The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-01-11
GENERAL NOTES.

|. A cOlnred tailor from North Carolina is
said to have made $50, 900 since the war. H.
gives employment to over one hundred pee
pie.
Senator Sherman has offered to give ten
acres of land ia Mansfield, Ohio, or forty
the Wit'enberg college, if the trustees will
remove it there.
Fl cattle drover tells of an old Canadian
farmer who keeps his money rolled around a
broom stick. The other day when he bought
some cattle of him he had nearly So, 600 in
five dollar bills thus preserved
People of Lewiston, Idaho, tell with some
emotion the story of Eagle, an old NJ
Perez Indian. who. having the small-poy,
IN being deserted by his tribe, calmly Dug
his own grave, laid down 10 it. and died.
The census shows that the State of Con
nec'icut has over II, 900 more females than
males, and it is noted as a curious fact that
in the smallest towns in the State the rule
generally is that the men exceed the woman
in numbers. The cities show the surplus of
woman.
An old resident of Milford, Del, is quot
ed as saying: 'About so years ago I was
bartender in a hotel In Milford. Through
the week we generally took in about ten dol
lars, but one day when the religious quarterly
meeting WIS held there, we sold oyer 5000
worth Of liquor"
The Memphis, Tenn, appeal advises the
London Confederate Bondbolders' Commit
tee to disporse, and says sThey are losing
both time and money in a wild goose chase.
They are pursuingan Sgn5s ffactuus that may
lead many ignorant but coDtiIing English
men to their ruin"
A Baltimore 1l-year old boy dreamed that
some men were trying to kill him, and at
tempted TO get away from them. His father,
awakened by the noise, entered the boys
room and found him hanging, fast asleep,
by the hands from the sill of the window,
which was in the second story. He rescued
him with difficulty.
-Four studentsof a Wisconsin College, who
stole farmers gate ''for fun" were given
by the faculty the alternative Of leaving the
or Of undergoing such punishment
as the farmer might inflct. They chose the
latter, and the farmer condemned them to
chop four cords of his wood and deliver it
10 a poor widow. They did it to the music
IF a band and the plaudits of a crowd that
watched the operation.
The Stanton Valley Virginian notes the
agitation of the temperance ques-
ion and looks confidently for a very excl
ing campaign in Virginia before another
Legislative election, in which local option
be the central matter Of discussion. The
politicians, it says. will have to look into the
for it is an energetic and aggressive
question. The Richmond Dispatch practical
" agrees with the Valley Virginian in this
The Citizens Republican Association of
has issued a call for a State
Convention in Philadelphia, Jan. 12, to con-
slider the wisdom Of making nominations
for Govcnor ard other State officers, and to
see what other wise can be done for the over
throw of ssboss rule and the elimination of
the pernicious ''spoils system and its kin
dred evils from the administration of public
affairs. The call is signed by |. D. Mckee,
chairman, and Frank Willing Leach, seore-
tary. t4
The Richmond, Va) Dispatch says that
the Virginia Historicalsociety's collection of
original manuscript materials for history is
i Important and extensive, and that the first of
q series of papers Of essential value in the
calculation Of American history is in pre-
cess of preparation for The press. This is