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W. H. EUCK, - - Editor and Proprietor. J 1. HEALY, Local Editor and Business, Ianag('r, rThis is a.iotlier (If t ho -C tine whlen Garib:zldi does,-Hat dite.. The cable again ainiounicesjii: coad. tseence. Jay Gould .nd his party will aecend Kennerslha Summit, Colo ? d ), on the eAw railroad. They iever hope to get that high again, in life or afterwards. bWe d. .. t hear ýo much about Leadville lately. Perhaps the army, with pick and shovels, will turn their f'eet towards the gold fields of Georgia. whl:ere Colonel Pears n was be Eei;led for so long a time, wci Lurred by the Zulus three da). after the 1Britis. for.Ces had evacu uted them. Gecn. Sclhenck has diawn under the Arrears of the Pension Bill y;.} 625 for his hand, which was in jiured early in the war. lie hardi. ever held a better hiand than that at poker. Yakoob Khan is safe in the fol. of the Bhritish camp, ostensibly o; a vii-pion of peace. Ie is so funi of vain tricks, however, that tl.he best thiang to do is to carry iir .traight away to England and civ ( Ilizo ; im. A high-strun:g elephant, wia put on airs over an humble hump backed camel in New York, wa very much surprised when thl lhip of the desert sailed in and a lamnaged him several thousand a lollars worth. Cyrus WV. Field, the millionaire, a nakes oath that ho has no person- I d1 property subject to taxation. i iVhat a mournful sight it will b t o see the poor old man pick ul, t xis budget and tod le over the ills to the poor house._ A Poclicemanl from London, Eng- a and, who was on a professional st Visit to New York last week, wil, tl ave occasion to remember the fi kill of the American thief. His B socket was picked of all his d loney ill the Opeln street. 01 Syracuse, N. Y., comes to the tl rout with the first crazy book t gent on record. iHe insisted on n ,aying his hotel bill a week in 1,t dvance, which was so unusual a di roceeding that h mob of Syracu ians at once collected and chased io im to the police ,station. ce While permitting his owr 'eary limbs to linger in blissful epose, O'Leary encourages the 'gs of his fellow professionals to etivity. He tenders a $300 belt ld various sums of money to be ontested for by the footpads of ie courntry May '28th at Chicago. Robert II. Berdell, who, a few oars ago. was President of the :rie Railroad and the possessor f property valued at several mil on dollars, is now an inmate of e jail at Goshen, N. Y., on the barge of perjury and entirely 'ithout funds or friends. Experiments in California dam ustrato satisfactorily that both ie tea plant and the mulberiy oee can be grown successfully in mat climate, and that State bids ar to become a stubborn rival to ihina in the cultivation of tea ad the manufacture of silk. Tuesday of last week wvas not a id day for hail storms. An Elk irt, Ind., dispatch grapples with ones twenty-six inches in cir Imference, and Minden, La., loried in drifts of hailstones two !et deep in the fence corners the 3y after the storm. It is a glori is truth that men never exagger e when it comes to hailstones. The deadly revolver of the Sun y South and the Mighty West emas to give place in the East to ,,e subtle poison. FraDcis E. 'ayden, a Fitchburg (Mass.) )uth, with an ambition to prac ce medicine, has been arrested ,r poisoning his sister in order to i:t property which it is also sup :' s,'d he previously poisoned his irennts to obtain posse sion of, J At ab , t 4 lbe same time a merrI dame named Merrihcvw. near Dear River, N. Y., is charged with poiso:ing her brother-inl-law anid husband. The demand for hemp is becoming national. S. CIIOTEAU'S STOC' RAANGES. It is a matter of great satis faction to Choteau County thai the superiority of her cattle ill ranges and til advantage of low 0- taxation are at last attracting the C3 attention of all the stock men in in, Montana. We learn that Messrs. Jessie Taylor & Co. are en route to the Teton range with 2,50Q ht head of cattle, Ryan & Dunbhy are on their way to the same id range with 1,100 head, Howell & Harris are about to purchase 1,000 head, Dan Floweree and c. Matt Carroll are pugchasing large ly in Oregon, and John Drew & Co. have bought a large aid well selected herd, all for the Choteau u County ranges. These are the latest additions, or intended ad-I ditions, to the numerous large er and small bands already within 11 the county, and we are confident that the experience of these old dealers will cause others to follow their wise example until Choteau 1 becomes the great cattle county of Montana. Certainly no other county in the Territory has more extensive or better ranges, and e the experience of stock men dur ring the past winter indicates thatK cattle will fare better durinig the i cold months in this vicinityI than they will or can on any other l ranges in the Territory. But c these are not all the advantages that Choteau affords to stock 1 men. The matter of low tax- d ation is no small item, reducing e as it does the expense of car- ii ing for the cattle and en- a abling dealers to increase their it herds. As a shipping point and a it market for the sale of surplus cat- o tle, Benton has no equal in Mon tana. The military post on Milk g river, the various Indian agencies y and trading posts, the Northwest t Territories and the town itself h afford extensive markets for the p sale of cattle, and the steamers oi c( the Missouri, together with the J fine drive along the river as far as tl Buford and Bismarck, afford every s5 desirable advantage for disposing of beef and stock cattle at small tI expense and good prices. Indeed, ti there appears no reason why Cho- C teau should not soon become the fo natural range for all the large re Iherds now in Montana. Some G dealers, of course, have become permanently settled in other sect ions of the Territory and will not care to drive their stock this way, Ih even while acknowledging the tH superior merits of the Choteau ranges, but we venture to say e that all who are engaged in tlhe til business of stockraising with an fo eye to profit alone.will soon rea- ly lize the fact that they are losing s money by not following the wise zourse of the above named gentle- t men, who are undoubtedly des tined to become the leading cattle kings of Montana. There are some communities where they marry too little, and others where they marry too much, and the moral scruples of those communities in which a due mat rimonial equilibrium is main tained is very naturally prejudiced against either of these two ex tremes. In some of the extremely rural mountain districts of Ken tucky dad Tennesoee and the Caro linas and West Virginia a great many of the people are extremlv careless about the legal technical ities that bind two hearts as one. Custom has given sanction to a usage which to more enlightened society savors somewhat of the immoral. Of the too much mar ried the Mormans furnish a very notable example, and perhaps the too much married are as obnox ious to the moral sentiments of the public as the too little married. Either error is looked upon as indicating rather a low stage of civilization or moral culture. But -a bad condition of social life has lately developed itself in the State of Massachusetts, in which State so much goodness has germinated in years past and been transplant ed to less fortunate climes, that this new development seems al most incrcd:ble and produces a gal vanic shock aiF up and -down the back-bone of American society. larnstable, Mass., is the 'county seat of th=- county of tije same name, which comprises Cape Cod. Cape Cod is but a short distance south of Plymouth Rock, and has always been supposed to be thor oughly infused with the orthodox and conservative spirit that was brought over in the Mayflower. Yet, in the matter of matrimony, recent events have developed a state of things sad to contemplate. The May term of the Supreme Court of the aforesaid county was in session just tell days, and every case except two on the docket was an action for divorce. No les than thirty Cape Cod women came before the Judge and asked to be divorced from their hus bands. About every case was one of early and ilnjudicious marriage in which the parties had lived, together as man and wife for periods ranging from twenty-five hours to six, seven or ten weeks, acco:ding to the strength of the original attachment. In one fami ly there wore three applicants for a divorce at the same time, and all these thirty applications had to be granted, for such is the law of' the old Bay State that three years abandonment makes divorce per raissable. H And now it is the stove-pipe r- hat, that, like the claw-hammer It coat and Lo, the poor Indian, that lei is slowly passing away. Thie press has vainly lampooned the paste r board abom;nations, loaded its un t compromising ugliness with the f objugations of sincere detestation, has literally and figuratively sat dawn upon this unyielding cylind ,'er of glossy veneer, has smashed its pretentious followers with met aphoric shillalahs and battered it into unsightly ruin, but still it has in this country until recently held " on to popular prejudice as the - quintessence of varnished elc gance. Go to London to-day and s you will see John Bull on his way t o church Sunday morning with f his stove-pipe hat religiously su e perimposed as the signal of his complete respectibility. John Bull. e Jr., and Johnson Bull, and Johna s than Bull and the innumerable sequel of little bulls follow the paterimal lead, all shingled wi;l the inevitable tile of shining gen tility. In the glittering French Capital the chimney-pot covering for the head is so entirely de regeur that your cab driver will solicit the honor of your patron 'age in a japanned immitation of the silk original that the civiliza tion of this country, thank God, is happily outgrowing. -Look upon the people of the street whom you meet to-day and nineteen out of every twenty will be seen to wear the more artistic as well as conm fortable hat of yielding or partial ly stiffened felt, and slowly but surely the sham pasteboard and glue and silk plush is relegated to the heads of those whose tastes were formed when the present generation of men were boys. If France has the monopoly of fur nishing fashions and tissues, and the innumerable gimn-cracks for ladies' adornment and frivolities, America has set a style of her own that is founded on common sense in men's head gear, and one, more over, that is an improvement over a section of drain pipe, veneered with black plush, which the civil ized portion of the human family has been contented to suffer so long that the memory of man run neth not to the contrary. The cngineer, tender, conductor and brakesman of the Territory of Montana have all gone fishing this summer, leaving the train to the baggage master ar.d passengers to run for the time being. It is to be hoped that everthing will go on smoothly if they don't go to dis cussing politics and run the Terri tory into the ground.-Ex. When the King of Bavaria wit nesses a play every other specta tor is excluded from the theater, and his royal nibs enjoys the af fair in solitude supreme. The actors thus know just where to credit all cat calls and pea.nut shells, and when a pondrous bou quet almost knocks some pretty dancense down she knows precise ly in what direction to bow. HIRSHBERG AND NATHAN, s JTTNTCTIOT TJIILDI'G-, '-ONTT ST., T'ORT N, T WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN Furnishing Goods, Hats, Caps, ots Shoes, Trunks, Valises, And every other article imaginable and necessary to complete the stock of a large and F)'st - Class CloLitiz)g House. . . . .... . . . .. . .. ... ..... . .. . . . . ....... .. .. . . .. .. . .. . . .. . . . .. _--____ __ ___ __ ___ __ __ ___ __ __ __ ___ __ ___ __ ___ __ _ Benton, Nearest 28 mile Spri,:gs Rout i Leavings, Sun River, r-; Silver City, and . . Helena. Missouri. O E & CO., Proprietors Daily Line of Four-Horse Coaches to Helena. Connecting With Benton Line Steamers. HI-I. TI. (SIC ITUIR AD iST nA.) YOUNGBLOOD'S Trade VMark. MONTANA BITTERS. Yovxaonoon's MoNTANA BITTERS is ofbotanic derivation. Its remedial ele ments comprise some of the most efficacious vegetable juices known to medical bot any, harmoniously combined by careful scientific processes, with a purifiea spirit,: ous basis, pronounced by competent analysis free from those hurtful contaminations often found in the fiery unmedicated spirits of commerce. To be Hearty, Healthy and Happy, U'se Youngblood's Montana Bitters. To be Hearty, Healthy and Happy, use Yo ngblood's Essence de Buchu. Youngblood's Bitters de Cocktail, Youngblood's Blackberry Brandy, Youngblood's Ginger Brandy, Youngblood's Ext. Jamaica Ginger. Youngblood's Ext. Herb Peppermint, Youngblood's Creme de Virgin, Syrup de Cocktail, Syrup de Orgeat, Syru?' de Nectar. Maraschino, Curaco, Syrups de Strawberry, Raspberry, Pineapple, Lemon, Syrupn de Rose, Syrup de Ambrosia, Syrup de Vanilla. My fiamous Titters it is confessed O',r all the land it is the best ; It has no rival far or near. In all our sA'acious hnilphere.o , L. D. Youngblood, Pharmacist. Aide: man & Youngblood, Manufacturers" BUTTE CIT i, MIONTANA,, I----~` ~ --1-----x" -----` r B EN T ON'S I'TOBACCO, SEGARI AND NEWS DEPOT, I shall endeavor to keep in stock choice Domestic and Imported Segars, Best of Fine Cut & Plug Tobacco CA.DIE UTS, TYS, ,,TION, STATIONERY, TAN.Y S0.!S PICTURE LES, Etc,, All the Leading Papers will be found on the Counter. FRONT Street. G. W. PAYN, Ready IMade Cloth 3 ]Delenla y, M. '=T , Latest styles of fashionable CLOTHING Always on hand. Satisfaction guaranteea. Geor e Croft. PROPRIETOR OF THE AND DEALERS IN WVines. Liquors and Cimars Of the Best Imported Brands! Ft. BENTON, MI. T., Adjoining the Centennial Hotel L. T. MARSHALL, AUTCTIOj EE j FORT BENTON, M. T. florses cattle, real estate, or any desqrip tion of personaliproperty sold to the highest bidder and good prices obtained. SIMON LEVINE, MERCHANT TAILOR, Helena - - M. T English, French and meri can (: Country orders promptly attcd.:.i . FORT SIIAW RESTARIIAN Condncted by J. SULLIVA N. Stabling for Stuck and Accommodations for Transit a ~Ghsts. i • m~~m~m ,,.= ..m,== f.. n . ,,,.,. . . LILLY & CU, &HE FINEST OF WINES, LIQUORS AND SEGARS. MotANGE SALOON, O iRT BENTON, M. T. WINES. LIQUORS, AND EECARS OF THE EEST BRANDS August Beckman, Saddle and Harness Maker. OPPOSITE KLEINSCHMIDT'S STORE, FRONT STREET, Fort Benton, M. T. Repairing a Speciality. H. J. WACKERLIN PRACTICAL TIN.iViTH and Dealer in Stoves, Tinware and Copperware. A Full Assortment of Stoves, Cooking Utensils and Copper Goods Constantly on Hand.; Jobbing prcnmptly attenidcd to TIN ROOFS AND GUTTERS A SPECIALTY. , Cooking Utensils of all kinds Repaired and made to order. INTERNATIO N A L HOTEL, RINDA & m8LOWER, Pro ! Corner of Main & Bridge Sts. IjEL ENA, M- T, NOTICE. CHOTEAU COUNTY, MIONTANA TER'Y, OFFICE O,' THE COUNTY CLERK, FORT BENTON, May 6th, 1879. The murderers of Patrick Farrell, late a private soldier in the 3rd regiment Infantry, U. S. A., having been duly convicted, the reward offered on the 10th day of Mar:h, 1879, for the recovery of he bodyis hereby withdrawn. By order of the Board of County Com missioners. J. J. DONNELLY, Clerk. LOST. Three horses and one mule, as follows: One brown horse 7 years old, 1,050 pounds weight, branded "W" on right shoulder. One brown horse, about ten years old, branded diamond D and B S on left shoulder, star on forehead. One brown horse, 7 years old, branded with monogram "J. R." on left. thigh, striped face, hind feet "white. One white anaro mule, ten years old, front feet disfigured, qrand unknown. A reward of twenty dol ears, or five dollars each, will be paid for information that will lead to the recovery of all or any one of the animals. JAMIES 1MJvDEVITT, I IL ) ~.T.