The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-02-16
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL,

= - - 1913 AASD AAl SA1s
Turkish laws are good, but not well admin.
istered.
Parnell has gone to Paris respecting Land
League funds.
The Empress of Germany reads without
the aid Of spectacles.
Lawrence Oliphant says that Russia will
make 8 raid on Jerusalem.
A sixteenth interest in Goat Island, st Nj
agara, has been sold for $14, 900.
The war party in Pekin collapsed on hear
ing Of the capture Of Geek Tepe.
A mermaid on exhibition at St Louis
proves to be half calf and half Goldfish.
Richard Graves, successfully Governor Of
South Australia, Scotia and Hong Kong is
dead.
Occurrences is said to be the fashionable
manner for young ladies of twenty or there
abouts.
The Gar Of Russia is not an Ohio man,
but we confess that the fact is an unaccount-
able one.
The ship Bremen was wrecked at the Shet-
land Islands. Thirteen Of the crew were
drowned and seven saved.
Sir Nathaniel Rothschild has again return
ed 20 per cent. Of the ~half-yearly rents to his
numerous tenants il Bucks.
Twelve men have been imprisoned and
probably persisted by a co]liery explosion in
@TWhitaGn 11 y,sDo Ito &C ,vl,l:., @#
q bill has passed the Senate appropriating
$175, 600 to send a vessel to the relief of the
Jeanette and other vessels found needing
assistance.
Commodore Garrison says W. Fl. Wander
bilt is worth $3.50, 900, 900. This is the first
lntimation that Bill has been working as q
reporter on q paper.
The spirit Of enterprise is rapidly permeat-
ing the South. The Louisville Courser-Jour-
NAL recently printed an account of the cap
ture of Island No. 10.
There are few better epitaphs than this,
inscribed On a simple freestone slab at Cedar
Grove, New London: "What sort of man
he was the resurrection morning will reveal"
The Beers are melting the natives to rise,
but without success. A number Of the loyal
natives have been forced to join the Beers,
and many who refused to join chem have
been murdered.
Lord Houghton, the BERTHE Tremain of
: Endymion, says in an article on the novel
IN the FortnSghhy Rev5ew that Lord Beacons-
fields caricature Of Thackeray is at once
s'false and feeble"
Abe Barnes, q %freighter, was asked to
drink by JAS. Fowler, at Custer City last
and declining was shot dead by Fowler,
who was taken away by the Vigilantes and
his body found hanging to q tree.
The Catholic clergy Of ST. Louis have for
some time been making 9 fight upon the or
ganist, who, in choirs, have managed every
thing il their own way. One pastor took
from the bookcase the ~favorite mass of an
organist and burned it. The clergy say that
fancy music must be given up and simple
adopted in its place.
Wm. Fl. Vanderbilt gave his check to
Commander Gorringans for the total cost or
the transfer of the Alexandrian Obelisk from
the banks of the Nile 70 the banks OF the
Hudson. There are several coniectures as
"a the amount, but as the Commander has
not drawn his cash and declines to disclose
what he views as Vanderbilt's business, curl
osity is at sea. It is known that $4,000 was
to be paid for taking the monolith down. At
Alexandria and setting it up in this city, but
il Is said that the transit and pedestal was not
included in this cost,
Railway officials say that more broken rails
have heen found this winter than during any
winter in the past dozen years. AS good
luck would have il, most Of these rails were
discovered by section men, who, i they DID
not have time to insert new rails, threw out
danger signals to approaching trains, and
thus ayerted disasters. On the Alton, near
Joliet. recently q section Of . steel rail, two
feet in length, was found TO have been broken
into seYenty-si1 fragments. On the North
western, during the past week, Q section q
} steel rail, less than six feet in length, broke
into 10 pieces. These rails exhibited no naW
ar imDerfection on the surface.