The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-01-12
Owing to the recent severe storms and de-
layed mails several communications reached
us too late for publication.

layed mails several communications reached
US too late for publication.
The world to an end must come
In eighteen hundred and eighty.one,
Says Mother Shipton, and parties wishing to
prepare themselves for that event properly
will call at the RIVER Press office and see US,
Miss Matte May Douglas has taken an in
terest in the well known and popular Chop
House, and will hereafter be associated with
her father, Mr.. JAS. Douglas, in the business.
See the advertisement.
Our enterprising baker, J. Fl. Guthrie,
presented the RIVER Press with a fine fruit
cake one day this week, and the way the
boys went through it was aggravatiag to dys-
peptics. In the cake line Guthrie ssyanks
the bum"
Mrs. W. A. Shannon, Of Virginia City, oc-
cupied one of the pulpits in that place, on the
evening of the I'd, giving out the hymns, Of
fering the prayers, and preaching the sermon,
and the local paper makes a very fattering
mention Of the manner in which the services
were conducted.
T. q. Power, the rustling and energetic
manager of the popular Benton P Line of
Steamers arrived in town last Sunday. Mr..
Power has shown the same ability in the
successful management Of steamboat lines
that he always has in conducting his num-
erous and extensive mercantile houses.
Robert Chapman, q herder for Samples &
Brown, on the Marias, met with a very seri-
GUS accident last Friday. While running a
steer his horse stumbled or slipped on the
ice, throwing Chapman on the horn of the
saddle, rupturing him badly. He was brought
to town, and is now at the Centennial Hotel
under medical care.
On Friday last, as the Martinsdale mail
carrier was crossing the Shonkin he met with
an accident. He was riding horseback, and
leading a packed horse. He had got over
safely himself but the pack animal com
menced bucking in the stream and pulled
Mr.. Needham and his horse into the creek.
He had to ride thirty-two miles wet almost
through, and Friday was not avery warm
day either.
We gave q brief notice last week Of O. par
ty On the Shonkin. We have been informed
that some of the parties who went from Ben
ton got out Of their way and did not aRrive
till quite late. However, they were we'll
repaid for their trip, for MI, Morrow and the
good folk Of the Shonkin made it very pleas
ant for them. Dancing was kept up until
daybreak, and from all accounts it was one
of those real, old-fashioned social gatherings
which are found only outside Of cities nova
days.
OF late we have been in receipt of printed
commercial papers filled out in writing, and,
while thinking it a violation Of law, have
hesitated to say so. For the benefit of bust
ness men who are in the habit of sending
through the mails as third-class matter, we
submit the following Judge Freeman, AS
sistant Acknowledgement for the Postohice
Department, has written to the Postmaster
General, taking the ground that printed com-
mercial papers filled out with writing are
legally subject to letter rates of postage, and
therefore Sec. 232 Of the present postal regu-
lations, allowing such papers as bills Of lad
ing, invoices, way bills, insurance documents
deeds, circulars and hand bills to pass through
the mail as third class matter, should be an
nulled, as being contrary to laW.--North-
West.