The Montana post., 1868-10-09
THE EAST.

quart In Connecticut.
4 life of Bonner, by himself, is expect
I'D in the Ledgtr.
The government cemeteries have cost
S2,570OOO.
Chicago slakes at 315 saloons. lin
rInnati can see that and go 625 better
There is great building activity at
Montreal, Canada.
One oi the richest and best men in the
Northwest. was once a Chicago boot
black.
The regular troops now in Georgia are
less than I0OD-not quite ten TO
county.
The cost Of the Lincoln monument to
be erected at Springfield, Illinois, is to
be 100000
It il fashionable" we are informed,
for a lady 10 cut her finger nails pointed
Indeed
One of the prominent New York pub
fishers has ia press navel written by
young lady aged sixteen.
Cincinnati pays very nearly million
dollars ia salaries 90 its ,19j employees
from Mayor down fu sewer cleaner.
IL i- claimed that Atlantic City has
HrftHr downing facilities than any other
Watering place.
The shipments Of hay from New
Iurb to Great Britain have been re-
-l~rE uu Il large scale.
Wendell Phillips once called Rufus
t4paf1 the man who made il safe 90
Taur.rr and ulttr whose health thieves
inquired before tLcy went to steal.
Gu a.-s4isiuE ,ueuG. sketching Brick
Pnwur1y. says that IA steady glance
from woman will make him blush TO
bis ,ar- We sAoulG think il would
considering lac manner 10 which he has
r0-arat utr sex in his foul sheet and one
member of it iu private life.
Tae Nrw York 7I0rs states tba; some
ui rUr leading publishers have lost on
every book Published within year.
Tho Chinese w-re 30 delighted with
saeiE visit % tLa Cambridge (Mass) Oh
-arslrIlE shat il was hard To persuade
ruew q" .ravE it-
Ten millions Of Northern capital have
H.-.u Invested iu Moth Carolina since
-'. vaH Boost uut the carpet bagEers''
lE sl mnlas. What business have they
go fEy 20 restore wealth and prosperity
i0 "a Southern Stat.g
Bridgeport. c., the home of Tom
ILumb, haas announced another prodigy
.u tAr shape 10! a Miss aged eleven years
who is considerably. shorter than the
uirarEaI and has "A face and head on her
a- large ass and resembling that Of tuil
crown person.
An early riser says the telescope dis
closes comet at from three o'clock till !
daylight This is the Encke comet. II
viii disappear I'm day or TWO, TO reap
pear in the latter end of the month when |
ir viii be visible Jo the naked eye.
PIKE rhr opera house proprietor, pur- |
chased 1000 acres OF Jersey salt marsh |
meadows, al cost of about SIG per /
acre After draining 1T AZ an average /
outlay uI SSS per acre ne Is now offered /
5000 r"r acre for the entire property, |
riu- yielding him profit of millions. ii /
Dee chooses to take it.
The Get'ysbuTg As~ylum swindle at /
New York, which was exposed and /
stopped several months since. has been /
revived by one EDWARD r. Turner, who /
haa hnrn ndiug out circulars. announc- /
ing that certain tickets have drawn /
prizes, which he viii forward on receiy-
iu- remittance.
4 Saratoga correspondent, writing of !
JLr fashion there, says, among other 4
things that some women dress To please /
rather one man. for as Il general thing 4
they drspisr men 5 opinion on millinery /
Bun ga. most dressy women don't dress /
To please anybody; they dress TO worry /
other women
4 daFkey farmer in the neighborhood |
of -. Louis. Mo. was recently asked /
what b- Thought of railroads. He re-
piled. "Fooh God, massa, / doesn't like 1
rm. Use been in dis country long time. /
but we uebber had sich lots of grasshop- /
Pers before desc railroads was built. NV /
corn am all done been gone clar eat up 4
by en-. Use down on railroads.
\ Cincinnati dead-beat. convicted in /
the Police Court took an oblicing police \
man to an elevator in the vicinity. to-
the top of which they climbed weary /
way To find "A friend of deaG-beat, who 1
would pay his fine and keep him from
the cuain gang. Arrived at the top
dead beat surprised the officer by sliding
suddenly down a rope t. the ground and
escaping.
Upon a whaling bark which sailed
from New London the other day was a
Young man who arrived in New York /
from ten years residence in China and /
Calito rnia, on June 20, having in his
possession S20.S1J. He took TO gam
"ilnBr luNtSteu 100 mucu IN Ine farO
bank, and upon July Goth he was pen
nilcss.
The Louisville ,I0UFH0i SAYS that in
lSis. a farmer nameI Daniel Harker
living in Nanderbarg county, Indiana.
was tried, convicted and sentenced TO
the penitentiary for twenty one years.
on the charge of outraging his step !
daughter, then a young girl His wife
and the girl testified positively agains.
him. After serving ten years, he was
partoned and released. A short time
since. The step-daughter. on her death
bed sent for Harker. aud. in the press
Cncs OF witnesses, confessed that the