The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-11-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSUNAL AMI Ii ERAI
-Four thousand women keep whisky shops
in New York.
Alexander Bell, a thir%teen-year-old Ala
bama youth, weighs 800 pounds.
Of every /, 1000 physicians, 600 die before
reaching their slxty-second year.
The meetings of Moody and sankey in
England are a great success in point of at
tendance.
Immigrants are arriving in this country at
the rate of 1900 8 day. There is room in
the West.
Joseffy has two dumb pianos for practice.
This is a good pointer for boarding house
keepers.
Pere Hyacinthe, the celebrated French
preacher will visit this country next spring
and lecture.
Boston contains two hundred and three
woman who pay taxes on s. ,000,0 900 worth
Of property.
Ex-Gov. @. O. W%ashburne will return to
America this fall, and will probably spend
the winter il the South.
The world do move. A Louisville grand
jury has indicted the principals in a recent
brutal dog fight in that city.
James Garfield is again sick at Williams
college, and it is feared it will be impossible
for him to remain at Williamstown.
= Secretary Blaine will make an extended
southern tour this winter, and the other pres
idential candidates Writhe uneasiIy.
Ex-ReY. Stephen Ell. Tying has caused con-
siderable talk ia the American colony in
Paris by attending q horse race on Sunday.
A young lady in Keokuk who is soon to be
married, is six feet four inches in height.
She will be q wife who can be looked up to-.
Walter D. Davidge, who is to assist in the
prosecution of Gniteau, is considered one of
the leading members of the Washington bar.
Ex-senator Conkling's physicians are by
no means confident Of his permanent restora-
ton to health. He is threatened with kid
ney troubles.
Henry Willard declared in q speech at a
reception in Portland, that he will ride from
New York to Oregon in October, 1888, over
the Northern Pacific.
Edwin D. Morgan, when governor of New
York, completed a work for $1,000, for
which the legislature has appropriated ST.
O0O, 900, and returned 1894, 900 to the treas
ury.
Gen. Fremont, like TYner, resigned IN
consequence Of q pressing invitation. The
people Of Arizona thought the governor
ought to ONE there long enough to receipt
for his salary.
lie Dues tea farm is not q failure. Three
thousand tea plants were sent from it to the
Atlanta exposition. Their average height is
nineteen inches, and they look healthy and
hardy.
The experiment OF electing women super
intendents Of schools il lowe has resulted
successfully. Under their administrator
the schools have improved and the expenses
have been reduced.
Gen. Ed. Bragg, member Of congress
from Fond du Lac, Wis. district, after the
expiration of his congressional term will
move to Minneapolis. He has no hopes Of
another term from that district.
The Brooklyn Eagle refers to q thirteen
year-old boy dead from haDitual drunken
ness as one OF the cheerful commentaries
furnished by Brooklyn upon the habit Of
eVangeltzing the remote heather st the x
pense Of the pagans at home.
In August the talkatiYe and well known
Rufus Hatch became the father Of . boy.
He ~atraightWay bought some corn, sold i
out in less than aWeek at d profit Of $4,000
which has been invested in government
bonds for The fortunate y%oungster.