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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-12-05
FORT SHAW. M. T.s

we al IN receipt OF q large stock of Goods bought for cash and
"nlcn we oaer at Bottom Prices. Our stock consists in part Of STAPLE
y = rA = on-e gkooERlEs, DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, BOOTS AND
SHOES, CLOTHING, HARDWARE, STOVES AMI TTnwa pr I n1No
AMMONlTloN, WOODEN WARE, ORooKERY. GLASS lamps
hAnE = AM sADDLERY, WOOL SACKS AND TWINB. TENTS
AND WAGON SHEETS. We carry a full line Of AeRTc7rTTP1 At.
bMh NIs' consisting in part Of the Celebrated Woods seIfbn7erg
= -. mowers, Tiger hakes' sulky, Gang and Walking Flows, Harrovs,
WheelbarroWs and Pumps. We are agents for +bo oa1ahsatsa a ra1rp
WAdoNs' winch are conceded to be the best wagons made far tbo wo+.
ern country. We respectfully invite our old friends and patrons to Give
Y $ q call and examine goods and prices before buying elsewhere.
June 10th, 1883. q .r,rro-
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-12-05

IN addition to the rich placer diggings
in the Occur d'Alenes, a three-foot quartz
lead has been struck which does not
need assaying to determine its value, as
free gold is visible all through the rock.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-12-05
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1883.

For the year ending December 31st,
1888 the expenses of the territorial gov
eminent of Montana are estimated at
$40. 800"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-09-20

would you like to buy some con-
denscd codfish?"
"What is condensed Goldfish ?"
The man opened a box and showed a
preparation which he said was simply
ground Goldfish.
'What put it III your head to grind it
in this manner? ,"
"Well, | was in the fish business,
barely making enough to keep body and
soul together, when a friend came in and
chafted me for not going into some other
business. He picked up big Goldfish
scorutulIy and said:
"'Now, that's pretty thing to offer
a man; it's just mess of strings that no.
body can chew
"Aud to chatf me still further, he said
in a sort Of ocular way:
You ought to hire boy to chew
that fish for your customers
Il got an idea from that. and before
night l had grinding machine. and
next morning put out Il sign Condensed
Goldfish Everybody wondered what
that was, and most of them bouohtsomc
to try. 1t took like fire. and in less than
mont [ was clearing 30 dollars day
OH that alone. and had dozen instead
Of one boy to do the chewing for my
customers. It's a big business now. /
am shipping it all over this country and
am about to close arrangements for sup
plying the English market through
New York house. If that succeeds a
can retire in five years with fortune
My friend Is keeping the books for me
and says he is the inventor of chewcd
Goldfish"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-09-20
What has Become of Them.

wy, ------ e IL 900 ...- - -. I
what mas become Oh IlioSe Sr"ceit'l ~
accomplished h'iS VINO USeo TO write the
romantic tramp stories I0r the news
papers! LGt US see mere was az
ways flch l1elrtSS IRON the Guy IN t u
business on5 SI.S Oh l,ij PoicI IN lne
co"I' old l,IlIl 'i|uSq 1 .1' pG9N ol
poems &c, re-, ~ t tii9 lip,'Sellol' ~ =
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4 tn "l, ~ ;i,,o+n ' ~,,
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1ll'i IfM1 ni,o.g oocs int" fbo iIi{o%n,'
.1 I,.i,ae ont . No. howl Of Lraad and
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mhh an" an "PPlo Pi,, ,'''n' we ',l,
S'iS cow OK ,' ~ Li, n,n WI, i1o
WIN Il l'I" ~ TO ~ Icn1, Of tha honi-
mas lll.''.'', i u, .oT,etino, nnn NJ rondo,n
OF poems: ",r I'1 90 tfotiN,I, that +Ln
ne Io'I9 Il .'U, ,ovn 81 To- t"orS and has to
SoH, ,t, 5Il, house for = drv handkerchief
%% -,,'4 a., ~ t.n,nr tas how he wos once y
nc, ',' ,,i in,lr,, how INIT has been led
hii@''t 'l,' iI,''l ,io and na,rnyy hath
away rom ,,;o I,I+iI bn has fnaIIv
by eNll "SSool;.lo,li' ,L IInh oftor hrn1iJ-
come TO "IllAillS 700 :; ,la'' t,n",, Int tba
last: ana 10 H ,}'o l nj has made him
Kindness i 50 Oh I ,iag ' dilfarrnt life The
l,,i,.ys rives him Il bright gold piece,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-09-20
How They Catch MackereI.

The mackerel-catcher has Il somewhat
peculiar experience. Vessels of this
class are of the same rig, tonnage, and
lading as the cOd-tisher, except in them
the sein takes the place of the trawl.
The scene OF their operations is rather
wider, too, as they meet the mackerel on
their appearance III the spring as far
south as Virginia, and follow them to the
shores of Greenland and Iceland.
Georges bank, in the open sea. about
one hundred and fifty miles off Cape
Ann, and the Dominion waters are, how
ever, the favorite fishing grounds.
When one of these vessels reaches the
spot where her prey may be taken,~ a
sharp watch is kept for the schools,
which may he socn playing about on the
surface; old salts aver that thcv can
smell a school of mackerel as well as
menhaden. When one is sighted. the
/ l.stlessness of the crew gives away to
animati II. The purseine, cooled on the
after hatch, is hastily thrown into the
/ selne-bOat. which has been towing astern
| since the vessel left port. Two dories
are let down, and, i'll company with the
/ seIne-bOat, row ont toward the school.
! At the proper time the selnr-boss gives
] llit N'l'A. TIC TWO UblltS take each end
of the seine, some two hundred and fifrv
f thOms in length, and in three minutes
/ enclose the school. Thcu the seine is
'passed,' aud the schooner is sigualIed
to come alongside. There are five hun
bred barrels of large, fat mackerel in the
! ''purse." The method Of Transferring
them to the vessel is much like that prac-
ticed by the menhaden steamers. A
large dip net, with long handle, worked
by tackIing, is let down into the strug-
Cling mass and throws them on the yes
seI's deck by the half barrel. This done,
the operation of dressing down" begins
10y throwing the catch into square
! trough: twelve men of the crew of four
| teen then attack them with knives, dex-
terously open them by a slit down the
back, and clean them at a stroke; they
are then washed. assorted into various
grades according to the size and fairness,
and packed in barrels, one barrel OF
Liverpool salt being required for four
| barrels of fish. So rapidly do they work
that forty-seven barrels have been
cleaned and packed in two hours and Il
half Meantime two men have been
overhauling the seine, repairing it where
a shark OF bIuetish has made a rent, and
the men are ready for another haul
perhaps to work for hours without secur-
ing a barrel.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-09-20
The Alligator Fever.

It beats all how a northern man does
banker to shoot an alligator just as soon
as he gets beyond the Ohio river, and
the further South he goes the stronger
grows the feeling. It's a sort of Chuck
fever" and nothing will cure it except
the gore OF the reptile. A chap from
| Rhode Island went down to Biloxi from
New Orleans with a party. Small alli-
gators were plenty enough along the
creeks and bitches, and every time the
Clam State man saw one he almost
kicked his boots off. He tackled every
body around Biloxi for an alligator hunt,
and he finally paid a darkey So to drive
him to lake four or five miles away
where the saurians were said to be nu-
| merous enough to crowd each other out of
water. The boys had been over in the
morning and fixed things. A rope was
tied to either end of a water soaked log
| and Led into the bushes, and no sooner
! had the hunter got down and discovered
movement in the water than he opened
fire.
Oats yer game, boss, " said the dar-
| key as he seated himself in the shade,
and the way that old log was bombarded
was a caution. The man made eye shots
and line shots, and dead shots, and after
he had fired about twenty-five times he
began to wonder why his game didn t
turn toes up.
'Takes a heap O lead, boss, but You
Is trubblin' him mighty bad" encour-
aged the darkey, and the bombardment
was renewed with determination to die
in the last ditch. Pretty soon a man
| broke forth from the bushes to the left,
and in a voice of authority called out:
''Shoo+inor nHirators ont of season is
an ofense punishable by II fine Of not
less than SO"
''N-O-a -
Elbow many shots have you fred?"
"Only thirty nine.
shooting off a revolver in the State
of Mississippi, except in self. defence, is
a fine of So for each time Have you
permit?'
Permit for what? 2"
"TO stoot at Col. FOrd's alligators.
II not he can recover damages not to ex-
coed $500. Did you cross that field?"
eyes"
''That's tresspass, and the fine is not
less than 225. Youmust come withme|
"But, sir IT
Il will bring up my horse and buggy
and You must go to the county seat !"
The constable" started. SO did
Rhode Island. They went in opposite
directions. The Rhode Islander came
into Biloxi on a canter, settled his hotel
bill without stopping to count the
change, and picking up his satchel
he busted off along the railroad track as
if called to a death-bed. When l found
him in Mobile few days later he had
shaved off his whiskers and blackened
his eyebrows. He also complained of
lame back and corns on his feet.
"Say !" says he as he carefully looked
around for listeners, eff old Mississippi
feels so stuck up over a few ponds and
alligatOrs and constables she can keep
'em and be hanged to her! l druther
shoot a crow any time than an alligator :"
NJ. QUAD.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-09-20
AFTER A CYCLONE.
Phoebe COuzIns's Account of the Recon
Tornado in Minnesota.

Tornado in Minnesota.
Miss Phoebe Cou-i4.-- visited Rochester
soon after the tornado and thus de-
scribes what she saw:
"The country, for many miles, IS laid
waste. Farmers crops and barns and
improvements are strewn in every direc-
ton, hut the loss of life is not so great
as at Rochester, although the few that
are killed and wounded in the country
are most horribly mangled. The wife OF
one farmer, who was in the field, started
for the house. but failed to reach it.
She ran for stake in the field, but was
blown almost to pieces. The stake was
driven through her body, and her limbs
torn off so that they have not yet been
found. One young woman is 50 fearfuly
mangled with ashes ground INTO her
flesh that she cannot live. A boy had
his spine so filled with nails that he will
die OF Iockjaw. But the most frightful
of all scenes was that at Rochester.
The scene in the north part of the city,
where stood 800 houses and a large
number of trees, beggars description.
Not a dwelling or a tree remains. The
debris is piled up in huge masses, or
scattered over the plain in hopeless en-
tanglement. Cattle, horses and pigs lie
about dead in all manner OF attitudes.
One COW we saw had her head completely
blown from the body and the horns
sticking into her bowels. A horse tied
to a tree was blown on his knees, and
his eyes in death bespoke the terror
which poss assed him.
THE Hon. John Mccall, of WinOna,
was killed near his elevator. He had
started for the house, across the way,
but had evidently been caught in the
air and whipped on to the earth, for the
| grass was swept clean whore lie was
| found and every bone in his body was
| broken. A long train of grain cars was
| thrown from the track and some Of them
were pitched into the river beyond
Among the trees bordering the bed of
| the river all sorts of garments were fly
| ing from the limbs, and while we Were
| there the bodies of n woman and baby
were found. That hundreds were not
| killed was marvellous. But the time
being seven in the evening and the storm
seen by everyone. men had gone home
to their families, and everyone had taken
refuge i'll the cellars All who were
mangled or killed were those who had
no cellars to go to. In almost every
instance everyone saved was i'll the cell
lar.
"Tho most hoaetlending sight was
the big hall with the houseless and
homeless and killed and wounded. Near
the door of the hail, improvised as n
hospital, lay five children, all dreadfulIy
hurt, whose parents had both been
killed. A sixth child, the baby, never
has been found This sight moved the
stoutcst hearted to tears. Over forty
were in here-men, women and children
in q most pitable condition. One
cunning baby which reminded me Of
IS little one, which no one claimed,
with one of its eyes put out, lay and
gazed with its one eye ut every person
who passed, with the most intelligent
questioning look, as if to say:
'''What does all this mean? Can no
one find my mamma {?
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-09-20
The Telegraphic Project.

It is said that the latest scheme IS for
the Government to purchase the West
cm Union and go into the teiegraphic
business as it is now in the postal bust
ness. A Washington dispatch says that
Mr.. jay Gould intends to- offer to give
uD to the Government the whole of the
Western Union property upon the basis
of yearly payments of the surplus earn
iugs for twenty years to come. The pay
mcut is to be made in bonds or cash, a.
the Government prefers. This now plan
would give the Government the immc-
date possession Of the lines for nothing,
since the yearly payments would consist
only Of the money earned over aud
above the expenses of running the con
Germ upon the basis Of existing rates for
messages 1t is by similar arrange
meut that the British Government pur-
chased the telegraphs, and Gould sees
there very acceptable precedent. The
effort, if successful, would give him aud
his associates III twenty years something
like $50, 600, 600, for The net earnings
are estimated at 81, SEQ. OO0 year A
strong lobby IS said to he getting ready
to carry out this scheme.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-09-20
A Persistent Voter.

knew a man once who told me he
had been young and was old. I believed
him. If he had told me that he had
been old and was young I should have
called for the papers on the spot.
He said he had voted at every election
in our town during the past quarter OF a
century. In all that time he had never
known a man to be elected for whom he
voted. It got to be so that his vote was
equivalent to a defeat. Sometimes a
candidate would pay him $40 to vote for
the other man.
But his heart always failed him when
he got to the polls; he had an abiding
faith that his luck was going to turn
that year, he couldn't find it in his
heart to vote against his benefactOr, and
so he would vote for him, and beat him
anywhere from ten to five thousand
votes.
He Topped in politics every few years,
but he never struck it. He beat his
own side every time. His party, which
ever it happened to be, tried to buy him
off or ship him out of the country.
But he was a true citizen, and he did his
duty. He voted every time, with disas-
trous effect.
Last year at the election for Council
men there were five candidates in the
the ward, two regulars and three bush
whackers. The man cOmmuned with
himself. He felt that he couldn't live
forever, and he was boun to vote for
one successful man before he died, if it
killed him. He went down, and at diff
ferent times during the day he vOte1
seven times, twice apiece for each Of the
two regulars, and once for each Of the
bushwhackers.
The fraud was discovered, the election
in that ward was thrown out and a new
one or }ered. The man went to jail, an6
at the new election Il new man came IL
and beat the five men for whom he ha(
previously repeated clean out of thei
boots.
The man told me that as soon as h
was out he was going to run for Con
gress and vote for the other man, and 81
he would either make spoon or spoil {
horn. -BURDETTE.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-09-20
Seasonable Domestic Recipes.
RHrrRARB PMS New FEG1,AXD STy1

RHUBARB PIES, New ENGLAND STYLE.
Peel some garden rhuharb, or pie
plant. and cut it in small pices: after
lining the pie plates with pastry fill them
with layers of rhubarb and sugar. and
if a lemon is available use the grated
yellow rind for fiavoring; cover the pie,
wetting the edges of the pastry to make
them adhere; make several cuts in the
top crust, and bake the pie in a mOder-
ate oven until both top and bottom crust
are nicely Drowned; if the bottom of the
pie cooks faster than the top, put a
! second plate under it, when it is quite
brown; if the top browns before the
bottom is done, cover it with brown
paper. Dust the top crust with pow
dered sugar after the pie is done, and
use it, either hot or cold.
ST. LOUIS RHUBARB P1E.-Make q
nice pastry; wash the rhubarb, and cut
it up without peeling it; to each bunch
add three cupfuls of sugar, the grated
rind aud Juice of lemon, half a large
nutmeg grated, a saltspOOnful Of salt,
one tablespoonful of -four and two of
melted butter; bake the fruit so pre-
pared, as directed in the recipe for New
England rhubarb pie.
BAKED EGG-PnANT, DIXIE STYLE
Put two medium-sized egg-pIants into
boiling sailed water and boil them for
ten minutes; then cut them in halves
and scoop out the seeds: mix these with
an equal quantity of bread crumbs, two
tablespOonfuls of melted butter, a level
teaspoonful of salt. quarter of salt
spoonful of pepper and raw egg; put
this force meat into the egg-plants, tie
them in shape, put them into dripping
pan with half a cupful of water and a
tablespoonful of butter, and bake them
for an hour, basting them with the drip
pings from the pan; then serve them
hot.
EGG PLANT FRIED IN BUTTER.-Peel,
slice and salt the eggplant: also have
ready the frying kettle half full of hot
fat; mix together in large bowl four
tablespoonfuls of salt, quarter of salt
spoonful of pepper, the yolk of a raw
egg and a tablespoonful of salad oil or
melted butter; in another bowl beat the
white of an egg to stiff froth; when
ready to fry the eggplant put the
white of the egg into the batter, dry
the slices of eggplant on a clean cloth.
dip them in the butter, and fry them
brown in the hot fat; when they are done
put them on brown paper for a moment
to free them from grease, and then serve
them hot. JULIA CORsoN.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-09-20
The Third Time.

Captain Wcbb's death at Niagara re-
calls the similar fate of man in Sicily
just one hundred years ago. Nicholas
smnamod 'the Diver" on account Of
his many wonderful exploits, undertook
in the presence Of thousands of sppcta-
tors, to dive to the bottom of the SiciI-
ian Gulf, where there is dangerous
whirlpool, and bring up sometime
which had been thrown in. He made
the attempt and succeeded. AGAIN
something more precious was thrown in
and again he succeeded. Finding that in
the second attempt he encountered some
submarine difficulties which he had not
expected, he declined to make another
attempt, but SiciIian noble throwing
in gold cup studded with brilGauts as
the prize. he Owed into the gull and was
never again seen.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-09-20

T7ive vnars AGO broke down with kidney
and liver complaint and rheumatism. since
then / have been unable to be about at al.
Nv liver became hard lie wood; my limbs A. At
were pulled up and filled with water. All the
best physicians agreed that nothing could
have usad seven bottles the hardness has all
cone from my liver, the swelling from my
limbs, and it has worked miracle IN my
case: otherwise l would have been now III my
grave. D. W. NAoNE1'
Buffalo, October, 1881.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-09-20

New York Witness, August 10, 1901
81 find that in addition to the pure Splits
contained in their composition. they contain
the extracts of hol and other vel known anu
highly approved medicn2l roots le&Tge ' he
srtice What the makers claim it to. be- to
W WIFE, medicinal %is PREPARATION and not 9ey-
erspe-unfit and unsafe to be used except I ~
emedicine. From a careful analysis Of their
formula-which was attested under oa IL,
! find that in every wineglaSsiuI Oh ID Ia
Ritter tLa active medicinal properties a5ioiG
from the distilled spirits, are equal to Il run
dose dose for an adult which fact il my opinion
subjects it to an internal revenue '"A "9
medicinal bitter. no a., r., De-,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-09-20
pnrnrtr mud suffering.

I was dragged down with debt, poverty and
suffering for yeas, caused by a sick family
and large bills for doctoring. was com.
pletely discouraged until one year ago, by
tie advice of my pastor, l commeaced Using
Hop Bitters, and IN one month We We're all
well, and none of Us have seen a sick day
since, and | want 10 say to all poor men, you
Gun keep your families well a year with Hop
Btters for less than one da-,t2E-s visit viii vii
COST | know if. WORETNGNAN
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-09-20
1ndnlrence and Excuses.

Whether over eating or drinking are mace
harmless by using Hop Bitters freely, giving
elegant appetite and enjoyment by ,I uslns
them being before and remOying all dulLne
Mains and distress afterward. leavingt the head
clear, nerves steady, and all the feelings buoy
ant. elastic and more happy, than before
The pleasing effects of a. Christian or suInpI"-
Gus dinner continuing days afterWara'
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-09-20

SHADowING.-A conductor on the
Chicago and Alton Railroad had a pri-
vate detective arrested for following him
about, and Justice fined the ''spotter'
SO. The managers Of the road stated
that they had discharged a number of
suspected conductors and had employed
detectives to keep certain of them under
surveillance.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-09-20

A BOOK agent named Joe Smyrk,
Was put out and hurt by jerk.
He says as Il cure,
st. jacobs Oil is sure,
Atall times to get in its work.
Advantageous in st. Paul,
From a house had a serious fall,
Though battered and bruised,
He said when he used
st. jacobs Ou-''it simply beats all. 3"
He that wants money, means and con-
tent is without there good friends.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-09-20

THERE is too much brass on the full
naval uniform. With no navy to speak
of, its officers should look modest.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-09-20

New YORK papers delight in speaking
of Boston and its people and institutions
as provincial, but we haven't observed
that they have applied that term to our
John Sullivan. boston P0sE.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-09-20

PEACH P1E.-If your peaches are
juicy, DO NOT pat drop Of water in a
pie. Scatter at least one teacupful Of
sugar over the peaches in medium
sized PIE; wet the edges of the crust SO
that no Juice will escape; have the oven
hot when the pie is put IN. and let it
cool gradually. When you can see the
juice bubble through the openings in
the topof the crust You may feel reason
ably sure that the fruit IS cooked enough;
TO be absolutely certain let the pie stand
in the oven with the door wide open for
five minutes, after you have noticed the
bubbles, and after the crust looks done.