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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-08-30
A Card Players Sermon.

Mans life is a game OF cards. First it
is 'cribbage.' Next he tries to go it
alone at a sort of cut. shuttle and deal
pace. Then he raises the deuce when
his mother takes a hand in and con-
.trary to Hoyle, beats the little joker
with her five Then with his 'dia-
monds' he wins the queen OF hearts
Tired of playing a lone hand he eS-
presses q desire to assist his fair part
ner.' throws out his cards and the
clergyman takea a ten dollar bill out of
him on q pair She orders him up to
build the fires. Like a sknaye' he joins
the clubs where he often gets high
which is low too. If he keeps straight
he is oftentimes flush He grows old
bluff, sees a deal of trouble when at
last he 'shuffies' off his mortal coil and
passes in his checks and he is 'raked in
by a spade life's fitful game is ended,
and he waits the summons of Gabriel's
trump which shall order him up
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-08-30
Too Much Mother-in-law.

Are you truly sure that we always
can be happy and contented to live to-
gether, darling? Do you really believe
that you can give up all the world and
its vanities and settle right down like a
model husband should, love? You will
never wish to stay out all night with
the boys ashley call it. You are quite,
quite sure you will not?" and two blue
eyes gazed a sweet interrogatiye into his
eyes.
"You can just put your whole stack
on that to win, sis," he mnlmured.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-08-30
ITEMS OF

IIH5M6 OE LIN Il IL & A1o4 l.. #@##
Cannon Farrar says the salvation
army is composed of rowdy christians.
The case Of the Detroit negro convict
ed of marrying a white girl is to be
made a test of the Fifteenth Amend
ment.
There is a farmer in Ohio who has
not sheared his sheep ia five years, be-
cause as he claims, Providence intended
the sheep to wear their wool.
Sixty-one thousand acres more of Adj
rondack lands have been sold to men
who will strip them OF their timber and
spoil them for hunting and fishing.
Wilhelmina Rousseau, known to all
Philadelphia as q beggar, accumulated
about $4,000 in five years, and has re-
turned to Belgium with her fortune.
Buffalo III Dakota scratch their pom
dereus foreheads against the telegraph
| poles 50 vigorously that much damage
| and inconvenience are caused to tele-
graph operators.
A negro congregation at Austin, Tex,
| thought their pastor had their color i'll
mind when he frequently spoke of s::the
powers of Darkness and requested him
| to stop such talk or resign.
In the northern part of Chester county
Pa, the farmers boys use snake skins
| for cart whips. They find the snakes
six feet long, and their skins being pre-
served a while in alcohol, make excel
lent whips.
An order to the Russian army forbids
any officer to wear eyeglasses while in
uniform. The fashion for them. which
has lately sprung up in the Russian
army, has made four-tifths Of the officers
| claimants of bad sight.
Deacon Smith of the Mount Calvary
Baptist church was fined 81 and costs at
Hartford for whipping a brother Baptist
who had charged him with a fondness
for policy shops. Use a bang-up chris
tain and brudder Lanes a liar was the
deacOn'S defence
Few English statesmen ever visit Ire
land, Notwithstanding the fact that Irish
affairs for the last century have occu-
pied a great portion of their thoughts.
Lord B~eaconsfield was never there, and
| Mr.. Gladstone visited it the first time
only a few years ago.
Even the Indians are becoming pro-
hibitionists out West. Some Of the red
men at the Pine Ridge agency, Dakota,
have asked the agent to post notices Of
fering $50 reward for evidence by which
any person is convicted of furnishing
liquor to Indians under the law, and
the savages will themselves pay the
money.
A. B. Camp, a miner at San Benlte,
Cal, left his family in New England,
years ago, and went west to seek his for
tune. Having prospered he sent for his
wife. He was in the mine when she ar
rived, and there she followed him, get
ting an affectionate reception. They
started to leave the mine, he going in
advance, when a part of the tunnel
caved in, and she was killed.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-08-30
RUBBING A HORSE BY MACHINERY
nh --latest I invention in the Street Car
Barns.

The --latest Invention in the Street Oar
Barns.
want to see a horse groomed by ma
chinery?' asked Superintendent At
wood of the street car lines. "All right,
get into this carriage then,o and the re-
porter Joined Col. West, Mr.. Hazard and
others in a drive to the University
avenue barn. President Lowry and
other gentlemen were present, and the
thirty horses the stables contain were
being one by one subjected to the opera
lion Of a novel machine about to be in
troduced III the stables. 1t is practically
a duplicate Of the efficient but exasperat-
ing instrument with which dentists drill
teeth by power. 1t is larger and has
two arms and brushes at the end. By a
system of belts and pulleys, these brush
es are made to revolve at a furious rate
by power supplied by the old fashioned
CIRCULAR HORSE POWER
outside the barn. Two men-one on
either side-then apply the brushes
which clean with remarkable thorough
ness and wonderful rapidity the dirtiest
horse. It took just a minute and a half
to run over the largest horse in the barn
and not leave a particle of dust upon
them. The implements introduced here
for the first time outside of Chicago. BY
it Superintendent Atwood says he will
be able to do the work of eight men in
the University avenue barn with three
in less time and in a better manner
The horse groomed in a minute and a
half would ordinarily have required the
attention for three quarters of an hour.
The horses are taken from the stall,
| stood between brushes and the work be
gun. Some objection is made at first by
the animals to the noise Of the machine
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-08-30

ry, but the horses overcome their preiu-
dice and evidently enjoy their rubbing.
Eight more of the machines are TO be
procured if satisfactory terms can be
made, and they will be placed in all the
barns, doing away with the services OF
about twenty-five employees and saving
to the company upwards OF $4,000 All
nually.-piOneer Press.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-08-30
Belt Creek Bridge Proposals

OFFICE or THE COUNTY CLEpK,
CEoTEAU COUNTY, M. T.,
Fort BENTON, July %, 1882
Proposals to build a good and substantial bridge,
and for making and grading approaches thereto, ~
received at this Office until noon of the ist day OF
September, A. d. 1882.
Proposals to be accompanied by plans and specln-
cations. The plans furnished by bidders whose pro
posals may be rejected will be paid for at q reasons
bic price. TO be determined by the Board OF { ON mls
sioners. The right to reject any and all hsds u ~
served.
BY order OF the Board of Commissioners.
inc wv. TATTAN, County ClefR-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-07-28
Duty OF Rest.

There is false idea prevalent about
resting enough in the few weeks of the
summer to last the year. However full
of delight and peace the lazy hours in
the country, however freighted with rest
and strength the long days by the sea,
we cannot hoard and carry away enough
of the precious store. Every twenty
four hours is circle of its own in which
to tear down and build up, and what
ever is spent between one shutdown and
another must be made good froSl food,
recreation and rest, and whoever COM
mences the morning already tired is
spending too much somewhere, and will
find that system of paying natures
past debts by drawing on the future will
make him bankrupt. But we do not
need to wait till in the fullness of time
we can join the throng at watering
places. To any one unless shut up be-
tween four brick walls, if there belong
green spot somewhere around the house;
if he can sit at least under one vine and
fig tree of his own. there is at hand
perennial spring, if he but knows how
to drink of it. Perhaps you will say:
81 cannot stop to rest; 1 have no time;
1 will by and by. but now l must do my
work" All! but are you sure of your
by and by? the one this side of eternity,
l mean! Are you not doing the very
thing now that may lose it for you, or if
entered upon, will it not, instead of be-
ing spent in rest, as you fondly hoped.
be spent rather in vain regrets for the
strength so unwisely and hopelessly
lost? Moreover what is this work you
must be constantly doing?S If to do
good is your ruling motive, have you
not learned that it is what You are as
well as what you do that blesses the
world? and though the toll of Your
hands is worth much, beautiful spirit
of good cheer surrounding you is worth
more, and you are not becoming the
best you might be if you have no time
to entertain this spirit of rest and
strength which cannot live with weari-
ness.-Hcrald of Health.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-07-28
A Fortified Baby.

During the last week Philanthropic
Cemetery, at Passyunk Road and Task
er street, has been the scene of so much
activity that it has attracted the atten-
ton of all the residents in that section
of the city. A city ordinance has been
passed to open Tasker street through
the corner of the cemetery. In or
der TO do this it was found necessary to
remove large number of bodies in
tered there. The work has been GO
inc on for some time, and will be COM
pleted in about two weeks. From 175
to 200. bodies will be removed and rein
TERED at other places in the cemetery.
The bodies in this section of the eeme-
terry have all been inferred for many
years. Six or eight bodies that have
been removed already are partially or
wholly petrified. The body OF two
year-Old child was raised from a lot
owned By Charles Ware, after being
buried upward of forty years. The
coffin and outside box had both rotted
to dust, but the body was as perfect as
on tho day it was inferred. 1t weighed
from two to three times as much as it
naturally would in life, and had all the
appearance of a marble statue. The
body was removed to another portion
of the cemetery and inferred. -Paiia-
delphi0 Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-07-28
HER LAST posY.

In the rarest of English valleys
a motherless girl ran wild.
And the greennesss and silence and gladness
Were soul of the soul OF tine child.
The birds were her gay little brothers,
The squirrels her sweethearts shy;
And her heart kept tune with the rain-drops,
And sailed with the clouds in the sky.
And angels kept coming and going,
With beautiful things to de-;
And wherever they left footprint
A cowslip or primrose grew.
she was taken to live in London,
So thick with pitiless folk
And she could not smile for its badness
And could not breathe for its smoke
And now, as she lay on her pallet
Too weary and weak to rise,
a smile of inetfable longing
Brought dews to her faded eyes:
"Oh me. for a yellow cowslip,
A pale little primrose dear!
Won't some kind angel remember,
And pluck one and bring it here?"
They bought her a bunch of cowslips;
She took them with fingers weak,
And kissed them. and stroked them, and loved
them.
And laid them against her cheek.
1t was kind of the angels to send them,
And. now, I'm too tired to pray.
If God looks down at the cowslips,
He'll know what want to say
: They buried them in her bosom,
And when she shall wake and rise,
Why may not the flowers be Quickened,
And bloom in her happy skies !?
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-07-28
Youths Department.
THE SPlDER WEB.
Who but afaiv

Who but fairy
Ever lived in house 50 airy?
A bit of cloud tied fast, as it were.
And framed of The finest gossamer.
A wonderful, shining. silky house,
Swaying here in the sweet-brier boughS
Sprite Of some kind, queen OF the air,
Must needs be the one for home so TAR.
Does she. I wonder,
Stand these pale-pink blossoms under,
Dressed in skirt Of vapOry blue,
All spangled over with drops of dew?
Does she wear q crown, and in her hand
Carry aloft long gold wand?
Has she wings to t1y with, gauzy, green!
And where are the folk she rules cs queen!
/ look and linger.
And touch the web with careful finger;
When-in an eager, crafty way
Out leaps little gnOme in gray!
The tiuiest ogre that ever safe
And watched for prey at his castle gate,
His eight long arms so strong and bold
With which to seize, and strangle, and hold!
Should he discover
Some uuant creature passing over
A bee or fly on tired wing,
Careless and fond of lettering,
wonder II q mimic roar
Would reach its ears from out his door:
Fe, Il, 70, FUN! fe, q, TO, fuml
will have sOmel Twill have sOmeW
YOUTHS Companion.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-07-28

mother calling for the potatoes. Go
along. Begin by digging your potatoes.
Joe sprang up. and, as the doctor
drove away. went to work with q viii.
He followed the Doctors advice to the
letter, and year later when the doc
tor, as one of the Examining Commit
tee, admitted him into the academy,
Joe told him: "You were right; am
glad you walked me up and set me to
work that day you found me asleep in
the grass" The incident came back to
the doctors memory, and he patted the
boys head, saying: g. Bravely done. -
Chic10O Inferior.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-07-28

Two young rascals were arrested
in Philadelphia park for boisterous
conduct. Being locked up in an under
ground cell, they amused themselves by
catching rats and tying them to empty
cigar boxes that happened to be within
reach. When their respective paternals
arrived they found their wild sons en-
gagged in the exciting and novel ex-
perience of betting their loose change
upon rat race. They were enjoying
the situation amazingly. Y. Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-07-28

"A Washington reporter has a new
synonym or figure of speech for
grave. He calls it "the low. green
tent whose curtain never outward
swings"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-07-28

Jenny Lind says the odor OF flowers
is injurious to singers voice.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-07-28

beneved IN MN, Is involved, Is, after
all, as his friends say, only mistaken.
The clerk, who robs his employer in the
insane hope of restoring what he has
distracted, is, as his counsel pleads to
a soft-hearted jury, with sons of their
own, only mistaken! The speculator,
who plays the great game of CONNER
cial hazard with another mans money,
he, too, dares to look at the world with
a pitiful face, and cry: Alas! l was
only mistakenn No, Ellinor, l have
never put in that plea. From the mo-
ment OF that terrible crash, which shat
tered my whole life into ruin and desc
lation, l have, at least, tried to look nv
fate in the face. But / have not borne
all my own burdens, Ellinor. The heavi-
est weight of my crime has fallen upon
the innocent shoulders of Henry Dalton"
Henry Dalton, my husband?'
Yes, Ellinor, your husband, Henry
Dalton. the truest, noblest, most honor
able. and most conscientious of men,"
..You praise him so mucli," she said,
rather bitterly.
Yes, Ellinor, am weak enough and
wicked enough to feel a cruel pain in
being compelled to do so; it is the last
poor duty 1 can do him. Heaven
knows have done him enough injury"
The exertion of talking for so long 4
time had completely exhausted him,
and he fell back. half fainting. upon the
pillows. The Sister of Mercy, sum
moned from the next apartment by
Ellinor. administered restorative &c
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-04
LITTLE WASHINGTON.
County Officers -SmaiIpoy-trrivaI OF
Dr. MoGatt and Family.
Special TO The Register


WASHINGTON, PA, January G.-The lately
elected county officials were sworn in yes
terday. The election OF q Clerk to the
County Commissioners developed an ami
mated fight between the Salwart and Half
breed rings of the Republican party. and
resulted in q complete victory for the Hall
breeds, although the Stalwarts made great
effort for the retention of the old incum-
bent. There were thirty-seven applicants
for the position, which pays 1920 per
year.
The first case Of smallpox was discovered
in the person OF VIM. Hollcnbcck, former
cmploye Of the Pittsburgh Southern rail-
road lie had been boarding near the Pitts
bursh terminus of the road, where he con-
tractcd the disease. As soon rs the case
became known the borough council held a
meeting, had tie patient removed to the
County Home. and divided the town into
ten districts and appointed physicians 10
yaCCinatc the citizens.
The silver Leaf (ColOrcdl Social held
ball at the Town Hall last night, at which
there were several rows ami three over
coats stolen. One Q. the guilty parties has
been lodged in Jail.
DR. MOfiatt. family and sister arrived last
evening and took rooms at the Fulton
House, where they will board until spring,
when lac will occupy the same house that
his predecessor, DR.. Hays, occupied.
A probably fatal shooting accident oc-
CURED near Ginger Hill or Saturday.
While EnSley Jones was examining newly
purchased revolver, III went of, tie ball
striking James Steckcr in the left side be-
low the last rib. The location OF the ball
has not been discovered.
During the year 1881 seventy persons
died in this place, Of whom there were
sixty white and ten colored; fifteen males,
thirt y-!iye females and twenty whose sex.
is no given. \.
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THE WHITAKER CASE.
The Court Martial Illegally Held.

WASHINGTON, January Sit is said, on
high authority, that Judge Advocate Cen
eral Swain, in reviewing the court martial
proceedings in the case Of Cadet Whitaker,
has raised the point that the court was ille-
gally conducted. because il was ordered by
President Hayes, without any request from
the Department Commander, and that,
therefore, all the proceedings were void.
1t is argued that the power OF the President
10 order an army court martial is not in
hercnt in him as Commander in Chief, but
is conferred solely by statutory authority,
contained in the I'D Article of War, which
reads rs follows: Any general officer COM
manding in the Army OF the United States,
a separate army, or Il separate department,
shall be competent to appoint a general
court, either in time Of peace or i'll time
OF war, but when any such commander is
the accuSer or prosecutor of any officer un-
der his command the court shall be ap-
pointed by the President, and its proceed
ings and sentence shall be laid before the
President for his approval or orders in the
case.
This article, it is contended, Confers no
power upon the President to convene an
ARMY cOurt-martiaI except in the contin-
gcncy specified. The question will pr0ba-
bly, lie referred 10 the Attorney General
for his opinion.
The view above indicated Is apparently
strengthened by the fact that Congress,
some years ago, expressly authorized the
President to convene COuTt-maTtlaiS IN ma
w cases without restriction.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-04
been arrested.
THE LAND ACT.
The Landlords Protesting Against its
Operation and Demanding ComPen'
saiion.

saiion.
L0yDoY, January 3.-The following ar:
the resolutions to be proposed at the meet
ing OF the more moderate section OF the
landlords in Dublin, to-day, al which il is
expected the Duke Of hbcrcorn will pre-
side to cliticisc the Land courts decisions: :
This meeting sees with alarm that the land
act is being administered in manner at
variance with the pledge that il would not
diminish the value or disturb the founda.
tion Ci property, and contrary to the as
suranCes on the part OF which Parliament
was advised not TO provide for compensa-
ton to landlords; that the antecedents of
many Of the assistant commissioners do
not insure impartial judicial exercise Of
their functions; that the commissioners
have determined rents after cursory eI-
animation Of the lands, and that they have
been indiscriminately reducing rents;
that if appeals from the decisions
OF assistant commissioners result, in the
sanctiOning Of these decisions. the legisla-
turc should provide compensation for those
land owners whose property will be there
by unjustly diminished. That petition
cmbOdying the views OF this meeting be
presented 10 The queen.
Tie Ners states j. is estimated fourth
Of the Irishttenants who need protection
have come under the operation Of the land
act, and that competent persons believe
the whole question will-bc settled in two
years.
DCEIy. January 3-Six thousand per-
sons arc present al the landlords meeting
here to-day, which is the most influential
ever held EIrl DsnoughmOre, Earl Carys-
fort, Marquis Of Droghead, Marquis OF
Hcadfort, King Harman. and all principal
representatives Of the landed interest are In
attendance.
Resolutions already rcrited in previous
dispatch were unanimously adopted.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-04
Dehf Eiatr-,,nnG.

WNsuiNrT0>. January l-EvtcH lcd 81
SiiaGS2. .9lJ; extended - Si0i .5)5, ,O9; =,
SIT. n.GGO,Uao; s SIS. ~, IJI; rcfaUding Ger
titiratcs $50, 90 navy pension fund Sli.-
OOo COO. T0taiintcrbSt bearing debt 81 .5jt.
5S4 GEO. MatarCd debt $ll.25S, 2jS; legal
tenders SiS, 7A956; certificates Of deposit
%. $50. eco; gold md silver certificates S1j, =
G3,&2: fractiGal currency S7.075,92G
Total without Interest $iS7, 20, ,2I2. Tot,l
debt S2,ONa aS5S,5S Total interest sl5,-
5366l9; total cash in Treasury S253, 81 go;
debt less cash inl Treasury 81 ,765, ,42l, III.
Decrease during Iecember Sl2, 79j. .62i. De
crease since June .. 1881, s75, l0I,09i.
Current liabili;ies interest due and un.
paid. $l.3lI lI,Si3; det on which interest has
ceased, 81 .52S, 1855 interest thereon Sill
9S5; gold and silveTsertificateS, IS, S53. $50;
United States noteSlheld for redemption
of certificates of detosit. s95g0,0o0; cash
balance available January 3. Sl5G36S,53i.
Total, S2j3, ,STT77 $50. Available assets in
Treasury, S253, ,3I7 ,9S0.k
Bonds issued to Paciic railroad compa-
nies, interest payable IN lawful money,
principal outstanding, 81, 81. .5l2; interest
sccrued and not yet pad 81, ,gsS, ,7o5; inter
est paid by the United states, -, 467T .272;
interest repaid hy eomphies by transper-
tation service, l4,707 $50; iy cash payments
) per cent. of earnings, ti55, ,1es Balance
OF interest paid by the VI Ufted Ststes SS6,-
lei,lSS
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NEW YORK LEGISLATURE.
The Tammany Men Standing 0ut and
Causing a Deadlock.

ALBANY, January 3.-Ncither branch Of
thelegislature was organized by the Demo
tratS to-day. 1t is Thought an amieable
settlement will be arranged this afternoon,
and that when both branches meet, to-
morrow, they will be organized by the
Democrats IN the Senate, the anti
monopoly resolutions gave rise TO consider
able debate.
The Lieut.. Governor made feeling allu-
sion to the death of the late President Gar
field.
The nearest approach to compromise
among the Democrats, this morning. was
the rumor that the Tilden men had con-
sented 10 withdraw Jacobs for President
pro ts1u Of the Senate, provided Tammany
would agree TO accept such further terms as
might be fair.
In the Senate the anti.monOpOly rcSOlu-
tons were adopted, with the omission OF
the preamble setting forth among other
things, that bills against monopolists had
been delayed and defeated by committees
appointed in the interest Of railroads,
Tammeny representatives regard the
adoption OF the resolutions as victory,
and attach no importance to the rejection
ton Of the preamble. They say the Senate
isnow pledged to anti-monopoly legislation.