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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-17
LOCALS, Continued.
d. A. Huling wants to ZEE you

ID. A, Huiing wants to see you.
.. s., which means old settler, is the
name OF our new correspondent from
BetmOnt.
There is money in it. Ask D. A.
Huling.
"Lives there a man with soul 50 dead
that never To himself hath said,'' that
new peas, string beans, spring chickens
and new potatoes and these other little
delieaeies did not inspire the feeble
mind of the torloTn editor.
There is money in it. Ask D. A..
Huling.
If any of your family is afflicted with
sores or eruption of the skin, impurity
of the blood they will find DR.. jackson
Blood and HunAor syrup a positive and
reliable cure. Is sold by 81. S. Polling.
DeLand's Chemical Baking Powder
contains no Sstarch--uo Flour-no Ter.
IA Aloa-nO Pipe Clay-nO Alum-po
Ammonia-no Tartaric Acid-nOthine
hut Grape Cream Tartar and Bi-Carb
Soda.
We give below our clubbing rates:
HERALp and W'kly Champion, 2:25.
- Lev. Times, 200.
" Chic. News, ? 90
" Toledo Blade 225
Prairie Farmer with
pap 825
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-17
WASHINGTON co. NURSERY.

Has made deliveries of stock at Kirwin,
Philipsburg, Stockton and other
points in the Northwest.
And unlike others who have been in
our midst, is not ashamed to ask for a
continuance of your previous very lib
eral patr mage. We CAN and WILL
sell as cheap as any other nursery in
the west
Send olders to
D. r. PALMER, Gent. Ag't.,
KirwIn, Kansas.
e. Price list furnished on application. If
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-17
LIVERY, FEED AMI SALE STABLE
l.. ". BETHARDs, Prop'r,

L. ". BETHARDs, Prop'r,
LOGAN, -. $3.50, KANSAS.
Passengers carried to all parts OF the
country at reasonable rates. Horses
kept by the week. Care of transient
stock q speciality. Best rigs in the city
furnished at low rates. So
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-17

THE above communication should
have appeared in last weeks issue, but
for some reason did arrive at this post
Office till Friday.-Ed.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-17
The South and Southeast FLORIDA.

ss-Prioe list furnished on application. If
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-12-24

THE average political platform is a
very harmless institution. It usually
says a great deal and means nothing. It
is made up of a series of platitudes ill.,
tended to placate somebody or to catch
votes-only this and nothing more. The
platform adopted by the republican par
ty at Chicago distinctly and emphatic
ally announced its adhesion to the policy
of home rule in the territories, and in
the face of this Il president sends us
a gentleman all the way from New York
to govern us, when SO many worthy
men within the territory might have
been selected. It is an illustration of
the fact that party platforms do not
count for much. They are chiefly use
full to the stump orator, who delights in
contrasting the platitudes of the two
n~artieS.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-12-24

RECENT discoveries in the gold min
ing regions Vi Georgia are sucn as to re-
wye the interest which was turned
away by the California discoveries.
Miners have invested heavily in neces-
sary machinery, and the mines near
Villa Rica, from which So, ZOO, 900 were
taken in the decade preceding 1850, are
now yielding large sums daily. The
great sensation of the Georgia gold belt,
however, is connected with the Legal
Tender mine. situated in Cohuttah
mountain. For years it has been the
tradition among the natives that the
mountain was a mass of gold that it
had been worked by De Soto as he cross
ed the continent. The deeper the min
ers so the richer is the yield. It is as
serted that three other mines have been
struck equal to the Legal Tender mine.
and men are now buying machinery to
begin work.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-12-24

THE following from d Washington
special speaks for itself: 1.-THE thirst
for offices among the democrats is be-
coming stronger day by day, and the
accommodations of the city will be in
sufficient for the army of patriots in the
early days O offspring if they continue to
arrive in proportions to the numbers
who have come to Washington within
the past few days. Already the lobbies
are daily filled with them, and demo-
cratic congressman are worried to the
verge of profanity by their importunit-
les for promises of influence to obtain
offices after the 4th OF March. What
rel high notions of civil-service re-
form may be avowed by their leaders,
the rank and file of the unterrified in
all parts of the country certainly de-
mand that room shall be name for the
faithful, who have waited and hungered
SO many long years.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-12-24

ONE of the first acts of the Diaz adj
ministration in Mexico is giving general
satisfaction. Congress authorized Presi-
dent Diaz to reopen the present unjust
stamp law and cut down supremacy,
and reduce public expenses in all posi-
BILE ways. A portion of the money due
journalists for drafts collected through
the p~ostoffice have been paid, the re-
mainder is promised this month. All
the gambling houses in the city of Mex
leo are closed by the government.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-12-24

r. PLATT CARPENTER, the new gov
ernor of Montana, is something Of a
New York politician. He has been a
state senator, was a candidate for lieut..
governor when Folger got SO beautifully
left, and is a friend of President Arthur.
The only thing we've got against him
is that he doesn't live in Montana and
he parts his name in the middle. The
latter may take first rate with the dudes
of New York, but it is a sort of bad in
PRODUCTION in Montana. Governor, take
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-12-24
A GOOD RAILROAD SCHEME.

The people of Bozeman and Butte are
agitating the question of a railroad con-
Meeting those two cities, which would
certainly be of incalculable benefit to
both. It would give Butte that which
she needs most of all things-cheap fuel.
To Bozeman it would give a market for
her -four and other products Of the soil
adding enormously to the wealth and
prosperity of both communities. The
InterMountain has the follwing in refer
ence to the proposed project
The route for the proposed road is by
way of Pipestone pass, through Jefferson
canyon and along the Gallatin valley a
length Of about fifty miles. A good por-
ton of this distance is a natural level,
and the engineering in no part of the
road would be difficult or costly. $780,
900 a mile is considered an ample esti-
mate of the cost of building the road
and the business men Of Bozeman de-
clare their Willingness to advance from
SIS, 900 to $50, 900 each to aid a chartered
company in building il, and take their
subscription in freight. Such a road
would give our merchants control of the
Gallatin valley, and its grain and other
products would find their way to this
market. Such a road substantially and
economically built and honestly manag-
ed, could not fail to promotd the devel-
opment and growth of the section it is
designed to traverse and pay a good
dividend to its owners
Now if this line were extended from
Bozeman co White SulphurS Springs and
thence to Fort Benton, connecting with
the Missouri river at the head OF naviga-
ton, it would be one of the most impor-
tant railroad lines in the northwest.
What a field of magnificent esources
it would enter! It would tap the great
Gallatin valley the coal fields Of Boze-
ma the Smith river valley with its
great stock interests the live capital of
Meagher, the health resort of Montana
of cattle, sheep and horses; the Judith
basin, far famed as the garden spot 0 fthe
territory the mines of Maiden, Yogo,
Clendenin, Neihart and the whole Belt
range; the coall fields of Belt creek,
Sand Coulee and Deep creek, the most
extensive and best west Of the Missouri;
the hundred fertile valleys and mex
haustible bunch grass Of Northern Mon
tana; and finally, Fort Benton, the
head of navigation on the great Mis-
souri,, connection with which insures
low freight tariffs to every point on the
line!
What a field for a railroad! Take
your map of the Northwest and you will
search in vain for a better one-With
such ample and varied esources. With
Fort Benton at one terminus and Butte
at the other, it would add to the wealth
of both it would make Bozeman the
most important town in Montana on
the line of the Northern Pacific; it
would make White Sulphur the Hot
Springs Of the Northwest it would
build up large and prosperous towns on
the Musselshell and Judith, at the min
ing camps. coal mines and elsewhere;
in brief, it would be the best local rail
road that could be built ia Montana.
With liberal local abby subscrip-
ton or s~ubsidY-as we believe could be
easily secured, a company might be
organized and this grand project put
through. Why not?
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-12-24
SECRETARY STURTEvANT of the Min

SECRETARY STURTEvANT of the Min
neapolis chamber Of commerce, who
keeps a record of each days shipments,
that the mills of that city
have shipped over 5,000,0 900 barrels OF
flour during the year 1884, nearly | ,2oO,-
900 more than last year, and the largest
amount in the history Of the city. The
total receipts of wheat aggregated over
3d. 900, 900 bushels for the same period.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-12-24

THE commissioners are certainly to
be commended for making an order that
hereafter the printing and publishing
for the county shall be done where the
best work for the least money can be Sc
cured. A good deal of money would
have. been saved 20 the county if the
board had refused, as they had a good
right to-, to recognize the infamous old
printing law long ago.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-12-24
He Prefers Turnips.

He had a crowd around him OH the
Campus Martius, and, when he had
placed his toothache cure on the board
before him and got his lamp brightly
burning, he said:
Gentlemen, the last time / was in
your fair city some n hit me with an
egg. I Sincerely
At that instant q turnip, thrown by
some n in the outer circle, struck the
mans hat and carrieg. it ten feet away.
He reached out his hand for it and con-
tinued:
4'Thank you. / was going to say that
I preferred turnips to eggs, but would it
be asking too much of you to boil them
first ssn-Detroit Free Press.
-zS~
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-12-24

THE city treasurer has paid warrants
to the amount of about three thousand
dollars recently and will be able to clean
up nearly the entire Indebtedness Of the
corporation. The financial condition Of
the city is good and its affairs in general
have been we'll managed.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-12-24

THIS is the kind of weather that tries
the soul of the mail contractor. The
coaches from Helena and Billings are
wei twenty-four hours behind time, al
though extras have been sent out on
both lines,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-12-24
THE RIVER PRESS.

our advice and sign it Robert r., Or
plain R. p. 1t will make your transient
career as chief executive of this great
territory much more pleasant and COM
Portable. We are certain of it and hence
vouchsafe this piece of g~ratuitous adj
vica
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-12-24

THE Touring mill matter is in statu
quo. Gentlemen of the committee on
subscriptions, you must be up and do
ing. With as favorable a start as the
proiect has had it should not be allowed
TO 90 bv default.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-12-24
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER "a, 1884.

THE New Orleans exposition is now
in full blast with, no doubt, an immense
attendance. Fort Benton, the isolated
city of the great northwest, has a few
representatives at the Crescent city.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-12-24
THE RIVER PRESS.

All letters and communications containing matter IN
ended for publication in this paper, should DC addressed
to "The River Press" and the name Of the Urater must
be giuen to insure attention.
Local Advertisements toil be inserted in these columns
at the rate of fifteen cents per line from transient ana
ten cents per lime from regular aduertisers.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-12-24

Book and Job Printing o speciality a
the RIVER PRESS office.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-29
TIE MINOR PLANETS.

NJ. Nysten, of the Brussels Obscrva-
tory, has given resume of our knowl-
edge of the minor planets between Mars
and Jupiter, which now exceed 200, and
are yearly increasing The number OF
these annually discovered had been in
creasing, but in 1880 fell TO SIX. The
average size had been gradually dimin-
ishing. The first were of eighth to ninth
magni '1de, the last are OF eleventh to
twelfth. The average volume of those
more lately discovered are one-irtieth of
that of Ceres. Pallas, Juno and Vesta-
those first perceived. Vesta, the larg-
est, is probably about 800 kilometers
diameter. 1t is little smaller in ratio
to the earth than the earth is to Jupiter.
The smallest, Echo, is about twenty
kilometers diameter, and smaller in ratio
to Ceres than Ceres is TO the earth. 1t
may be said roughly that the sun is
900 times the volume OF Jupiter, Jupi-
ter 1000 times that OF the earth, the
earth 1000 times that of Vesta, and
Vesta !, 900 times that of Echo. Proba-
bly, Echo is 1000 times the volume OF
the largest bolides that come daily into
the earth's atmosphere, and one of these
is at least 1000 times that of meteors in
a stream of falling stars. The minor
planets circulate in orbits whose mean
distance from the sun varies from two
to five times the distance OF the earth
from the sun. The thickness of the zone
they traverse is about 400, 900, 900 to
to 5O0,O00,000 kilometers. The small
planet which approaches nearest the
earth in its perihelion is Actea, which,
entering the orbit of Mars, may be
caught by him and serve as new satel-
lite. The one that goes furthest away in
its aphelion is Hilda, which, again, may
be caught by Jupiter.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-29
TIE GAVE or COMMERCE.

So often has the game of commerce
been referred to in the social notes from
Eastern cities, that several inquiries
have been received asking how to play
the game, and it seems not inappropriate
to record description of one of the
most pleasant amusements that have en-
tertained the fashionables of New York,
Washington, Philadelphia and Chicago
during the long winter evenings. AS
there are comparatively few games which
can be played by odd or even numbers
of people, commerce has sprung into
favor Just ut the moment when everyone
is tired of "Don Pedro" "romce,"
"Pope JOAN" and the few other round
games familiar to Americans.
Any number of persons may join in
the game, from four to fourteen, or
mere, and, when large party desnes to
play at the same table, two packs OF
cards may be used, which gives each
player the chance Of holding five of a
kinda hand literally better than the
best-and it gives the game to the holder
according to the denomination of the
cards. Five cards are dealt to each
player and five ON the table for "stock, "
which mus. be turned face up, and from
it each in turn, beginning with the
player at the left of the dealer, may
| draw one or more cards or exchange all
of his cards for the five ON the table, his
original hand becoming the "stock
from which the next draws, and SO ON
until one obtains hand with which he
is content, when he raps Oh the table,
or more elegantly cries out: "My ship
sails" The others may continue to
draw around to Inn who is ready to
start on his commercial voyage, when
the hands are all hid upon the table and
compared. The hands are drawn with
the same object and their relative value
is in the same order as in the game OF
poker, as follows:
/. a sequence flush is sequence
of five cards, and all of the same suit.
2. "Fours' are four of the five cards
of the same denomination.
3. A "full" is hand consisting OF
three cards Of the same denomination
and pair OF another demon nation.
+ 4. A flush is all five cards OF the
same suit.
8. A sequence is all five cards not
of the same suit, but in sequence.
6. "1lrees" are three cards of the
same denomination, but the other two
of different denomination from each
other.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-29

eye was tho create wlcKcdncSo posi-
bio Kept company with n married
man."
She plodled up the roal with four.
teen miles before her, and tho dust OF .
rising storm about her, with only one
wish, to hide her head in her little bee
at last. and there die.
Old Dobbin was making his slow way
home before the Knapps' wagon. Mrs.
Knapp was proud and happy. Adam
had received the prize for dwarf pears.
The rain beat down, but the oil-cloth
covering kept it off very we'll, and hall
their journey was over when, suddenly,
Adam stopped with jerk his mother
gave cry.
"What's the matter ?" said she.
I'D have run over somebody next,
he said, and jumped out.
Lying in the road, straight before the
wagon, was woman covered with mud
and quite msensible. He picked her "
and came toward the wagon.
Mother !" he cried, i'll a sort of shrek.
Mother, light the lantern. Ii l amt
crazy it's my poor Milly."
The lantern was lit. Milly it proved
to be-Milly in dead faint, with all
her finery in wet heap about her; and
ignoraat of the facts as they we're,
the mystery of her being there
was tremendous. They took her home
to her mother, and Mrs. Hedley believ-
ing as she did that Milly had intended
to go to the fair with the Knapps, old
Mrs. Knapp arrived at the conclusion
that, finding they were gone, she started
after them ON foot. What Adam thought
he kept to himself.
Six weeks after, when Milly was get
ting we'll of the fever that followed, they
had talk together. When it was over,
Milly said:
"Now, Adam, I've told you every
word as true as gospel, and if you want
to break with me you can. Tn fonder
OF you than l ever was before, but I
wouldn't let you have me without know
ing how I'd behaved"
Adam looked at her quietly.
"Milly," he said, 81 think you need
to be taken care of, and if you'll let me
I'll do it. It's well that drummer has
got away from the place, though, if he
values his bones"
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-29
TREADING WA1En.

The Indians ON the Missouri river,
when they have occasion to traverse
that impetuous stream, invariably tread
water just as the dog treads it. The
natives of Joanna, an island on the coast
of Madagascar, young persons of both
sexes, walk the water, carrying fruit and
vegetables to ships becalmed, or it may
be lying-to, in the offing miles away.
Some Croomen whose canoe upse be
fore my eyes in the seaway on the coast
of Africa walked the water, to the safe.
keeping Of their lives, with the utmost
facility and l witnessed negro children
on other occasions doing SO at very
tender age. At Madras, watching their
opportunity, messengers, with letters Sc
cured in an oilskin cap, plunged into
the boiling surf, and made their way
treading the water to the yes els out
side, through sea in which an ordinary
European boat will not live. At the
Cape Of Good Hope men used to pro,
coed to the vessels in the offing through
the mountain pillows, treading the water
as they went with the utmost security
and yet here on our own shores, and
amid smooth waters, men, women and
children perish like flies annually, when
little properly directed effort-treading
the water as / have said-would hapl,
suffice to rescue them every one.-
Nature.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-29
Why the Drummer was not Drum.
ming.

Among the stories told at The
Twenty.iifth reunion was the follow
ing good one: One of the drummcrs
while the regiment was on the mtv',
had a pcnchant for foraging on his
own account. And the chickens had
to roost high to escape his far-reach-
ing hands. Whenever night over
took them tins drummer had good
supper provided for himself. On one
occasion he had rakcd in couple of
turkeys and had put them into his
drum for convenience in carving.
When the regiment was halted for
the night, the colonel Immediately
ordered dress parade, and the drum
mers were expected TO beat up. The
foragcr made his drum-slicks go, but
the quick eyed oloncl notice that led
was not drumming.
HAdjutant," said the colonel, "ihat
man isn't drumming, Why amt he
drumming?"
The Adiutant stepped up 10 hin,
saying, "Why Amt you drumming.
".Iecause.' said the quick-witied
drummer, II have got two turkeys in
my drum and ono of them is for the
colonel"
Up to this point the conversation
had been carried on sotto voce, but
when the adiutant reported, the col.
onel raised his voice so that all could
hear, "What! Sick is he? Why didn'
he say so before2 Send him to hi,
tent at once."-[ Hartford Times.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-29
THE FRUIT FAIR.

10 was old Mrs. Knapp's opinion that
her Adam had condescended great deal
in engaging himself to Jane Hedley's
girl, Melinda. And, indeed, Melinda
was more hattered than she would have
acknowledged, for when times were hard
est Mrs. Hedley had taken in washing,
and the Knapps were never anything
but farmers, and Every good family"
of the neiglborhood. To be sure, the
farm was small, and there was not much
money in it, and Adam worked hard, as
did his mother. Still, to think Of being
mistress of such place, having best
parlor of the grandeur of the Knapps'
front room, spare room for company,
and, no doubt, black silk for church,
was great dream for Milly Hedley who
had carried home baskets OF linen to-the
hotel in her time. She never owned it,
but she was proud of her elevation, be-
side being fond Of Adam.
He might have been little fonder of
dancing and less fond Of reading, she
thought; bul it was genteel," toe, to
be serious and given to books, and it
mover would have occurred to her to find
fSult with it, but rather to wish that she
herself had more of his "genteel ways. "
They had been Engaged" a good
while, and she knew he would ask her
to set the day soon, and had even
thought over what she would wear on
her wedding day.
In fact, she was looking at some arti
fetal flowers in the milliner's showcase
when she first saw that young travelling
salesman. He was dressed splendidly
He wore kid gloves, and had what Mill,
thought diamond pin in his cravat
The dainty bag he wore over his shout
der was only an addition to his travelling
toilet, and the gay bonnet pins, of whicl
he carried samples, were simply gor
geous to Milly's eyes. There was gen
tleman, thought Milly, and she stared n
him without intending to do SO.
The young man was not blind to ad
miring chances.
"Perhaps the young lady might Xix
TO see these pms. They're the newes
thing out" said the drummer. an,
charge for looking. What we strive TO
is to please the ladies'" And he spreat
his wares before her eyes.
The milliner was very polite. Sh,
always fulfilled her social obligations
and it struck her to be her duty to in
troduee these two persons before he
counter.
sob Miss Hedley," she said, "thi
is Mr.. Fairer. He's brought me sam
pies from New York for five years
Used to I've we had to go on to purchase
We've got things brought to our door
now. I'll make list Of my orders, Mr.
. Fairer."
She went to her desk and began +
write. and Milly and Young Fairer talked
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-29
Our Agents

The following persons are our authorized
q gents, who will receive subscription for the
SEMI WEEKLY SoUPu KENTUcRIAN;
j. W. Williams, Pembroke, Ky.
W. b. Brewer, Fairview, Ky.
L. l.. Mcclure, Trenton, Ky.
}. NJ. Adams u Co., Church lllll Ky.
+. -. Hancock, CaSky, Ky.
}. c. Marques, Pedee, Ky.
Mrs. Gartie |. Grillin. Lafayette Ky
u. j. Faulkner, Caledonia, Ky.
". A. White, Macedonia, Ky.