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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-03-01
Trouble In n silver Mine.
TBill Nye, in the Boomerang.1

Dill wye, Ii II OOOm0IaiiSsJ
A few nights age we'll organized effort
was made to jump the Centennial mine.
which came very near beinga success. The
paeties who undertook to jump the mine
were two Rocky Mountain poledats with a
bad record. Almost as soon as they entered
the tunnel from the east the men in the
mine began to be suspicious that somebody
with a bad breath was in the lower level.
This suspicion grew until it assumed about
the proportion of a bale of hay. 1t was re-
solved to drive out the intruders. Major
Downey went down and threw a piece Of
free milling quartz at The enemy. Then the
Major went back to the party for consul'a-
ion. The rest of the party didn't seemed so
tickled to see him as he thought they ought
to be. They summed him and evaded him,
and told him that his presence wasn't agree
BILE under the circumstances Although the
mine is q very valuable one it was almost
decided at one time to abandon it to the
jumpers. At last, however, every body
made a grand rush for the tunnel and demol-
ished the enemy with long handled shovels.
Major Downey handed the above information
into the Office with a long pole. He also
told a friend that he would go on. Of town
this forenoon to q quiet place beyond the
graveyard and change his clothes. The
Rocky Mountain polecat, before it is domes-
ticated, is not prizsd as . songster very much
but he has a way of making his presence
felt wherever he goes. and even in death you
cannot forget him. There was one of these
docile creatures got into our cellar once, q
good many years ago. and the ventilation
of the cellar being very poor, the air was
soon yitiated to such an extent that the clock
stopped. We don't care for death in any
form that it may come. Those who know
u will agree that we ne7er weaken. We
have faced the deadly watermelon when
strong men were falling thick aud + ct. and
we have stood ut the muzzle Of q daily news
paper and moved down spring poets like
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you who has studied your interest and hap
piness-be sure to sustain him in adversely.
Let him feel that his former kindness is ap.
preciated, and that his love was not thrown
away. Real fidelity may be rare, but it ex-
ists-in the heart. They only deny its worth
and power who have never loved a friend. or
labored to make one happy. The good and
the kind. the affectinnate and the virtuous,
see and feel the heavenly principle.
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A Fatal Thirst.

From the London Lancet We learn that
many years ago a case was recorded by
DR.. Otto, Of Copenhagen, in which four
hundred and ninety-fve needles passed
through the skin of a hysterical, girl who
probably swallowed them through a hysteri-
Cal paroxysm, but these emerged from the
regions below the diaphram, and were col
lected in groups, which gave rice to inf4m.
matory swellings of some size" It would
seem from the cases on record that needles
In the system rather assist in the digestion
and promote longevity. For instance, we
will suppose that the hysterical girl above
alluded to, with four hundred and ninety
five needles in her stomach, should absorb
the midsummer cucumber. Think how in
teresting those needles would make it for
the great collie promoter. We can imagine
the cheerful smile of the cucumber as it en-
tiers the stomach, and, bowling cheerfully to
the ~follicles standing around, hangs its hat
upon the walls Of the stomach, stands its
umbrella in q corner, and proceeds to work.
$3.50 - WV - u III ASCu
and grieved about something. It stops in
its heaven born collie generation, and pulls a
rusty needle ont Of its person. Maddened
by the pain, it once more attacks the diges-
choice job lot Of needles. Again and again
it enters into the unequal contest, each time
losing ground, till the poor cucumber, with
assorted hard ware sticking out in all direc-
tons like the hair on a cats tail, at last
curls up like a caterpillar, and yields up the
victory. Still this needle business will be
expensive to husbands if wives once acquire
the habit and allow it to obtain the mastery
over them. The woman who once begins to
tamper with cambria needles is not safe.
She thinks she has power to control her ap-
petite, but it is only a step to the %maddening
thirst for the soul-destroying darning needle,
and perhaps to the baton hook and carpet
stretcher. We once knew a sweet yourg
creature, with dewy eye and breath like
timothy hay. Her merry laugh rippled out
upon the summer air like the joyful music
OIL Ualu ucducu UOUOlIuhS. LII d tuOuS uIle' y
moment she swallowed a cambria needle.
This did not satisfy her. The cruel thrald-
rom had begun. Whenever she felt depressed
and gloomy there was nothing that would
kill her ennui and melancholy but. the fatal
needle cushion. From this she rapidly be-
came more reckless till there was hardly an
hour that she was not under the Influence of
needles. If she could not get needles to as
suage her mad ,hirst she would take hairpins
and door-keya. She gradually pinpd away to
a mere skeleton. She could no longer sit on
one foot and be happy. Life for her WAS
filled with Opaque gloom and sadness. At
last she took an overdose of sheep-shears
and monkey wrenches one day; and on the
following morning her soul had lit out for
the land of eternal summer. We should
learn from this to shun the maddeEing nee-
| dle-cushion, and never tell a lie.
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broad swaths of timothy hay, and never
weakened or squealed but the dappled
quadruped with the all-pervading presence
appeals TO our valor in vain. Our victory
over him has always heen vicarioua.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-22
FIGHTFOR FREEDOM
The IEsurreetiOn in the Districts OF
Herzegovina Under Austrian
Rule National Affair.
The MOhammedan Population Side With
the Insurgents-Austrian Soldiers
Cut to Pieces.

NV YORK, January 2I.-A cable special
from London says; Our correspondent at
Ragusa sends long dispatch regarding the
formidable instruction which has broken
out IN the districts under Austrian rule in
Herzegovina. Telegraphing Thursday night,
he says; Herzegovina has risen The focus
OF the instruction lies in the district which
was the scene Of the first uprising against
the Turks in 1879. Insurgent corps are
forming in the mountains near Nevisinkio,
Gatsko, Guzbinje, Focha, Bilek and Ire
bInle. Inc warlike can of Zubei In the
borders Of Krivoskia have burned their
homesteads and Joined the insurgents under
the well-known guerilla chief Vulkalovich,
and villagers on the Herzegovina frontier
near Rsgusa are following their ex-
ample. The risiHg seems TO have been
simultaneously planned, and is not without
organization. The insurgents do not lack
resources, and the men are receiving about
sevenpsnce and half pound of flour daily.
The orthodox Mohammedan population is
fraterniZing with the insurgents, and the Mo-
hammedan 9eRdGTIaeTis is deserving en- maSse
and the national camps are naturally taking
them in, with the arms and accouterments so
thOughtfully distributed among them by the
Austrians. Even IN the Catholic district OF
Popovo. the we'll known chief Mussich is re-
ported to have made his appearance. On the
among the insurgents. The Turkish hey at
Focha succeeded in raising, in forty EIGHT
hours, a picked band of three hundred and
forty men," The position of the isolated
Austrian posts in upper Herzegovina is very
precarious despite the feverish activity of
the military authorities in dispatching rein
forcements. At Dovan from ten TO twenty
soldiers were cut to pieces. The boldness OF
the insurgents may be judged from the fact
that five soldiers were cut down in the very
suburbs of Castelmors. The air is naturally
full of wild reports, some of which need con-
irmation. So much is certain. that the stu
ton even on the Almatian Herzegovinian
frontier was so critical that garrison OF
Russians had TO be sent forward in the night
to reinforce the endangered posts. The
movement is stated to be thoroughly national.
One of the watchwords of the Insurgents il
death to the stranger" A serious engage
ment was fought between Gatsito and BIZ
lex, the result of which the Austrians are
endeavoring TO conceal. 1t is reported they
were repulsed. Our correspondent, tele-
graphing yesterday evening, says 1000 adj
ditional troops were shipped yesterday at
Trieste. Ragusa forms the base of the Aus
trian operations against the insurgents. The
plan OF the campaiga seems 10 be by driving
the military wedge forward 10 the Monte
negrian frontier near Bilek to separate the
Kriyoskian from the Herzegovinian bands.
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NiISSISSIPPINEW

At Vicksburg, just now, the prevailing
rage is corn-cob pipes.
Jackson has a cooking club; the young
ladies are attentive students.
Near Iuka the bridge across Big Cripple
Deer hes been washed away by the big rise.
Columbus Dispatch: Flood, and much
trouble and suffering A relief corps was
organized by Mayor Dancy, and all day and
far into the night the boats were returning
with the unfortunates."
Jackson Clarion: Notwithstanding the
mad-dog epidemic the streets are literally
full of dogs....M Mr.. William A. Pettus, a
well-known citizen of East Mississippi, was
assasssinated at Meridian Sunday night"
DR.. F. B. Shuford, for long years past the
cashier of the Bank Of Holly Springs, has
resigned that responsible position on account
of failing health. He was reelected at every
meeting of the board since his first connec-
ton with the bank fifteen years ago.
Senatobia Record: "Our enterprising citi-
zen, Colonel b. T Bowdre intends trying a
crop OF upland rice. -. There has been
bought and shipped from this depot thus far
this season seventy carloads of cotton-seed,
or nearly fifty thousand bushels; average
price paid, thirteen cents n bushel."
Holly Springs Reporter: TO reach Mem
phis now you will have 10 take a freight at
Holly Springs at Ii 80 a. N 4, and remain at
Grand Junction ill : p. m, arriving at
Memphis at 10 o'clock p. m. So it will be
seen it takes just ten and three-quarter hours
to travel from Holly Springs to Memphis"
Corinlh Subsoaer: 'On Monday night last
there was a slight fall of sleet and
snow, and on Tuesday it seemed that a
branch of old winter had Permeated through
this neck OF the woods. Our young men
have opened a skating rink in our city hall,
their heels 'in fine frenzy rolling toward a
fall"
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q

There Is no end to the great Eastern
| question" which has kept all Europe in hot
water for the last fifty years. The willy,
shutting, mischievous Turk has sown seeds
of discord that will lead to endless trouble
for fifty years to come. The support that
England and other nations give to keep the
sultan in Constantinople only increases the
| difficulty and creates obstacles that will
prove formidable when a final settlement
comes, as come it must, ultimately. The
Greek boundary settled, in way, and the
crisis that had existed at Bocchesia got over,
a new outbreak of trouble now ensues, no:
with the Turk. but with the provinces he
surrendered in the Berlin treaty, when Rus
STA had him by the throat By that instru-
ment Herzegovina was abandoned to the
mother-in-law control OF Austria-no gentle
mistress, as poor Italy knew in the bitter ex-
perience of years before Cavour delivered
delivered her. The treaty constituted Aus
tria a mere temporary protector OF
Herzegovina, to be nursing mother
until the people there, IMMERSED in the art OF
governing, should have established public
policy and a working system of legislative
and executive powers. 1t is well understood
that Austria, with her usual perfdy, VIII
she came to Herzegovina "came TO stay"
and she took her steps accordingly. The
public revenue of the province, instead of
being applied 10 national uses, was princi-
paliy employed in constructing Notifications
and roads to them, so that Austrian troops
might be established impregnably where
they could best overawe and subdue the
people, All this was in the usual way OF
Austrian "protection," as Europe has long
known it, and which the CALLING defeat of
Sedowa failed to whip out of it. The Aus
trian army was, 70 a certain extent, depleted
by the absence of the contiDgents sent to
keep down the Herzegoyinians in their own
country. Austria proceeded, therefore, TO
fill up the gap in her regiments in accord |
ance with well-established rules OF Austrian |
policy. Orders were issued to draft a
certain number OF the Herzegovinian
youth into the Austrian army, by conscrip- |
ton While under Turkish sway the people !
OF Herzegovina, being christian dogs," were !
not admitted to perform military service, al |
though compelled to contribute fully TO the |
maintenance Of those who were. Unused, |
therefore, to being called upon TO submit to |
being driven into the army, and not greatly |
stimulated to fight for those who were making |
protection an excuse for oppression, the Her
zegovinians arose in resistance to the conster-
nation of the Austrian government. So
great is its alarm that it has applied TO the
delegations for an extra four million OF
lorins, with which to meet the catastrophe
is miserable and tyrannical policy has
brought about Bosnia, also put under con-
seTiPtion, is in full sympathy with the revolt,
. are also Montenegro and Servia-which
e. "ais saw signs of Austrian intention
,in. them when Bosnia and Herzego-
in fnu sfs,; uely brought under control
The resi.;aDO ann with the revolving people
:. La and ba., - me more formidable as it
me mountaineer people,
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TENNESSEE NEWS.

The Knoxville public schools contain 1776
pupils, against 1891 10 1880.
Captain Rhea, leading citizen of Giles
county, was drowned NJ 1nday night in at
tempting TO ford creek al Stone bridge.
\ Mr.. Ramer has been sent 10 Rugby by
the English board of directors to thoroughly
investigate the condition and resources Of
the colony.
Collections for "the drowned-out" are act
lively proceeding in Nashville. The country
people cannot get TO town, and the stores ARE
scant Of customers.
Hardy Anderson, The yoand railroad clerk
who ab=conded some time age with $1,000 of
his employers money, is nov boil ing a posi-
ton as bill clerk in one Of Gould's roads in
Texas.
franklin Rerier: 'Two coIored boys we're
playing at Captain Farmers place with
loaded gun; it was discharges, OF course,
and one Of the lads was shot in the hea and
killed.
At Kingston, on Saturday, the prisoners
pushed the jailer aside as he opened the
door, and five or six got out They were
headed and marched back. One Of the pris-
oners was armed with a knife, and was dis
posed to cut his w3y through, bus 4 pistol
presented to his head proved sufficiently per-
sussive.
Knoxville TriBune: every time We tell
the Chronicle of his lying he says We are
mad" Better use soft words and hard argu-
ments.. .-.-.. %The doctor Il vaccinating the
pupils at the schools Several cases and
several suspicious places quarantined 10
North Knox county and vaccination going
on.....-- Arrangements are in progress 10
connect Mechauicsvilie with Knoxville by
street railroad"
Nashville World: Two 6onvicts were
pardOned by Governor Hawkins this week /;
both convicted of Larceny. Two eolored
convicts, who worked as cooks, made their
escape from the penitentiary few days
since. They escaped by means of rope,
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which enabled them to climb over the wall
~ The opening OF the railroad bridge to
the public was q great convenience to the
people OF North East Nashville. .Skif
riding seems TO be great sport with the young
ladies, and some Of them handle the oars
WELL
Knoxville Chronicle: a new postofhce,
Sample, has been established in Hamblsn
county, with W. A Sample postmasier.-.......
The trial in the Criminal Court OF the two
brothers, Milt and Sam Hodge, colored,
for the killing Of their brother-in- law, J ames
McFa riand, at the railroad works at Black
Oak Ridge, in September last, terminated in
q verdict Of guilty. The Hodge boys hunted
up Mcfarland, where he was engaged al
work on the railroad, tied him with a rope,
and one held him while the other shot and
killed HIM 80. At the rolling-min a negro
boy stood in an interdicted spot TO get some
drinking water, when he clipped and was
caught by the rollers and his legs were both
! crushed. The surgeon made the necessary
/ amPutation- but the boy is in a critical
| state"
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winds to tell them Of some place where they
her diabolical vegetable compound. If peo-
pie could take wings, they'd fly away to
some isle in the sea, to the jungles OF Africa,
anywhere, to get rid Of this national Bui-
sance, Mrs. Pinkham. The -ufierings OF the
Arctic explorers have been shocking, awful,
horrible; but the brave adventures have
been amply compensated for all their tor
lures by the pleasing reflection that they
were beyond the reach Of Aunt Lydia, her
ambrosial curls and patent noatrums 1t may
be that she is opposed to immigration, and
is displaying her picture with the view
not only OF stopping the influx Of Foreigners
but driving TO the grave or into other c0un-
tries our entire population. The succss= oi
Mrs. Lydia f. Pinkham in advertising her-
self should be initiated by those who are 50
fond of seeing their names in PROT. In ev-
cry community there are vain and sell-con-
ceited persons who resort to all sorts Of ex-
pedients to appear conspicuous by adver-
Using themselves. Their modes and meth
DDS are ingenious and subtle. They go on
from year to year, building up reputation,
as they imagine, by cheap and transparent
devices in behalf OF their vanity, without
suspecting that they are understood by ev-
erybody, and thus make themselves contempt
ibIe and ridiculous. Their highest aim is to
get their names into print, not caring
how gross the hattery, provided something
be said. The only way for these ego
tistical individuals to crafty their
ambition is TO pretend TO invent a vegetable
compound, or a patent medicine nostrum,
have their pictures engraved and commence
advertising. 1t may be said that the expert
ment would not pay, as the medicine would
have no virtue. This makes no difference,
for the greater the humbug the greater its
success. Here is wide field open for the
qualification OF those fond o. appearing in
the newspapers. They will soon be as rich
and notorious as Lydia, OF Lynn, Massachu-
setts, and their success will demonstrate two
propositions-the credulity of the public
and the ease by which fortunes are made by
advertising in the newspapers.
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hardy, brave and freedom loving class, in
habiting country that gives them good
opportunity for defense. The quarrel may
possibly be long in settling, Tor the Austrians
have formidable antsgonism to deal with.
The sympathy OF all who hate oppression
and Brong-and Austria during her occupa-
ton of Italy, and in her treatment Of the
Hungsrians in the days Of Kossuth, has
shown what a master she is in the arts Of
cruelty and oppressIon-all who are Tor free
dom and Justice, will wish the revolt a bril-
liant success, and rejoice to see Austrian
domination ha filed and defeated
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ALABAMA NEWS.

| Apostle Pratt, a Mormon elder, had an
appointment to preach at Bib Furnace Sun
day, 18th.
The high water forced the mill at Gadson
| to shut down and discharge hands until the
| water subsidies
Mr.. A. K. Shepard has purchased land at
Calera for the purpose of erecting an iron
furnace at that place.
Near Bib Furnace, few days ago, a
| piece Of iron ore weighing several tons, fell
| upon a man named Ben Gargins, killing him
instantly.
Bib Furnace is in fourishing condition,
| though not long in operation, is turning out
twenty tons of a very superior quality of iron
| a day.
Miss Sarah Vincent committed suicide by
hanging herself, at Winterboro, Talladega
county, last Saturday. She was a lady past
middle life.
No whisky in Shelby county. After much
excitement prohibition triumphed, though
there is talk of contesting the election in
Monteyallo.
Selmians evidently have either but little
faith in vaccination or else no fears Of small
poI. Not one hundred persons have been
vaccinated yet.
Brierield rolling-mill, which suspended
work a few weeks since, will begin again
SOOu. Inc COHpdHf Has just puTcnzseu tue
Carleton coal mines, two miles north OF
Brier6eld.
At Mobile, on Tuesday, a crazy cat made
decided sensation on Dauphin street, be-
low Royal. 1t ran into several stores, froth-
ing at the mouth, and exhibiting every sign
of madness. About 10 o'clock the animal
was captured and tied to pole, and the fu-
neral procession marched toward the river,
where the cause of disturbance was drowned.
Limestone Nelrs: "Prof. S. P. Ainsworth,
a fine scholarwho had a large school at
Athens, killed himself last week. His sui
eide was most deliberate. He first tried to
sever the vital arteries at his wrists and final
ly drove his pocket-knife into his heart. He
left his house and, after being absent for a
while sent after his knife His wife began
to think that he was staying out unusually
long and went after him, and he was found
dead. He was in bad health
Huntsville IadepezdeRf: AT the National
Bank President Mastin has retired. Major
J. E. Stevens succeeds him. The cotton
factory is rapidly getting under full head
way. Several bales of lint are already in
process OF reduction to splendid sample of
thread. There Is hustle and business at the
cotton-seed oil mills, and Captain Curry's
implement factory is hard at it The manu-
featuring interests of Huntsville are on big
boom -. The almost uniuterruptedly mild
winter has made some OF the most knowing
farmers quite uneasy about their advanced
wheat. They apprehend that there are some
OF The wheat-felds so far ahead Of time in
their growth that the spring frosts viii be
sure TO prove destructive. $50. There Is
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mad dog scare at Huntsville yellow cur,
having every appearance Of rabies was pur-
sued and finally killed in the northeastern
portion Of Huntsville last Saturday morn
ing"
Montgomery 4d,eztiser: "Adyios from
Eufaula report the suicide Of VIM. II. Locke,
late postmaster Of that city, which occurred
at his residence. Smallpox prevailed to
a considerable extent in Montgomery IN 1865
and 1866, and may not occur there again.
The people appear to be sufficiently excited on
the subject OF vaccination, and MAN. have
undergone the operation. The poohibi-
ton county Of Lowndes sent up gentleman
from the classic village OF Benton that scared
all of Abraham's Biount county deer, and
all Of the dead-beats down on Court street,
yesterday morning. He had on enough pis-
tolls, bowie-knives and little shotgUns 10 have
stopped Sherman's march to the sea
The public schools were dismissed on Thurs
day for vaccination"