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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04

THERE is considerable discussion on the
subject Of the unusual meteorological distur-
Dances which have agitated the earth, and
the increased energy Of the causes OF mag
netic disturbances. And these have become
connected with the theory Of planetary con-
functions, Mother Shipton and the predictions
Of the soothsayers, until there exists we'll
defined belief in the efficacy of their predic-
tons of disaster. And now Prof Proctor
comes with the startling announcement that
the comet Of 1860 will soon fall into the sun
and cause so great an increase of solar ener-
gy that all forms of life on the planets will
be destroyed. Of course there is a great deal
Of 5uncombe about all these, but il SO far ast the
planetary conjunctions are concerned, there
is grain of truth. A great many newspa-
pers are seriously discussing the Mother Ship
ton business, and many others are making
fun of that and all the other dubious forbod-
ings, by placing themselves upon the theo-
ries of mathematical astronomy, and berating
their brethern soundly for their credulity
This is right enough and probably will save
some nervous people nights of anxious wake
fulness. But there is strong probability that
there is something in it, and that the old
science Of astrology really had foundation
upon which to base its fantastic system; and
the later and more profund researches into
the subject Of the vibratory nature Of matter,
and all molecular action and reaction are
! 1oo oo1r into oh
it was thought modern astronomy and chem
istry had disproved and discarded The
spectroscope is explaining the nature Of
many mysterious powers, and seems to be
reducing ali nature to a unity whose ex-
pressed term is motion, or force. DR.. Drap-
er and Sir Norman Lockyer have shown
that the science of chemistry is only an arti-
icial formula, and that there is strong
are only different manifestations Of the
same thing, which they have attached to the
word hydrogen, and which, in differing ra-
tios Of vibratory motion and resistance pro-
duces ali the manifestations Of the 'ssolid''
elements, light, heat and magnetism.
The idea is gaining ground among the
sauants that our astronomy is on the verge q
q revolution, and if there is anything in the
ssvibratory'' theory there are strong grounds
for new construction of the forces that
control and bind together our solar system.
The theory has been advanced that there is
magnetic sympathy, and magnetic polarity
between the sun and the members Of the
solar system, and the hypothesis has become
so far advanced, that these magnetic attrac-
tons and repulsions have created Well-defned
magnetic currents which traverse the regions
of space. and by which the planets
exert great energy on each other and upon
the sun, being ia time affected by the sun in
oil the reactions.
No form or manifestation Of matter is
known which does not assume magnetic
polarity within itself, and exert an influence
OF attraction or repulsion on every other par
ticle; and every aggregation of particles from
the grain Of sand up to the earth itself is
known TO exhibit this same characteristic,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04

One Of the most difficult tasks the wood en-
graver has had to perform this year was to
*'plug" the campaign woodcuts of Hancock
and English 50 that enterprising newspapers
might palm them off as accurate portraits Of
the murdered Gear.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04

THE Missouri is % feet inches higher
than it has been for 81 years in Ray and La
fayette counties, Missouri, which the tele-
graph says are being rapidly depopulated,
and q fearful loss Of property has ensued
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04

freight that will come this waYis much great
er, more building will be done, the mines will
take boom through the introduction of the
smelter, and general awakening Of the
energies Of the people Will ensue, 50 that we
may be certain that our period Of dullness
will not be long.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04

THEY will not let poor Beaconsfeld rest,
now that he is dead The Radicals are op-
posing a monument to his memory on the
grounds that it is in nature too partisan
to enter into the national sympathies.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04
7 He RIVER PRESS

WILLIAMS. WRIGHT & STEW EMS,
" PUBLISHERS AND PHopE1EToEs.
n. c. WILLIAMS, = EDITOR
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04

A resolution making the State canals free
passed to second reading in the New York
State Senate By vote Of IS to "A.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-19

The Standard Oil company objects to be- ing taxed in Pennsylvania where the Auditor General insists upon charging it $3,2eo, 900 for taxes due the State. The Auditor Gen. eral claims that any corporation doing busi- ness in Pennsylvania must pay on the full amount of it's stock and dividends. The Standard Oil company is willing to be taxed on it's property actually in the State of Penn syIvania It admits that it's capital altogeth- CT is $3, 800, 900, and that it's dividends for 1877 and 1879 were SC, 39S, ,65O, more than 90 per cent. each year of the capital invest ed On this capital the Standard Oil compa- ny controls Legislatures and courts, and has the monopoly of every pint of oil used in ev- cry home in the United States.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-19
STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC.

The French are gaining ground rapidly in Tunis. One regiment has buried three hun dred men.-IerGs Siftings.
 Latest political news: Solomon's temple at Jerusalem cost over seventy-seven billion of dollars, complete. There were evidently government contractors in those days.-iSteat- 6enUilEe HerdlG.
 Brakeman: "The train is now about to en- ter the State of Missouri. Gentlemen who have not provided themselves with carbines will pass forward to the locomotive and crawl into the tender"
 The correspondent who wrote trom Sara toga that Miss A. had the daintiest feet of any belle here" had to leave town sudden ly when the paper arrived with the superla- tive adjective changed to 'dirtiest"
 A house painter recently wanted to join the fire department, but as it took him over fifteen minutes to climb ladder and then he had to go down again for something he had forgot, they didn't employ him-Boston Post.
 A clerk in city house recently asked for half days absence because he wanted to at tend 8 funeral in the country. When he re- turned next morning with red hands and a freckled face, his employer asked quietly, "Where are the fish ?'
 In a downtown office short time ago an American was asking an Englishman as to very nice point of honor. 'I really don't know" said the Englishman. ''You see, I have been in business in America but I'll tell you what I'll do. My son is at school in England. I'll write and ask him; he'll know. Hour.
 This is thelway Nassar girl tells joke: 70, girfse hesss 5jSsf the Best thing to-day. It was too funny. I can't remember how it came about, but one of the girls said to Pro- lessor Mitchell-oh, dear, I can't remember just what she said; but Professor Mitchelrs answer was just too funny for any use; I for get just what he said, but it was just too good for anything!' !''
Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-19
Price Four Cents

ments, occupy larger space still However,
 what is left is full of interest, and more than repays the trouble of wading through the perfunctory parts. The translation is we'll done and is the work of Mrs. Cashel Hoey and MT. John Lillie. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 Comfort for the Mothers of Angels'' is the unique title of pretty little book pub lished by Anson D. F. Randolph & Co.,, New York. It is compiled by the author of ''Heartsease," 'sThe Years that are Told, etc, and contains thirteen poems and vari- ous prose selections calculated to soothe the grief of those who have lost little children. For sale in this city by F. T. Jarman
 We have received Books VT. and VII. of "The Biblical Museum" published by An son D. F. Randolph $ Go. 'sThe Biblical Museum" is a collection of notes explanato- ", homiletic and Illustrative on the Holy Scriptures, especially designed for the use of ministers Bible students and Sunday school teachers. These notes are made Gin part) and arranged by J. Comper Gray, author of Topics for Teachers" " 'sThe Class and the Desk, etc. They are very useful to students of the Bible. The notes in volume VT. are oA IAo OOoh OI I Sd1IIlS anQ III VOlum6 VII. on Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon. For sale in this city by F. T. Jar man.
 Mir. Hezekiah Butterworth has been very successful as an author for the young He has long been known as a popular contribu- tor to ''The Youths Companion' and to St. Nicholas. Forty thousand copies of 'sZig- gag Journeys in Europe, and ''Zigazg Jour neys in Classic Lands' have been sold within eighteen months of the publication of the first volume. MT. Butterworth has now pro- duced ''Young Folks History of America" which, for interest of matter, brilliancy of style and general attractiveness, is praise worthy. It is fully illustrated with one hun dred and fifty illustrations, eighty-six of which are full page. A chronological table, census returns, and full index follow the text, and add to it's valne. Published by Estes tE Lauriat, Boston, and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller
Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-19

The Mercy letter dodge has been initiated
 in the Virginia campaign. It is directed against Frank s. Blair, the Readjuster candi- date for attorney general Letters have been circulated which represent their repu- ted author as speaking contemptuously of the negro, and also declaring that he had no sympathy with the Hancock men, whose candidate he then was, and saying that cer= tain things referred to must be kept dark until after the election The letters were adapted to alienate from their reputed au- thor both wings of his present supporters, the Republicans by his abuse of the negro voters, and the Democrats by his apparent trsachery in the presidential canvass of last year. !. MT. Blair repudiates the letters, and
Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-19
Card to the Public.

<saa HAVE removed my Dental Ofhce to MS> 230 Chapel street, corner State, over Brooks store, Room 8, where shall be WYF%&$Y pleased to see my former patients and
 NoA~ friends, and any who may desire my services Teeth filled with Go1d Porcelain, Os-arti- hctal. Amalgam (Silver1 Artificial Teeth inserted Gold. Platinum, and any Of the cheaper bases. All work warranted MRS. E. JONES YOUNG.
 Ofnce houfs, g 2. DO. to p. DO. ap6 d&w
Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-19
Purity and Strength Guaranteed.
 ASK YOUR GROCER FOR
H;..ECKBRS'

Perfect Baking Powder, purchased by him in the open market, says q find Heckers' Perfect Baking Powder to consist essentially of Tartar Bi-carbonate of oda, other words. to be pure Cream Tartar Baking Powder free from alum, terra alba, ammonia, or any injurious substance' It is
Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-19

England's capital is only $12, 900, 100000 more. than ours, and while her annual gain in national wealth is only $325, ,00O, 900 that of the United States is $s25, 100000.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-19
A Rox,s Composttton.

The COW is horrid thing with legs. Take view of COW behind and she has legs. Look at her before and she has 2 legs. Go round on the right side of her and there she has legs, and on the left side are ? legs more. Her legs are set round her in rows, ? legs in row and one row on each side, and she has sides. How many's that If her tail was stiff she might help stand on that. How many would that make? Our COW has great ears, as though wings were sprouting out of her, but nobody need to be afraid of COWS ever turning into a bird becoz they want intended for 'em. Cows give nlilk-white COWS, and red COWS, and black COWS will give white milk. Cows eat grass, but if they eat hay and the dryest things they still give milk. I wonder how such dry things go to make so much juice. In time of a drought about hundred COWS would be as good as rain storm, and nobody need fear for dry time if they have hundred COWS. Cows chew cuds. Perhaps that's what makes 'em so juicy. If a COW lose her cud she's 'goner." Once our COW lost her cud, and she took it to heart so we thought she was agoin to die, and Dob, bin came and made her another cud to chew out of eggs and grass, and after she chew ed her chew, she got lively and now shes about the smartest COW know of. Cows appear to have been made to raise babies on. Calves are little COWS. There are a great many things about COWS I am trying to find out, and when get lem found I'll write some more things on COWS.
 Cows are no great of fighters. Boosters can fight better'n COWS. Once hornet stung our COW on her nose She didn't hook at him, or hook into him-all she did was to open her mouth and rear up. Cows some- times try to hook up, but their heads are so heavy they can't flourish lem round very live ly. Cows tails are lively. If their horns were hitched on to their tails, they'd butt round with more iasm and make more headway in fights.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-19

A merchant at Abbeville, South Carolina, says he had rather trust the negro than the white farmers. negro will pay his bill as long as he has anything to pay with, while the whites will dodge if they can Moreover, he says the negroes are better far mers and know more about raising cotton, and do it more economically than the whites.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-19
The Seal and the Oyster Catcher.

While the seal hunters proper have been fortifying the inner man with solid food for a seal hunt may be Q long job-and
 ''caulking," as the late Professor Wilson would have put it, the whole meal with ven- erable Islay whisky, the seal boat has been got ready with harpoons, seal cartridges,
 guns and an enormous hook with fathom af- ter fathom of jointed shaft. Four stout oarsmen, silent, clever rowers who never speak nor splash, supply the motive power.
 There is harpooner also attached to the crew, and presently the steam launch takes the boat in tow, and the expedition slips out into the Sound skirting the low lying ranges of rock, and sweeping them with field glass. No sooner are seal discovered basking on the green, slippery
 surface of the rocks than the steam launch is forsaken and stalk is carefully organized.
 It is almost needless to note that any attempt to approach the animal from the windward would be futile. Getting well under the wind the boat creeps up silently, near as may be judged prudent, and then the use of efficient protection to the knees and elbows is soon made out To those not to the man. or born, this crawling flat on the ground, like the serpent after the curse, over long ridges of slimy rock, is hard, awkward and almost dangerous work. Abrasion and dislo- cation, however, are accounted small matters if the stalk be successful If the seal is asleep, as is most likely the case, he is sure to be bagged but for one awkward chance. As he worms himself along, the hunter utters a prayer that the hated 'oyster-catcher'' may be far off. This oyster catcher, known in some places as the sea-pie. is black and white bird with red beak and red legs who appears to fulfill the same duty to the seal that another bird does to the crocodile, or the pilot fish to the shark. No sooner does his acute vision perceive anything unusual than he proceeds to wake up the seal by his furious chattering and to warn him of his peril. Then, of course, it is all over. The creature, awaken ed to his danger, rolls of the rock into the sea, and all chances of 8 shot at him are lost for the day. To the lover of natural history scene of this kind is delightful, for it will recall similar scenes in other countries. In Ireland what seal-shooting there is, is very often spoiled by the curlews, who may be seen flying round the head of sleeping seal andRscreaming wildly to awaken him. It is the oyster-catcher, however, who baffies the seal-hunter in the Sound of Harris, and makes him long for shot gun of portenous range in order to be avenged of his enemy.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-19

It is expected that the Governor of Rhode Island will name ex-Governor Van Zandt to succeed Senator Burnside
Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-19

s'The Label and Trade Mark Of a well-known and responsible manufacturer is the best protection public have," s'DR. MOTT
 Government Chemist" Awarded the Highest Premium by the American In
 stitute.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-19

persons familiar with his handwriting de- clare them to be forgeries. That is indica- ted also by the character of their compost tion, unless Mir. Blair is an illiterate person of extremely low and vulgar habits of speech.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-19

persons familiar With hlS handWrltlng de-
 clare them to be forgeries. That is indica
 ted also by the character of their compost
 tion, unless Mir. Blair is an illiterate person
 of extremely low and vulgar habits of speech.
 Vast and destructive grasshopper swarms have been ravaging parts of Turkey and of the Russian Caucasus. In the latter region 1000 roubles were appropriated for distri- button in the shape of rewards for the de- struction of the larve. In the region about Smyrna the entire population had to turn out for the destruction of the pests. In the district about Angora all shops were closed by proclamation of the Governor for three days, and the population was set to work in the fields. Besides this, prayers were offered in all the mosques, and every inhabitant was required to turn in to the government cer- tain quantity of the 1arve, to be burned in pits dug for the purpose. These grasshop- pers, or locusts, are said to come from Per sia.
 We are sorry for those of our readers who do not own stock in the Chemical bank of New York. The price of shares of this stock is at present only $1, 7s0. The New York correspondent of the Hartford Eoezsing Post writes as follows concerning the bank and its founder: Sixty years have elapsed since John Mason originated the scheme of manu- featuring chemicals, and was deeply disap- pointed when it proved failure. The exper- iment sunk $1OO,OOo, which in those days was equal to million at the present time. An apparent misfortune, however, often proves real benefit, as was the case in this unsuccessful enterprise. The charter had banking privilege which Mason determined to turn to account. He abandoned the chem ical scheme, but continued the banking privilege. The capital was only $500, ,OOO. but under good management it has accumu- lated 8 surplus of $4,OO0,OOO, which is dends of twenty-five per cent. per quar- ter and the present astonishing quo tations. John Mason was the dry goods colossus of his day and left large fortune His nephew, John Q. Jones, was president of the Chemical bank for forty years. He died recently in a good old age, leaving an estate worth two millions, most of which had been made by buying business paper, in which he was an expert. Jones saw Chemi- cal shares reach 1,6OO, which some consid- cred the extreme of their possible valuation. There are, however, no more to be had, even at the last quotations, and it is now probable that they will reach 2,OOO.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-19
EDITORIAL NOTES.
What is so rare as day in September

Do not fail to vote for members of the Board of Education to-day.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-19

tSournal aa0 Courier.

EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY
 HARRINGTON & CO.,. No. 400 State Street, Courier Building
 B. CARRINGToN. KDwAKD !. HARRINGTON. JOHN B. oARRINaToN, JR.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-13
water.

Cincinnati seems to DO having trouble on
the water question rs we'll as some other
pieces, Judging from tho following extract
from council proceedings rs published in tho
Daily Enquirer;
Mr. Stowe moved that committeo of three
from each of the boards be Instructed 70
devise means to furnish tho city With pure
water in sufiicieut quantities, and that
5000 be appropriated from the general fund
for the purpose Of making experiments.
Mr. Eggleston stated that an examination
of the water in the different streams in this
vicinity had been INSIDE about twenty yesrs
ago. q! which time the wster in tho Ohio
river Was pronounced the most preferable.
He said that he understood that there were
private corporations who we're wiling 10
take the matter OF water works out of tho
hands Of tho city, and would furnjsh water
10 The citizens st much lees price than they
were now psyirg and he did not think Il sd,
visNblet0crpe1d $500 until I. was uaderu.ooi
what 20 Go ia tho esse.
Mr. Fitzgerald Thought hat lie Egglo.
Stone p'Sn OF lclHrg UAws Ter works 10
private corqorhN2u' rood ono, and .Ae
$500 could be- ugel Co., better ADVANTAGE
ln advertising lag gaUHt a3 % furnish tho
city "ilh puras water HSl ihev Wllo gotlrA.
stem1oh l,A c' td i could be under
thoplgant sJsUI.
hr Howe irf1 aUH.raF hn rlls 9r.
a.d 'ha matter "15pJs H-rad.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-13

Several railroad men were in town Satur-
day night. Among other places they went
to Maud Duubsr's, y bpgnio on Wood
street, In the crowd was q man named
jerome Calm, brakeman on tho Texas Sc
Pacific. He left sooner than his
companions did. ard shortly after
lis departure the woman ofthe house had nc
casion to go to the drawer in which enc kept
her money, and she found that her pile of
cash was $50 smaller THAI u WINS
when she last saw it, On examination
she discovered that three $40
gold gieces were missing AS Calm
WAS the only person who hal an opportunity
TO take the uoG9y, she suspieioned him aud
Informed Officer Hess, who soOn found him
in o faro room with pretty good
sized stock Of "chips on the
table. The officer hsd him
TO leash his chips aud 20 With him 10 the
station house where ha was searched, A gold
ring and shirt button, worth tJgethor some
$50 ana about SIT ia money were fouud n
hts person. He waa locked up ard nos not
Yot beaG tried wrt Of hebeqs corpus
has heea Rp2l,7lfor tQ ardih5m0ma -.
a HERALD rtpHr riI' him sod h1 pro,
.H'7 hi'iw'g tae Vd sgs eGa ~a-.s ei0s
p AoAa -IHc .lu4g, ye. tHi. .usia'
- da ctmanstg cd.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-13

The louisville Post o. recent date contains
tho following concerning Aleop who was
are. ted here tho other day end taken back
to l..t CITY 10 onlwer 10 tte charge Of mure
degiag Constable Hardsor, Of Jefferson
county; Ih ease of tl5 S.gge Va. George Nj.
Alsoo for lha murder Of Constable HsrTison
in thbt county on bAo % Of August, was
Gall5d, There we,o "a large number Of per
sons in the c0ur. room, uumber of whom
came 10 get "a lock a. Alsop, who, in q local
way, ERs bac0mo quite auOtet character. He
came into the court room and stood in trons
Of the Judges sland TO plead to the indics-
ment Snd was near vt the time TO 'Squira
Harrison, the father Of tho deceased, who
had baen summoned On tho posiy jury fer
this torn.
AIaoD appeared in court dressed In full
suit of black, and stood in front ofihe judge
holding his hat behind him, appearing TO bc
as little concerned Gs anyone in the court
room. His attorneys, Hon Isaac Caldwell
and Major w. r. Kinney, waived an ar
rllgnmeutssnd pleaded for their client not
guilty,
Mr.. Caldwell asked shat the case be set for
some day in November, to which the presses
cutting attorney, assisted by Colonel Selby
Harvey, objected, saying: "This is q case in
which 1 think that there should be the
speedest trial possible" After some little
consultation the case was set for the 18th of
October, and Alsop remanded to jail, A
motion WAS made for bail or
q change OF venue, though II is
northumberland that both will be made
before the clese of the present term.