The Benton record. [volume], June 06, 1879, Image 2

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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.
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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,,
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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.