The Montana post., 1868-09-25
THE EAST.

New 1Ork pay Is lull OF sharks, and
so is the city. HFr
Six or eight colored men are employed
as clerks in the Boston Postoffice.
PATHS husband owes over eight hun
dred thousand francs.
Charleston, S. c., is rapidly building
up it's burnt district.
Wilmington. n. C.. has white and
black police, half and halt.
New Jersey has six hundred boiler
works.
The Illinois papers tell of a maa who
has stolen his fathers tombstone.
The board of a pet dog is 50 per week
at the fashionable watering places
II is estimated that to repair the
streets aud rebuild the bridges IN Balt,
more will cost S2l5,OOO
Gen. Halpine's paper. the New York
Citizen, is reported 10 be for sale, the
price asked being 25,OOo,
The Raleigh IN. c. Standard guaran.
tees 80 600 majority for Grant and Col
fax in North Carolina.
The Milwaukes Wisco"Si" reports
thirty-one divorces granted Tor that
city since the 1st OF January.
Gen. Lees college promises 10 have a
larger attendance the coming year than
ever before.
ANY person allowing Canada thistles
to grow and mature upon his land II
Illinois is liable TO fine of SO.
Mr.. Buchanan and Mr.. Stevens.
though neigh5ors, were not ON SPEAK
ing terms.
The apple crop in the vicinity @,
Hartford Conn, will reach 2OOOW
bushels.
One O. the churches in New Bedford
Mass, represents S7,OOOooo worth @.
property.
Pretty Italian truit-seilers Of the ie-
male persuasion have appeared IN New
York.
Engineers estimate that the remain
ing work on the Hoosac tunnel can BE-
done tor from $3O00,O0O 10 S4,'0O,OOO-
The most ghostly thing in Washing
ton is the melancholy, unfinished mon
ument of Pater Patriae.
Forty publishers have already applied
To- Mrs Stowe for her new noNcl-S"Uc
stories are so scarce.
Wisconsin has six hundred food Ten
plar lodges and thirty thousand men,
bers.
Fifteen hundred miners in MahonIns
Valley, Ohio, have gone In work again
after an unsuccessful strike OF tour
months.
New York merchants still say tina.
they see no evidence OF the heavy and
early fall trade that was so confidently
expected last month.
Nearly three thousand operatives in
and around Ellicott City, Md, are QUITO
EN- mployment, owing to the mills and
factories being destroyed.
One of the wealthiest citizens OF Nash.
Vile, received bankrupt notices from HI
debtors, during last week, amounting to
$20S, 600.
Vanderbilt has never paid HorGct
Greeley the $4,000 his SON borrowed
of the editor of the Tribune, and failed
to return.
Prof. Whittlesey has discovered evil
dences of the residence OF man at the
High Rock Spring, Saratoga, just 4 s40
years ago, or about six centuries before
the deluge.
Residents of the border counties 81
have already sent IN
10 the dLloulA va Italis eDFesNNe
for damages suffered during the Rebc
invasion of that State, and the end is not
yet.
The sign in front of Brick Pomeroys
new Democrat office in New York bears
an emblematic ornament, consisting OF
r pair of spoons crossed and surmOunted
10y bright red brick, with the motto
" Red Hot"
Springfield, Illinois. will lay the cor
ner stone OF the new State House, Dc
tober 5th, with Masonic ceremonies. u
is intended to make the occasion a
grand one.
Twenty years ago Prof. Mapes paid
81, 900 for a forty acre farm lii New JeI-
sew. The soil was so poor and thin thai
the original proprietor could not pay
the taxes on it. By scientific CIliiyH.
ton it now pays ten per cent. interes'
on 100000
One of the largest tobacconists il
New York has made an estimate o: his
losses through his employees. What
with the number of cigars smoked, car
ried away and sold surreptitiously. HE
annual loss reached the high figure OF
$4,000.
The great water snake al Willoughty
Lake. New Hampshire, the existence oi
which has been recently denied, was
killed the other day by Sterhen Ed
nonds, Of Newport, lad OF twelve
Years. Rushing bodily upon the mon
iter, he severed its body with sickle
On actual measurement, the two piece
we're found TO be twenty three feet II
ength.
y correspondent OF the Chicago Tine
writes that at Mackinaw Chicago mai
S known the moment he arrives. H'
yoes down to the landing, end halloc
up TO the people on the boat, "Nhs
vas wheat doin'g' The next day, whel
he Chicago man comes down to break
asst. he inquiries of the first man b.
meets, What is corn goip' to do?'