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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-12

LIEUT.. ROBERTSON, First U. S. Cav
airy, charged with duplicating his pay
accounts, pleaded guilty, but disclaimed
any fraudulent intentions. The court
martial reserved sentence.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-12

DANA, Of the SIM, has taken a peculiar
way to amuse himself III his old age.
He owns a majority of the stock of the
kSun, which brings him an income of
aver $500, 900 a year. Latterly he has
kken to collecting china and chickens.
has already $50, 900 invested in china
#zz2a $40. 900 in fancy chickens.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-12

The official report shows that there
have been 27,318 deaths from cholera in
Egypt since the outbreak of the cpl
demic. There have been 140 deaths
among the British troops stationed in
EgyDt.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-12

STOCKS are firmer on Wall street, par
ticularly the Northern Pacific and 9th
ers controlled by Willard.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-12

The foot and mouth disease is increas-
ing alarmingly among the cattle in
England.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-12

MAJ. FRANK w. BALDWIN, of the
United States army, was robbed Of $3.50
by confidence men near Dayton, Ohio.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-12
State OF Trade.

New YORK, Aug. BIN their weekly
report, R. G. Dun q Co, OF the Mercan-
tile Agency, say that the business OF the
country is furnishing with pretty full
tide through its accustomed channels.
This is indicated by the steadiness with
which the figures shown in bank eK-
Manages at the chief centers, are main,
ID. With. depression in several
ent branches of trade, and only
actiyity in most departments
ems, it is rather surprising
!, that these figures do not
d decline. The trade Of
scented no new features
Mere is moderate ac-
S are very low, in
production. Cot
and petroleum,
s, but reductions
hole have not
rket has con-
kity after the
emily been
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-12

rR Helena special states that the at
g. general has officially notified
|e Conger that his resignation is
led. The charges preferred against
swere found true, and, very prop
The is asked to retire from a position
b,s done anything but honor. It is
suit expected.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-12

REPORTS from Liverpool that Can
adam cattle are affected with Texas fever
are emphatically denied by Canadian
cattle men.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-12

GOVERNOR BEN BUTLER of Massachu-
sets has made the authoritative anounce-
ment that he will be a candidate for re-
election.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-12
THE RIVER Press.
RATES OF ADVERTISING :

BEEcHER's lectures atsSan Francisco
were almost a failure.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-12

n OF MdTy-
land, talks thus on Maryland politics:
l don't think there is any doubt that
we will elect a republican governor and
the Legislature. We are going to have a
clear majority in the next legislature,
which will elect a United States senator.
It looks to me as though Hon. Hart B.
Holton will carry off the gubernatorial
prize. He is young, aggressive and pop
ular, and owing to a disaffection in the
ranks Of the democracy, he will be elect
ed. too.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-12

E dispatches give a graphic account
Irrible disaster on the island of
md adjacentisles by Whichbetween
5000 lives were lost by the
Of volcanoes and the floods
Whole cities were covered
and thickly settled districts
Way by the floods. Nothing
ible has occurred in recent
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-12

Front ST.. Fort Benton. M. L.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-27

TIE most glaring frauds may be perpetra-
ted in Indiana but of these nothing must be
said Let Malone incite a riot in Virginia,
and every political gong in the State is beaten
with the muscular force of a savage. The
indianapolis Journal gives a war whoop,
and its echoes are heard by the bloody shirt
yelpers throughout the State.-Logansport
Pharos.
The Indianapolis Journal will most heart
lily unite with the Pharos, and any or all
other papers, in urging full, unrestricted
investigation into the elections held in Indi-
ana, not only in 1880, but in 1876 as we'll
Let the lights be turned on. If there are
thousands of Democrats who will testify that
they were corrupted in 1880, and voted
against their party because of the two-dollar
bills OF which so much has been said we
want them to have a free and fair opportu-
nifty to put themselves on the record to that
effect. So far as the indianapolis Journal
and it's propretors are concerned they are
perfectly willing to stand up and be counted,
and to give all the information they may
have respe citing the election of 1880 to con-
gressional committee. The friends of the
Pharos have control of the House of Repre-
sentatives, and can order this investigation
at once; and when it is entered upon, all we
have to say is, Let the CALLED jade vince"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-27

it, an made it subjec' of fastin' an prayer.
tasted and prayed over the matter day. and
then, sir, 1 went down ON Wall street ana
skinned them fellers out of cool two hundred
thousand in less than twenty-four hours"
"MR. TAFT. our minister to Austria, never ale
lows a barber to touch his face" said a knight
of the razor in Cincinnati, recently. Gle never
wears a beard, and always shaves himself. He
has an assortment of dozen or fifteen razors.
He is crank on the subject of buying razors.
He has given me directions to buy for MIN
razor whenever I find good one, no matter
what it costs. Just before he started for Vienna
T soi5'' him Sheffield blade for $l5. But you
ought to see sVihiif6'q s$s He always mas inc
morning papers brought to his room before he
gets up. just as soon as he moves into his
trousers, even while his suspenders are dangling
behind him, he siezes his shaving mug and lath-
ers his broad smiling face. Then he adjusts the
suspenders and again fathers. Looking for all
the world as if stricken wi tn leprOsy in the face,
he then sits down to read the papers. He reads
but few minutes when he again gets up and
fathers. Then he takes his array of cutlery and
begins stropping them. Presently he lays them
down and fathers again. Then the papers, the
razor, the lather; and so he spends an hour lath-
ering, stropping and reading, and reading, strop-
ping and l.tneI.ng until his tough beard is made
soft and yielding, after which he seizes the
razor he believes 20 be the sharpes5 and scrapes
one side, and takes the next best razor and
scrapes the other. By this time breakfast is
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-27

away because we have but a day to tarry.
Eat, drink and be merry is the cry, for to-
morrow we die. This is the sentiment of
the great body of mankind. The determine
ton is not arrived at by deliberate thought
but is rather an impulse, for which there is
no accounting, unless, indeed, the unex-
pressed belief of the world be that death
ends all.
But all are not moved in unison by the
same cause. 1t is said that the same lurid
sunsets have so wrought upon the fears of
the superstitious residents and the negroes
of north Texas that immense revivals of re-
lgion have resulted. Everywhere the
churches are so crowded nightly that many
are turned away and the excitement is in
tense. 1t is only to be regretted that red
sunsets do not occur oftener, or that the
wicked are not by some less awful means
brought to just appreciation OF their sim
fulness
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-27

WHAT farces can be made out of trials for
the highest crimes, is well shown in the case
now on in Shelbyville. While nominally
before a court and jury, the parties are
really attem pting to try it in the newspapers,
while the judge upon the bench has shown
his bias in a most extraordinary manner.
The killing took place during a heated po-
litical canvass, and on the day of large
political meeting A leading Democratic
politician was unfortunately killed, and the
young man arraigned for the crime is Re
publican. Instead of the trial being q calm,
unprecedented investigation, every effort is
being made to invest the case with political
prejudice. The manner in which the reports
of the evidence are headlined and published
in the Shelby Democrat is at once an out
rage upon justice, contempt of the court,
and disgrace to the paper Whatever may
be the result of the so-called trial, the
methods used, and many of the circum-
stances developed, are a degradation of the
forms of law, and, going unrebuked by the
court, can but result in palpable declension
of respect for law in the community.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-27

IT is told of North Carolina negro that
when he saw the flaming colors in the West
ern sky few weeks ago, he said be lin
tended to have big time Christmas, for he
really didn't think the world would stand
much longer" This idea, so oddly ex-
pressed, is one held by very many people,
white and black. Not that the world will
not endure much longer but that life will
not last always, and the proper thing to do
is to make the best of it by having as many
jolly "Christmases" as possible. By a false
method of reasoning we determine that be-
cause lfeis short because the years are few be-
tween the weakn of infancy and the senility
of age, we must put into them as much fun
and frolic, as much wildness and dissipation
as, apostolic. We make the vigor OF manhood
the christmas" of life. The energy given
10 the human body to aid it to completest
development, mental and moral, is frittered
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-27

THOSE patriots who ragged at the United
States government because OF its alleged neg
lect of o. Donnell, only to learn subsequently
that he was probably not a citizen of this
country at ALL can sympathize with those
other tender-hearted persons who have law
ished pity on Mrs. ODonnell That worthy
woman has been interviewed since her re-
turn to Philadelphia, and seems by no means
overcome by woe. She had q kindly desire
to prevent his being hung, and went over to
England to help him, if possible, by such tes-
timony as she could offer in his favor. She
was too late for the trial, however, and i'm
mediately sailed for home without seeking
an interview with the doomed man. She
did not wish to see him, she says, because he
was under another's influence, and she had
no desire to encounter the woman for whom
he had left her. Proof accumulates that
ODonnell was bad man in all that the
words imply.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-27
meeting.

WE presume DR.. Dio Lewis is not asking
anybody to share responsibility with him for
his views on prohibition. He seems to be
amply able to take care of himself. But
there are many besides DR.. Lewis who think
there is much good sense and sound wisdom
in what he says, and they are as good ITEM
perance" people as those who insist that all
who do not pronounce shibboleth as they do
are the advocates of Saloons" and have
"gone over to the rum interest" And there
are not few who found much to indorse in
Mr.. Deans communication, although the
writer was Liquor dealer, these few being
of the very best Temperance" men and
Christians There will be vastly more "tem-
perance' and greatly more effective legisla-
ton on the drink traffic when it shall come
to be recognized that Prohibitionists are not
the only Temperance" people, and that those
who do not believe in prohibition as an in
fallible remedy for the evils of intemperance
are not necessarily the emissaries of the devil.
There is a great deal to be done before pro-
hibition is attainable or practicable, if it ever
shall be; and the Temperance" people are
those who can unite on the best possible
regulative and restrictive agencies, awaiting
that nillennlal period
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-27

AN ass, who m;sspells his name into Asa"
attempts to prove, in the Shelbyville Demo-
crat that the killing of Sheriff McCorkle, on
the 9th OF October, 1880, in that city, was a
political crime the same as the assassination
of ]. P. Matthews chairman of the Republic
an committee OF Copiah county Mssissip-
pi. He says McCorkle was Democrat, and
he was killed during Republican meeting
therefore it was political, and the man sus-
pected of the shooting should be treated as
the Republican press of the North demands
shall be done. to Wheeler, who shot Mat
thews because the latter had voted
Democratic ticket McCorkle's death
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-27

THERE will not be wanting those who will
take quiet chuckle of satisfaction over the
Chandler. Arnold episode. There is such an
air of insufferable assumption about the
apostle of sweetness and light, and such
a characteristic English prggishness and i'm
perturbabic and colossal selfishness, that a
real warm blooded, human man cannot we'll
help enjoying the Washington incident.
There are some men. whom to know is a mis-
fortune, both to them and to ones own self.
The pleasing illusions with which they have
been surrounded are dispelled; they appear
so mich better and glander at a distance,
which lends enchantment to the view. OF
such are Thomas Carlyle and Matthew Ar
mold. Neither can ever be again to the read
ing world what they were before Froude pub
lished the Life and Letters" and before the
great Oxford lecturer came out of the cloisters
of his books into Immediate personal contact.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-27
Funeral of the st. Louis Firemen.

ST. LOUIS, Dec 26-John Conway and
Mike Kehoe, members of the salvage corps,
who were killed at the Elm and Fourth
streets fire on Monday night, were buried this
afternoon. The services were held at ST.
Patrick's Church, which was filled with a
great crowd of symp athiziag friends, and the
remains were followed to the grave by cor;
tege of unusual length. Other members OF
the corps wounded at the same fire, and the
two firemen hurt at the Neidringhaus fire, are
all doing well and will be on duty in few
DAYS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-27

IT is a great qualification to know that in
the remembrance of the holiday season our
esteemed contemporary, the Sentinel, was
not overlooked The editorial page of yes
terdays issue bore unmistakable evidences
that the entire establishment had been
painted deep and lurid red We extend
congratulations and hope our friends will
have as happy New Year as their Christmas
was merry
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-27

THE question of protection will certainly be
one of the most important and prominent issues
in the coming campaign. What is needed is a
better understanding of the principles and facts
of the tariff, and we cordially commend to our
readers the manual prepared by Mr. Giles B.
Stebbins. No. $50 Henry street. Detroit. Mich. 1t
is a valuable compend, and is prepared for pop
ular and general reading.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-27

result OF drunken street fight, entirely re-
moved from the political meeting being held
at some distance from the scene of the dis
turbance. The shooting was part of Sc
ries of fghtings, in which there seemed to be
no special personal antagonisms. The shoot
ing was not because McCorkle was a DEM
ocrat, or because he had attempted the exer-
else of his political rights. The shooting was
not openly done. There is doubt as to who
was the guilty party. The assassin has not
been elected to Office because of the killing,
but person suspected of it is on trial before
the court of the county, and put
on his defense In all these respects
the killing of McCorkle differs
from the killing of Matthews. ASA him
self gives the beginning of the riot in which
McCorkle lost his life, for he says: "Whisky
flowed as freely as though it was Demo-
cratic wake, and as a result fighting fol-
lowed" With this admission from Demo-
cratic leader and in the Democratic organ,
we may well dismiss the effort to invest the
McCorkle killing with a political character.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-27

ranged for the classicists rather than the
scientists, but the latter have had their say
and must be content to bide their time.
The college association was organized in
1871 1t publishes its annual proceedings,
aad its influence is already felt among the
colleges Thirteen of the schools were rep
resented in the last meeting-the State nsti-
tutions Wabash, Indiana, Asbury, Frank
membership Our colleges are largely the
leaders and formers of public opinion. They
are the life and center of the towns where
they are located. They set the fashion and
pattern of liberal culture. Their influence
upon the public literary taste is great, and
might be quadrupled if they would make use
college professors are not gwen to educating
the public through the newspapers. Proba-
bly, the cobbler astronomer OF Spiceland has
done more to advance the interest and study
of astronomy by his popular letters than all
the astronomy teachers in the State. He
certainly has better instrument than either
of the State institutions. Our college men
are not prone to lend their pens or voices to
the great outside world movements in which
the majority of men are interested. Their
influence in politics is rarely exerted active
ly, yet it is felt. Prof. Seelye contended
that, as the head of Amherst College, his po-
litcal influence would be greater than as a
member of the national House of Repre-
sentatives. Nations are ruled, after
all, by ideas, and back of the
legislative halls and battle-felds are the
grocery and school-house debates the pull
pits and the schools and colleges. To colleges
we should look for a conception of politics
which is not party creed, but branch of
ethics rooted in the conscience and moral
nature, and guided by the highest reason and
intelligence. And, as the colleges are at
the head of our mental life they should also
erect the standard of true manhood. Man
illness and culture should go hand in hand
The young men who leave our colleges
should be firm opponents of vice as we'll
as ignorance. 1t is to work out some of
the many relationships between the great
public and the higher schools, and to i'm
prove by discussion and comparison the
studies, spirit and discipline of their several
colleges that this august and learned assem-
bly, are holding their sixth annual associa-
ton. As guardians and formers OF public
opinion, as men of letters, Learning and in
auenee, as having the best interests, both
mental and moral, of the Commonwealth at
heart the Journal welcomes them to our
city, and wishes them happy and successful
meeting. .
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-27

MILwAUK EE living skeleton has set an eX-
ample to other distinguished men by bequeath
ing his body, when he is done with it, TO Harvard
Medical College. He wants a pOst-mortem ex-
animation made, for The benefit of science, to
find out why he is so thin. If Matthew Arnold
now-but, come to think of IT. post-mortem is
not always necessary in order to find out why a
man is thin.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-27
A Desperate Criminal.

MALONE N. Y, Dec. 26-William Hat
field, all escaped convict from Michigan, was
arrested Yesterday by Sheriff Stackwell Hat
field stabbed the sheriff, also Allan Stackwell
and wife. Hatfield was finally captured af-
ter being shot through the thigh. The sher<
if and son are not dangerously hurt,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-27

THE perils of matrmony are rapidly increas-
ing. T. now behooves girls who contemplate
marrying to find out before assuming any risks
whether the chosen husband is addicted to SOM
nambulism A San Francisco young man, hap
PLY married few weeks ago, rose from his bed
the other night and fatally SHOT his wife and
himself under the impression that he was at
lacking burglars Investigation showed that it
was a clear case of somnambulism.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-27

THE recent horrible accident on the Louis
ville New Albany & Chicago railroad was
treated by the officials as such disasters gem
orally are by owlish and narrow-idead man.
ayers. They refused to tell the truth about
it, but to all inquiries replied in an evasive
and unsatisfactory way. There were nine
people killed, burned and drowned and fif-
teen wounded, but the officials were chary
of giving information of the terrible disaster
to those most deeply interested The Chicago
News says:
1--WE can we'll understand that a catastro-
phe to one of its trains, involving the MAIN
ing and even the burning of passengers, may
be very unpleasant subject of conversation
to the officials of the road concerned. But
we do not see that this fact ought to stand
between the public and full information as
to the extent and fatality of the accident at
the earliest possible moment. We are Jar
from thinking the officials of the Monon
route, for example, Indifferent to the fate of
the unfortunate passengers who persisted so
miserably by flood and fire at Salem, Ind,
last Monday morning Yet, did we not give
them every benefit of the doubt their curt
replies to reporters would create the i'm
preston that the horrible death of nine per
sons and the manning and burning of several
more were regarded by them as mere Incl
dent of travel, in which the public
had no concern. This policy is not peculiar
to the. Monon people. On the contrary, it is
the rule with railway officials and most
Objectionable rule it is.
There are few railroads whose managers
are sensible enough to see that the best
policy is to give at once and fully and freely
every detail of Information they have about
accidents, and this custom will grow until it
becomes general. There can be nothing
adopted generally for the facts will come
out. The telegraph and reporters and news
papers are more potent than the folly even
of railroad managers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-27

GENERAL BUTLER retires from office on the
first of the year. and will Immediately take
I'D his residence in Washington. From his
stone mansion on Capitol Hill the General
can carry on his Adullamite campaign for
the presidency to much better advantage
than if cribbed, cabined and confined in
Boston
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-27

SOME thrilling Information is going the rounds
Of the press in regard to the little feet and
Der one shoes possessed by some of the leading
society ladies in Washington. The correspond
ents who disseminate this species of news prob
ably wear number five hats.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-27

WE can not refrain from reproducing the fol-
lowing rare and radiant gem from the editorial
columns of an esteemed contempoia airy, the
Sentinel. It is in the editors best style:
"In our assets there is this ard that, and, on
this Christmas day brand new hat-a fashion
able hat, from brim to crown, handsome
any hat in town; Christmas hat each friend
admires, never guessing that Crit or Myers,
while feeling their purses, found them fat. and
musingly said, let's buy him a hat.' Thanks!
yes, the heart throbs thanks for this and that
and the head says than ks for this Christmas
hat"