Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1876-06-02

The Nellie Peck arrived in Benton on
the Goth inst.
The steamer Western left Bismarck on
the 18th for Benton.
Brick.laying has been commenced On
the Assay Office at Helena.
The steamer Nellie Peck will leave
Benton on the 9th of June.
The Territorial Grange will meet at
Sheridan, on Wednesday, June 9TH.
Henry Werkins is running an express
from Virginia City to Radersburg.
It is to be hoped the snow had dam :
aging effect on the grasshoppers.
Nick Kessler, the enterprising brewer
of Helena, is erecting sineltcr on Ten
Mile.
TIC. Power Il Bro, of Fort Benton,
will ship 80, 600 robes to the Eastern mar
ket this season.
Eleven hundred tons Of Montana freight
vas landed at the Fort Benton levee up
10 the 23d of May.
Thirty thousand head of sheep will be
driven into the Territory this season. So
say the sheep men.
sixty thousand robes will be shipped 10
Eastern markets this season by two firms
Ut Fort Benton.
The examination of the pupils of the
public schools of Virginia City will take
place June Sd.
Mr.. and Mrs. Holdrige, formerly Of
this place, left Benton on the 18th Of May,
on the steamer E. Fl. Durtee.
Davis s. Wallace, of Helena. few day
since, bought 344 sacks of Union mills
-four, Moods brand. at SIS SO.
4 Tie prevalence of the measles reduced
the attendance at the Helena Graded
School No. seventy-five pupils last
week.
Sheds bridge over the Madison river
Was swept away by the late Hood, and We
look for others to 60 when the snow on
the ground iDelts.
DR.. G. W. Monroe and bride. s. w.
Lanzhorne and wife, and Miss Anne
Evans, sister of Mrs. Monroe, arrived Sun
day from Helena. .as
IF the late heavy Stow fall was general
In the territory this will prove the most
successful season in placer mining that
Montana has witnessed since the days
Of '03-4 and '65.
A good deal OF excitement was caused
IN Unionvile and Park City BY the strike
of four feet of solid ore on tho Parkinson
lode. A large body of valuable ore ts now
in fnllvieM
The Msdisonian says greater activity
than usual Is noticeable on all the mining
claims up and down Alder Gulch. No
idle men are to be seen. The ruling
wages are "a per day, and good miners
ore scarce ct that rate.
Lea. r. Marston, matchmaker and jew
eler, has removed to more elegant and
centrally located quarters, and can now
be found in the rooms formerly used ss .
photograph gallery, adjoining DR.. Os-
born's drug store.
We are indebted to the Helena Herald
end Independent and Msdisonian for daily
exchanges. 1t il matter of great con-
venience to US. In fact, we could not
get along without them, and he liberality
of. the publishers of the 1eral papers
deserves our especial thanks.
A correspondent Of The Herald writing
from near Fort Reno says the country be-
tween there and Fort Kearney was cover
ed with grasshoppers. They will migrate
q soon % they are sbfc to ny, and will no
doubt camp IN the Gallxtin valley several
days or more.
The bridge over the jefferson river be.
tween Helena and Gsffney. on the over
land stage route, was washed away by the
late food. There isa bridge seven miles
below, which will be used until the form
CT one is rebuilt.
The first freight train from Corinne has
arrived 1t Helena, but 1t wiptered on the
way. A train has pissed Lovell's station
and will reach the metropolis In few
days. - aa.ar 81
The Diamond B. train. with supplies
for Gen. Gibbons command. crossed the
Saltwater in safety. No Indians he'd
been seen. Que OF the guards,
Sergeant Rerrike. having got outside OF
the lines, wss shot and killed ~ . sea-
tiutL ,sib.it ilAis4 - ger
The Missouri river Ct Carroll has been
eleven feet -sbessa low water marx this
season, but was falling q last accounts.
When the June nood goes dows from
the mountain ateeSms the Atseodft b0s-
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