The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1882-06-29
ITEMS OF GENERAL IN
Tz1RE1ST.

More tllau half the newspapers il til
world are printed IN the English Language
/ We have the honor to predict that Bob
IngersolI will be u shouting reVixaIist,-
Hartford Times
Nine thousand five hudred and forty
three immigrants entered Manitoba 1urin.
the month Of April.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has, it is es
timHted, $50, 900, 900 invested III workshops
and machinery at Altoona.
At the sale in New York, lst inst, thu
historic Junel mansion was sold, witt
thirty surrounding lots. for SIS. 900.
Our Continent is said to be a financial
failure. This is not strange; III literary
way it is known to bea very great failure.
Post.
The half breed office holder blows his
nose every morning to find out if his head
is still upon his sI1ouleers.-Ba7tino
american.
The grandson Of Timothy Pickering,
Nj. John Pickering, Of Salem, Massachu-
setts, died lately in The house which the
Pickering family have possessed since
/ lG40.
i A tick that is fast TO the flesh may be
made to let go by pouring drop Of any
kind Of oil upon him. This refers to any
kind Of ticks except rheu5natics ard poll
ties
Senator Cameron is forty-eiehG years
old. BY the time he is torty-niue l:e will
know more than he has learned in his for
ty-eight years.-PhilodelpHi Press.
The State debt OF New hampshire is a
tritf1e over So 200, 900. l'he reduction Of
the debt since 1881 is $4,000 Itis esti-
mated that the debt will be further tlimin-
ished during the coming year 100000.
Some miscreants recently defaced the
handsome soldiers monument on the
grounds of the State Normal School at
MiIlersvilIe, Po., by be-spattering 1t with
ink and other substances, The monument
is permanently ruined.
4 Chicago paper, In proof Of its asser-
1ion that Chicago is the greatest lumber
market III the world, says the single item
Of sawed lumber received there III 1881
would lay an inch floor fourteen feet wide
around the earth at the equator.
AIRS. Frances Grant, residing at Rock
Ferry, near Liverpool, England, has pIac-
od the sum of 100000 III the hands Of
trustees, directing that the interest accru-
ing tllerefron be paid 70 deserving poor
people without regard to class or creed.
The newspapers having succeeded III
;rousing a wide public interest in Walt
AThitnan,s tiItI1y frottl, wes;Eie a liJsie sIIr-
gorised that some enterprising bookseller
hasn't advertised the original and purient
edition. We don't know that we have
seen. anything more skillfully worked up
since Barnlun's venture with jumbo
Washington Post
Professor Fountain says that there is a
better prospect Of finding gold in large
quantities in Southwest Virginia than in
California in the early days, Parties are
now washing out from So to $50 per day;
and the professor says all the washings
come from Pilot mountain, which, he
thinks, is full Of gold, which can be OBJ
tanned BY capital and the proper nachin-
cry to crush the quartz.
LoSpoN, Ont, May 3I.--A deficit ag-
gregatiug some $50, 900 has been discov-
cred in the accounts Of the City Chamber
lain; nor can it be explained, although his
accounts have been carefully examined for
number Of years back. John Brown,
the accused official, shot himself III the
head to-day. The wound is said to be
fatal. It is believed that the charge Of
crookedness in his accounts unsettled his
mind He had been Chamberlain for a
quarter Of q century.
Tiairty-one tourists are on their way
around the world in.a steam yacht They
started from England il October, and
reached San Francisco about a week ago,
having visited the Mediterranean ports.
and the Pacific islands. The entire trip
will last ten months. The passengers are
Of both sexes: and each pays 81, 800, for
which they enjoy excellent fare, the use. of
4 steam launch while in harbors, a band Of
music aboard. good medical attendance,
aid alarge library.-Ths Chuatau4ean for