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

Baltimore is laying down the Nichol-
son pavement.
Two private theatres are TO be built in
New York this Fall.
General Magruder is lecturng at Sar-
atoga ON "Maximilian and Carlotta."
Eastern dispatches report Indians
troublesome in the vicinity of Fort Bu-
ford
The Salt Lakeites are expecting the
pleasure of another visit from Madame
Scheller soon.
IL 29S barrels of beer were manuface
tured and sold in San Francisco during
the month of August.
In Newton, (Md.) there are one hund-
red and three single ladies, and only
sixteen single gentlemen.
| During the coming theatrical season
in New York there will be twenty one
licensed theatres in operation.
The cranberry crop in New Jersey is
| estimated at 10000 barrels This will
require $4,000 barrels of sugar.
The clerks of the principal hotels in
/ New York have formed a society which
they call the "Coterie de Carnival"
On the cath ult., GAG Mormons, most
| ly Danes and Swedes, and the last of
this years immigration, arrived Rt Salt
/ Lake.
The smoke from the bnrning forests
of Oregon and California, is casting its
veil over Salt Lake.
The first huckleberries of the season
were received in San Francisco on the
| 10Th ult., and were sold for " two bits
per pound.
Any person who refuses to be vacci-
mated in San Francisco renders himself
liable TO fine of five hundred dollars,
and imprisonment for one hundred
days.
| Two men were lately arrested in Grass
| Valley, charged with having committed
grand larceny, in felOniously taking
| specimens of the value of sixty dollars
from the Empire Mine on ophir Hill.
Winnemuca, the present eastern ter
minus of the Central Pacific Railroad,
is 324 miles from Sacramento. 1t is
thought that $50 houses will be built
there in less than month.
In the Shasta district, Idaho, two
large bitches, one sixty and the other
forty miles long. are being constructed.
Several good quartz ledges have been
discovered.
The Colorado Democrat is the name of
new Democratic paper published at
Denver, Colorado, by Julius Silversmith,
formerly of the Miuing Inder, of New
York.
An exchange speaks of one estate in
Louisiana with some 5000 acres of the
choicest land, which recently sold for
$23, 900, while the dwelling-honse and
sugar mill alone cost more than $780,
600
The Governor of Virginia has ordered
the payment of $4,000 in gold, TO Ran
dolph Rogers, for the allegorical figures
of Justice and Revolution recently ele-
waited on the Washington monument in
Richmond.
Mr.. Puebasco, of Cincinnati is said to
be the richest man in Ohio. He has a
| 10000 house in the midst of thirty
acre lawn, and possesses beautiful pic
ture gallery as we'll as a large and choice
library.
The following are the complete re-
turns in gold. of the different places of
amusement in San Francisco, for the
month of August: Alhambra, $13 ,226;
Metropolitan, $23.7S1; Maguire's Opera
House. $10,S77; Olympic, 50 ,557; Ana
tomical Museum, 81 013.
The MaripOsa Mining Company has
proposed to compromise with the county
of Mariposa for its taxes for the last
four years, by the payUSent of twenty
thousand dollars. The amount due the
county on that score is some forty-five
thousand dollars, and the Board of Su
pervisors failed To see the point of the
proposition.
A Russian lawyer from Moscow has
been visiting the Troy police court, to
study its method of dealing with GRIM
that there was more crime in Troy than
in the large city of Moscow, with 400,-
600 inhabitants.
There are twenty flower stores in New
York The trade in flowers amounts TO
about $500, 900 yearly. The three great
periods for their sale are New Years
day, Easter and Christmas. The value
of flowers furnished to New York on the
first named day alone is about $4,000.
The total amount of the Mormon emil
grafton this year, foots up at three thou
sand eight hundred and forty-one per-
sons, inclusive of women ard children.
Out of this number. about three-fourths
are women and chileren, leaving the
number of males at about nine hundred
and sixty.-Salt Lake Reporter.
On the morning of tAe 25th ult., the
Brainard House, a. Delaware Water
Gap, Pa. was robbed. Thos. Broadhead
proprietor, and his brother Theodore
pursued and overlook the robbers, one
of whom drew n revolver and killed
Theodore and dangerously wounding
Thomas. The murderers were cap
tured the same afternoon by the sheriff,
who, with difficulty, prevented the peo-
pie from lynching them.
The Central Pacific railroad has issued
a thousand mile ticket at reduced rates.
so that every man who has business over
the line requiring much travel, can save
handsome sum by purchasing such
tickets. They are so printed that when
a person desires to travel, say thirty
FIVE miles, the conductor can, with a