The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-06-15
PERSONAL AND IMPERsONAL.

PERSONAL AND IMPERs0NAL.
It is said that in Cincinnati they propose
to send a man to Jail if he reads the Sunday
papers on Sunday.
The tunnel under the Hudson river, between
New York and Jersey City, is being pushed
at the rate of five feet a day.
The Pacific Railroad syndicate has bought
for $500, 900 the line Of Of steamers running
from Victoria, B.. c., to Puget Sound.
Negotiations are reported to have been
begun by III. de Lesseps, for the construction
of q canal through the isthmus Of Corinth to
the Hgean sea.
duced was that of last year, which aggrega-
ted $3.50, 900 bales, or about 1000, 900 more
than the crop of 1860.
Eighteen transatlantic steamship COM
manders have been indicted by the United
States authorities for overcrowding their re-
spective vessels with steerage passengers,
contrary to law.
Sara Bernhardt is reported to be about to
marry NJ. Angelo. According til the law
of France, q husband can, by declaration,
assume the legal relation of father to all the
children whom the lady he married may
have had. The Albany Argus suggests that
M. Angelo in becoming q Benedict can also
turn himself into an orphan asylum.
A plan for the construction of a grand sys-
tenn Of underground railways in Paris has
recently been perfected. If the scheme is
carried out, a subvention of $40, 900, 900
would be furnished by the State, the depart
ment Of the Seine and the city of Paris. The
central terminus would be in the garden Of
the Palais Royal, st q depth Of about twenty
four feet, and from that point three main
lines would branch out so as to reach and in
tersect the chief railway stations and other
great points Of the city, and a subsidiary line
would run on the south bank of the river.
The United States Court of Claims, in ses-
sion in Washington, has decided against the
Union Pacific Railroad Company in the suit
for extra compensation for carrying the
mails. The court held that the ompany is
entitled to no more compensation for that
service than is paid TO any other railroad,
and that its character confers upon it no
special rights to demand higher rates. The
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turn of over payment to the extent of 1868, 900
is allowed and ordered paid by the road into
the United States Treasury.
The Philadelphia Times says: Senator
Cameron is more c%onsiderate and plilosophi-
cal than Conkling. He sides with Conkling
against the President, but has opened his
Senatorial Annex, put it in charge Of Subsid-
sarxy Ca~nAo- IE:AaLa1. 1.:sA.J -. -.
ton flag over it, and proposes to bag all the
pennsylvania Federal offices within reach.
Pennsylvanians desiring Presidential favors
should apply to Cameron's Senatorial Annex
where Senator Mitchell presides, but it would
be prudent to tarry with Cameron a little
when on the way to Mitchell.
De Lesseps' Panama Canal Company has
completed the purchase Of the Panama Rail-
road. The price to be paid, if payment is
ever completed, is enough to satisfy the own
ers of almost any road. The capital stock
of the road is $4,000, 900, which the canal
company buys in at $50 per cent. premium,
while the company retains all its cash assets,
amounting to over So, 900, 600. The first pay
ment of $A00, 900 is to be made July /, and
the balance Of the purchase money is to be
paid in five equal annual instruments, with
SIX per cent. interest. line canal company
can pay the whole within eighteen months by
giving three months notice. The railroad
company retains possession and manage
ment of the road till the whole money is
paid.
The New York Gommerciaz-B Bulletin, June
7th says: There is considerable excitement
at the mining exchanges over the reported
failure Of three members Of the New York
Mining Exchange. It is stated that the
brokers repudiated their contracts to buy
and sell Cedar Tree stock on Saturday when
it was valued at So and SO per share. When
deliveries came to be made Monday, the
stock had declined to about ten cents per
share, and the brokers who transacted the
business, not having received the money for
the stock from their principals, refused, in
some cases, to accept it. The brokers at the
New York Board will probably lose, it is es-
timated, about $50, 900; at the American
Board from $40. 900 to 800. 900.
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