The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-01-05
PERSONAL AND IMPERsONAL.

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1880, was 1885, 37.
Bismarck, while yet a romantic, sWagger-
ing youth, fell in love with 8 lovely peasant
girl in the Tyrol, and wanted to marry her,
but her father refused him because he was q
Lutheran.
Mr.. James Bowen, II, and Miss Cassie
Cassel, s., were married in Washington the
other day. Fifty years ago they were lovers,
but the BRIDES parents broke up the engage
ment because they were too young.
So great has been the draft on Ohio for
able bodied men to hold offices that a bounty
is now offered. A few old men have sent
word to President Hayes that they would like
to know the price of substitutes.
The Northwestern telegraph Company has
built 1000 miles Of new line this season, and
is putting up masts 176 feet high at Running
Water, D. r., to get the wire across the Mis-
souri, river, out of the way of the steamboats,.
Secretary Sherman does not loose any sleep
on account of the stories that the Democrats
in the Ohio legislature will unite with the dis
affected Republicans and beat him for the
Senatorship. He knows there is nothing in
the story.
1t is rather a satire on this country that the
Mormon Temple will be the most expensive
building on the continent. The cost is esti-
mated at 1927, 600, 900, and our national Capt.
tol occupies the proud position as the second
edidce to it.
1t is estimated that the yield Of the gold
and silver mines of the United States during
the present year will aggregate about rs, 000,-
600, the excess being slightly in favor of the
argentiferous metal, of which Colorado will
furnish the greatest bulk.
At . meeting Of the Brooklyn Board Of
Aldermen December %, a resolution was Of
fered providing a license fee of SIS for each
Chinese laundry in the city. An amendment
that licenses be granted only to citizens of
the United States was adopted.
We talk of the growth Of our great Amer
lean cities, but Berlin has added sixteen per
cent. Of population in the last five years, and
900, 600 people in the last twenty? Still, she
includes in her reckonings the soldiers in gar
rison, who are EXCEPTIONALLY numerous.
An exchange complains that the Associated
Press telegraphs slang when it says q certain
thief "skipped out" There is no slang
about that. Take your Bible and turn to
Ecclesisstics, 36th chapter and Goth verse. Il
reads, s'who will trust a thief, well appoint
ed, that skippeth from city to city ?"
President Hayes farm near Bismarck,
yielded, the past season, 4.257 bushels of
wheat, machine measure, and 1850 bushels
Of oats. The grain was Of the finest quality,
the wheat weighing 60 pounds to the meas
ured bnshel, and the oats ~overrunning the
standard measures at least 163 per cent. So
says the Bismarck Sun
1t is learned that Governor Hartranft will
be in Washington with 10000 Pennsylvani-
ans at the Inauguration Of Garfield. The
tents will be erected by q committee and
there will be a military parade in Washing
ton surprising anything ever seen since
Grants review at the close of the wal.
The Jesuits banished from France are said
to be taking over to Jersey upward Of 10000
900 fancs, 10 laid out in the purchase Of
property there as well as 5000, 900 to
Malta for the purpose of founding a
college, while the inhabitants of Poictiers
complain that their town will lose 10, O00, 900
francs by the shutting up of the college.
The members Of the COMMITTEES on the or
ganization of a railroad system in Mexico
met on the 23d inst. at Delmonico's, New
York, pursuant to the order of their chair
man, Gen. Grant. Jay Gould and a large
number of other railroad magnates were
present. A strong feeling in favor Of COM
munity Of action Was manifested by all.
Prince Leopold, Of Hohenzollern, has re-
nounced his right Of succession to the throne
off Roumania in favor of his eldest son.
Prince Leopold is now forty-fve years of age
and is a Lieutenant-G General in the Prussian
army. He was married in 1861 to Princess
Antonio Marie Ferdinande, Of Portugal, and
Prince William Auguste Charles, who is now
the next successor to the throne of Roumania
is a lad of sixteen years.
TIL British disaster in the Transvaal is al
most universally ascribed to official blunder-
ing and the number Of those who ascribe the
troubles in Ireland to the same cause is BY
10 means small. II is openly charged that
the Natal authorities were long aware Of q
contemplated rising by the Dutch Beers. and
they paid no heed to repeated warnings and
took no precautions to protect themselves
when the storm broke. It is charged they
were utterly unprepared to meet It, and the
result Of this course could be nothing else