The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-04-12
THE RIVER PRESS.


A Boston shoemaker has received an order
for q pair of shoes for an Indiana girl. They
are to be sixteen inches long by seven VIDE.
The girl is aged II, and weigls 155 pounds.
CONGRESSMAN and Mrs. Cox's eight months
Journey abroad cost just S 5000. They went
to Europe with that to spend, and when it
was gone returned nome with their heads full
of interesting stories about foreign places.
The negro exodus from South Carolina is
on the increase. They go to the most e&-
IRENE points, as will be seen by the state
menta of the Minneapolis Tribune, which
says that q party of thirty-tWo blacks passed
through that city March 9th en- route TO the
Red River Valley, seeking new homes.
DR.. w. Fl. Falkner, Assistant Surgeon OF
the United States army, who has been vac
~cinating Indians in the West, says that Sit
ting Bull is anxious to see his people tilllng
the soil; and his plan is to transfer Sitting Bull
and his immediate following from Fort Ran
dali to the Yankton agency for instructions
in civilization.
After all, says the Courier Journal, Jay
Gould only gets his vituals and clothes for
taking care of all of it. Millions of men in
humble homes sleep sWeeter and sounder
than the great fnancier. AS the little boot
black once said to his chum. when passing
A. T Stuart: "Bill, I'll bet that old dutfer
would give a clean thousand for my appe-
tite."
The editor of the New York Commercial
Advertiser recently offered $500 for every
word uttered by MIR. Conkling that can be
tortured into abuse of the late President Car
field. Hugh Hastings, the gentleman max
ing the offer, has enough money to make the
offer q bona fde one. There ought to have
been 8 rush of letters to that Office, contain
ing quotations from the ex-Senator's abusive
language of the late President; yet Saturdays
Commercial says not a word has yet been
produced. It seems to be q very easy way
to earn several thousand dollars if Mr.. Conk-
ling ever abused General Garfield.
Bishop O'Reilly Of the Roman Catholic
diocese of Springfield, Mass, has been
preaching strongly against mixed marriages
of Protestants and Roman Catholics. He
saws hat q Roman Catholic woman who
marries a Protestant endangers her oWn soul
and those of her offspring, as the husband
will not be likely to allow the children to be
educated as Roman Catholics, whatever he
NAV promise. Neither should q Roman
Catholic marry a Protestant woman, because
in ninety-n1ne cases out of a hundred the
4. children inherit the characteristic OF the
mother.
: The Rugby colony is not a success, but
Governor Hawkins, Of Tennessee, says tna'
it NAV not prove a complete failure. lie re-
CARDS it as having been unfortunately located
and badly managed. "Ihere are 2oO nun
D dred persons still there he adds; "a few
8 are Germans and Americans. Inc grea'
y moiority are Englishmen who are not WORK
ers. Many of them are younger sons o.
noble or wealthy families, and, as a rule,
tEey are thriftless and dissipated. They haV'
no liking for the kind Of work required 0
them, or, for that matter, for any kind o
work. They spend their time in huntln!
and in playing billiards, lawn tennis, ana l
other kinds Of amusements." There is plent,
of fine iron ore on the land, but the colonist
make no efforts to mine it. Only about fit
acres of the original purchase OF 10000 ar
under cultivation.
= Kate Shelley, to whom the Iowa Leglsls
4 ture has just given a gold metal and SSoo
only Is years old. She lives near Dies MON
at a point where a railroad crosses q gore
at a great height. One night there Was
furious storm, and the bridge was carrie
away. The first that the Shelleys knew OF
was when they saw the headlight OF a loc'
motive flash down into the chasm. IA
"A climbed to the remnant Of the bridge wit
u great difficulty, using an improvlsed Lantern
and the engineers voice answered her call
but she could do nothing for him and I
was drowned. Then she remembered tn
an express train was almost due, and 81
started for the nearest station, a mile alstal
A long high bridge over the Des Molnt
River had to be crossed on the ties-an cas-
thing to do in calm daylight, but perilous
IT., / stormy darkness. Hates light was blow
out. and the wind was so violent that 81
could not stand. So she, craWled across Il
is. bridge. from timber to timber, on her hans
and knees. She got to the station bedraggle
and exhausted, but in time to give the war!
ing. though she tainted Immediately.
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