The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1865-11-18
NEWS SUMMARY.

NEWS SUMMARY.
GEORGE FRANc1s TRAIN has been delivering lee
lures in the Fenian cause.
TIE last words of the late Governor Brough, of
Ohio, were, "I die happily and gloriousiy."
The shock of the great earthquake felt twenty
five miles at sea, along the coast of California.
A CLEVELAND (Ohiol photographer intends explo-
ring the Mammoth Cave, KY, taking his views with
chemical lights.
WoRKMEN in the lake tunnel at Chicago, forty
feet below the bottom of the lake, can hear the
engines and paddle wheels of the steamboats, passing
overhead.
III is estimated that So 900 Southerners have emf
grated to Brazil. If satisfactory reports sent
back, it is thought that many more viii follow.
n. P. BANKS has been nominated for Congress in
the Sixth District, Massachusetts,. The nomination
is equivalent to an election.
IT said that the town of PlacervIlein the Boise
Basin has been almost abandoned, merchants and
miners having taken up their line of march for the
Blackfoot country.
WESTERN exchanges, generally, publish in
full our prices current You have the figures, gen
tlemen we hope you will successfully work out the
problem of their reduction.
GERRITT SMITH has written letter advocating Civ
ing the right of suffrage only to such negroes as can
read. He would allow women also to vote under the
| same qualification.
SOME of the enterprising citizens of St. Joseph,
Mo-, have resolved to build street railway in that
city, mile in length. The Herald says it will not
pay until st. Joseph has SO, 900 inhabtantsbut the
directors have commenced work.
SAMUEL BowLEs, editor of the Springfield (Msss.)
Republican,, - has published a book of four hun
dred pages, the title, "Across the Continent" ex-
planning its character 1t isspoken of as instructive
and edifying.
II is said that Thompsons Prairie in the vicin-
ty of Pen dOrelle Lake, there gold placers that
would furnish employment to thousands at So and "a
| a day. Keep Cinnamon out of the way for two or
three years, and industrious and intelligent white
labor will be in the field materially advancing the
standard of empire in Montana and Idaho.
The Colorado Union State Convention have incor-
porated the following resolution as part of their
platform "Resolved, That the pioneer miner who
explores the country and finds the native deposits OF
precious metals is entitled to the same as the reward
of his enterprise and daring, and that the General
Government should give to the dscoverer title In
fee to the same, at the minimum cost of survey.
BY the LoLo trail Lewiston is said to be but little
over two hundred miles from He'll Gate. 1t Is among
the Oldest mountain trails, and is the one by which
Lewis and Clarke crossed the Bitter Root Mountains
about sixty years ago. few trains passed over 1t
this fall but it has generally been pronounced, from
its great ruggedness, impractlcable. packer most
emphatlcay describes its character by saying tnat
"most of the way, if pack falling from the hind
riding the belmare, the train would bea long one.
, A COMPANY has been organized in Boston and New
) York, with capital of S6,0O0,0OO, to transport
freight between the Missouri and che Rocky Noun.
tains, by steam fraction engines. The abundance Oh
coal recently discovered in Colordo it thought
insures On the return trips the trains can
leave coal along the route at places convenient 1or
replenishing fuel when coming out. thirty-two
ton engine is being constructed for the purpose
If this enterprise il successful it will work com
lr1ot a. kn-fp
use Of these engines is said trains cross In SIX
days. Mule and cattle trains occupy from forty-nVa
to sixty.
WESTERN competition in the shinment of supplies
. into the Backfoot country, is lntensifylng. Lew
iston, Walla Walla, Dalles, Umatilla and white
. Bluffs are now in the ring, and claiming pecunal
and superior advantages Three of these competition
= are represented by local organs-the Statesman,
= of Wala Walla the :! Advertiser" of Umatla, anc
' the " Mountaineer," of Dalles. The Radiator,
ia of Lewiston has been completely carried on VIII
: its subiect-that is, t is now route for Backtoo
! CITY or Helena The " "Momtaineer +" very senslblI
" remarks that some should be selected from tn
: various routes for the immediate establishment OF
\ wagon road" Let the Mullen Road be the on
!. selected, its location is such that it wouid
: available to all.
d The St. Joseph Herald" of the 10Th ult, give
the shocking details of forty persons being posone
e in Shiloh, Randolph county, ILL.,, by having corro
# sive sublmate deadly poison, administered ther
in calomel, by Drs. Campbell and MInner, of ths
place. In seven cases. at the latest advces the po
son had proved fatal and the Others, it feareC
s. would not survive. One of the victims a sistt
of DIR. Campbell. The local druggist was not blami
. BILE, as the compound put up in the usual wa
of, and labeled as, calome, and had not been tan
u pered with since leaving the Wholesale house in
re Louis. The st. Louis druggist beng a direct in
porter the corrosive sublimate might have been pI
Oh into the calomel in Europe If il was it is frigh
at full to think of the possible consequences in 9th
nu parts of the country We hope the person throug
whose carelessness, if nothing worse such fatal
sequences have occurred, be he on this or the 9th
side of the Atlantic will be identified and punish'
m by having his name placed before the world inf
&. mously if there should be no punishment provide
by law. We chroniced, in last, death that hs
occurred in Nevada from criminal negligence
ignorance on the part of medicine yender In 81
case above rected, hundreds may lose their lives.