The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-03-30
THE RIVER PR S
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL.

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The Sutro tunnel has been connected with
the Yellow Jacket. There is a fine current
of ai1 down through the Yellow Jacket shaft.
1t is stated the peasants are 1ocking to st.
Petersburg from ali parts of the country on
q pious pilgrimage to the spot where the En-
peror fell.
All the popular light houses in France are
soon to be provided with electric lighting ap-
paratus. The contracts nave been already
awarded.
Late advices state that Grant will find con-
siderable resistance to the scheme of engaging
the Mexicans in the railroad project he is
identified with.
Cypress trees have been planted around the
spot where the Gar fell, and sacred pictures
with lamps burning before them have been
placed there.
The opera house st Nice was burned on
the night of the 23d, during the performance
Of Lucia di Lammermoor. Seventy-five peo-
pie are believed to have persisted. Relief
measures have been begun throughout Nice.
Schurz last winter asked Garfield to name
some man for chief clerk of the Interior De-
partment who could remain as Indian Com
missioner, and Garfield named Thomas III.
Nichol, as telegraphed to the California pa
pers at the time.
The Florida orange crop promises to be
the smallest one ever known. A large num-
Der of groves in this section of the country
wereEflled. The trees here, thought to be
sixty or seventy years old, are utterly ruined.
There has been ice four inches on the creeks.
Judge Jameson, Of Chicago, has given an
extended meaning to the word 'shabitual
%drunkard." lie has judicially decided that
when a man drinks so as to faint his blood,
he may be said to be habitually under the in.
fuence of alcohol, and that his wife in that
case has good ground for divorce.
Dragounoff, the reputed chief of the Nj
hilists, declares that Roussakoff and Jelebof
have been mercilessly put to torture in the
presence Of General Loris MelikoH. Rous-
sakoff was electricized by powerful batteries
and forced by the intolerable agony he suf-
fered to answer the questions put to him.
A dispatch from Calcutta states that Alb
durrahman Khan is making preparations
which seem to indicate an intention of trying
to occupy Candahar when the British have
left. The departure of the British will prob
ably be the signal for a sanguinary struggle
between Ayoob Khan and Ameer Abdurrah-
man Khan.
There is great activity in all the admiralty |
factories at Constantinople. The Porte is ne
g~otiating with New Castle firms for the de- |
livery Of Goals at Child, Rhodes, Crete, Volo,
Salonica and the Dardanelles. Another |
thousand troops have gone to Volo. The
total Turkish force on the Greek frontier is
now 3d. 600.
The Hotchkiss revolving gun alreadyssadopt-
ed in the French and other great navies, has
been ordered for use lately in the German
navy, the ships to ''be armed with this wesp-
on in such a manner that every point sur
rounding each vessel may be protected by
the fire Of at least two guns at 8 minimum
range OF SUU meIreS.
It is understood that legal proceedings will
be commenced by the chief owners in the
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company,
who are also heavy holders Of Northern
Pacific Railroad shares to retain the latter
company from issuing $18, 900, 900 common
stock which the executive committee of the
Northern Pacific board recently authorized.
A commission has been organized to repre-
sent the United States at the forthcoming
electrical exhibition at Paris. There is now
upon the ocean the largest installment of
thoroughbred horses ever imported. There
are nineteen stations. Among others the
celebrated race horse "Midlothian' and q
number Of brood mares and young animals.
They are are consigned to the American
Horse Exchange.
The New York San editorially commenting
on California wines, concludes that good Cali
fornia wine is far better than a vast deal of
the stuff sold for imported wine is beyond a
question. It says: We are therefore glad to
hear Of the progress and prosperity Of the
vineyards Of the Pacific. If California wine
makers go on improving as rapidly in quality
of their product as in quantity, they will in q
few years surpass those Of other countries.
Commodore Robert Shufeldt Of the q. s..
Navy will shortly be detached from duty in
this city and ordered to duty as q naval at
tacAe of the U. s.. Legation at Pekin. This
action will be taken for the purpose Of al
lowing Gnmmndnre Shlfeldt to accent COM