The Montana post., 1866-02-24
[WH0LE No. 79.
NEWS SUMMARY.

creek dust and creek dust having undergone the same
sold for Bannack dust Some of the current dust
is not worth more than two dollars per The
of the Strong divorce $4,000 The incidental
expenses of Judge jury etc, 5000 All that
remains of the vast subscribed by the Fenans IL
S29 that the fishery bountes have been
is that they sufficient tempt capital
to be an object to the General Wnchessr
Va. occupied by the Union and ConSederate forces
seveuysix times during the last Attorney General
Speed has declared General McDowes order forbdding
the expectation of arms to Mexico to be Illegal and the
opinion has been officially communicated Senior Romero
the Liberal minister The French medal paid for bv A
popular subscription is be presented to Mrs Lincoln on
the l4h of April the anniversary husbands asassi-
nation. great many scientific of the opinion
that the European cattle epidemic is small pox The
San Francisco, (CaL), Alta" says that a hackman
FAMED Patrick Kelly shot with adeuinger ball. in
scuie at Spormans Hall in that city about sincs
the missile broke the collar bone gh, lung to
pieces injured the subcavan artery and lodged in the
muscle near the spine: Doctor Murphy extracted but
ton carried in by the ball. and turning Kelly ou his face
about half gallon of decompossd matter escaped through
the bullet hole and Kelly is recovering The Legisa
ture of Colorado has petioned Congress that depart
men embracing the field of Indian hosties be created
and that General Counor be appointed command On
the 2ud inst a shooting aay took place at Carson New
between Thomas Peasey and Mart Barnhart resulting in
the death of both of them. The funeral of Peasley at
Virginia City Sunday the 3d attended by almost
general turnout of the population and the fire depart
ment. Much sympathy and grief expressed Barn
hart shot the deceased through the body but though dying
he closed with him. forced him into another and
shot him dead through the club of twenty-five
Mormon ladies read the Salt Lake City Union Vedetts
the sy--A British yacht of twenty-five tons lately
sailed from Liverpool England, 10 Sidney, Australia,
sixteen thousand miles in hundred and thirty days
1t is the greatest nautical feat performed by tiny
craft .Emigrants to New Grenada report gold mines
near TumacO in New Grenada yielding from three to
twenty cents the Peru produces 81 100 900 in
silver Mexico 81 $50 0OO and Nevada SIS 500 900
On the 23rd ult the widow Of Stonewa Jackson
received benefit the Mobile theatre Sumner and
Sherman urge that miners trespasser; says the
Reveille" the fact that Montana contributed s5l 1877
to the revenue last year. should shut their mouths
gentleman writing from New Grenada says that all
outfit wanted is coffin filed with provisions; when these
eaten the coffin will he ready for the emigrant The
Idaho Legislators could pay their board at the close Of
the session Ths Avalanche they could not have
changed their shirts during the forty days session there
complaints from the Cinnamon and washerwomen
| - james E. Lyon Co, of Blackhawk COl advertise
in the Journal" that their lead furnaces ready
operation and that they will pay fifty dollars per for
seyentyfve per cent Galena delivered at the works
THE Upper Columbia navigation is The
steamer 49 made her trial trip from Fort COyie through
the Arrow Lakes two hundred and sixty miles up to Dead
head rapids two hundred miles above the forty ninth
allei of latitude She steamed fourteen miles hour
the lakes, and is hundred burden The Walla
Wala Statesman" reports great excitement Canon
City, owing TO the discovery of rich quicksilver mine there
IL is estimated that $500 600 0O0 will not the
losses entailed by the in Louisiana. In parish
East Baton Rouge, the loss is Sl2 COO More than
hundred officers and have been murdered in cold
blood after capture pursuant to Maximian's decree
Libby prison. Richmond is grocery store --- Tho
newest robbng dodge is to give the victim apple dosed
with strychuine There only seveny-fve
with the Mercer expedition Some Yankee speculator
has sold the CalOrEans with a brand Ut tobacco
called Gurndh da Gumb which represented having
been put up in Virginia in miscellaneous dry good old
shirts overals bed-tcks etc. Transposed the leers
read Grand Humbug Dan Rice, the Snowman Is
erecting monument at Girard, Erie Co., Penn, at his
own expense, in memory of the Western Pennsylvania
soldiers who tell in the They have a warm swim
ming bath at San Francisco with constantly running
Old and young do there desport themselves in ps
RaturaEibUs The San Francisco Call of the Both
JAM says that Ortyseven emgrans left for New Grenada
the 29th. To prevent cholera, says Doctor Herring
of Philadelphia put half teaspoonfu Of -four of sui
Dhur stockings: with a
stomach, and eat bread food The
Weekly Press says that the Fenians lately spelling for
fight now fighting for the spos That's now.
- The Tribune people buy their paper in Belgium,
and thereby save seven cents per pound. A law is
made eheapIy in America anywhere but there is
monopoly. The 13t pound nugget from BlackfOOt
(Deadwood) is its Western travels in the of G. o.
Humphreys Of Washoe the finder Every journalist give.
hoist it passes his Silk growing be
pursuit in California. Wilson Flint dev0es hundred
the growth of the white Italian mulberry.
There deaf and dumb operator at the Washington
Office of the American Telegraph Company who read:
the telegraph by feeling" The clicking of the instru
ment jars his knee i: rests against the table Pahan
agat the excitement of the Nevadans 1t is
quartz district aboundug in Argenerous Galena situate
about hundred miles from the Colorado River and
tered by the West Muddy is region of extraordinary
fertility, according to the accounts of staInpeders Vas
beds of oysters equal to those from Chesapeake Bay have
been found up the Gulf of California Agriculture pay
well in California but is SO little praeteed that the
kets supplied in large degree from foreign sources
The very large number of deaths of old men in tht
Southern States attributed the change of habits
domestic bereavements caused by the The Ore
d gonan says that White Bluffs tine upper Columbia
all ready Ura rush BlackfOo in early spring. where
e upon the Statesman" declares that White Bluffs is
ii the route to the "hemp-strechng region" He omit
10 state that Idaho furnishes almost all the material tha
g stretches the hemp Ayoung lady OF Utah Miss Car
michael is noticed by the press promising poeess
Mrs Lincoln has expressed much pleasure at the reeep
of some of her verses written on the assassination of Pres
"a dent Lincoln The young lady has had advantages
I'd education the Great used to read proof for tn
to first Russian newspaper l7G3 DIR. s. b. Mclean,
of the oldest settlers in Denver died there the ID
OF AFTER the lst March next all the respectable dealer
in Idaho City will put Dust down TO S4 per Tn
lg :" World" and the Avalanche" F" recommend blanket
ne from smallpox hospital, for distribution among the In
dans of Owyhee and the Boise country The jury in tn
I'd of Barnha and Peaseley who shot another
1d Carson, Nevada returned verdict killed each other
s selfdefeuse; Intentionally the second report hs
re it The truth is that Peaseey was murdered Barnha
buried at Carson the Sd inst and the funeral
largely attended by the citizens and fire companies Tn
MOnanock and Canoncus recognized thorough
y y successful and agoing iron clads The Monadnoc
I has passed stormy Haeras eight unles and steatne
ut in all weather safely during voyage of 10000 mile
r The Europeans declared that monitors gooc
IS indeed for harbOr service but useless at sea
ne New York semweekly Tribune Of JAM 2d, says thi
Id only fourteen companies Of thirty that have worked
ou the Comsock ledge Nevada, have paid divideEd
Many millions have been spent useless works the
lie, in 'ehimneys" with barren rock between -. Tn
grants Of land to the Northern and Central Pacific Raj
sv ways will exceed l25 0O0 600 This careful
timate Southern route will be asked for The gre
ng crater Moanaloa the huge volcano in Hawaii one
for the Sandwich Islands, is again in eruption When La
ed heard from previous to the present outbreak the ooo
ng was covered with bushes and growth Of trees 1t is OF
ey hundred years since the last eruption took place III
heavy storm in California of January 2ih, stopped
lin communication in many places The bridges in Petaun
for and Mendocino counties which stood the floods Of 1861
th 1862 all carried The losses by the failure
Ames Phnny g. Co. San Francisco amounted TO SUI
lch 600 The Red Bluffs (Cal) Independent announc
mes ball there the proceeds to 10 fixing up the graz
'ng yard The police of San Francisco hard set MAJ
Twain" of the Enterprise" says they make false arrest
ing connive escape the chief obs the contingent fund al
Judge Hesep says that they DO the old Dyonisian the
and have hearing tubes leading from the cells 50 that
conversation of prisoners with their counsel be hea
About eighty men left Virginia Nevada by the stag
lit the 4h for New Grenada and this not solitary
r currenee. They leave good places and good wages
eight hour bill passed the Assembly Of California by SIX
votes fve.- The Salt Lake Telegraph" in an arS
entitled Westward Ho!" says: There be but LID
doubt that Montana will have the lions share Of the en-
grafton. Her mines attractive perhaps tnan a
eu Others Besides she has large extent Of Territory mu
ofwhich viii undoubtedly prcse Of great value agreu
ase ally. being eh and well watered and more discover
,on made daily in the precious metal line. "A ste'
alarm has been invenedn in London that wakes up
,ur then heats cup of coffee for The magnes'
l;yht hall has lad In EnCla