The Montana post., 1868-12-18
THE WEST.

ing paper, the Tunes.
Austin. Nevada, received $4,000
pounds of mail matter on the 2Sth ult.
The San Francisco Times has come
out in an elegant new dress.
The Nebraska City Ne,cs has arrived
at the age of sweet fifteen.
rich strike has been made in the
900 feet level OF the Yellow Jacket.
The St Joe Gazette thinks ihere is
room for st. Joe and Omaha. both.
Rev Thos w Haskins has received
the appointment of Post Chaplain at
Camp Douglas.
Cheyenne, a local paper says. offered
Parepa S1.0O0-to switch off there and
sing a song.
There are to DE si&ty-four forges in
the Union Pacific Railroad blacksmith
shops at Omaha.
Some 800 tons freight comes east of
the Sierra Nevadas on the Central route
weekly. and over 500 car loads remain
in Sacramento awaiting transportation.
The Carson Appeal announces that
John Wasson. of the Winnemucca AF-
gent. ia a candidate for Secretary of the
Senate.
The Truckee Tribune desires iniorma-
tion OF The whereabouts of Judge j. +.
Jones. who mysteFiously left that place
on the 9th instant, and has not since
been heard of.
slight shock of an earthquake was
felt in San Francisco at halt~past two
o'clock on "Wednesday morning. Now
ember 23d.
The city and county os San Francisco
has been mulcted in the sum of S22 1872
for the expenses attending the late
Presidential and city elections. 1t is
rather costly TO maintain Democratic
municipalities.
tinsmith in Kansas city was badly
bitten by swarm OF rats, last week, as
he lay sleeping in the second story over
the workshop. One OF his ears was
badly lacerated.
The Golden City. Colorado. paper mill
is manufacturing an article of wrap
ping paper from the soap-wSed plant,
which is pronounced pretty fair.
Two recent sales of quartz, in Sweet
water, distributed $4,000 in greenbacks
among a dozen miners, and introduced
a couple oi mills to the country.
The subject of introducing daily pa>
pers into the public schools of ST. Joseph
Mo-, in place of Readers" is being dis
cussed by the School Board of that city.
John Vance. of Farley, Mo-, was
picked mp in the streets of Leavenworth
recently, dying, from excessive drunk
enness. He expired ia the calaboose.
So says the Bulletin.
The woTkmen on the mint, We are in-
formed says the Carson Appedi of Nov.
ri haipar r.af1 . la
month as fast as the settlement can be
conveniently arranged Some fifteen or
twenty thousand dollars were distribu-
ted on Saturday. Nov. 81.
General Mcclellan has declined the
Presidency of the University of Califor-
MIA He has $4,000 salary and won't
leave it for a pittance. Gen. Nc. gets
$4,000 for superintending the construc-
ton OF the Stevens battery.
1t is safe to say that nobody knows
whether Mr. Langrishe is coming back
to Colorado or going to remain in Mons
tana for the G0tdrjcks Herald
Not very: He has left Montana and is
personally going to Colorado.
Larry" Barrett, one of The finest act
ors of the day, and a gentleman, witbal,
passed through Salt Lake westward on
the 9Th inst, to take charge of the new
Theatre being built for Mr.. Mccullough
and himself in San Francisco
Gov. Haight of California, has COM
mIssioned John 5. Hager and William
c. Ralston of San Francisco. Regents of
the University of California-the
former vice A J. Moulder and the latter
vice +. f. Dow, resigned.
The San Francisco papers are bewail
ing the severity of the small pox
scOurge. In San Francisco 20 OF so are
dying per month. In San Juan. Mon
terey county, among 1000 people, $50
hard cases have occurred, go of which
were fatal The entire Pacific coast is
infected.
d. Tom Smith tell us that the Smoky
Hill railroad will be completed to Chey-
enne Wells, only 130 miles west of Dem
yer. by June 1st. The cars are now
running TO Sheridan, short distance
east of Fort Wallace or Pond Creek
GoldIiek's Herald
We are informed that 500 feet of the
original eastern location Of the Austin
City Ledge in Sweetwater, has been sold
recently in Chicago for $4,000. The
owners were Henry Smith, Richard Dali
ton, Thomas Cotter and Thomas Bennett.
Mr.. Bennett. whb is now in Chicago. ef-
fscted the sale. Messrs Smith and Dal-
ton leave the mines for the east next
week, TO deliver the necessary papers
and receive the stamps"
The following items from Bear River
City are from the Sweetwater Mines of
the I'd:
The soldiers who are protecting the
city are quartered in houses at the ex>
pense of the citizens.
Pat Daily, the leader of the mob, is n
the hands of the military. closely guard.
ed.
The Jail, burned by the mob, has been
rebuilt on the old site, and lots of the
boys have been lodged in it.
Ii is believed there would have been
another riot on Saturday night had no: