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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-11-14
Election for Delegates.

H. r. Buck, Jos. Baker and q. w.
Settle wereahe judges, and John Tutt
and Chas Spencer clerks OF the election
for delegates to the constitutional con
vention, held Tuesday at the city hall.
There were So votes polled in - light
vote, as there was practically DO contest
over any Of the delegates. For county
delegates: w. II. Hunt received 81
votes; T. E. Collins, 80; scattering, l.
For delegates from this judicial district +:
T. c.. Power received 55 votes; VIM. b.
Hundlev, 80.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-11-14
Living Witnesses.

The hundreds of hearty and healthy
looking men, women and children that
have been rescued from beds of sickness,
pain and well-nigh death by Parker's
Ginger Tonic are the best evidences in
the world of its sterling merit and worth.
You will find such in almost every COM
munity.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-11-14
Western VIII.

The following slanderous monstrosi-
ties in poem and prose are clipped from
the MadisOndan:
Some White sulph Springs hotel girls
Set the editors heG in a whirl;
And his sub uent tafy.
Although sa# h and chafy.
Made EN- blush toad roots Of their curls.
The bachelor ex7fpr of the Husband
man has gone ihIo ecstacies over the.
advent Of girls to wait Oh the table at
his hash-house. Brother Sutherlin is
apt to become enthusiastic on the sub
ject of girls, and when we read
in his paper the singular statement
that heretofore the tables Of Mon
tana hotels have been served exclu-
sively by men, and the introduction of
females In theirstead gives evidence Of
the dawn of a new era, and one, too,
that the old time Montanian will vel
come with JOY" we are not surprised
that he is SO susceptible. He would do
to play the title role in "The Youth
who Never Saw a Woman" or else he
never boarded at a hotel before.
Up at Fort Benton, Parson c. C. Mills
Thinks dancing is the deadliest of ills:
50, when Sun River folks get up a ball
To rails , the scads to build a meeting hall,
Dread horror thrills
The soul of Mills,
And long and loud against the sin he hollers.
For this his chnrch
Is in the lurch
Unto the tune of DER two hundred dollars.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-08
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

1t is claimed that there is a Won
derful spring at Toyah, Texas, which
instantly cures all human diseases. 1t
must be a spring gun. There are such
things in Texas.-NoTiStolon Herald.
When girl is wooed by fellow
and he marries her, she sometimes
feels sorry because of the woes the WOO
has brought on her.-OA city Derrick.
Married men have nothing to say
in disapprovaI of the ''shingled bang."'
AS rule, a married man doesn't care
what his wife does to her own hair sol
long as she keeps her fingers out of his.
Chicago Tribune.
Asking lady what her accom-
plishments are is, generally speaking!
harmless enough. Still, in these days.
it might in some cases cause embarrass-
ment to put the question, 'Do you
paint" -Detroi Post.
"A learned man has discovered that
birds lack the sense of smell. If this
learned man should pull off his coat and
roll up his sleeves he might in time dis
cover that birds lack nose to smell
with. Philadelphia Cali.
"A boy who will look out for Ne. L..
"Father, what would you run for if the
house were all ablaze?" The old gen
tleman declared that he should run for
very valuable manuscript. 81
wouldn't" responded the boy, 81
should run for the door. boston
Globe.
Has the right hand of the average
paragrapher forgot its cunning, or what
is the nature of the washout down the
line, anyway? As yet we have seen no
reference to the fact that the move
ments of Henry Irving on these shores
are accompanied by considerable Miss
Terry. -Teras StftingS.
PORTER, wake me at Harrisburg"
and the passenger in the chair car
dropped half dollar into the colored
mans hand. At Altoona the porter
shook the passenger and said: Boss,
we's ies' half way 10 Harrisburg now"
"Well, what are you waking me forP"
"You see, you done gimme half dol
lah, sab, an OATS twice as much as
mos men gimme, so | thought I'd glib
you two wakis''s for it, one hyar and
one at Harrisburg. "-EUery Fleming.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-08
Earth as Winter Protection.

A covering of earth may often be
usefully employed to protect plants
from severe changes of temperature
during the winter. Newly planted
fruit trees should have conical mound
of earth at the base, which may be a
foot or foot and a half high, and so
narrow that it will shed water readily.
This answers several purposes. 1t is
well known that the portion of the tree
where the roots join the stem is es-
pecially sensitive, and covering of
earth protects this. Besides, it an
swers better than stake to prevent
disturbance of the tree by heavy winds.
Another benefit is the protection it af-
fords against mice, often so injurious
to young trees. Half hardy and doubt
fully hardy plants of all kinds
are better protected by slight
covering of earth than by
the old method of ''strawing," or sur
rounding them with thick covering of
straw, which often smothers them
Grapevines in severe localities, and
partially temper kinds everywhere,
should be trained with a view to
removing them from the trellis,
and laying them fiat upon the ground
When they are pegged down as flat
as may be the canes are covered
with an inch or two of soil. This
method is the best for figs. and allows
this fruit to be raised much farther
north than was formerly thought posi-
BILE. The trees are prepared by grow
ing them with roots upon one side only,
to allow them to be laid fiat, and the
branches are well covered with earth.
The tender kinds of raspberries are
protected in this manner on the large
plantations along the Hudson River, N.
T., where many acres are annually
covered. The same answers for tender
roses which are successfully protected
by laying them down, covering with a
low mound, upon the top of which sods
are neatly laid in such manner as to
shed the rain. Herbaccous plants in
the flower garden, of doubtful hardi-
ness, should have slight mound of
earth over them, first cutting back the
stems. No doubt this method of pro-
lection may be applied to many tender
and half-hardy shrubs and other plants
which are now taken up and placed in
the greenhouse or the cellar for the
winter.-American Aqriculturist.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-08
Ailments of. Swine Due to Mismanage.
ment,

Indigestion sometimes occurs among
swine who are not supplied with food at
regular intervals, and occasionally re-
oeive large and unlimited quantities of
it, and in consequence pass suddenly
from starvation to a surfeit, and this
evil greatly retards their growth or fat
tening, or seriously damages their
health, or even undermines their con-
stitution. 1t must be rectified by sup
plying them with proper allowances of
food at stated periods of the day and
never in such quantity at time as to
provoke them to gluttony.
Costiveness, accompanied by disin-
clination for food, sometimes results
from great and sudden changes of
weather, and from feeding necessarily
on dry and comparatively indigestible
food, and this may be corrected by Civ
ing them any green food or succulent
vegetable substance which may happen
at the time to be most accessible or
plentiful, such as cabbage, lettuce, po-
tato-tops, or mixture of sliced pota-
toes and mangel-wurzel.
The opposite evil of diarreha, also,
is sometimes induced; and this may be
corrected by giving the animal free ac-
cess to cinders, soft coal, brlck-dust
and chalk rubbish.
Eruptions of the skin, occasionally
becoming aggravated into pustules and
scabs, sometimes also break out in the
ears; and these may be occasioned
either by want of proper ventilation,
by want of general cleanliness in the
stye or house, bypaucity of food, by too
stimulating diet, by the combined
effects of confinement, bad air, and in
judicious feeding. A ready or effective
cure in the early stages or milder form
of this malady, is to give the animals
dry and clean quarters, and access to
cinder or charcoal; and a suitable and
even requisite remedy in bad cases, par
ticularly when the eruptions have be-
come liberated and scabby, is to mix
small doses of sulphur and saltpeter
with the food, and to rub externally
with mixture of tar and oil, or with u
composition of suet, tar and a little
sulphur. Prairie Farmer.
Colorado promises to be a full ri
val for Pennsylvania in the richness Of
its oil deposits.
Sick animals should be separated
from healthy ones
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-08
GIFTS.

If could give you what would outlast time
Remain as fixed as Polar star above
Something to live and thrive in any cline,
I'd give my love
And should you ask for that more true than
steel,
something of yourself a kindred part,
My inmost thought I'd then to thee reveal,
And give my heart!
Should friends desert you, fortune cease to
smile
Should joy itself appear beyond recall,
Your weary moments would then beguile,
And give my all!
But if some lofty sacrifice you'd ask,
How glad I'd yield me to your sweet control
And give-Since giving is Loves sweetest
task
My very SOUL
And OH believe me, could turn away
One cruel shaft, one pang of this worlds
strife
From your great heart, this day
I'd give my life
-Sardh j. Muller, in The COntineut.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-08
Why Drivers Turn to the Right.

Major W. II. Smyth gives me the fol-
lowing origin of the American custom
of turning to the right on the road:
Our ancestors drove oxen as a usual
thing. In driving an OK team the driver
walks on the left of the team, so that
he can handle the goad or whip with
his right hand In meeting a wagon
each driver would turn to the right, so
that he could be between his own oxen,
and those of the other wagon. Henry
Grady, i1 atlanta Constitution.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-08

Sick animals should be separated
from healthy ones
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-10-31
Judge Black had one of those Gears for

Judge Black had one of those Gears for
music" that cannot tell one tune from an
other. Once he heard his daughter Becky,
who is a fine pianist, play piece that
pleased him, and inquired its title. She re-
piled that it was "Lucy Neal,' and the
Judge ever after declared it to be his favor
lite. Whenever Becky would be playing for
visitors the judge would say, "Now, Becky,
give us my favorite, Lucy Neal and
Becky, slyly winking at the guests, would
play "Old Dan Tucker or "Old Hundred"
AS she concluded, the Judge would tip back
in his chair and exclaim, "Thats my favo-
rite! and would wonder what the people
were laughing at
The st. Petersburg correspondent of the
London Times says. SIT is strange illus
tration OF the state of Russia that, although
the whole country is honoring the memory
OF Iurgenef, vast majority of its people all
told have either never read a chapter OF his
works or heard of his name The council
OF The Miestchanin (bourgeois) corporation
in ST. Petersburg actually passed resolu-
ton the other day TO the effect that, as most
OF the members knew nothing of Turgenef
or his works, copies of his works were at
once to be distributed, in order that they
might forthwith make acquaintance with
the manner of man whose funeral they were
called upon to attend. In the municipal
court of st. Petersburg, when the mayor
proposed the honors to be given to the de-
ceased author, one member, tradesman,
and think butcher, got on his legs and
objected in the following terms: "Who's
Turgenef? He was a Westerling. He was
not one of us. He only scrubbed. The
Lord be with himp''
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-10-31
OUR BEST FAMILIES.

have been troubled for over six years with a
severe kidney complaint, also a weakness of the
urinary organs, with its attendant troubles My
water needed constant attention, some days as
many as twenty times. with severe pains in the
bladder, as well as in the back and lons At times
passed limited quantity of urine, highly colored
with unnatural heat and sediment; frequently eyac-
nations would be very painful. I concluded that |
must do something for it, fearing that more serious
trouble would follow. went to the druggist and
was recommended to use Hunts Remedy as it had
been used with wonderful success in several severe
cases of dropsy and kidney and bladder affections
here in Bangor. concluded to try it, and before
had used one bottle found it was helping me beyond
my expectations. MY water became more natural.
less color and sediment, the pains in back and that
heavy feeling gone, with general toniDg up of the
system; and continued to use it until used six
bottles, and it has completely cured me-
Others of my family have used Hunts Remedy
with equally good success and we do not hesitate
to recommend it far and near, believing it duty as
well as pleasure to recommend so good a medicine
as Hunts Remedy. You are at liberty to Give NV
testimony to the public.
IT, HoDGDEN,
0RRINGToN, ME. May 10, 1888.
endorse the above statement
A. M. ROBINSON, JB.,
Apothecary, Bangor, Me.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-10-31
A COOPRR,s ExPERIENCE.

Some ten years ago I was troubled with kidney
and liver troubles. had severe pains in my kid
ney and Bladder. / tried several remedies that
seemed to do me no good until went to one of our
drug stores here In Bangor, and they recommended
me to use Hunts Remedy, as it had been used here
by many of our best families for diseases of the kid
neys, bladder, and dropsy with wonderful success.
purchased bottle, and found that it went to the
right spot and did me great deal of good. have
no more pains in the back and limbs. used five
10y bottles in ALL and it has completely cured me-
and consider it duty to let others know that
Hunts Remedy is a valuable medicine for all that
are troubled with any of the above complaints.
E.O VAN WYKE,
Fremont Street.
BANGOR, Me- May 10, 1883.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-10-31
Ates Thursday,
s9th.

he custom of this people at the
II to engage upon day. set apart
=, in special festival of praise to
all good, I, Chester A. Arthur Pres-
ne United States. do hereby designate
lay, the 29th day of November next. as a
Of national thanksgiving. The year which is
Tawlng to an end has been replete with evidence of
Divine goodness. The prevalence of health the
fuiness OF the harvests the stability of peace and
osoer, the growth OF fraterna feeling, the sprea4
OF intelligence and learning, the continued enjoy
mont OF civil and religious liberty-aIl these and
countless other blessings are cause for reverent re
lolclng. do, therefore. recommend that on the
day above appointed the people rest from their
accustomed labors, and, meeting in their several
places of worship express their devout gratitude to
God that He hath dealt bountifully with this
with 1t forever.
In witness thereof have heremto set my hand
and caused the seal of the United States to be
affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this
10th day Of October, 1883, and of the indepeKd-
ence of the United States the 108th.
(Signed) CHESTER A. ARTHUB
By the Presidents
FREDERICK I. FRELINGHUYsEN,
Secretary of State.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-10-31

Mr.. Frank Hatton still continues to rem
der himself offensive. While the Govern
ment was prosecuting the star-route thieves
Hatton, through his paper, vas blackguard-
ing everybody connected with the prosecu-
ton, and doing all in his power to secure
the acquittal of the culprits; later on he pub
licly and Extensively declared that civil SER
vice reform, to which the administration, of
which he was prominent official, is
pledged, was an aIrant humbug. Now he
Is paying off private grudge against Mr.
Chas. E. Smith, the editor of the Philadel-
phia Press, by declaring through the col
umns of his paper that Mr.. Smith was ''the
originator and principal sharer in a job that
cost the Government over $900,000," the
fact of the matter being that all that Mr..
Smith was guilty of was making an applica-
ton, with other citizens of Philadelphia, for
fast mail train from Philadelphia to Har-
risburg. In the Monday issue of the Press
Mr.. Smith publishes an open letter to the
Postmaster General, il which the scanda-
lous conduct of Mr.. Hatton in this matter
and several others is described in vigorous
and appropriate language. The sooner Mr.,
Hatton is retired to private life the better
for the post office department and the ad-
ministration in general.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-10-31

Gen. Hazen has just published collection
of weather proverbs" filling one hundred
and thirty pages. The proverbs" are sim
ply old saws about the weather, SUCH as
'Owls hooting indicates fine weather." San
easy splitting log indicates rain.'' The book ap
pears to be of Ito practical use, but is clean
waste of money.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-10-31

The Virginia Readjusters are so confident
of success as to begin to "slop over" Gov.
Cameron declares that he will support no
party or man in the Presidential campaign
who does not endorse in its entirety the Re-
adjuster platform, This threat that if
Malone cannot get an endorsement from
the Republican convention next year he
will "bust' things. Ii is well that he has
stated his position thus early.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-10-31

Congressman Philip B. Thompson, of
Kentucky, is credited with the statement
that Mr.. Carlisle has members enough
pledged to him to secure the speakership,
and he is also credited with saying that it
would not surprise him to learn that Ran
dali and Cox had like number of pledges.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-10-31

A personal friend of the President says
that 10 his next message to Congress he will
take stronger ground for the permanent re-
form of the civil service than has been taken
He thinks the experiment has been sue
cessful enough to prove its practicability
and usefulness, and will recommend that
the system be extended to other classes of
government officials. 1t ought to be extend
ed to M. Hatton without delay.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-10-31

Bishop and ex-Delegate Cannon of the
Mormon church, says that since the passage
of the Edmunds act all the Mormons who
had plurality of wives have put away all
but one of them and are now living in mo-
nogamy. This is in sharp contradiction to
the assertion made recently at the general
conference of the church, that only compar-
atively few had paid any attention to the
Edmunds' act, and that they had incurred
the displeasure of the apostles by SO doing
Mr.. Cannon says also-and this is probably
true-that the accessions to the Mormon
church have been greatly exaggerated, the
number last year not being more than $500,
instead of $4,000, as was recently claimed by
some of the Mormon dignitaries. Cannon
pronounces the Mormons the most happy,
prosperous, God-serving, and Bible-beleving
people on the globe. This is laying it on
pretty thick.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-10-31

James Gallagher. chairman of the Dem
ocratic committee of Connecticut, skipped
over into Massachusetts aud "unfoded a
prophetic vision of Butler at the White
house" The Connecticut Democrats are
disposed to fold Mr. Gallagher up in conse-
uuenQe.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-10-31
Mems Fine Gloves

at prices which defy CONF
petition. Mems walking
Gloves, two buttons En-
brOider d backs, every pair
warranted Mt $1.25, usual
price $3.50. Genuine Per-
rim Frere's UndresSed
Gloves, two buttons anu
Embroidered backs, at
$1s25, usual price $500.
A special sale OF Ten DOz.
Mems Walking Gloves. two
buttons and Embroidered
backs at $1.OO a pair.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-10-31

Monday seems to have been day of COM
paratiye quiet in Massachusetts politics. Eli
Their Butler failed to tell any new falsehood,
or it was not sufficiently audacious to al
tract much attention. No additional revela-
tions were made in regard 20 the hideous
plot which the Republicans are said to be
Matching, and no Democrats appeared and
claimed that they we're virtuous enough to
spurn Republican brides Such quiet is
suspicious. Does it presage cyclone, or
does it indicate that Butler has begun still
hunt?
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-10-31

The Boston Post says: "Every Demo-
GRAFT in Massachusetts, should be sure to vote
for Glinnell, Marsh, ingalls,, Hopkins and
Cummings" This is the Democratic ticket
with its head cut off.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-10-31
arguing against

arguing against
of the Church of
e Society, pointed out
laws in Maine were intro
use the inhabitants had become
drinking habits degraded to the
.lon of saVages." If this is fair spec
len OF the assertions which the anti-prohi-
bitionists of England make the basis of their
arguments it ought to be easy to put them
to rout.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-10-31

The Democratic State committee of Mas
sachusetts yesterday distributed a large
amount of ''taffy" among the Democratic
voters, in other words they issued an address
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-10-31

The Hon. Frank Jones of Portsmouth,
writes to the Boston Post that he has viewed
with alarm and despair" the attitude of
that paper in the Massachusetts contest.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-10-31

The Kibourne suit, now on trial in Wash
ington, involves the right of Congress to
punish contumacious witness. Klbourne
refused to produce certain documents want
ed in the investigation of the real estate pool
and the House shut him up. When he got
out be brought suit for damages, and recov-
cred 100000. The verdict was set aside and
Immediately he brought another suit, claim
ing over $3.50, 900 damages. Kilbourne was
in confinement about forty days.