The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-07-06
PERSONAL AND IMPERsONAL.

Advicea have been received from Algeria
that the French, who are pursuing the re-
VOTED tribes, defeated them, iuf1icting heavy
losses.
Mary Anderson has bought a fye-storY
brown stone front in New York. Mr. Mary
Anderson ought to be a very happy man
when he goes into the bower she has shaded
fo- him.
The 2 5000 Americans who will visit Eu-
rope this summer will spend more money
ABROAD in three months than the 200, 600 i'm
migrants to this country this year will
spend in len years.
Since the close of the war the Republic
has wiped out one-third Of its national debt
and cut down its interest charge two thirds.
Every other National debt in the world has
increased in the same interval.
Gen. Forgemol issued an address to the
IT. oDs of the French Tunis exhibition on
the eve Of the withdrawal Of the whole or
greater part Of them from the Regency CON
graduating them on their discipline and de-
vo1iOn. @.
Four or five feet per week are now being
added to the Washington monument which
is already $50 feet in hight, and there is
about 50 much speculation ut the capital 81
to whether it will tumble down, as to who
will be Senator from New York.
The digging of the Panama canal does no'
progress in q very satisfactory manner. The
stations have been abandoned. brigades Of
workingmen have been disbanded, engineers
have given 10 the work and returned home,
and affairs gen. rally are in a very mixed con
ditiOn.
The other night NJ. Gambetta attended &
fefe in one IF the labnring quarters IN Paris.
in aid Of the local public library, He made
no speech. When the enthusiastic crowd
greeted him with ssVive Gamhefta," he said
to them, edo not cry sVive Gambetta.' To
morrow I shall be blamed for your greeting.
I prefer to hear you cry 'Vive Ia Repub-
lique.'" .-..... .e-...@ =."
The Vickshurg (Miss) HernM, rebuk;ng 8
narrow-minded correspondent. says: "
are heartily in favor IF the South from the
Potomac to the Rio Grande being thoroughly
and permanently Yankeeizod. Yankee en-
ergv, Yankee schools, Yankee cu]tiva
ton, Yankee railroads, and Yankee cap
ita, are badly needed in the South, and will
be welcomed by every Southern progressive
patriot
A correspondent at Berlin roncrts that
much surprise is felt heca,1se Baron Won
Boetticher has been appointed substitute for
FRI ce Bismarck inste d Of Count ven sto'-
berg Wernigerode. The changes in the
Prussian Ministry signify an energetic Dur
suance of the rrasent policy. both in ecclesi-
astica1 and in general affairs, Herr Won Goso-
Ter. The new Minister of Public Worship, is
Inclined to favor peace with the Vatican.
The London Econonaist tells the American
DeODle that they ought 10 suspend their ef-
forts 10 reduce their national debt and apol
ish the excessive import dues, which restlicl
their foreign commerce. Other Journals re-
pret that the battle Of free trade has to be
fought over again in England, and all cor
cede that the retaliation movement IS des-
ined to become q powerful factor IN the
British policy, If not be the leading question
OF the day before long.
Jay Gould THINKS there is q mania, o dis
ease, for investing in railway properties which
is breeding a serious financial crisis. Ine.e
is no way of stopping 1.-THE country ls too
biz for that. He never stems any tides, ne
says, . but drifts along with the crowd, Keep
lag as near the shore as possible NIT.
Gould makes no pretensions as a phllaHthrc-
pist-except that when consolidating tele-
graph stock-;but as 9 prophet Iquite Likely
be may be worth hearing. That ne Will be
needed he himself has no faith.
The New York Star says: We publish
this m,raing another portion Of the remark
able story Of the search for the Stewart
or We robbers. 1t covers the tracil 6 of Nil :
Kelly to the West. The negotiations con-
Quoted by the thieves through General Pat
rick I'll. Jones, with the representative Of
Judge Hilton, embraced numerous interviews
in which it appeared that several prominent
persons were connected with the efforts for
its recovery, and the travels of the body
from New Jersey thence to Montreal IN the
care of q woman in black, and q year after
ward to q secret place Of deposit near Mt.
Vernon, West Chester county, New York.
AS the troops that had just Gisembarked on
their return from Tunis were marching
through the streets Of Marseilles, Kisses were
heard from the Italian National Club. A
crowd surrounded the clubhouse and de-
manded the removal of the Italian es-
cutcheon from the building. The Commits
eary of police advised it's removal, but the
President OF the club peremptorily refused to
have il removed. The Project Of Police en-
deavored to calm the crowd, and sent for
gendarmes, but before their arrival the Dep
uty Mayor and q Municipal Councillor, in
spite of the protests of the Project, tore doWn
the escutcheon. The crowd was afterward
dispersed, and the approaches to the club
house occupied by troops.
--zEaRt 4%GAA ~ Gsum~--"
There's asilence deep, and q brooding sleep,
That over the drear earth steals;
And the gentle buzz of the June bugs COZ
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