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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-28
PAPER HANGING.

u A. MANNoNY, OLD EXPERIENCED
L. Paper-hanger; 20 cents roll Orders
promptly attended 10, 1911 Fourth street, between
l. and ID. jeB-tf
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-28

MANUFACTURER OF ROAD sCRAPERs,
WI Iron Doors, Jail Cells, Shutters Railings
Gratings, Homework and Blacksnithing in gen
eral, No. $40 street, between Fifth and Sixth
Second hand Doors for sale. je224ptt
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-28
CRAFT HOTEL,

This is one OF the best conducted houses
California. ml6-tf
The river press., 1884-05-07
A ssCrat.'' -

lam perfectly sick of the word "dude, !"
and hate not only the word 'masher."
but the type of man supposed to be
represented by it. never could quite
understand what ''dude" was. Some
people call man a dude" if he happens
to wear clean collar, in contra-distinc-
ton to their own filthy linen. To me a
these harmless creatures who "bang"
their hair aid consider ouea-dressing
the perfection Of good dressing. But, as
I have said, am tired of both words,
so have decided to coin q new one for
the exclusive use of the readers of Van
ity Fair. That word is 'scrat.o It is
the last syllable Of aristocrat, SO there is
some meaning in it. Oh he is a reg
ular scrat' y ''That is a 'crat' coat he
has on" etc., etc. The word sounds
euphonlously, at any rate.-Vanity
Fair
The river press., 1884-05-07
Correspondence Solicited.
The Land Laws.

WASHINGTON, April 29.-The house
committee on public lands agreed upon
bill to repeal the pre-emption law and
timber culture acts and amend the
homestead laws. The amendment as
determined upon provides:
Every homestead applicant shall
make final proof by two credible wit
nesses of continuous residence upon and
cultivation or permanent improvement
of his claim for four consecutive years
next succeeding his entry. Proofs shall
be in duplicate one set to be filed in
local land office and the other to be filed
in the general land office. If within
one year after the presentation of such
proof no contest shall be filed and no
notice given supported by affidavit
made before some officer authorized to
administer the oath, charging and speci-
flying fraud, either iii the original entry
or in proofs, the secretary of the interior
shall cause patents to be issued on the
entry but if a contest be filed or affi-
davits made, or if there be, from any
cause, reasonable ground to suspect fraud
in case, the secretary shall direct the
commissioner of the general land office
to institute an investigation thereof.
The act of March 3. 1879, requiring the
publication Of intention to make final
proofs six weeks in advance of the event
is repealed.
Representative Cobb was directed to
report the bill and authorized to ask its
passage, under suspension of the rules,
at the earliest opportunity.
The river press., 1884-05-07

James G. Blaine's daughter, who has
been wintering in Washington, will
tsoon join her husband, Col. Coppinger,
at Fort Assinaboine, Montana, leaving
her little son. now five months old, to
be taken by Mrs. Blaine to the family
home in Augusta, whittier the Blaines
will soon migrate Minnesota Jour-
nal
The new court house project in Deer
Lodge county will now be consummated
without fail. The outstanding indebt-
edness of the county is bonded and all
the bonds taken. E. Larabie takes
$11 500; Con Kohrs $4,000, Mr.. Joseph
A. Hyde. of Butte, 1880; Mr.. Beck, of
Deer Lodge, takes $1,000; and the bal
ance, $4,000 is taken by other parties.
S. r. Ainslie, superintendent Of the
Yellowstone division of the Northern
Pacific, stated yesterday to Journal
reporter that he would not be surprised
to see fully one hundred thousand cattle
shipped into this range district this sea-
son. Already 578 carloads of young cat
tie have come out over the Yellowstone
division since spring, representing about
10000 head.-Miles City Journal. z
John E. Murphy come in day before
yesterday from his recently discovered
coal mine only fifteen miles from Fort
Benton. He reports that the prospects
are excellent, and after doing a little
more work he expects to show up fine
vein of excellent coal. If he succeeds.
in getting good coal and plenty of it
within that distance of the city, he will
have a bonanza for verify We trust
that Johns highest expectations may
be realized.
We regret to learn that Frank Balm of
Wolf creek sustained pretty severe in
iuries few days ago by being thrown
from horse His saddle turned with
him and he was thrown heavily to the
ground and remained unconscious on
the prairie for considerable time. At
ter coming to'' he managed with diff
Guilty to get home, the distance not be-
ing very great. One of his legs was
badly bruised up and he was injured to
some extent about the head. Fortunate
ly no bones were broken, and he is get
ting along very nicely now.
From Wednesdays Daily.
Rev. J. J. Garvin takes his departure
for Helena to-day.
The brick work on the new court
house is rapidly nearing completion.
Mr. Jonas Higgins has let the contract
for the erection of large brick hotel at
White Sulphur Springs.
The steamer Rosebud left Bismarck
for Fort Benton last Tuesday, and is
thus out a week to-day. sesi
"a Col. Leaning and III. @. McIntire,
the delegates to the Bozeman conven-
ton, are expected home to-day on the
Billings coach. e'# #@sa H =
r. S. Price, of White Sulphur Springs,
expects to move one of his saw mills
into Neihart this summer. This will
help the Neihart boom along.
Nothing has yet been heard from the
Helena. The first news will be from
the Coal Banks, and she ought to be
pulling in there pretty soon.
Messrs. J. D. Waite and w. B. Edgar,
the we'll known wool growers of the
Judith, have formed partnership,
throwing their extensive interests into
one and making a pretty solid wool
The river press., 1884-05-07
LOCAL NOTES.

from saturdays Daily.
Toe Jedlica will commence the work
# mastering the hospital next week. -
The river press., 1884-05-07
NFFN
N ew Goods.

Cans & Klein received yesterday, per
A. M. Rowles' fast freight line, their
first shipment OF new goods for the sea-
son, other than what have been sent
through by express They were lucky
enough to get general assortment yes
terday, including lot of handsome
suits and clothing OF all kinds, hats and
caps, neckwear, shirts, fine underwear,
alligator shoes, boots and shoes of differ
ent kinds, etc. Parties wanting some
ing something nice in the way of cloth
ing and furnishing goods should drop in
and see the new goods. ##.
The river press., 1884-05-07
Warning to Lovers.

Nothing is more disgusting than foul breath
caused by catarrh. 1t has caused more separations
between man and wife and lovers than all other dis
eases combined. Nothing is more revolving for a
handsome young couple, thinking that they loved
each other than for the first time that they pressed
anothers lips for one Of them to have bad breath
caused by catarrh ''Well, mother, thought Iloved
that young man. but he has got such bad breath 1
have got so fairly detest and hate him. is the
mark of the young lady; and that is The way with
married people They get SO they hate another,
all from the cause of scrofulous case of catarrh
There is nothing that will sweeten the breath and
cleanse the blood SO thoroughly and cure case of
caarrh quickly as Dr. E. B. Halliday's Blood Pur-
fer and Catarrh Inhaant. Sold by all druggists.
: S. Blackford proprietor 274 East Seventh street
ST. Paul, Minn. W. j. Minar wholesale and retail
agent, Fort Benton, Montana.
The river press., 1884-05-07
Beer Bottles.

Billy Yard is rustling up all the beer
bottles in town for shipment down the
river, and has an immense stack of
them on the levee opposite. the Over
land hotel. He estimates that his pur
chases already amount to about 1,100
dozen, or 13, 900 bottles, and they are not
all in yet-by a large majority. 1t is
evident that there is some beer consumed
in Benton annually.
The river press., 1884-05-07


i Mr. Jos. Murphy, brother of Mrs. E.
G. Maclay and Mrs. Joseph Ill. Conrad,
arrived in the city yesterday from the
Musselshell, where be has been looking
after his stock interests.
We see that the grand jury at Miles
City has brought in new indictments
against the Custer county robbers. the
old ones having been quashed. 1t is to
be hoped that these will stick.
Lieut. John Anderson, in command
of the pavmaster's escort, made the
RIVER PRESS a call yesterday in the,
absence Of the editor. Sorry we were
not in, for the lieutenant is one Of the
many staunch friends of the RIVER
PRESS at the finest post in the north
west.
Higgins g. Ayres will commence NOV
ing into their new quarters tomorrow,
having fitted up the same in good style.
They have furnace or bake oven that
Is first class in every respect, and pro-
pose to have complete bakery and
confectionery establishment in connec-
ton with their produce market
The river press., 1884-05-07
Of Interest to VIM. w. Vincent.

IF this item should meet the observa-'
ltion of WilliamW. Vincent, who is sup
posed to be in Montana at the present
time, he will be able to ascertain the
whereabouts of his brother, John T..
Vincent. by. communicating through
this office or addressing him at Fort
Benton, Montana.
The river press., 1884-05-07

In the city SUNDAY. Ills tcduIS, loducu
with lumber for the new court house,
load with merchandise for various
parties in the Judith Basin.
Two four-horse teams were loaded
| yesterday at Murphy, Maclay & Co.'s
for B. G.. Kingsbury, and are now en-
route to Neihart. Work on the Queen
of the Hills will be commenced in ear
nest upon the arrival of the party.
Vim. Baker, of the popular dry goods
firm of Baker & DeLorimier, of Fort
Benton, made the Springs brief visit
during the past week. He came via the
Musselshell and Judith, and is much
pleased with the country. Smith river
and it's beautifully located health resort
also takes his eye, and he cuncurs with
us in the belief that it is bound to be
the health resort of the northwest. He
is live, energetic business man, and
visits our county for the purpose OF ex-
amining it's resources and making the
acquaintance of its people. Husband
man.
On Saturday night Bill McLain and
Jerry Sexton, who had been working
for the Boom company, got into a
drunken fight at the camp on Roose-
velt's.island and the latter came pretty
near having bis head cut off with all ak.
Sheriff McDeyitt and a physician were
sent for in hot haste on the supposl-
ton that Jerry was probably fatally
wounded, if indeed he would be alive
when the physician got there. Instead
of this dreadful state of affairs, how
lever, it was found that the wound was a
slight one, but Jerry, with his usual
luck, had very narrow escape. Nc
Lain, who is otherwise known as
Roaring BILL was arrested by the
sheriff and had a hearing yesterday be-
fore Judge Tattan, and dismissed. The
evidence adduced did not make it out
very aggravated case.
The river press., 1884-05-07

Those desiring handsome perfumed
Towering shade trees, adapted to this
climate should send 25 cents to DR.. Tur-
ner, Fort Benton, for small package of
the two kinds of seed mixed, viz: Black
Locust and Catalpa Speciosa <
The river press., 1884-05-07
Letter List.

The following is a list of letters re-
manning in the Fort Benton post office
for the week ending May A, 1884:
The river press., 1884-05-07
Good Reading for Cow Boys.

The following letter from number of most promi-
nent stockmen of the Judith basin speaks for itself,
and is decidedly complimentary to Mr.. Glassman !:
JUDITH BASIN, NJ. T., July 20, 1888.
Mr.. Wm Gtassnaaf, Fort Benton:
DEAR SIR We, the undersigned of the
Judith basin, having used your saddles for the past
year, find them far superior to all others for durab-
ty, workmanship, and for being the best cow saddles
for general use. 5tt
Horace Brewster, Jesse Phelps,
Cha les Brewster, David s Phelps,
Perry Westfall, Ed. Olden,
James Howard, Ensign Sweet,
John Campbell Sim Campbell,
Jim Smith. ts VIM Rowe &. 8#@s
The river press., 1884-05-07

An heiress was born to Mr.. and Mrs. t.
! A. Cummings Friday night at 1O:3O. 1t
1 is a fine girl, and Tom is the happlest
man in town The RIVER PRESS offers
The river press., 1884-05-07

for the week ending May 4, 1854:
Allen Jos Holt Henry
Andrews E J Kreps Albert 2
Andrews Jno 2 McQuirk Ed
Brown Jas w Miller Lewis
Butler VIM Miller Z +
Campbell Mrs E Potts Mrs Louise
Forbes Ell j ROmsa IN IL u
Frazee M E Ross Jas
Gray w I'll Sheldon Mrs T
Hammett G A Stephen ID Trunt 8
Harmon Jacob Todhunter H
Haigler J w Winner Mr.
Hall Samuel Williams
Persons calling for any Of the above
letters will please say Advertised. =
M. A. FLANAGAN, p. M.
The river press., 1884-05-07

J. D. Weatherwax of Utica arrived
in the city Sunday. His teams, loaded
with lumber for the new court house,
will arrive to-day, and tomorrow will
load with merchandise for. various
narties in the Judith Basin.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-17
A Merry Heart.

"Id rather be poor and merry" says
a writer, ethan inherit the wealth OF
the Indies with a discontinued spirit
A merry heart, a cheerful spirit, from
which laughter wells up as naturally as
bubble the springs of Saratoga, are worth
all the money-bags and mortgages in
the city. The man who laughs is a doc
tor with a diploma Endorsed by the
school of nature; his face does more
good in a sick-room than a pound of pow
ders or a gallon of bitter draughts. If
things go right he laughs because he is
pleased if they go wrong he laughs be
cause it is better and cheaper than cry
ing. People are always glad to see him,
and their hands instinctively go half
way to meet his grasp, while they turn
involuntarily from the clammy dyspep-
tic who speaks on the grooming. He
laughs you out of your faults, while you
never dream of being offended with him,
and you never know what a pleasant
world you are living in until he points
out the sunny streaks on its pathway.
Who car help loving the whole-souled,
genial Laughter? Not the buffoon, nor
the man who classes noise with mirth,
but the CHEEKY, contented man of sense
and mind A good-natured laugh is the
key to all breasts. The truth is that
the people like to be laughed at in a
genial sort of way. If you are making
yourself ridiculous you want to be told
of it in a pleasing manner, not sneere6
at. And it is astonishing how frankly
the laughing population n'talk without
treading on the toes of their neighbors.
Why will the people put on long faces, |
when it is so much easier and p~leasanter
to laugh? Tears come to us unsought
and unbidden. The wisest art in life
is to cultivate smiles, and to find the
lowers where others shrink away for
fear OF thorns.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-17
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Lame and Lazy-A Fable.

Two beggars, Lame and Lazy, were
in want of bread. One leaned on his
crutch, the other reclined on his couch.
Lame called on Charity and humbly
asked for a cracker. Instead of a cracker
he received q loaf.
Lazy, seeing the gift of Charity, ex-
claimed, "What, a cracker, and receive
a loaf? Well, I will ask for a loaf"
Lazy now applied to Charity, and
called for a loaf of bread.
"Your demanding a loaf" said Chair
ty, ''proves you a loafer. You are of
that class and character who ask, and
receive not; you ask amiss."
Lazy, who always found fault, and had
rather whine than work, complained of
ill-treatment, and ever accused Charity
of a breach of an exceeding great and
precious promise: "Ask, and you shall
receive"
Charity pointed him to the painting
in her room, which presented to his Wis
ion three personages, Faith, Hope and
Charity. Charity appeared larger and
fairer than her sisters. He noticed that
her right hand held q pot of honey which
fed a bee disabled, having lost its wings.
Her left hand was armed with a whip,
which kept off the drones.
"Don't understand it." said Lazy.
Charity replied, at means that Char
ity feeds the lame and fogs the lazy"
Lazy turned to go. .
"Stop p said Charity. "Instead of
coin I will give you counsel. Donot go
and live on your poor mother, for 1 will
send you to a rich ant"
Erich aunt? ?" echoed Lazy. "Where
shall 1 find her?"
"You will find her in Proverbs, sixth
chapter and sixth verse;"
Moral Instead of waiting and wish
ing a rich uncle to die, go and see how a
rich ant lives.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-17
Survivals.

In the Shetlands old women still en-
ploy the spindle and the whorl, exactly
as their ancestors employed them 1000
years ago, the only difference being that
modern whorls are far less ornate than
their antiquated predecessors. Near In
verness a potato does duty instead of a
stone or clay whorl. At Barvas, in the
island of Lewis, the people manufacture
handmade pottery without a wheel as
rude as the rudest ever discovered among
the relics of the stone age or in use
among modern savages. Yet the inhab-
itants of Barvas al e not clothed in skins,
aud eaters of raw flesh Gin intellectual
power and in their mode of living they
are Just what their neighbors are"
Manchester c~ottons, Staffordshire crock
cry, Sheffield cutlery, West Indian sugar
and Chinese tea may be found in the
self-same cottages in which these prim-
tive jars and bowls are fashioned. Thus
the very rudest arts may co-exist in a
single community side by side with the
most advanced. Similarly, the "Nors-
Mills" of Shetland are the simplest and
most Intellectual application of water
power known among men yet they an
swer the purpose of their makers well
enough, because water-power is abun-
dant, and there is no need to economic
it by such cunning inventions as over
shot wheels. The beehive houses of the
Hebrides form another example of a
surviving archaic type, equally out OF
keeping at first sight with our existing
civilization.
The rough bone buttons, the stone
beds. the one-stilted plows, the wheel
less carts, dragged along upon their tilt
ed beams, and the bismar or rude steel
yards used in many parts of Scotland,
give rise to similar reflections. But the
strangest instance of all is the all but
modern stone implements found in Shet-
land. These consist of rough flint flakes
shaped by chipping, and quite recently
used as knives or hatchets. So far as
mere external appearance goes, they
might be implements from the drift,
were it notfor the absence of that pecul-
lar weathered appearance which is the
distinguishing mark of genuine paleo-
ithic specimens. The pre-glacial fints
are discolored for about a quarter of an
inch from the surface, and displayed a
banded outline when fractured. The
Shetland implements, on the contrary,
are apparently all but modern, and are
found under circumstances which do not
seem to imply any remarkable antiquity.
The Athen0una.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-17
Darwin's Darling.

NO" iOih YIN
Mr.. George Shelby, the friend of Carl
Book, the European traveller, has ar
rived in this city, bringing with him an
interesting little girl, s years old, who,
he says, is the last of a race having the
animal characteristics of a chimpanzee
monkey and the intellect of a human
being. The little girl was exhibited be-
fore a number of scientific gentlemen at
Central Park. She was dressed in a
pretty terra Gotta dress, very short in
the skirts so as to reveal the perfect
symmetry of her limbs. A gold rope
girdled the dress. The girl is called
Krao, and speaks both German and
English. Her face is round and full,
and covered with thick hair. The SINH
larity to a monkey is seen in the cheek
pouches, in which she stores her food,
and in the absence of bone in her very
iat nose, in her ears and her projected
jaw. Over her forehead her hair is
very thick, and hangs down her backin
jet black ringlets. The hair on her
arms grows upwards, and on her back
starts from her side and grows toward
her spinal colum. The most striking |
condolences are in her vertebre, in
which thele are thirteen ribs, and in
her fingers, which twist and turn in
any direction. Her feet are as service
able as her hands. Mr.. Shelby went
two years ago to the country of Laos in
northern Siam, where he had heard
there was a strange race of men. With
the assistance of the king he and his
men surrounded a village pitched in the
trees, and with the help of soldiery cap
tured the child Krao and its father and
mother. The father died of cholera on
the voyage to England, and the mother
was kept by the king. When Mr..
Shelby took Krao she had the instincts
of an animal and a man. Mr.. Shelby
began to educate her. For a long time
Krao manifested a disposition to throw
cups at her governess in lieu of cocoa
nuts and to coil her hands around the
neck of that lady. By perseverance the
little creature was brought around, and
to-day is as intelligent as any metro
girl of her age. Mr.. Shelby
will exhibit Krao.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-17
Good Imperishable.

SAYS a recent writer {: 81 remember,
not long ago, seeing some larkspur and
lady's slipper in the midst of a sterile
looking field. Upon inquiring how these
garden flowers came there, l heard that
many years ago there was an old house
there, but it had been gone more than
sixty years. Yet, Notwithstanding that
field had been reaped and sowed, plowed
and pastured, season after season, for so
many years, these simple little flowers
lived on, a memento OF innocent child
hood, blooming out of the most squalid
poverty. Ecil has the same immortal
ity. If the children's hands had sown
thistles, they would have remained as
long.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-17
The Secret of Good Manners.

The secret of good manners is to for
get ones own self altogether. The peo-
pie OF really fine breeding are the ones
who never think of themselves, but only
of the pleasure they can give to others.
No adornment of beauty, or learning, or
accomplishments goes so far in its
power to attract as the one gift of SYM
pathy.
In all French history no oma had
a stronger fascination for whoever came
within herreach han Madame Recamier.
She was called beautiful but her por-
traits prove that her beauty was not to
be compared with that of many less
charming women. And when every at
traction of person had long since passed
away, and she was an old, old woman,
her sway over the hearts of others was
as powerful as ever. What was her Sc
cret?
1t was this one thing solely-her gen.
uine and unaffected interest in the good
and i'll fortunes of her friends. Authors
came to her and read her their books
painters came to her with their pictures
statesmen with their projects. She,
herself, wrote no books, painted no
pictures, had no projects. She was
sweet, simply and unconsciously, as a
rose is sweet. She really cared for the
happiness and success of others, and
they felt the genuineness of her sympa-
thy. 1t surrounded her with an immor-
tai charm.
Let any girl try Madame Recamier's
experiment. Let her go into society
thinking nothing of the admiration she
may win but everything of the happi-
ness she can confer. 1t matters little
whether her face is beautiful, or her
toilette costly. Before the end of three
months she will be a happy girl herself /;
for the world likes sunshine and sympa-
and turns to them as the flowers
bask in the sun of June.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-17
1t was dreadful to hear him talk of

1t was dreadful to hear him talk of
that girl
mo; she is young, and / do not want
to be hasty. But 1 love her with all
my heart, all my soul, and if she would
but marry me" He drew a long
breath, and his eyes alight with loves
fire. Tell me, Jean, shall / wait a
while longer, or can l ask her nowP"
''Do as you think best"
They were walking along a shady
path, almost in sight of a house, Stuart
flung down his gun, and stretching out
his hands to Jean.
''Then say you will be my wife Jean,
for you are my love!"
So ended Jeans first and last attempt
at matchmaking.
Phoebe lives contentedly with her
farmer, while Jean is in the city and is
Mrs. Victor Stuart,