The avant courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1871-1872, 1872-01-11
CURRENT NOTEl.

4 Faberss talking machine IS now notice.
among the personals Of the Eastern pap. RS
i Charles Matthew, the last surviving bre the
Of Rev. Father Matthew, the Irish apostle 0
temperance has just died.
/ A Washington on DIT says that Hon. Eu
gene Hale, representative from Maine, is sool
to lead daughter Of Senator Chandler tt
! the altar.
Fifty Of the seventy-four United States Sen
ators are lawyers. Mr.. Cameron, Of Penn
/ sylyanis, is the eldest, and Mr.. Spencer. O
Alabama, the youngest.
| The late Lieutenant Gsveraor Dunn, O
Louisiana, was not rich; and the fact is men
| toned as an exceptional case among che Off
GERS of the reconstructed States.
Harry Meigs. the Yankee contractor who
Is reyolutionizing South America with rail
roads, has just taken $24 900 contract
from the Peruvian government. -
Miss Nellie Grant will not enter society
this winter, but her cousin, Miss Maggie
/ Dent is to make her debut, and will have .
party given her at the White House.
Charles s. Dickenson, recently appointed
by Comptroller Green as deputy col ector OF
city revenue at New York, is grandson ef
the late Hon. Daniel s. Dickenson.
Madame Bertin2tti, who used to figure in
Washington society when she was Mrs. Bass.
and who was called by Anson R4rlingame
'the leyiatllan OF loveliness,'' has gone to
Europe.
The scholastic population Of South Caro-
lima is zoe, 6,61O.
Boston send. $2.OO0.000 worth of flowers
to New York every year.
6 About $5O,OOO,oO0 are invested in manu.
featuring in Fall River, Mass.
& Lawrence, Kansas, will organize branch
of the international Society.
Fifty-one divorces per diem is the last
quotation from Allen county, Indiana.
Of the ten thousand English miners, one
In every thirty is killed BY accident yearly.
Two hundred and thirty-three deaths from
smallpox in Philadelphia week before last.
A man in Detroit was fined SIS for an un-
successful attempt to commit suicide.
There are eight reverend or ex-reverend
gentlemen who hold positions in the POST
office Department.
The lost Porte Rico and Jamaica cable has
been recovered. The break vas twenty
eight miles frem Porto Rico.
The screw steamers sailing from Baltimore
are said to get their coal $3.50 cheaper per
ton than those sailing from New York.
The armies and navies in Europe are said
to contain at present 5,165, 800 men, 5l2 ,294
horses, 10 2A field guns and 800 initrailleuses.
is .estia5atad tIas, ttl,A at
the price it Is now selling 1t, being from $S
to $40 in the hand.
The hiphe..-i---. a..sri aUurt1unIsp
for prcsuming to intrude on
their company.
A motion in Parliament at Quebec, appro-
priating 5000 to aid Canadians to return
from the United States, was holly discussed
and then withdrawn.
L. Berthiaume, of the Montreal Misesps,
won the silver composing stick offered to the
champion type-setter Of the Dominion. He
SET 2, 794 s'emsn in two hours.
For innocently throwing a handful of red
pepper into burning stove in dance-hall
II Daltsn, N. a.. an unsophisticated young
man has been fined $2l and costs.
The labor reform movement is creating
.rouble in Spain. The bakers and dyers i'll
Valencia are on strike, and troops hare had
o be sent to keep them in order.
The latest London announcement is a nose
machine, by which homely noses are pressed
nto the most fashionable shapes. according
o the taste of the owner.
GRKrLEY IN HIS TANTKUMs. We were sit
ing with Horace one afternoon in that little
sanctum of his adjoining the
counting room of the Tribune. The old gem
leman WAS in one of his chronic conditions
# grilmble and discomfort. He had that
nealy appearance SO common to him, that
made him resemble blonde miller fresh |
rom the dust of his -four MILL and was ex- I
,ressing his private opinion in public and
omewhat protans way, when 9 colored gem
leman was announced. 'sLet him come in,
cared the philosopher, and an aged darky,
lad in broad-cloth, gold-rimmed spectacles,
nd cane headed with the same precious
aetal, stalked in. I
s.Mr Greeley, believer" he inquired.
"Yes, I'm Mr.. Greeley; Whist dc you
rant ~ was the gruff response.
We'll, sah,' said old Ebony Specs, seat
ag himself as he deposited his hat and cane
n the floor; 'swell, sab, I've been thinkih'
at our race don't pay enuff attention to
cientifc pursuits ssh. .
We saw the cloud gather on the iatellect-
al countenancs OF the great Bohemian. It.
roke N thunder at that point. In a voice
therein was blended the shriH tones Of a
ysterical woman and the growl OF tiger,
e exclaimed
Scientific pursuits you damned old tool;
ou want hoe-handle and patch OF New Z
ersey-that's the scientific pursuit you want.
let out - ai
1t is scarcely necessary tossay that the de-
otee to science gathered up his ornaments
nd disappeared, walking out as in daze,
OF being able to comprehend that he had
Bohemian in rage.-Don
iatt.