The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1866-06-16
News Summary.

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by springs at the bottom of Clear Lake Cal Borax was
principally manufactured by boiling and evapora;n a.
water OF certain tracts in Italy containing in olu
ton Ii was also found in Thibet A kind Of rnovahIa
conerdam Is used at Clear Lake and when shifted il
pumped dry and the bottom exposed General Mason
writing from Sacaoue Gia declares there Il ~,
truth in the report of the For, Goodwin massacre Daily
communication is kept up between them The robbers
VINO fell before the rife of Steve venard the deputy sheriff
Q. Nevada City, Cal, after having robbed Wells Fargo
Co.'S Express bcx on the San Juan stage were named
Moore, Finn and Williams all welkncwn desperadoes
---M Mrs Martha McCook of Jefferson county Ohio
receives under the Pension Act annuity Of 81 500 for tha
services of her husband and eight sous in the any Fon
giee IN the service ard four became general ofcers.
Eleven thousand Cinnamon work the Dutch Fiat
Cal section Of the Pacific railroad A soldier named
Charles Miller of Company d. I'd California Volunteers
on the way to Sacramento to be mustered having bean
arrested for resisting aud wounding a sergeant Captain
Knight ordered him and others 10 be tied nm He
drew knife and kept them at bay The CAPTAIN Ordered
his seizure when he rushed him struck at him sew
eral times Captain Knight shot him dead with derrin-
ger An inquest and examination will take place. The
people OF Colorado dreadfully disappointed by the
Presidents Veto The Eastern Star degree of Masonry
is being conferred thousands of Masons wives and
daughters in the East In New York. they initiated one
hundred young ladies in afternoon. Two hundred
ChlneSe prostitutes are in prison in San Francisco The
balance have paid Frank Pixey 81 900 to defend them
fere hacnthe the great preacher of Paris has been sent
oack 20 his convent and senced for eulOgzng nsttu
tons OF the United States Paper shirts have been
invented and will be sold at twenty five cents This
first of November 1867 is the date finally fixed by the
French Emperor for the evacuation of Mexico by the last
OF the French troops The Baneos were greatly
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resulting in victory TO the Republics Navy. The vessel
laid up alongside of the Island Chico The Cheans Law
in ambush on the shore and the mastering of the fri
gates crew on deck they opened murerous fire mus
kerry them The guns could be used TO any effect
and the boats were beaten back. There a heavy
slaughter OF the crew for some time The American
steamer 49" has succeeded in reaching the R1pidss ds
Morris on the Columbia river which only ninety miles
from the Big Bend mines The Victoria papers complain
that American enterprise cheats them of in their
own possessions The complaint and the sin of
success is likely to be repeated The St. Joseph Her
| "a pf Mnx-h M
ana will leave in day rtwO The steamers Sam Gaty
Luella, Lexington, G. w. Graham Thomas Stephens,
Lille Martin, Colorado Viola Belle, Stonewall Jenny
| Lewis, Mary Mcdonald Marion, Nellie Rogers, Lucy
Metamora and Coruela by the down steamboat
from Omaha, between Council Bluffs and Belmont All
we're on their way to Montana Great activity is notice.
able in the arsenas aud navy yards Austria has reason
To think twice she speaks once or acts at all The
ct the 29h says that following trains for
virginia, Montana, organized and passed FL Kear.
ney, May Nth: Twenty-Five wagons, conductor Bond;
forty wagons conductor McKimbody. Illinois now pro-
duces the greatest number aud finest quality of fat cattle
OF any State in the Union There fifteen irOnclads
in of York three at
Cincinnati two each at ST. Louis and Pittsburg and
each at Portsmouth Philadelphia, Brownsville and Ken
sngton, Pa.---.The commissioners from the British Pro-
vinces sent to open up direct trade with the West Indies
have returned and report very favorable progress in that
direction =. The Salt Lake Telegraph notices the
arrival of Governor Blasde at Pahranagat the lt
| OF May He looked worn and jIded General Early
late of the c. s. A., has returned from Mexico. He de-
nOunces the imperial humbug, and says that neither Max
imian, Carlota any of the European attaches
OF any three miles, without being
upon The President and Secretary great johnson
meeting held at Lagrange, Tenn 'are the very men
who turned out and hanged Andrew johnson in edgy in
lebI They would do the hrst named action again they
had the chance Judge Busteed of Alabama has dec
ded that the owners and masters of steamboats, liable
to pay all damages arising from the vss of by gam
bling of minors Seven hundred and fifty dollars lost
by the son Of widow, between Mobile and New Orleans
was thus recovered The Vedette" of 4th says
- There is to be mail service Pahranagdt; Judge
Lawrence has receS ed his orders report
route, location of the postOfice The Mormons
having failed in the attack the Social Club dictated by
the Deseret mpersonaOn of the Knave Clubs actually
had the impudence to tell Gentle applicant for license
that he could not receive it without filing bond for 81 900
to obey the city ordinances They advised by the
Velee" to in, but to beware of striking big snag
this time The rendered his money and his house
without them This same paper declares, a fact that
be vOuehed by of standing that years
ago, so little did the MASSES know of bank note
rency BILL that they would take the label Mexican
mustang niment bottle fast bank bill for their
butter, eggs. etc. Montanans may well be proud Of
their Territory. The st. Louis Republican" of May
10TH gives simple matter of business the fndng of
the bodies OF one in the river and in the street,
cause of death uncertain the shooting of a negro in the
face and no arrest a mans abdomen cut open with
razor collision of street and buggy and the rob-
turn out two hundred viganes, in the saddle and
few would be found and made to stretch rope Burglar
proof safes won't keep or their thieves who be
subsidized; garrOters choke them in their public Streets
and the remen burn down their houses conha
grafton Here az peace gold dust lies round loose
and for ruians the is hemp Colorado is in fer
ment because OF the veto her admission by the Pres
dent 1t viii result says the News" in making Colo
redo coPpThedd We should be sorry to think That
is infantile talk The Pajaro Cal) Times" says that
the long lost and famous Monterey silver vein has been
redscovered it is q wide belt of silver ore thirty-fve
miles long In the Rocky Mountain News Ofthe 3d.
appear the confessions of two cuprtsHenry Stone and
Franklin Foster. The first scoundre admits the murder
of named Johnson and that he robbed him of S7O0
he then killed named Buluger Ut Sparta, ILL.,, and
stole from him S300 his next victim Andrew Smith.
of Cape Gardeau county, Missouri be also murdered two
other men near ROI, Missouri and accessory after
the fact TO The murder OF Isaac H. Augustus and Shuman
ou the Platte in January last Fosters confession accuses
Stone of shooting Shuman and admits Angus
us he fired six shots Stones two. The confession IS
witnessed by Samuel Hunter, Justice of the Peace of
Arapahoe county, Colorado Territory Chas Dickens.
the auter gets 80 per minute for his readings in pub
liei The Chicago I" Journal" that a commits
sion to treat with the Indians the UpPe Missouri will
proceed in the new steamer Ben johnson, Captain La
Barge to Fort Benton The commission consists Of Gov.
Newton Edmunds, of Dacotah rGeneral $. X. Cur
s OF Iowa; Hon. Orrn Guernsey, Of Wisconsin, aud H.
N Beed OF Iowa. They were TO nave started on the Ith
OF May, with supplies and stores for the Indians The
Chlians warned the English Minister of his house in
Valparaiso and refused him after the bonn
bardent a Mr. A. j. Yardeu, of San Francisco, has
invented method of making the rolling of ship the pro-
peng power Huge cages contain the suspended weights
whose motion fore and aft and lateray work condensed
air engines for propeing the vessel II is spoken avora
bly, of by mechanics and shpmasters The vessel should
be called the Mother Careys chicken. it wod only
work at top speed in storm The calculation is that the
power would be greater than that usually derived from
steam. The Atchson (Kansas) Free Press says that
memorial has been presented to Congress praying hata
general insurance law may be passed authorizing compa
nies deposit securities with the United States Treasurer
to the of their capital like banking associations,
which will be first rate method of giving both credit and
stability to bona fds organizations On the 18th OF May,
the following trains organized and passed Fort Kearney
Conductor H. l.. Burke thirty wagons conductor Barnes
twenty wagons conductor Berry, twenty wagons and
sxty-three persons All the above bound for Mon
taa In Montevideo, Uruguay the business Of the peo-
pie depends mainly the products of the countless nerds
of cattle and horses reared the pampas Tow hides
bones horns etc. the chief but erked beef impor
item Several Of the leading houses kill an aver.
age, about thousand head per dsy.-.A Yankee In
Europe has just six tons Of beet seed tn Illinois TO be
with view sugar making from the root Nearly
all the French sugar is made from the white sugar.bees
juice 1t is of chalky appearance bst excellent for
domestic Captain Knight for shooting one Of ais
soldiers near Pacervie CAL, mentioned in our last
discharged French machine Is now In use thar
makes eleven lbs of ice hour, at of half cent
pound An American Company Of capitalists are now
trying to buy Xamtschatks fun the Russian Cos
lis full many kiuds of minerals and the Interior Is COM
posed OF fertile valleys suitable for raising stock The
Mobile Register,' which places the name Of Robert E.