Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1875-04-09
FROM HELENA.
second Epistle from Sleepy
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EDrroR AvAxr COURIER:
since my last address to your paper.
have been much asleep and 20 have tn
lpeople out this way, and % they woul'
vet be, were it not for the STIR and rusts
If railroad builders, track. layers and On
CINE drivers, conductors and ba9gag'
masters, brakcsmen and mailboys, wit
echoed and re-echoed railroad. fully on
whole week previous to our late meeting
It which, Is you are already advised, thu
good people of this county appeared, ant
BY resolutions, pertinent and proper, de
|ciared their hearty cooperation in any
and I'll prudent and practicable measures
that may by rail annihilate the lengthy
space dividing Us from the outer-world
The delegates were selected from oul
most reliable and enterprising citizens
and no doubt 10 here entertained of theil
fitness for the duty allotted them. Some
adverse opinions and contrary movements
may reasonably be expected, yet, with the
moment of the business before them, and
in the exercise OF good sense. prudence,
mutual forbeannce and Cancellation, the
members of the convention. with mind
single to duty and public good. cannot
fail to do such work at this first meeting
of the kind as will give them bright
page 10 the future history of Montana.
Our late meeting was characterized by
frsnknels and boldness of action. and In
some respects was remarkably so. but IS
was Just then asleep and did not wake up till
the bravest of the brave, or the boldest OF
the bold had subsidized. I cannot, there
fore, give more Of his exploits than that
'.brevity is the soul Of w.t." and he was
brief. In ore short sentence he designa-
ted the character in his opinion of the
meeting, and generously too, not having
received any marked laudatlons from the
non-appreciating audience up to that time.
III the minds of the great there is q sub
strata, or, BEDROCK of intelligence from
which "cold chunks" of genius can be
CLEANED on grave occasions however prof
,tiess at present to the possessor; but, sic
itur ad astra.
The advent of Rev. Chilson In our city
was marked in some respects, and in 9th
ers, heads were marked by him. We
speak Of the afflicted gentleman with SYM
palhy and pity. As heretofore published,
be is clergyman IN the N. E. Church,
but halls from Kansas; that while en-
route here he became demented, his dis
ease developing itself into phrenzy, alarm
Ing and dangerous, yet not without me
lhod in hie Madness In his hotel. the
he met many strange faces,
md to him, perhaps, many anomalous
creatures. Satisfied that little attention
had been there given to spiritual culture,
md no care for grace, he perceived at once
! field for service and duty. He planned
his battle carefully. and set his pickets
With skill, determining, great chieftain-
ike, to attack at first few of the fore
most in command of the army of Satan,
which no moral suasion could reach
Apropos of this, he fired the building and
elected as the scape-goats for the board
re-, dodgers and transient customers the
'erson Of Mr.. O. VS., to whom he
calf some vigorous blows from the big
nd of a bludgeon. Scarcely had this
zen done, when Mr.. Chilson's keen eye|
iscovered, as he believed, distinctive'
Of anti-C Christ in the person
t Mr.. L-r. whose conversion he knew
ould not be accomplished by ordinary
aeans, and not knowing the love of God.
be teacher would have him feel his fear
Ie applied the baton with renewed force
q the head OF this supposed infidel SO
Ikorously that the latter afterwards de-
Jared himself shot, having, when he was
truck, heard the report of pistol and
cit the crash of the bullet into his head.
70 abrasure of the skin followed, but
be bludgeon broke! Mr.. Ohilson. We are
lad. to say, is improving under the kind
of his physicians, and hopes are
Of his early restoration 10
oundness of mind and body, but whether
is method of inculcating scripture les.
ons with fire and club will do these hea-
hens any good remains to be seen.
We have had many good lectures de-
verod here this season in aid Of the new
Church. 'Twould be difficult
D select the best when oil are excellent,
} they must be from our Wades, Clag.
sts, Hedges, Sanders, etc. And in the
rake Of good examples comes bravely TO-
be front that chief of beaux esprits, the
Ion. P. T. Williams, of this city, who
ill deliver q lecture here on the evening
efore the converting Of the Territorial
lailroad Convention. Subject The
oets and Poetry Of America" and reci-
Itions from Whittier, the proceeds of
'hich be will donate towards the purchase
rolling stock for . narrow guage North
nd South r. r. from this city to the in.
lrsection Of the Missouri with the Nissis-
mi via Na11aUav cnnnfv The pV,ent ioI