The avant courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-11
ON DTS.
By telegraph, Grapevine and Otherwi

longing to Mr. Howell, passed through Cen
trail City, Colorado, Oh the nth ult Tor Mon
taEa.
! Five ladies' were empanneled at Laramie, OF
! the Grand Jury recently. Crying babies ant
swearing husbands will be the order in fir,
honses At least in Laramie for the next twt
weeks.
J Ore hundred and seven car loads Of tea ar
rived in Omaha during one week recently
! from the West.
4 = pertinent inscription for soap Cheaper
than Dirt Itwould be hard to make oul
Crow brethren believe it, though.
DR.. Bell draws nice distinction between
cholera and cholera morbus. Cholera pa
TENTS always die, while the cholera mor5us
chaps generally get we'll. When fellow il
i attacked he has to wait until he dies or gets
4 well, to find out what is the matter with him.
i New gold diggings, that pay from eight to
ten dollars per day to the hand, have been
struck on the Yankee fork of Salmon river, III
Lemhi county, Idaho.
The Woodruff motto Victoria or
! Blood
Four miles Of the Utah Northern Railroad
have been completed, and fifty thousand ties
are contracted for and part delivered. Steel
rails are expected in two weeks, which will
be Immediately laid.
The one furnace of Bateman, Tsuel & Co.'S
Smelling works, Little Cottonwood, Utah.
for the past week run through hundred and
twenty tons Of Flagstaff ore, producing
| III $40 pounds of bnllion-an average of
eight tons of bullion per day. One day the
run reached within little Of nine tons Of
bullion.
Z A cute youngstcr says the Connecticut
river is so called because it connects Vermont
and New Hampshire, and cuts through Mas
sachusetts.
The Grand Lodge !. O. G. T., of California,
met in Oakland OH the Goth.
A wonderful cave has been discovered near
Glasgow, Mo.
Goldsmith Maid, under unfaverable cireum-
stances and heavy track, made mile in 2:l9.
Some Of the desperadoes who have been
doing the private numbering for the leading
Mormons i'm Utah are Under arrest. and have I
expressed determination to turn States evi-
dence. 1t will afford rich thing for the Po-
lice Gazette.
The price of horses at Corinne has adj
vaneed largely in contemplation Of military
acquisitions for use ssat the 'front.'
The boast of the Deseret News recently
that Utah never had, or required a vigilance
was very good in its way, but the
testimony Of hired murderers Of Gentiles be-
lore the Grand Jury will display bloody re-
cord, where innocent men, and not criminals,
were summarily murdered.
tits reported that General Butler and Hon.
Reyerdy johnson have been employed by the
aigh Priest of the Danites to show that po-
ygamy is a constitutional malady.
The Boston Post, looking somewhat de-
pondingly at the question OF the Governor
hip, parodies Whittier to this effect:
tsOf all sad words OF tongue or pen.
The saddest are these-we aaGy haze Ben.',
Josh Billings says, ssDon't work before
breakfast If it is necessary to toll before
u 1
The proposed new Constitution OF Nebraska
Establishes compulsory education; gives
'ower to towns to prohibit the liquor traffic,
nd permits females to vote. If the latter
lanse be adopted there will be squalling
mong the log cabins that will drown the
rar.whoops of the savages.
Queen Victoria's physicians say her retire
nent from society and from public demon
trations is in consequence of their profess
ional advice. sFhey say she has nervous
roubles, which might easily be converted by ,
excitement into dangerous malady.
One Isaiah Robinson, of Gilulanston, New !
agreed with John i. Piper, of the /
anne place. to swim two miles in Lougee's |
'onp, provided pipcf cat six quarts of Gus I
ard, which he did. Robinson swan his two {
niles and twenty rods additional to offset
'iper's licking the spoon after his atrocious
neal. /
DEER LODGE ITEMs.-The Grand Lodge of !,
;. a. & A. M. for Montana has been in ses-
lon in Deer Lodge, and the following officers
7ere elected for the ensuing year: ,
@. M. -. 4. Weston.
D. G. M.-Sol Star.
$. G. We. S. Stackpole.
Jr. G. We. G. Dcimling.
g. Treas.-H. NJ. Parchen.
G. Sec.-H. i. Hosner.
The officers elect of the G.. T.. were installed. !;
he following appointive officers we're an ]
ounced:
Grand Chaplain Hugh Duncan.
Grand Lesturer-J. e. Boyce, Sr. )
Grand Orator-W F. Sanders. IT
Grand Historian G. Hedges. :
Grand Marshal Leroy Southmayde. i
Grand st. BIN. Morris. =
Grand Sw. B y. NJ. Minesinger. 4
3. g. D.-Joiln Gerber.
j.. G. D.-J e. Dickey. s.
Grand Stewards II. Countryman and j.. j
. Wyne. j
q. Tyler--Wm. Parker
Committee on Foreign Correspondence APP
,infed Fl. Il. Hosmer, chairman. 5
Committee on Jurisprudence appointed @.
edges, chairman.
"A vote OF thanks to Deer Lodge, No. II,
ID to all members Of it, for the use of hall,
wells and fj1rnifllra and FIR tlf I'M onifsn~nf