The Montana post., 1866-09-29
,YTSCELLaNEOUS ITEMS.

.h .h;rtv niles long, and which cost fifteen
piIIion dOllars.-The Massachusetts
lD-a,,nstabulary force destroyed three thou
I'd dollars worth of gambling imple-
"ants ard six thousand obscene prints
n Boston, last month.-Pintaiir, a
chimes. Mandarin, sent out by his gov
ornment TO study the industrial resources
# this country, is daily expected in New
york.-GeoTge Francis Train has chal-
Ionred the Massachusetts, Congressional
noIeoation to discuss the issues of the
dsv before the people.-Twenty thou
sond persons, the Missouri Democrat
Inmates, have left st. Louis since the
outbreak of the cholera in that city. A
nerfect panic has prevailed and railroads
and steamboats, have been crowded with
tbe fleeing Populace.-During the con
inement of Colonel Streight and COM
nanions in Libby prison, some of them,
though indiferently provided with draw,
inp materials, SO well initiated United
states notes as to find ready purchasers
among the rebels in exchange for pro-
yisions.-So many objections have been
urged against bridging the Mississippi
At st. Louis, that the railroad companies
have determined to tunnel the Father
Of Waters at that point. The cost is
estimated at three million dollars. and
the time for executing the work three
wears The tunnel will be a little less
than mile in length.-The Atlantic
cable, from the point where it leaves
Valentia Island to the spot where it
landed at Hearts Content, is precisely
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
six miles in length. It's a queer coinci-
dence that it should have been perfected
this year.-A bride for the young
Prince Imperial is already talked of. It
is said that the Emperor intends to So
lict the hand Of the daughter of the
English Princess Royal Grown Princess
Of Prussia) for his SON. The Prince is
in his twelfth year, the Princess is four
years Old.-in consequence of the prey
alence of the cholera in BROOKLYN. the
Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese
has caused the suspension of one of the
ordinances OF the Church, which forbids
the eating OF meats on Friday. Ten
years ago there We're not more than
two to four thousand acres planted with
the vine III the United States, and now
there are not less than two million acres
50 planted. Formerly American wine
would scarcely bring one dollar a gallon
and now it sells at from two dollars to
six dollars per gallon.-The freedmen
in some parts of the South are both
making and saving money. The Mobile
A"tt1ndASt says that at the several
branches of the Freedmens Trust and
Saving Company the deposits for March
and April amounted to $204, 4,S29 90. The
amount deposited up to May 1st was
$599,S91 %; the total deposits paid
were S256,174 30, leaving a balance due
to the depositors of $685., ,228 S3.-An
Illinois paper says: "Out of thirty-four
million four hundred thousand acres of
land. Illinois contains thirty-three mil
lion of tillable land. Only one seventh
of this has yet been touched by the plow,
yet this one seventh has sustained our
own population of 2,14S,179, and fur
nished surplus of food for expectation.
enough, no doubt, to sustain two million
more. Some gentlemen, fresh from
A Western tour, during call on Mr.
at the White House, referred in
the course of conversation to a body OF
water in Nebraska which bore an Indian
name signifying weeping water" Mr..
Lincoln instantly responded: "As
laughing water, according to Longfel-
low, is 'Minnehaha,' this evidently
should be Minnebo-hoo. "A mon.
key exhibited in New York plays the fd-
die and hurdy-gurdy, sews with a needle,
sweeps with q broom, goes through the
manual with gun and explodes cap
on 1t, and cuts up various other "mon-
key-shines. SHERIDAN having threat
ened his son Tom to cut him off with a
shilling, received this retort: "Where
will you get the shilling ?"-The lands
entered and located in Missouri for May
June and July last, are as follows: May,
Al l,45l.14 acres; June, 43,20919 acres
July, &, $685. total, III, 7,53S.S5.-The
French Minister of Public Works has
awarded gold medal to Albaret 4 Co,
hloncourt, for q steam coach to run on
ordinary roads. The coach lately de.
Scended Il hill from Loan to the railroad
terminus at the rate of five miles an
hour, and afterwards assembled the hill
IN eight minutes, with a weight of five
tons. The trial was repeated with SO
much success that it is now ascertained
The engine can draw a weight of thirty
nlne tons on an ordinary road, at the rate
OF from three to four miles an hour
An experiment was recently tried in
England to ascertain the cost of trans
porting goods by steam engines on com,
mon roads. The work performed was
the hauling of three wagons loaded with
ntteen tons of lime, sand and coal
twenty-six miles, the entire weight OF
'ht train being twenty-one tons. The
Taln occupied twelve hours and hall
N the Journey, including thirty-three
minutes stoppage This was a speed OF
Two and one-sixth miles per hour. The
coal consumed was 2,576 pounds, and
the expense of the journey was Fol
'olls, $10.54,; coal, $5.67; oil and waste
u cents; labor. S3.13; wear and teal
and an interest, "a cents : total, $23.01
This is equal TO cost OF but six cents
tor moving one ton one mile, nearly one
Aalf oft being tolls collected by the road
companies.-The inhabitants of sgd
ney, Australia, have resolved to erect 9
monument in their town to commemo
rate the discovery of their country by
captain Cook. The monument is to bt
completed in 1870, in which year pre-