Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-08-21
Telegraphic.

Telegraphic.
The double-barrled telegraph line that
pFetends to connect this section Of the globe
with North America is downtown as fiat
~ founder. It always is down when any
thing important occurs; snd, let a mans
creditorsdie or his mother-in-law give up the
ghost, the line is nine times in ten unable to
provide him the sorrowful news until it is too
late for him to get drunk over 1t with any
reasonable claim to the excuse that the sud-
den shock had upset his nervous system.
I.sst year the citizens Of Bozeman, feeling
the need Of Geographic communication, pc
titioned r. A. Largely, Esq. of small side
place believed to be known as Virginia GNy,
but not to be found on any modern map or
on any travelled road. to construct line be-
tween the two points-we thought it better
to have a line to nowhere than not to have
one to any where, but he has never replied,
and We arc left in the darkness of the middle
ages.
We are forced to believe tina! Helena in her
determination to crush out this town has dire
moved Virginia OF without our knowledge.
II we desire to purchase additional North
Pacific bonds before they get away up out Of
reach. we can't do it-la.iies are actually un-
able to tell from one week to another wheth-
er brstles are, or are not, worn-shOuld any
one wish to subscribe to the MatiiSOnian or
the Independent he must do it by mail. and
suffer the incalculable privatiOn OF getting
along just SO much longer without those lu-
minar'es- in suadry and various ways
we are ruined by no telegraph.
We hear of a rancho below that Is fenced
up with the old poles, and it IS said that the
Helena Herald Office has had no other fuel
for over year. Hadn't We better resort to
that Bozeman panacel .or all evils, past, pres
ent and to come-a petltion-and try to Sc
cure telegraph line?
ENTERPRIsE.-A chic Ell peldlcr rolled
through town on Wednesday, his wagon
bearing banner with the strange device
'Gallatin Flour Makes Sour Bread" And
the wrong side of the aforesaid rag had on it
some baldertlash about Mi.soula S services on
the Capital question, and ali item about a
swindling vote. The gentleman who was
toting this work of art about asserted that
Helena had employed HIM to hanl the thing
over the country and was paying him for the
job.
For week past VIC have heard it stated
.has Helena will in future purchase none OF
our produce and sell US none If her goods
and all this because the county Of Gallstin
didn't see its intero-s :" voting ..App-.~o.s..,
Now we have heard it stated for three years
that Helena always tries to wholesale goods
to other towns at retail prices-that her
promises can't be depended upon-i hat she
will tip you mp at any unsuspe, ting hour Of
the day or night. and that, 50 to speak, she
regards herself rs great big hog, and all
the rest Of the Territory as a trough for her
to feed from. Now: she has the Capital; and
her opponents declare that all OF us who as
sisted her in sccur ny it will soon see the err
ror Of our ways aud repent in sack cloth and
ashes over our Llunder. Be tins as it may,
the Capital question was not ono Of principle
at MI. but simply one OF personal interest
and local expetlicncy, and voters voted upon
that basis. This paper supported Helena
but would it not be we'll were Helena to draw
in her horns little and not prejudice even
her friends against her. She can't gain any
thing by bring hen-peddlers to carry cheap
banners about the country and. as to our
flour, she can 90 to thunder if she don't want
It. Some how Helena can't see any thing but
Helena. and the idea is SO general that she
will oppose anything that may accrue to the
benefit OF any other part OF the Territory,
that it would be an interesting study to en-
quire into the source of the contribution that
supports that chicken man in his journey
with that banner. We are reminded Of the
old hymn-..The Lord moves in mysterious
way His wonders to PERFORM That Lord,
however, moves upon the Storm" tut The
Helena one goes about in chicken Wagon
with transparency, trying to run down the
price Of eggs. ~
THE RIVER Crows BRouGHT IN BIZ A. n. |
A. NJ. Quivcy has lust return |
Il from successful trip to the Judith Basin |
o induce the River Crows to come up to the |
Agency and receive their annuity goods |
which have been on hand for them |