Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1872-08-01
TIE lsOZEnAN JUBILEE.

] The Great Republican Concert troup ga,
!. their performance as per announcement
, Saturday night. Two Of the performers, Il
!, great Soloist. Church, and the iilimitab
! /. aotiDle-back-action sanlter and summers
throWcr, the limber-necked Sample Orr, a
rived s., fflu;iy nIgl AMI spent the norni,
!, ,iof saturday in drumming up the Iboys
escort the star OF tile evening, Cagett, int
town. BY their herculean labors deces
procession was organized, consisting Of on
irrepressible old towny, Dick Williams, an
one OF Josh Billings patent one-wheel veIoe
!, 1pedes, elegantly draped with half ward {
bleached domestic. with band OF blacl, clot
across the head. (of the buggy, we mean), il
which was conspcnously displayed one 9
those tel cent flags which Holman ha
Deen selling to the young Americans at hal
price since the Fourth OF july Thus gail,
caparisoned. the gallant Dick stared out OF
/ his errand of benevolenca. but, like those
other heroes that went out from Deer Lodge
The other day on arslmilar mission, he los
iis way or else he became SO thirsty that he
mad to return for refreshments before he goi
Tar enough to meet the redoubtabIe William
As the day was far advanced, aud Dicks
exhausted condition was apparent to the
sfage-manager, it was concluded to planth,n
in the middle Of the street with his trinmpl,al
car, there to await the arrival OF the doughty
champion OF the Black and Tans. Tie
''star" actor arrived aoout three. O'Clock,
when from the stentorian throat OF the here
of the wheel barrow went up laundering
cheer for the ''silver-tongued.' cheiftai,l.
which cheer aoowld have been Joined IN by
two or three other "incorruptibles'' had they
not at the critical moment been engaged in
pouring about tour inches of Church's in
comparable Jersey lightning down Their
patriotic gullets, and by the time this enlive-
ming operation had been performed, the Hon.
w. II. had disappeared. and nine-tentlls of
the people were in doubt as TO whether he
had really arrived or not. When it was as
certained that he really was in town, con-
enthusiasm was manifested by one
Individual, who had imbibed rather freely OF
rot gut, ''such as they don't sell in Bozeman.''
and who vociferously declared his ability to
dissect any progeny OF a female purp who
didn't like Billy Clagett. AS everybody
knows that Billy is a ''bully good fellow,''
1T home, there was nobody present that dis
liked him, and the anatomical qualifications
,f the be1ligerent Individual NOT put To
At abont half past eight the meeting was
'pened by Jno. Potter, Esq, the chairman
Who introduced tile Maestro dt coro, Col. l.. t
5. Church, who sang the ..Red, White and /
Blue. as if he was suffering from ST. Vitus' I
ance, or the shaking ague.'' I'VE are in
ormed that his nerves have been terribly
nstrung since, ,he received that Numbering
Yation at Philadelphia The Hon. W. Ii.
.lagett was then introduced who, after up
raiding the faithful of Bozeman fos not pro-
nring him hall to speak in, and. in sooth,
'e think it Was an unkiad neglect Oh their
art not to do so--proceeded to inform his
carers what he had done In Congress. He
ishea to inform hislaudience that there. were
. national politics 10 discuss. for, said he:
he Democrats have adopted oar ideas, and
'ne square out Oh our platform" We had
theEto supposed that he was the regular
Grant Republican Candidate, but We sup |
ose that he, too, Hoped over. 'sfor this night
lly," to accommodate that prince of s'tunl- {
ers'' Bro. Sample. He renounced the plin- I
pie he so ably advocated last year, known
the harmony with the administration
,ctrine," and declared that all the work to Y
done must be accomplished by such inde- :
tigatle labor and tireless zeal as would, ais L
had him. makea man grey-headed in the I
ort space OF year; that outside OF tile :
nits OF the Territory there is not to he !.
aud single man, woman or child who =
res a "continenbaI'' for the interests of y
ontana; that he, unaided and alone. had Il
lght the combined hosts OF Congress and
committees. and had accomplished more a.
M Democratic Delegate could do in six ze
three years; that he had tried to oct a r
e OF troops stationed from British Colum- al
to the Yellowstone, but had failed to ac- NJ
mpiish it; (if our memory serves us, %
H. Sheridan was the originator OF this a,
'yeinent, two years ago); that he had sue
,ded Ill obtaining an enormous appropria- !.
n. against ms oaOn convictions of its i'm d
lctsc~bstaty Tor good yesul<s for feeding the -
stie Sioux, that lie had for the specia5 :
EFT OF BoZeman u. succeeded in the estab- -
ament OF the National Park away off in hs
'onllng Territory; that he had, after nu- = :.
roas petitions had been forwarded, and -
ny Indignation .meetings held. (onlY that {
didn't put that inl, procured the order in
patrol, to guard the passes at Flathead eff
Dry Creeks, but he did not tell that tile cI,
latin valley, the people s:of which lie ex- m,
Is to be SO grateful for his hercuiean la IN,
5 in this direction, are now, at tile most fa
ical time OF the year, comoaIitlyely un- to,
tectet, less than one hundred men being su
7 stationed from Fort Ellis to Camp Ba-
, and that including ri,e garrison Of the
T, that he had succeeded in procuring one TIN
tisand needle guns and ammunition for res
frontiers (the dispatches said they were II j
lngfield rifles, and Coy. Potts, If we re- Illi
nber right, claimed the honor of procur spe
them that those WHO had talked about :.
stidH't know darned thing about what a
Were saying, and by the jumping Jehos- =
at ne was going 70 make it mighty warm NJ
EN-; that lle had worked ike 4 nigger for "
ybods, that he was going to get llaI:.a ~, -,
ion for school purposes out of Uncle sam ~ !.
session or 60. to glory trying. and, lin IA
ne dldil't care red whether they voted j