The Benton weekly record., 1883-02-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

SAttSL tic iouit'l va AAd1A NV. >"A'S'&
will occupy, but not fill, the Senatorial
chair Of David Davis. s*
The Dublin police are still on the trail
Of the Phoenix Park assassins. Judge Sli-
b-r j. also still on he trail.
A sensation has been crnared In Dakota
by the introduction of a bill in the Terri-
torial Legislature TO remove the capital
from Yakton,
The amalgamation of the venerable and
steady going Cincinnati Gazette with the
audacious and characterless Commercial of
the same city is announced.
The Husbandman damns Governor
Potts message with faint praise by
saying ''It is the best document he has
produced in six years.
Bozeman could not afford to retain her
school principal by paying him living
salary. Saloon keepers, however, up TO
last advjces, mad; expenses there.
The Washington Republic congratulates
Montana on the good sense she displayed
in re-e!ecting her old delegate, The he
public is Rams lell's paper. Man of good
dgmenr-Ramsdell.
A glowing editorial III the Near North
toest entitled 'Erhr Movement Tor State
hoo" prom pts the inquiry: ''Perfectly
disnterested, Brother Mills? Ne aspra-
tions, no soaring ambitions?'
The death OF a faverte dog caused
Philip Nunemaah, a Youngstown, Ohio,
doggery-keeptr, to attempt suicide recent
". He presumably wanted TO go TO the
log, ,-Ainer. Yess or to the demnition
hoW-Wows.
Are Governor Crosby's remarks in his
message, relative TO the too free use of the
pardonng power, intended to reflect upon
the somewhat lavish use which his late
Excelency. Gov. Potts, made of that pre-
rogative?
What does this mean? Mr.. James r.
keene has recently mortgaged his New
port property for $50. 600, and Henry Viii
lard mortgaged his personal property in
New York fo:, $40 900, some weeks ago.
Do these fellows get ''hard up like the
rest of us:
A gentleman recently returned from
Helena says he saw W. F. Sanders and
Benz. F. Potts conversing 1T the Cosmo-
poitan Hotel in that city. Josh Billings
says: ''When you see thirteen geese
walking in line, toeing i'll, that's sign"
To test the severity of the cold last night
u Butte liquor merchant filled apint cup
with the bAsr whisky in stock, ITO proof.
LII less than twenty minutes it was solid.
Inter Mountain. Internal idiot! And
plenty OF good men dying for a drink.
Wonder If the Civil Service act is retro
active? If so, how will some of the AS
say-nine Office employees at Helena pass
through the trying ordeal? And our U.
). officials here-but the act only applied
TO the lower grades Of employees. Beg
pardon.
GEN. SHERMAN's son is about to enter
the priesthood, but the report that the
General himself had turned Catholic is de-
MED. We always understood that Sher-
man never protessed amy religion, except
that of common sense and we are not
sure that he is overburdened with that.
Recent remarks of Edison's, relative to
the distance to which power for electric
lighting may be conveyed, make it seem
not improbable that Benton may in the
near future be lighted by electricity germi-
mated by the unequalled water power of
The Great Falls. Should like to hear from
Professor Swallow or the Reverend Wool
folk on this subject.
The docks of the Innlan Lire at New
York, Were burned OH February lst. The
steamer Egypt, Of the National Line,
which was at the pier was considerably
damaged before she could be towed out.
The loss will be more than million dol
lars. No lives are known TO have been
lost.
A new English cattle company, known
as the Powder River Cattle Company, has
recently filei articles OF incorporation at
Cheyenne. Its capital stock is $780,
700; and among its directors are the Duke
of Manchester and Lord Henry NeYille.
Its range is on the Powder River and
Crazy Woman's Fork.
The recent cOmmotion created by an al
legged manifesto of Prince Napoleon turns
out to have been caused by a heartless
hoax. A patent medicine manufacturer
secured Pion-Pion's endorsement OF one
OF his nostrHms and then printed it Oh fly
ers and scattered it through Paris. The
police expecting some disturbance after
Gambetta's death, did not stop to read the
hand-bill, but seeing Napoleon's name
upon it, they proceeded to run him in.
Hence these tears.
We notice that a bill has been introduce
ed in the House looking to the regulation
of water rights. The bill was introduced
by Mr.. Kanouse, Of Meagher County, and
from his we'll known experience in the
business of legislation, we are disposed to
give him credit for having duly consider
ed his bill. After close scrutiny of the
measure, however, we have not been able
RI find in fhe hill what every claimant