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The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-08-09
HERE AND THERE.

The Canadian Pacific runs two
trains week.
The estimated yield of the Wood
River, Idaho, mines for 1884 is S5,OO0,OO0.
Iron ore is now mined in 2l diff
ferent States in America, the total produc.
lion in the census year (lSsO) being 1851, ,OO0
tons.
The berry trade in New York
CITY amounts to nearly $3,0OO.0 900 each sea-
son, and is carried on by about 200 houses
on small commission.
The savings banks Of Maine now
have $22,275,745 on deposit, which Is a
larger sum than in any previous year. Tho
number of deposits is 1Ol, ,S22.
A careful analysis of known
LIQUID products obtained from vegetation,
in approximate quantities as compared
with petroleum, will prove petroleum to
be inorganic matter, and not vegetable
product.
1t is reported that the St. Peters,
burgh police have found three Nihllists se'
creted in the park of the palace. where the
Car promenades. The Eihilists resisted,
wounded a sergeant of police, and made
their escape.
United States detectives have
made the imIoltant discovery that the
l,ov oh
New York city to depot of supplies at
Nassau, New Province. large quantity OF
war materials, including dynamite. A
contract for 1000 pounds OF dynamite S
said to have been pending.
Emigration from Italy to foreign,
foreign countries is yearly increasing; Ill
1888 it reaches, according to official statis-
tics, 1G9, ,lO1, mostly peasants and the low
est lazzaroni. The two Americas recelyed
a little over a third Of all the emigrants,
and laterally DRIFT from the Buenos Ayres
coast to the United States has been notice
able.
The town of Selma, Ala, claims
to have the most wonderful artesian we'll
| in the world. The most wonderful feature
in the case is that two separate streams OF
water of entirely different properties, flow
from this we'll The singular effect Ill
question is produced, it seems, by the sim
ple insertion OF a two-ilrc!r pipe within q
four inch tube. The larger pipe descends
to depth of some four hundred feet, the
water having no mineral qualities of char
acter, and being very cold; the inner pipe
descends seven hundred feet; the water IL
strongly imprcsnatei with sulphur and
iron, and compared with the temperature
.of the twin stream, is quite war1n:
The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-08-09
Braves In the Chair OF Torture.
IWinneper M un.) Times

A dentist at Calgary has been busy
lately extracting teeth from Indians.
II is stated that before the advance OF
civilization. when the natives subsisted
solely on buffalo meat, dfcayed teeth
we're unknown among them. Braves
who stand the torture of the sun dance
without tiinching are reduced to a state
of abiect terror when they feel the cold
grip of the forceps.
The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-08-09
THE LATE JOHN HILL.
Death of the Father Of Cheap Postage"
at Boonton, N. j., July "a, 1884.

Ex-Congrcssman John Hill, who
will be remembered as the father Of
the cheap postage bill, died at his
home in Boonton, Norris county,
N. j., July Oath, at the age of GA.
He was born in CatsKill, N. Y, in
1921, and in about 1914 he settled
in Boonton, and was elected from
there to the State Assembly in
1S61-'62, and again in 1866. Dur
ing the latter term he served as
Speaker of the House. He was
elected to the Fortieth, Forty first
and Forty-second Congresses, his
last term ending in 1888. He was
frequently mentioned in connection
with the Republican Gubernatorial
nomination in New jersey, and was
considered the foremost Republican
in the state. Mr.. Hill was interest
ed it postal reforms and the ques-
ton Of reducing postage for many
years, and about sixteen years ago,
when he first entered Congress, he
introduced bill to abolish the
franking privilege, and after two
wears or more of hard work it was
accomplished. About the same
time he introduced the one-cent
postal card bill, and after two years
or more it was passed, against much
opposition. In his remarks on
those bills at that time, in 1872, he
advocated reduction in letter
postage, considering the abolition
of the franking privilege and adopt
ing the one-cent postal card the
stepping stone to reduction in let
ter postage. After the organization
of the House in December, 1881
he introduced his two-cent postage
bill, which was referred to the com.
mittee on post offices and post roads.
who delayed reporting it to the
House during the first session. He
called the attention of the House
to the bill, made several speeches or
the subject, and made every effort
to get it before the House for con
sideration. In November. 1882, he
went to Washington to see Post
master General Howe and brought
the matter before him. He also
called on the President in regard tc
the matter, and found him favorably
disposed toward the measure, anC
in his message to Congress few
weeks later he recommended thu
reduction of the letter postage
Shortly after the meeting of Con
gress in December Mr.. Hill saw th'
chairman of the subcommittee o
the Appropriation Committee or
the Post Office Appropriation bill
On Wednesday morning, after tn
third day, the latter offered a reso
luton asking permission of tn
House to place the two-cent postag
stamp measure in the ost-Offic
Appropriation bill, which wa
granted, and on the next day th
Post-Office Appropriation bill wa
reported from the committee in tn
House, printed and brought befor
the House in few days for consid
Grafton. A great many amendment
. to it were offered, but after a lon
and tedious fight over this claus
it passed, and finally the whole bill
passed, and, after long and bite
Opposition in the Senate, passe'
that body on Friday, the day afte
the report of the Post Office Apprc
priation bill to the House contain
ing the two-cent postage clause
MI. Hill received many letter
thanking him for his interest in til
matter, and also from association
and public bodies with resolution
of thanks,
The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-08-09
BILLINGS, MONTANA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1884.
Ben Butler as Maud Muller.

From the Chicago Ncws.]
Ben Butler, on summers day,
Stood in a convention making hay;
The hay was sweet and the hay was dry,
But 1t wasn't as cooked rs old Ben's eye,
For old Ben saw on gclding gay
Judge Nomination ride that way.
When the Judge saw Ben in the hay at work
He stopped his horse with sudden jerk,
And he rolled his eyes on the winning face
And the buxom form and the airy grace,
And the wealth of cheek and the mesh of hair
OF sweet Ben Butler a-working there.
"Oh," sighed the Judge, that the fate were mine
To wed W tn creature SO divine!
With Ben for mate my life would seem
Like poets song or an artists dream;
But when they heard of my marital pick
How like a steer my folks would kick!"
So, fearful of what his folks might say,
Judge Nomination rode away,
And left Ben Butler standing there
With her wealth Of cheek and her mesh of hair;
And of all sad words Of tongue or pen
The saddcst are these-"He wouldn't have Ben"
The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-08-09

Her latest photograph shows Sarah
rerdhardt enwrapped from head to 70 1t
in a wonderful wal of furs, swelling
her to the size OF o dime muse :m lat
vOuan.s
The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-08-09
WAGON BRIDGE

lUiW be located in the same
Uici1litU. The TellOzOStOne
ferry, by Which the great
bulh Of the travel from the
stock and mining regions
of Shrinking Wnter, Grey
Bull and Northern Wy0Do-
inc and the Cl0rke's Fork
country comes to this vici11-
ity, is also atthis addition.
Iofer these lots, Mclltd-
ing such as hare buildings
on them, on liberal terms,
and at such R0ck Bottom
BATES that the Dltr-
chaser can not fail to Sc
cure o. GOOD
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-05
go, yopu D,IIy TRBUNE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY s, 1881

yield an aggregate of sos columns of foreign CORE
spondcnce and cable letters, as an offset TO 30 cor
umns of crime At the same time there were 400
reviews of books, aggregating as many columns III
addition to about 20 columns OF minor literary
nows; IA dramatic and 166 musical notices. ca
elusive of brief paragraphs and rs articles OF ART
criticism. In the departments of criticism there
were about $50 columns as an offset to the meagre
exhibit of crime previously mentioned.
Gratifying as are Tie reflections which the present
issue of TIE INDEX inspires, our chief purpose III
directing attention it is to recommend ii to jour
nalists Librarians lawyers politicians and business
men generally as reference book of marked
utility. 1t is one mans work from the beginning to
the end of the year to compile the record The re-
cord is printed for the benefit of members of The
TRIBUNE staff and a small edition is placed at the
disposal Of readers who preserve their daily files
and others who desire to use it. The price OF The
INDEX is fifty cents.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-05
CODDTTNG-

GGod bless Billy McGlorym exclaimed o tenn
perance orator last Sunday evening "God
bless Billy McGlory! He has great SOUL" in
the prayer-cause of this speech we all concur.
We do not wish Billy McGlory to be damned,
and we hope that God will bless him and every
body else. But the statement that the propri-
etOr of ArmOry Hall has great soul seems to
have been made upon scanty evidence. There
is no reason to think that he was in possession
of that article when his place was pulled last
week, or even up to the moment Of his con-
victi0n; and if he has acquired it in the Tombs
the transformation in his character must be one
of the Ost margcllOusly rapid changes on
record. Far be it from Ills to question the pull
tying power of sincere repentance. Still we
may be pardOned for suggesting to earnest and
somewhat vcr-enthusiastic missionaries that
the time for c0nsecrating Mr.. McGlory to the
ap0stleship has not yet come.
The sinner in question appears TO be very
sorry that he has got into Jail, and very sorry, as
well as greatly surprised, that he cannot get
out; and he is profuse in promises OF reform,
conditioned, if we understand him, upon his
speedy liberation. Mr.. Gibbs, the president of
the Manhattan Temperance Association, Is
going to try to secure bis release for the good
that he will do - in the character of reformed
ruifian. We are inclined TO think that McGlOry
will do more good by serving his sentence. He
insists that he has not been very bad He has
been anxious for some time to get away from
the deadly traffic in table beer" and the so
ciety of young ladies accomplished in the high
kick act y, but he has been entangled, as he de-
clares. by capitalists and respectable members
of society who would not let him reform. ii
McGlory is let out, Mr.. Gibbs thinks that he
will show these men up. Perhaps SO; but Mr..
McGlorys conversation does not indicate that
consciousness of sin OF that poignant self-re-
proach which ought to accompany the conversion
of a great soul. The type of offender who
hlameS somebody else for his sins and is sorry
that he has got into trouble, and would like to
be Immediately taken out of Jail and made Il
deacon in the church, is common enough in all
prisons. Mr.. Gibbs makes a blunder which a
great many well-meaning men have made, to
the detriment of their favOrite reforms and the
discredit of religion. He declares that his in
teresting penitent has retrieved the past
Pray how And what does Mr.. Gibbs know
about the disposition of this interesting peni-
tent, who, having outwitted the police for long
term of years, is presumably able to fool a con-
venticleY Nobody questions the duty of Chris
tian sympathy and help for the wicked who pro-
pose to reform; but the haste of some goOdy-
goody people to begin coddling McGlOry before
he has exhibited any higher feeling than self
cOmmiseration is silly and disgusting.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-05
PERSONAL.

Mr. Edwin Booth and his daughter will spend
some weeks in the early spring at their Newport
home.
Mr. Blaine does no literary work In the evening,
but devotes the time TO social intercourse with his
friends, and usually retires at an early hour.
During the past year or two Wendell Phillips
kept his pen busy. and it is believed that he has
left some manuscripts of great interest lie never
became fully at home in his new house, but longed
for the familiar old rooms on Essex-st.
Don Nicholas Pierola, formerly Dictator of Peru,
arrived in the city yesterday from Liverpool with
his brother, Don Carlos Perola. The brothers have
been travelling in Europe, and spent part of the
winter in Paris. In few days they will start for
Lima.
bob IngersoIl apparently wishes the poor to
have his gospel of unfaith preached to them with
ont money and without price. At the close OF his
lecture in Greeley, Col, recently, he called tho
manager aside and asked "How many poor people
do Won think there wero here tonight About
ten" after a brief calculation Well then
handing out ten-dollar bill, please take ths ana
give their money back TO them"
Tho widow Of Representative Mackey of South
Carolina Is apparently pure Caucasian, but there
is il is said amixure of African blood in her veins.
Some years ago Senator'S Angus Cameron Teller
and Kirkwood dined at her house IN South Carolina,
and she entertained them with marked intelligence
and culture When the guests departed, Senator
Cameron said to his companions: 10 you Anow
that the lady who has 50 charmlngy entertal,ss1a
us is what they call down here a dam Niger
Teller and Kirkwood were astounded, and we're
with difficulty convinced that such was the fact'
OF Solicitor Rayner, who refuses to license
woman TO be master-Or mistress, rather-oi
steamboat because of his great regard" sincere
DEVOTION and admiration for the female charac-
tcr.D and his elevated conception OF It's dignity
ana loneliness" Mis- Emma James writes 10 mo
Boston Transcript, "Mr. Rayner was table BOARD
err at the Ebbitt House during portion OF the long
Zine was myself bOarder there. He at that time
had cheap lodgings outside, and ms wS sI IN
danqhter then a young lady OF age 10 lnlhgie ~
society. and since married AIRED his economical
dOmcay put %sTs spaI Of fbs n
r' % modest board ng house. while he aired ms
official dignity, solitary, at a hotel table; THAT'S
the kind Of an adnirer and defender he ls."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-05
CIVIL sERTTcE REF0RM ~ NEW-YoRK.

CIVIL SERTICE REFORM ~ NEW-YOR
The State Civil Service Commissioners have
submitted their first annual report. 1t demon
strates that the last Legislator when they came
to legislating on Civil Service Reform were, to
say the least, inefficient. The law under which
the Commissioners act is by no means what it
ought be- So far asst relates to the cities OF the
State it is failure. There is doubt in regard
to its meaning. 1t can be interpreted i'll such
manner as to become a nullity. 1he Roches er
Union, one of the most prominent Democratic
newspapers of the interior, in speaking OF the
law remarks: $50 far az the authorization to
Mayors of cities is concerned that has yet TO
"proye itself worth a straw" The provisions
relating to the State Offices work much better.
The chief criticism that can be made upon
the measure in this particular is that it
was carefully provided that it should not
take effect until the State officers elected in
November had been afforded an opportunity to
bag the customary patronage. That is, the act
by its terms was to become a law after the
expiration of eight months from the expiration
of the present session of the Legisature-eight
months from May 4. The result was that the
State officers whose term began on January /
nd0 uDtll Tie 4tn Oh Jne HnOntH W udhC dppolhO-
ments and removals under the old system. We
believe that all of them with the exception of
Controller Chaplin availed themselves of their
privilege.
The report of the Commissioners contains sug-
gestons in relation to the amendments that
ought to be made to the law. The chief of
these is that the competitive system be made
compulsory upon cities. AS the law now
stands the system is simply optional.
This Republican Legislature can be trusted,
we think. to overhaul the law and put it in
good working shape, free from all antiquities.
1t is becoming clearer every day that
bona fde Civil Service reform has
little to hope for from the Democratic
party. The recent defeat of Mr.. Pendleton
proved that So, toO 1t is proved by the atti-
tude of leading Democratic papers in our own
State. They are not speaking of the reform to
commend it. The Albany Argus recently re-
marked: at is matter of Importance to find
"out whether the rank and file Of parties care
"anything about the Civil Service reform prin-
"ciple. No evidence exists that they do"
Papers that are bent upon throwing cold
water on a cause always talk in just that way.
Other papers do not. and a rule they are Re
publican papers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-05

even possible that the session will end soon
after ii has once begun. The Torres are Pian-
ming an early division on questions OF Ess pun"
policv. The followers of Mr.. Parnell may uiito
with them after failing to extort piedeeS lioi'
the Liberals; and the faint hearts among 'ne
Wings NAV find it more convenient 10 oese''
their marty on foreign issue than I'D Note
against a popularmeasure for equallzlng suffrage
in tho boroucbs and the counties. so numerous
and so doubtful are the contingencies OF the
session that il is neither prudent nor practica-
BILE TO forecast them.
The career of Mr.. Gladstone since the down.
fall of Lord BeacOnsfield has been striking IL
lustration of the inability of statesmanship TO
follow personal inclnations. He had inveighed
against tho legislative inaction OF the Tory
Ministry and against the dangerous tendencies
of their foreign policy. He had convinced the
country that less activity was required ABROAD
and vastly more of it at home. Yet when he
became Premier he was unable to give to his
administration that direction which would nave
been in line with his secret wishes and his pub
lie pledges. He could neither clear away the
arrears of domestic legislation nor avoid foreign
acknowledgements. He was forced to grapple with
social revolution In Ireland and to settle the
most harassing and perpleKing questions OF
Imperial policy. The Afghan campaign had 10
be brought to close; the Transvaal revolt
had to be either suppressed or compromised !;
Cetewayo had to be restored to klngdon
where he could not be allowed to defend him.
self and the Egyptian campaign, involving an
ultimate necessity for permanent occupation
and administration, had to be fought, although
with reluctance and self-restraint. Powerful
as his ascendancy over his party has BEEN MT
Gladstone has been compelled to do what he
had no expectation of doing and to leave I'M
done what lay nearest to his heart.
The opening of the new session affords an
other illustration of this caprice of fortune. lie
has the reduction of the franchise well Ill hand,
and has budget of important domestic meas
ures in reserve; but the complications in the
| Upper Nile are threatening to thwart his plans
A catastrophe at Suakim or Khartoum, or the
| murder of Gordon in the Nubian desert or be-
yond Berber may drag him along path from
which he instinctively recOils.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-05

of gold only $134,53 aud of silver S4t5,s2s. As
the silver Ia worthless for the purpose Of redeemng
any outstanding obligations Of the Treasury, the
debts have really increased 1856, 900 more than the
means of payment 1t is just this change which
causes distrust in financial circles.
According to Mr.. Powderly, Of Scranton, tho
knights of Labor particularly object to the iunga-
rians, and want the importation of these
and other laborers prohibited To appreciate
these demands one has only to remember that
the knights" aforesaid, and nearly all other
tradesunionsts IN this country, are mainly persons
of foreign birth who have found hospitality on
American shores, and now want to bar the doors
against other immigrants who seek the same ad-
vantages and benefits They have been imported
themselves, so greatly to their beneht that they
want monopoly. But the hospitality OF the Uni
ted States was not extended especially to these
precious persons; nobody particularly wanted
them. What this country does want is citizensw who
have manhood enough to desire that other men
may share their blessings. 1t is not going to bar
the doors in order to give 10 the immigrants now
here any exclusive privileges
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-05

The Suez Canal agreement which the brltlsh
Government has just approved, and when NJ:
de Lesseps will submit to the shareholders Oh
the company for ratification to-day, deals oniy
with the financial and commercial side OF 'lio
Canal question. 1t is decidedly more lDerai 70
English interests than the one which MI, uiau-
stones agents negotiated with the great ieh nI
engineer last summer, and which was so quichly
repudiated by the English merchants. among
the positive gains of this last understanding
the abolition of the pilotage fees. 1hese
amounted to $3.50 on vessel of 1,5Oo tons
burden. and the income from this source was
enough to pay the running expenses OF the
canal. The reduction in transit dues Is also
much more marked than in the July agreement,
and probably will be acceptable to the share
holders. Seven new directors and London
Office are also among the other concessions
which NJ. de Lesseps has made. The question
of new canal or the enlargement OF the OLD
one is TO be left to a committee of French ana
English engineers. The authorities at CAIRO
have not yet approved the document; but since
Mr.. Gladstone's Government has done so, the
Khedive will hardly offer much objection to 1t.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-05

all, at price fixed by somebody else' VI
course such an arbitrary interference with free-
dom of contract would never be sanctioned by
any legal tribunal; nor is there the slightest
probability that it could be enforced. why
should ii be enforced if the bargain Is not
against public morals and buyer and seller are
both satisfied with it9
The clamor for Legislative prohibition of ticket
speculation is striking illustration OF the ialacy
of government omnipotence. A theatre-ticket
is not necessary OF life, which people must
have. 1t is a luxury which is always worth just
what people are willing to pay for it. When
manager advcrtises a certain price at the box
Office aud allows spectators to take up the best
seats for the purpose of charging premium on
them, he does not invade vested rights; he is
guilty only of lying by implication and OF
annoying considerable part of his customers.
But the practice which is an annoyance TO some
is a convenience to other buyers. If it were not,
the spectators would fail. Lying is not an
offence which legislatures can undertake TO
punish by fine and Imprisonment. Neither has
q man any business to run to the Legislature Tor
relief because he is annoyed Certain regula-
tons for the sale of tickets at all places OF
public assemblage are legitimate police meas
ures they are required in the interests OF order
1t may be quite proper therefore to insist upon
conspicuous announcement of the prices OF
admission. But when the Legislature enacts
that man who has bought thing shall not sell
it again at profit if he can, it is surely running
very wild