apprais-
ais of the same property. Over ten thousand
sales are reported. In few towns real es-
tate has sold for less than its assessed value
In others it has been assessed at less than half
what it has sold for. The appraisals average
about Il per cent of the real value as shown
by the sales A similar report for all the
towns of Vermont, of the sales of real estate
since the last appraisal, with the price for
which it was sold and its assessed value as set
in the list, would furnish the best evidence
obtainable of uniformity or the want of it,
in appraising property in the different parts
of the state. We do not see, however, how
such statistics gathered from the records of
deeds can be entirely accurate, because the
consideration stated in the deed of convey
ance is not always the true one.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-04

For some reason, probably the supposed
scarcity of winter forage in some parts Of the
country, store cattle have been selling at low
prices, though beef is quoted very high in the
city markets. Taking into consideration the
value of a currency dollar in gold, beef has
not been higher since the war, IT, indeed, 1t
was higher at any time during the war. The
best beef has been sold at over 81 per hun
dred, live weight, in all the eastern markets.
With the exception Of store cattle, nearly ev-
cry farm product is selling at high prices.
Pork is quoted at a fraction over nine cents
(wholesale) at Boston, and q cents Give w.t.
at New York. From carefully-prepared Ia
bles in the New York Herald, comparing the
prices of a large number of the neoessaries of
life in October of the present year with prices
in the same month last year, it appears that
wheat has advanced from S1.OS to S1.45 per
bushel, common flour from 81 TO 1925 and
patents from 81 to 1926 and $3.50 per bar
rel, rye -four from 81 80 to 1925, corn from
81 to Il cents per bushel, beef (hind quar-
ters) from . and 10 to III and 10 cents, lamb
from to 10 cents, mutton from 8 TO cents,
turkeys from 16 to 20 cents chickens from 16
to % cents salt pork from $3.50 to $1G.50
per barrel, hams from 11@ to 10 cents, lard
from 81 to 134 cents, live hogs from to *
cents, eggs from 20 to % cents, potatoes from
30 to so cents. Apples, and in fact all kinds
of fruit except pears, cost twice as much as
they did last fall There has not been much
change in butter and cheese quotations, tho
butter retails higher than it did last year.
Groceries of all kinds, except tea and coffee,
are q shade higher than they were in 1880.
These figures are for the best grades of arti-
cles mentioned, but the advance is about the
same on others
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-04

The secret of making honest cider vinegar
is simply bringing the pure cider into con-
tact with air at temperature not lower than
GO degrees nor higher than so, 20 degrees be-
ing the temperature approved by many max
ers. Cider made late in the season of mature
apples rich in sugar yields better article of
vinegar than that produced earlier of green
fruit and vinegar made slowly, at a compar-
atively low temperature, say in from twelve
to eighteen months, is usually of better quail
ity than that produced in a shorter time.
There are many reasons, however, why it is
not always convenient to follow the plan of
putting cider into casks and barrels open at
the bung and waiting year or more until the
change takes place spontaneously. As insur-
ing its exposure to the air hastens the con-
version of cider into vinegar, various patented
methods have been introduced to bring this
exposure about Among others is the one
which by means of force pump throws con-
tinuous streams of fine bubbles of air through
the liquor. Another induces the cider to
slowly trickle over a series of inclined shelves
inclosed in a box or closet. Yet another
method allows the liquid to run slowly over
beechwood shavings packed in a vat in which
are holes near the bottom to admit an up
ward current of air.
Old vinegar acts as ferment and hastens
change. On this principle acts the following
method, simple enough for adoption in any
household Scald the cask or barrels with
water, then pour in some boiling vinegar,
roll the barrels around and let stand until
thoroughly saturated with the vinegar. This
preparation over, fill the barrel one-third
full with strong cider vinegar, and two gal
Ions of cider. Every eighth day thereafter
add two gallons of cider until the barrel is
two-thirds full. In fourteen days after the
last two gallons are added, the whole will
have been converted into vinegar, one half
of which may be drawn of and the process
of filling with cider begun again, provided
the barrels are stored where a uniform tenn.
perature of seventy degrees is maintained,
Another simple method to hasten vinegar
making consists in adding yeast to the cider,
exposing to the air and maintaining tenn
perature of about seventy degrees.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-04
Useless and HurtfuI Medicines.

There is certain class Of remedies for constipation
absolutely useless. These boluses and potions
made in great part Of podophyllin, aloes, rhubarb
gamboge and other worthless ingredients. The dam.
age they do to the stomachs OF those who use them
ncaculable They evacuate the bowels 1t is true, but
they always do SO violently and profusely, and, be-
sides, grippe the bowels The effect Is to weaken both
them and the stomach. Better far to use the agreea
BILE and salutary aperient, Hoseters Stomach Bitters
the laxative effect Of which is never preceded by pain
accompanied by onyulsve, violent action Of the
bowels ON the contrary 1t invgorates those organs
the stomach, and the entire system. As q means OF
curing and preventing malarial fevers, medicine
compare with it, and it remedies nervous debility
rheumatism kidney and bladder Inactivity and Other
inorganic ailments.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-04

Mr.. Chas. i. wayman Of Erie Pa, writes: my
physicians had given me up to die. They told me my
lungs aud liver were all decayed and gone very
weak, pale and emaciated. By chance saw Browns
Iron Bitters advertised. Immediately realized that
without iron in the blood life could not exist. With
trembling anxiety sent servant to procure bottle
for me. must have taken it with great faith for al
most Immediately felt its beneficial effect. Soon all
dyspeptic symptoms disappeared, my lungs grew
strong pains in the region of the heart vanished my
urine became free from sediment, and in word 1
have regained perfect health. Now feel able to
thrash the doctor that attended me, and really be-
lieve / ought to doit."
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-04

For the prevention and sure Of Diphtheria and
Cancers. This remedy destroys the parasite in these
diseases and cures alterations as II by magic. Pint
bottles 10 cents, Sc per dozeu. Agents wanted Fol
medicine or circulars address DIR. ROE, Gen1 Agent
1883 Broadway, New York City.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-04

II you are subject to ague, you must be sure to
keep your liver, bowels and kidneys in good free
dtion. When 80, you will be safe from all attacks.
The remedy to use is KidneyWOrt. It's the best pre-
ventiye Of all maarial diseases that you take See
advertisement in another column.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-04
DYEING--STEAM CLEANSING F.!

Dress Goods, Shawls, Sacques, Feathers ETC., dyed
a variety Of colors. Mems Clothing dyed steam
oleansed and pressed without ripping orooking
Charges paid one way goods sent by express. Di-
rect to Brattleboro Dye Works.
ly27 Nj. HALE, ProprIetor
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-04

as It possible that Mr.. Godfrey is up and at work,
and cured by simple a remedy2"
81 you is true tina. he is entirely cured and
with nothing but Hop Biters and only ten days ago
his doctors gave him up and said he must die"
"Well-a-dayl That's remarkable I'll go this day
and get some for my poor George-I know hops are
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-04

"What would you do II you were and were you ~
tendery inquired young swell Of his lady friend
he escorted her home from church. "Wel said she,
''if were you should throw away that vile cigar
cite, cut up my for hrewood, wear my watch
chain underneath my coat, and stay at home nights
and pray for brains."
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-04

We only inferred what the language of DIR.
Hoskins warranted-not that he intended to
aver the absolute impossibility of growing
peaches in southern Vermont, but of growing
them for markets the further qualification of
profit in growing them for that purpose was
also understood to be meant, though not ex-
pressed in words
The search for new varieties which will
thrive in northern localities is the important
point suggested. The trouble with most
peach trees that thrive as far north as south
ern Vermont is that the fruit is not of a su-
perior quality. A variety is wanted as hardy
as some of our inferior seedlings, that will
produce fine quality of fruit That such a
variety may be discovered or produced by ex,
perimental culture of selected seedlings is not
at all impossible. All our choice varieties of
the different kinds of fruit have been devel-
oped by the selection and cultivation of the
best individual specimens of seedlings, the
seedlings themselves having often been first
improved by cultivation or skilful hybridiza-
ton.
With regard to DIR. Hoskins's suggestion
as to practical information on peach growing
which Mr., Lynde might furnish, we may say
that Mr.. Lynde tells us that location is a
very important item to be considered While
peaches can be grown as profitable market
crop in southern Vermont, they cannot be
grown on all lands. 1t is useless to try to
grow them on streams or river bottoms, for in
such locations the frost is sure to ruin trees
and fruit. Mr.. Lynde's farm is ON high
land, and his peach orchard lies on a second
lift or rise of land above small stream
which runs through portion of his farm.
The orchard slopes to the south, and is pro-
tected from northwest winds by a ridge of
hills. This latter pOint-the protection from
cold winds-is as essential as protection from
frosts. In Mr.. Lynde's orchard proper the
trees stand 10 to u feet apart in the row
and the rows are is feet apart-far enough
to allow team to be driven through with
ease. Fully three-fourths of his 1000 trees
are scattered over the farm. Most of the
trees are less than ten years old but about
thirty of them are from Is to % years, anc
one which bore this year is known to be al
least so years old. The trees come into bear
ing about the fourth-sometimes the third
year. The only manure Mr.. Lynde's trees
have had was chip manure and leached ashel
when set out. No special care has been Civ
en- them since. The fruit is mostly of nativ,
varieties. This year Mr.. Lynde estimator
that he gathered 800 bushels from 3sG trees
Two years ago the total yield exceeded tn,
above amount. Last year, being the "oG'
year, only about 10 bushels were marketed
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-04

traveller himself an Irishman, being on the box
of Irish mail coach very cold day and observ-
ing the driver enyeloping his neck in the youminOus
folds Of an ample comforter" remarked, 'You seem
to be taking very good care Of yourself my friend
"Whats all the world to q man when his Wife's a
widdy?"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-04

have the utmost confidence in the mails. Enclose
81 for two boxes $3.50 postoce order for six boz
es, of Celery and ohamomie Pills. and win take all
risk for money and goods. Dr. c. W. Benson, LOG No.
Eutaw-st., Baltimore, Md.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-04

Women that have been given up by their dearest
friends, beyond help, have been emily cured
by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. 1t is positive for all female complaints
Send to Mrs Lydia e. Pinkham, 233 Western avenue,
Lynn, Mass, for pamphlets.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-04

SoRoFULA.-A medicine that destroys the germs Of
scrofua and has the power to root out is apprec
ated by the afflicted. The remarkable Of men,
women and children, as described by testimonials
prove Hoods Sarsaparilla reliable medicine, contain
ing remedial agents which eradicate seroua from the
blood. 100 doses 81. Sold by all dealers. @. l. HOOD
4 Co., Lowell, Mass.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-04

There is only one woman know Of who can let
other women pass by her without looking after them
to see whether their polonases shirred in the ol-
bow and cut bias on the watch-pocket. The woman In
question is tobacco sign on Pine street-[BreakfAst
Table.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-04

For dyspepsia and liver complaint you have print
ed guarantee every bottle OF shoh's Vtalizer 1t
never fails to Nor sale by II. @. Willard Co..
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-04

$500 per year can be easily made at home, work
ing for e. g. Rdeout Co., 10 Barclay-st., New York.
Send for their catalogue and full particulars ly42
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-04

Bakers Mandrake Bitters all diseases arising
from biliOusness. N II. Downs Vegetable Basamic
Elixir cures coughs, colds and consumption.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-04

Among the august personAges presented to the Mar
quis Of Lorne at the grand pow-wow near Fort Mac
leod was Eaglesittng
over
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-04

shilohs Vitazer is what you iced for constipation,
loss OF Appetite dizziness, aud all symptoms Of Dys
pepsia Price 10 and rs cents per bottle For sale by
II. G. willard d Co.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-04

Exhaustive diseases that lead TO insanity, eonsump
ton and premature grave, quickly cured by u.s.
ing Browns Iron Bitters. It strengthens every part
Of the body.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-04

Our ancestors the monkeys, were not ignorant,
after all. They were educated in all the higher
branches,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-04

when you seated between lawyer and a doctor
you are in very dangerous position, for 1t is either
your money or your life.