The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-15

. very osn0r1 n1ons Serry SsoWtus ubo 0u>
envy, threw n painful Of pepper into his
face.
Water brings SO cent. a harrel at JefRer.
son, Iowa. II comes high, hut they have
got tn have it-can't get anything else
there.
While playing s.shinny'' mt Grafton Joe
Grace got excited and hit Sam Ilstad on
the head with q club. Al last OF
the game Sam was y head-and very little
else.
Robert barriers and his m~Othcr-in-law,
Mrs. wal.er, of Lexington. N; C., guar
relied Friday over the possession OF his
child. He fired several shots md finally
killed the old lady. s'Barriers Burned
Away" as K. p. Roe would say.
A Red Willow county, Neb.. veteran APP
Piled for a pension ON account ut lame
ness i'm the back and received one ON the
ground Of total deafness in ono ear,
caused by the roar OF "a ramon. IL looks
as il the Department was opposed to hack
pensions after all.
II pays sometimes to get into a hole.
While IA laborer i'm Red Bank, n. J., was
digging i'm Lincoln Park last week. his
shovel struck something and the next in
slant he threw mp $O,0OO worth of hank
notes, supposed tn have been buried there
by a convict.
Mayor Dunn. Of Aberdeen, was robbed
last week Of 81 500 which he had just re-
ceivesl from Washington as a back PEN
sion. He had carelessIv stuffed the money
into his pistol pocket. II ppaar that the
thief went back of the returns from WASH
ington md threw them out on the ground
Of irreRularity i'm the proceedings.
The story that several 'appointees to
office threw their arms around Senator
Stewards neck on his auival at Carson
and actually kissed him has been con-
n-.~~ Ill., aarya IN. v.a ..
pleasantly overpowcred by his friends,
which would seem to indicate that their
breath was considerably stronger than
their affections.
The Farmers Alliance of Georgia and
Alabama claims that the hemp combine
has been rcnewed OH u larger scale than
ever, and has called a meeting to take
steps against the trust. The farmers
should remember that a little hemp goesa
great ways i'm an emergency, and a Judi
cious use of what they have left will cause
the monopolists to go mp.
Charles Hoosc, the f\year-old hoy who
put n spike On the rail, near Ithaca, 'just
for fun" and ditchcd n strain, will pro.
bably grow into that type OF lOafer that
abuses his parents AS u diversion and
adopts burglary Us an agreeable profess
sion, says the Washington Post. On the
contrary he shows a natural aptitude for
the railroad business; and the man who
rails mt him now, may have to make tracks.
Ex-Governor Ordway of Dakota, aside
from being u remarkably shrewd politi-
cinn, has won for himself considerable
reputation i'm real estate ~circles. During
his administration i'm 1888 the capital was
removed from Yankton tn Bismarck,
where the governor had n large collection
of town lots. Now South Dakota has voted
on Pierre, and made il the capital Of that
state. The has even more
real estate I'm Pierre than he had i'm Bis
marck. He is doing n capital business.
II appear that the excursion train bear-
ing the California knights Tcmplar to
Washington broke down mt Atlantic,
Iowa, and had to remain there two hours
for repairs, the excursionists meanwhile
opening several new cases of the wine
with which they had stocked the train he
fore starting. The city marshal Of Attain
tic proposed to arrest the whole party for
violating the Iowa liquor law, and was
only deferred from executing his intention
by the influence which certain local Ma
sons brought to bear. The. published
reports Of the incident from this point ON
would indicate that the two or three cases
Of nne old California influence which
wero set off onto the platform began to
make themselves felt Immediately.
A civil rights case in being argued i'm
Philadelphia, involving the election Of q
colored nan from one Of the city theatres,
on the ground that the purchase of n gem
eral admission ticket did not entitle the
purchaser to u seat il tho management
desired tn give the seat to another. We
are not informed as tO the external con-
dition of the colored R~entleman's head,
hut inasmuch as the show was of the spec
tacular order, il may he inferred that his
pate, although possessing the principal
characteristic of the ace of spades, was
navnrthplpsS rf TINT hriUht nn1 Shinirsr
variety with which n front seat always as
sociates itself as a logical sequence. Tho
colored gentleman should try q few hot
ties of some good wool restorcr, and in
time his passion for orchestra chairs may
by this means he curbed. The next time
he goes to a two-lcgRed show he should
certainly take care and u hack seat.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The WALL 0l a Passionate HOeiena.