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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-07-29
Less Immigrants.

WASHINGTON, July 20.-The chief of
the bureau of statistics reports that the
number of immigrants that arrived in
the United States during the fiscal year
ending June 3Oth, 1885, was 1878 be-
ing 1908 less than the immigration
during the proceeding fiscal year, and
4O1 III less than during the year ending
June Both, 1882
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-07-29
For Postmasters.

WAsHINGToN,J j uly 21-The law Off
Ger of the Post Office Department has
given an opinion that postmaster who
uses or converts to his own use tie pos
tai funds in his possession, though not
required to deposit them till the end of
the current month or quarter, is guilty
Of embezelment.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-07-29

The changes in temperature have
been remarkable this month. The high
est temperature recorded was on the
14th when the thermometer reached
1929 and during the "a hours it dropped
to 56o showing range of 400. On the
18th the thermometer reached $50 drop
ping to Al showing range of only 19o.
The average daily range from the 10th to
the Goth inclusive was only 300.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-07-29
GENERAL GRANT DEAD.
The Great Warrior Gives Up the Fight at
Last.
HELENA, July q, 1885

HELENA, July %, 1885.
Special to the River Press.
MOUNT MCGREGOR, July, %, 5:25 O..
m.-The respirations have increased to
80 and the death rattle occasioned by
the filling of the lungs and throat with
mucus is heard. He now recognizes his
friends by opening his eyes. Gen.
Grant died at sos a. m., surrounded by
all his family. He passed out of life
peacefully and without evident pain.
This is the extent of our information,
but there is probably little to add, This
result has been daily expected and
while the country will mourn the loss
of so eminent a citizen, the news will
not occasion surprise.
AS the news of Gen. Grants death is
flashed over the world it will carry sor-
row and regret with it. No man in
this age was more esteemed and res
pected the world over, and he will live
in history as one of its greatest charac-
ters Peace to the ashes of the great
warrior.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-07-29
On the w War-Path.

MILES CIEY, Mont, July 21.-The
Tongue river Cheyennes are headed by
Chief White Bull, who has forced
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-07-29

Ed. Smith returned from Neihart
yesterday. He has been for several
months getting in the machinery of the
Hudson mining company from Town
send. The contract has been a losing
one for Mr.. Smith, the roads from Town
send into Neihart being in fearful
condition; in fact almost impossible for
freight teams. Under the terms Of the
contract the machinery was to have
been at the mines within a specified
time. AS this was impossible the COM
pany did not hold Mr.. Smith to the
forfeit clause. Ed. is glad to get back
once more.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-07-29
Manifest OF the Steamer Benton.

The following is the manifest Of the
steamer Benton which left Bismarck a
few days ago:
T. G. Power & Bro Fort Benton, 661
packages T. G. Power & Bro. Lewis
town, 113; RIVER PRESS Pub. Co., 8;
Nee Bros. 35; M. A. Flanagan, 10; Ell.
J. Wackerlin, | ; Ell. 2. Brooks, |; way
points, III together with 66 tons for
Fort Assinaboine and fifty tons for Fort
Maginnis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17

credit Atal events It is certain that he has raised
diplomacy to higher plane that all future negotis
tons viii be easier because of his character and ath
ropeans generally will concede that they have seen and
known not scholar only not diplomat merely, but
an American gentleman---Wa Washington Post Dem.)
WE are convinced that Senator Harris. Of Tenncs-
tentionally, when he charges him with being in sym
patty with "this humbug civil-service business"
There is real evidence that tho President at all APP
mugwump organs, whose painful position requires 9
faith that would be able TO move a Kelley motor IL
properly directed The President has been placed in
tam OF the mugwumps, who refuse to look upon the
campaign pledges in their proper light. This forces
tho President to talk civl-service reform which is
plainly distaseful to him. while making appontnen
under methods that prevailed whom the great Jack
filed the offices with his friends Milwaukee Sentinel
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17
WAKE UP. ALL OF YOU.

The movement looking to military cele-
bration of the Fourth of July in indianapolis
should meet with universal approval and SUBJ
stantial encouragement 1t will be paying
investment if it succeeds in getting 1OO,O 900
visitors, or any considerable per cent Of such
number, to spend the day in this city. In
dianapolis needs thorough shaking up.
Trade here is suffering from exactly the same
causes that operate throughout the country;
but instead of bearing it philosophicaly and
making the best of it, merchants and manu-
facturers, not only in indianapolis but else
where, have fallen into the bad habit of COM
planning. They are so many commercial
Jeremiahs, bewailing the times and prophe-
sying dolefa1 things. Commercial travellers
on the road, imbibing this prevailing spirit,
go forth spreading the feeling of depression.
Now the truth is that, so far as indianapolis
is concerned, it is holding its own with the
best. Business has been dull, and probably
will be dull for some weeks to come. But
what of itf Indianapolis can stand it
as well as any other city can. 1t will not i'm
prove the situation to sit down and raise a
howl, and by SO doing help swell the feeling
Of depression. The merchant who would adj
vertise that his trade was falling off would be
foolish, and would receive no sympathy, foi
he would deserve none. The merchants oil
some other cities seem to be keeping stiff
upper lip, and just now it is the proper thing
to do. Times are dull. but the country and
the people are richor than ever before there
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

SOUR vivacious wife" is nominated for postmaster
Of Bode, CAL by the leading local paper.
THEY have got it that Ella Wheeler, the impassioned
poetess doesn't live happily with her husband. He
will no longer sit still and suffer in silence as she reads
to him.
Mr. RusKINs "Reminiscences" are issued in thirty
parts with the following long title: "Preterita; Out
lines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of
Memory in My Past Life"
THE wives now living Of ex-Presidents are Mrs
Polk. at Nashville; Mrs. John Tyler at Richmond;
Mrs. Grant in New York; Mrs. Hayes. in Fremont
and Mrs. Garfield in Cleveland Mrs. Polk, Mrs Ty-
Ter and Mrs. Garfield draw from the government pen
sions of S. 900 u year.
GOVERNOR HILL. of New York. granted his first
pardon to widow with six children, who had been
sentenced to FIVE years imprisonment for raising a
Cayuga county poormaster's order from $3.50 to
to buy the widow
ONE S. j. Tiden of New York, having been sued
for $l2, 900 by man who put cement foor in his
Gramercy Park mansion reorts by suing tho man for
damages in the of $l3 900. leaving balance in
s. J. us favor of 81, 0OO This must be the man
that ran for President once.
In Minneapolis recently the Protestant clergy de.
nounced the indecent play-bils posted up through
that city and preached and resolved about the mat
ter Father McGoldsick. Of tho Roman Catholic
Church. however obtained warrants for the arrest of
the bill-poster and the proprietor Of the theater.
FARMER of Peacock. N. j.. while blowing re-
Gently lost his watch out Of his pocket and turned
1t under" He did not miss it until night aud next
morning he commenced blowing the ground over
again. and soon plowed 1t up. The watch had been
under the ground eighteen hours. and was still
ming
Mr.. Young. the coiffeur Of the Princess Of Wales,
begins dressing hair at o'clock the morning of q
drawing day SO great is the anxiety to receive
his services that he is engaged not days. but weeks
beforehand. Woe be TO tho lady who comes first on
his list She must be in state Of worry the whole Ct
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17

AFTER careful reading of Mr.. Beecher's
evolution sermons, the Cleveland Plain
Dealer speaks what will probably DO quite
general opinion. 1t says: 'It is not always
new evolutionary theology Possibly he is
not clear in his own mind about it. His evos
luton is not that Of the scientific evolution
lists. His theology is not that of the theolo-
gians. So far as we can make it out, when he
gets beyond the stage which has protoplasm
at one end and the monkey at the other it has
in it more of Buddhism than Of Darwinism or
Calyinismn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17
Trite But True.



The philosopher of the Philadelphia Times
INDUCES in this rather trite but, with oualifica
tons. true observation. "The man who spends
sill he earns as he goes along does not become
capitalist; the man who denies himself of pres
ent qualification in order that he may have some-
thing laid by Tor the future does" This pro-
verbal saying implies that the object of life Ia
to become capitalist" With great number
of persons this seems to be the case. But there
are those who reflect that, as to our earthly
course, I'VE pass this way but once and thai,
in order to 'wrest from life its uses and
gather from life its beauty" they must do
something beside save money as they go on.
To spend money aimlessly in foolish gratifica-
tons is very silly. To spend it as freely as
possible, within the prudent limit of earnings
for the things that make life worth living, is
often the highest wisdom. 1t is a poor and
barren ending of the earthly career to come to
its close nothing but capitalist" only to find
the old truth that ''there are no pockets in the
shroud." A clcd is only a clod though it may
cover pot Of gold. To make the most OF ones
self, and to get the greatest good out of life is
surely nobler ambition than to succeed in the
business of piling dollars top of each other for
somebody else to scatter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17
GEN B. F. BUTLER contributes to the .Julv

GEN. B. F. BUTLER contributes to the July
Harper sketch of the yacht America in
which occurs this passage:
''The subsequent history of the America
has been almost romance Her English
owners altered her rig somewhat, cut down
her masts and used her for cruising until
1861, when her name was changed to
the Camilla, when, deeming her the
fastest vessel in the world, an American gem
tleman, who was then living in the South,
and who has every qualification now to repre-
sent his country abroad, purchased her as a
confederate cruiser" etc.
At first blush, the presumption is that this
escaped the eye Of the responsible editor; but
Oh second thought, possibly, General Butler is
too big contributor to warrant liberties with
his manuscript.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17

IT is curious fact that the American jour
nails which are displaying the most intense in
terest in English politics and are discussing
the present situation most unanimously, are
of the mugwump persuasion. The secret of
this may be that these organs feel, by reason
of past experience, competent to grapple with
any problem of government whatsoever and
hence hasten to throw the light of their wis
dom upon the subject which is puzzling the
Briton. Or, it may be that they are SO tired
with setting American politics right, and re-
forming things generally OH this side of the
water that they welcome the opportunity to
let 60 for time, and talk of something else.
The unhappy subscribers who read the various
lucubrations will, perhaps, welcome the change
also
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17
The sacrilegfous Beecher.

Richmond Palladium. AS
In one of his recent sermons on evolution Mr.
Beecher said:
But if the Bible Is the word of God, according to
the old theory of plenary inspiration hen Mcrmonsm
is right.
Mr. Beecher cannot have much further to 60
to lose the respect of all decent people, His
doctrine of evolution is disgusting enough, but
1t is scarcely necessary to establish his belief
that men are derived from brutes to attempt to
prove that they are stll brutes, as his defense OF
Mormonism implies. IF the Bible is the word
of God" he says, ''then Mormonsm is right"
The doubt he casts upon the divinity of the
Bible comes in bad grace from one who has been
preacher all his life, and it seems little less
Bible depend upon the truth Of that modern
barbarism practiced and taught by the Nor.
mons.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17
THE circular to be issued bv Pension Cor

The circular to be issued by Pension Com
missioner Black viii not read like the Villas
circular. According to the administration Or
gan at Washington the coming document will
assure the clerks Of the bureau that there will
be no wholesale discharges, that no efficient
employee viii be dropped, and that call are as
safe in their places as in the nature of things
Is possible After the clerks have
studied this circular their confidence in
retaining their situations will probably equal
that which sustains the souls OF fourth class
postmasters
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17

JOSIAH w. BEGoLE was reform Govern
or Of Michigan. When he went out of Office
there were suspicious as to his official con-
duct which received the attention of the Legis-
iature, and committee was appointed to in
yestigate. The report just made declares that
Has Governor of the State, Josiah w. Begole
grossly, wantonly and inexcusably ex-
ceeded all statutory and discre-
tionary powers" and twas guilty of q
misaprr Opriation Of the peoples money, the
violation Of sacred trust, and the contami-
nation Of the highest State Office by this no.
farious act" In one conspicuous case the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17
BosToN Herald. mugwumn:

'.It is a burning shame that new national
administration. honestly DESTROYS of giving
its best service to the public business Of this
great country, should DO harried, annoyed and
worn out by persistent army of Office beg
gars, who in their selfshness and greed, are
willing to see the interests Of the Republic sac
rifced to their squabble over the spoils."
1t is indeed. And isn't it some kind of a
shame that the would-be honest administra-
ton allows itself to be so harried, annoyed
and worn out early in the game that it has
already weakly succumbed to selGshness and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17
The Favored Confederates.

Charlottesville Journal e
Of twenty Of the most important Offices within
the gift of the Cleveland administration seven
teen have fallen to confederate soldiers, viz: La
mar, Garland, jackson, Lawton Sarvis. Roily,
Higgins, Atkins, Porter Johnston, Muldoon.
Hunter. Three have been given to Union SOL
diers, viz: Villas, Black and Rosecrans. This.
to say nothing of the scores of other places
which have been filled by the army Of what were
known during the war as copperheads and rebel
sympathizers. II
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17

is no do-bt of it. Pluck and push will ac-
complisn much toward setting trade in mo-
ton again, and a rousing Fourth of July cele-
bration would do much in this direction for
indianapolis, by diverting the minds OF the
people from the low chanasls in which they
have SO long been sluggishls hitting.
Lets have regular, wfoop;'g, continental
Fourth Of July, with all the old-fashioned
trimmings of hilarity and fun. 1t is time all
Indianapolis were out Of the chrysalis of the
dumps a little beating of the hewgag and
sounding Of the tom tom will be good thing
in helping to exercise the evil spirits that
have settled upon us. Let the cannon be
out the banners, and "holler, if need be-any
thing to get out of the awful habit Of complain
ing. Let the Mrs. Gummidges, who are think
ing of .'the old one, or of old times without
making decent and business-like effort to
improve the present, get out of the way or be
run over. The gods help them who help
themselves. We can help ourselves to one of
the most glorious Fourths that Indianapolis
eyer had. The concentration of the energy
that for months has been dormant will make a
celebration to be remembered, Hard times
fo-sooth. Cooperation and old-time enterprise
will give us the biggest kind of day at no
cost at all. Wholesaler and retailer, manu-
facturer and tinker, wake up! Let's have
big Fourth, and have it next month. Lets
invite the world, and see to it that not less
than 100,0 900 accept the invitation and come.
To this end the movement now making should
be pushed with all diligence, and the attrac
lions offered should be in proportion to the
demands Of the occasion. The presence Of a
big crowd would have an enlivening effect.
The receipts in every way would more than
repay the investment Let the man who re-
fuses to help this boom be kept in custody
until the Fourth, and then cut up into can
non wadding.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17
Good Words for Mr.. Hendricks.
Philadelphia Record.

Sundry of our esteemed contemporaries are
making faces and poking fun at Vice-president
Hendricks. The Record does not see any par
ticular justification for this course. 1t does not
agree on all points with Mr.. Hendricks. and it
has had at times to criticse his course, but he
possesses in a marked degree the virtues Of fide-
ity to his friends and devotion to his party, and
twice has shown his loyalty to the Democracy
at a critical time and in an unfiinching fashion
presidents severest critics of to-day were lauding
the gallant fight which lie made in the West--A
fight which was splenddy successful
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17

THE complaint that comes from the
''blooded' families along Fifth avenue that
the region is malarious because of the lakes
in Central Park is absurd. The lakes and
ponds that breed malaria are not exactly like
those in the great park.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17

Mr.. BAYARD shows commendable modes
ty and true family loyalty when he remarks
of his distinguished ancestor, that 'lny crime
is that he was my grandfather Possibly it
would have been nearer the truth and not less
modest, had he declared that the only crime
of the departed James A. Bayard was in be-
coming the grandfather of the present Demo
cratic Secretary of State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17

THE jury responded to the appeal for Frank
Whiting, because of his youth and inexperi-
eDce, by awarding him retirement of ten
years in the States prison. 1t is to be hoped
that when he energies from his enforced re-
treat he will have passed the danger point Of
adolescence and giddiness. Daniels, Whit
iDg's companion, received nine years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17

committee charges that Begolo unlavfully
disposed Of $50, 900 Of public money. Mr..
Begole is now managing milk route in East
Saginaw, and manifests no disposition to even
make an effort to vindicate himself. Begole
is the man who tried to have himself put ON
the ticket with Ben Butler at the national
Greenback convention, held in this city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17

THE New York Capitol, which has already
cost SIG, 100000, is far from completion, and
1t is estimated that the total outlay will be not
less than 3O,000,O00. The act providing for
the structure was passed in 1867, and limited
the cost to 81, 000, 900. An idea of the amount
Of stealing done may be had when it is known
that the national Capitol cost but $40, 600, GOO.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17

GENERAL GRANT arrived at Mount Nc
Gregor yesterday afternoon at a quarter before
3 o'clock. The latter part Of the trip was
especially severe to him, and when he reached
the summit of the mountain he could not
walk, but had to be placed in a chair and car
ried into the house
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17

WASHINGTON police and hospital officials re-
port great increase in the number of insane
persons in that city. A physician ascribes the
fact to the advance Of education and civilization.
That physician is himself evidently little ''off."
1t is the Democratic party which has advanced
upon Washington, not civilization.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17
Disconsolate and Despairing.

The number Of offensive partisans" bears no
important proportion to the disappointed parti-
sans, and where an occasional Democrat Is made
happy with a short term of Office a half hundred
are made disconsolate and despairing The
strains of the seventeenyear locusts are melody
compared with the lamentations Of the twenty
four-year Democrats who outswarm the short
lived locustS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17

If the Louisville Commercial is right the
mayor of that city has dsgraced himself to a
degree that should call for his resignation. A
saloon brawl is not calculated to raise him in
the estimation of the public.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17
Mugwumps and Their Avocation.

New York Sun.
Our esteemed contemporary, the Boston
Herald, afirms that there is in this country.
particularly in the cities, a distinct class that
pursues poitics-which to its members Id
synonymous with Office seeking--as an avoca-
ton, and from the money that can be got from
it." If there is any such 'class," the members
Of it pursue politics as vocation, not as an avo-
cation. 1t is the mugwumps who pursue politics
as an avocation, and as q recreation and light,
genteel employment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17

PROF. RILEY, the entomologist of the Agricul-
tural Bureau, wish es it to be understood that
he is not making locusts regular article of diet
as might have been inferred from recent pub
LEGATION. If the Professor fears the effect Of a
bad example he may reassure himself. So far
as heard from he and st. John the only indi
viduals known to have sampled the insects
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17

DID the indianapolis managers convey the
clubs luck to Detroit! 1t is barely possible
that 1t may change. One thing is certain, it
will not have such easy work before IL now.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17

A sINaULARLY- CONSTITUTED person makes an
elaborate plea through Philadelphia paper for
fair treatment for children at hotels and sum-
m@r resorts. If, on tho strength Of this appeal,
landlords are induced to rashly allow children
any more privileges than they now possess,
unfortunate old folks can only take to the woods
in sef-protection.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17
Bread and Politics.

Philadelphia Record.
The worst thing tho new administration will
have to contend with this year is the short wheat
crop. When bread is cheap and plenty the peo-
pie are not disposed to be over-nice as to the
quality of their politics.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17

THE newspaper that now talks with sheer
Of Jack Logan simply advertises its own
petty littleness and snobbery.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-17

Mrs. MAHALA PORTER AMEs, widow Of the
Late Bishop Ames, died in Austin, Tex, after
a brief illness, OH the LIST instant She was
eighty four years of age.