Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-09-27

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 20, 1877
The most attractive places in the cit,
just now are the markets. Fruits, flower
and vegetables are in their prime, and the,
have not been SO plenty, luscious and in
expensive for many years. One can lv.
in Washington this season for the meres
trifle. as FIR as eating goes, and set q tablt
fit for king Notwithstanding. Potatoes
sell for just half last years prices. tc1aa.
toes are % cts. a bushel, peaches. 50 to Z;
cts. grapes 5 cts. a pound, pears, apples
plums, ETC.. etc. correspondingly cheap
Housewives are taking advantage OF it, as
the appetizing odor that greets one from
open easements and kitchen windows
gives evidence, and are laying in stores of
goodies, in the line of pickles and preserves
for winter use.
We hear from various quarters that Con-
gressmen are getting ready to seriously
consider the labor question this fall and
winter. 1t is high time something must
be done for the thousands of unemployed
families in orr land before the cold weather
comes upon them, or the suffering and
death will be inestimablc. There are over
four million of men in the United States
for whom there is no employment. Ii
half of them would go to farming. their
productions would furnish work for the
other half; and there is plenty of good
land for this. 1t is difficult to see why
poor people. who have neither work nor
money, flock into cities. but such is the
fact. Surely poor people are poorer there
than they are in the country. \ man may
always get living, if no more. off a farm;
out in Il city he can, in these days. find alb
;olutely nothing to do, and he must neces-
ariiy grow poorer and poorer till public
l,arity provides for him. Happily. labor
ne men in several places are beginning to
axe 4 cOmmon-sense view of these mat
ers. In our neighboring city of Balti-
nOrc some Of the workingmen are making !
me vement to obtain bread that will sure {
= r'ng it. They have formed an associa- q
Oh to emigrate to Kansas with their FAM {
les and settle on the public lands in that L
tate. The association is wholly composed /
I
| in trades useful in the West. The
Ovement is Il most cOmmendable one .
I'd other cities would do well to initiate Il
Il
Senator 1OrtOn. who was recently pros a
lted by Il stroke of partial paralysis in b
sliforni:. is reported as slowly but surely
in Richmond. Indiana. His
n. however. lies at last accounts, at the
int Of death. with no hope of recovery. :,
he last steamer from Sitka. Alaska. where :
is. delayed lis starting two days in the ~
pc Of bringing definite news concerning =.
n. but left ut last before his death. and :"
further word can be had concerning -
n till the last of this month. His friends 's'
i hope he " Ill live. but their hopes are r.
thout foundA ion. according to his ply VI
ian's verdict. His probable death is ="
1t carefully from his fathers knowl- III
&c.
here is more or less talk of revOking mt
the President of his proclamation call NC Nc
an extra session Of Congress in Octo- w
but Cabinet members profess to have ''e
ri nothing of the matter officially. ,
rotary McCrlry says the army appro- -.
,tion must be available by November l. d.
II events. ~
-. me
eople here are gettiH" ready for the un- ,Iae
ally brilliant season that is coming. ~,
chants are embellishing their ware
ms; landlords are fitting up their ),
ms; society people are preparing rich , ;,
toilets: livery men are filling up their 20
lies with fine trappings; and all things h,,
,eak right lively and exciting winter.
bout doubt society will be adorned bv -
presence among us of the most talent
and intellectual people in the A.
'try. Many accomplished literary men
artists are already here. and the Ma
al Capital will present mrivalled at a
lions the coming winter. 1t is fast be- -
ing desirable place of residence. and
OF culture are finding out its atlvan-
and taking up their abode here.
WHITNEY.