The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1865-12-02
[WHOLE NO. 81.
NEWS SUMMARY.


IT is said that the Fenians have purchased six
gunboats.
SANDERsoS's majority for Judge Of the Supreme
Court of California will be nearly 5000.
F. J. PATTERSON, who shot Sheriff Sumner Pink
ham, at Idaho City, last summer, has been acquitted.
A POOR defenseless female was lately seen promen-
aiding the streets of Virginia City, Nevada, with
six shooter and bowie knife in her belt.
G. P. BoDFIsH, y. S. Assessor of Idaho, died In
Boise City, the 7th inst, after an llle OF twenty
five minutes, from apoplexy.
GOLD bearing quartz leads have been discovered
near Strawberry Valley, Yuba county, CAL, which
| are spoken of as remarkably rich.
An attempt was made. not long since, by parties
unknown, to assaSsinate Marion Moore, of Idaho
City. No sufficient reason for the attempt is known
BLAcKFoor dust is current in the Boise country at
| slS an ounce, without question or musmur, while
the local dus. can be passed only at Sl5
The Salt Lake .Vedette " Office has been moved
from Camp Douglas to a business part of Salt Lake
City.
GEN. PHIL SHERIDAN, who was born in the county
of Cavan Ireland, is be the Grand Center of the
Fenian Brotherhood. Sheridan has been incorrectly
renorted native of Perry county, Ohio.
MARTIN F. CONWAY was the only Richmond lawyer
admitted to practice at the late opening OF the U.
s. District Court in that city, the others refusing 10
to take the necessary oaths.
HE'LL GATE, it is said, took its name from the fact
that it was the pass through which the Blacktoot
Indians came into Bitter Root Valley to depredats
and murder.
teamsters' camp, near the mouth of the 0wyhee;;
two or three weeks ago, was attacked by Indians,
and one of the was killed and hve head or stock
were run off. The savsges escaped unharned.
GEN. HALLEcK is spoken of candidate for the
United States Senate from California. There Is no
doubt that he will make a strong race If put for
ward.
In the police court San Francisco, Veronica, wife
of John Collins, unblnShingly charged her iather,
Alexander Smith, with the paternity of her babe,
the crime having been committed while she was
4 single.
STEPHEN LyNy1s, called the "Dublin Chicken"
was shot dead in Austin, Nevada, on the morning OF
the 18th inst. by John Grimes, saloon Keeper Inc
Coroner jury state in their verdict that the deed was
e without cause or provocatlon.
AMARRrEp couple says the Washington Standard,
in the vicinity of Olympia, felt determined to sepa
rate, but deferred it until an acre of onions had
rpened when they sold them, divided the proceeds,
and then separated themselves.
: DR.. CoLBuRN, at Leighton, Michigan, kissed lady
Il whose husband in the army, She resented 1t and
!, told her husband when he came home, who loaded
. his pistol and shot the Doctor dead. LIE Tor
kiss That Is bigger prics than klchara onereaie
l. horse.
y AUSTRIA and Prussia, it is believed have come to
n an understanding in regard 20 Scaleswig Hostein,
= of which they conformity stripped Denmark The
plan is this " Austria will accept pecnaiaF5 COM
pensation for her share of the spoil asd Pfus's may
= carry out her plan of annexation her own way
to FROM the Council Bluffs NoupartiI and cmahs
Republican, we learn that hard state o. morals
IL exists in Nebraska and Westeu Iowa The Nonpa-
in reil'' hints at Vigilance Connittee The k%pue-
"a lcan says desperadoe tbleys ave- neral
o. of law have had it all their Wa, IL Nssnss,
re for some time.
rp AN application was made to the Navy DepaEtce ems
bv Ethan Allen of New York, in behalf of tbs
Russian and American Overland Telegraph Company,
ed for naval vessel to aid in laying the cable sos.
ne Behring's Stats The application wIsrstus ed w she
"' Assistant Secretary of the Navy 90 the gsoun thAi
- it exclusively private entsfpsise-
er TIE Choctaw and Chickasaw Ir1ans are wagsss q
terrible persecution against the negroes tcs =,
he their slaves. The Indians ibcensed becau-s nj
IT. must submit to emancipation, sSd they s=s ertsF
he mined to find vent for their malice on the bsfs
They abuse them in every sny they can ossi'hs
as est some to death and shooting sthsrs-
UPON the arrival of Governor Lyon at Boise sNfy
ae in company with A. D. Rcharison, be
TIL with public reception Ia response TO tne wsa
lde coming addresses he delivered speech combining
ty enthusiasm and good sense-somethlng not common
on in those DAYS A. D. Richardson followed with I
Ing splendid rhetorical effort.
49,. A drilling machine has been invented by a New
in York gentleman which, it is said, with one-hors
ish power will drill hole, two inches In diameter on
foot through the most solid rock, IN four minutes
The inventor had better turn his attention to
tana if all this is true it would be valuabl
machine among quartz Lodges.
The "Converse." the last below of this year
Inner Missouri steamers, arrived at st. Joseph o.
the a3d of October. Below Fort Rice she was fire
ory into by a party of Indians. passenger wa
- slightly wounded by ball: The "ConyefSe
or now under charter by the Pacific Railroad Compan
any to transport ties from points the river to Omaha
lar PETITION is being numerously signed In Indians
that directed to the General Assembly of whc
uch prays for law that no shall be granted cens
u TO retail Intoxicating liquors sin any city or towr
ship where majority Of the iegalyoters shall remol
e strate against it,. Such law would be less oo)e'
and tiouable and undoubtedly more euecIl'e tua tue
one exploded Maine law scheme
nted Two cyprians had prize fight, near st. Lou
aYs not long since, which was conducted according
one the rules. Referee, time-keeper and oottIehod
cted we're chosen. The combatants, Mag shorter al
ave Ann Woods fought eighteen rounds, when 1ehs
sfter Annie owned up that she was whipped DIX ca
to rare loads of depraved humanity witnessed the d
,acy graceful scene.
The m mGentiles" of Salt Lake City have htera
cery society numbering many members, and own ~
lony hail. for the purposes of the society Iney nae
and Grand ball ON the 18th, Of which the Vedette
aseS SAYS at was a great and glorious success In
gentle civilization of this cityerst the exci
d in metropolis of Mormon sway. About one nunur
her couples were in attendance elegantly appearing
COM enioyiug the affair as triumph of the times.
sucn "Mooy ON THE LAKE is becoming popn
com, color in the East in females attire. Moon on
rpose brain would be appropriate designation Tor sol
uiy of their notions OF folly. Recollect, sAiu
aiu fashionable Miss to an accommodating cer2, i
shall u i.nort;or an old dana from the rural
ANTS sue wa" W - ,ho .IorJ sayinc-. Poor thin
i'll is trlcts looReu up ee eue HieiN' '"'ie
ng Of she's crazy, amt she? !"
,Ourt TuR Roise City "Statesman " Is adyocatlnS
take establishment of Branch Mint at that place:
% saws the action of Congress In approp.iating lo
Nh"S Branch Mint at Dalles unwise, as all the 3
eyi that reaches it must flow from the Boise secti
There is some force in the position In the ianS a.
may of Governor Lyon, "where the gold Is produc
g the there it should be coi that the honest miner
stody 80, double "a al in rendering available the proce
..on | of his labor"
mt to The safe of the .What Cheer House, San fr
such CISCO was lately pGndered by robbers boldly enter
ent CT the Office in the temporary absence OF the mig
con, con watchman knocking the CLERK insensioie;