Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-06-28
GenerUZit1eS.

A Russian Commisssry has been shot
Tor adulteratiny army flour.
A Texas paper says that grass 80 feet in
height grows on the San Marcos River.
The Princess of Wales has gone to her
father. az a result of the Prince 3 infidel.
i:y.
DR.. Kenealy. of Tichbcrne fame, de-
nounces General Grant as corruptly rich
man. - a.
By the South Pacific tidal wave, go
lives were lost, and SEC, 600 property
destroyed.
An Iowa man put SIG. 900 in the rag
bag "for safe keeping" A peddler came
along and his wife sold the rags.
The New York correspondent of the
London Daily News puts the number of
unemployed in the United States at two
millions.
Locomotives in this country consume
yearly as much wood as would grow on
lhr' e hundred and fifty thousand acres of
JanO In twenty nve years.
1t is said that the highest bridge in the
world is on the Southern Kentucky Rail.
road. 1t is 275 feet from the water, 1925
feet long, aud its largest span is 275 feet in
length.
Jefferson was the first President to issue
an order containing the same declarations
respecting the duties of officers in thu
civil service which are found in Mr..
uayes's letter.
There are laws for the prevention of
cruelty to ANNALS on the statute books OF
t4'irty-three States in the Union. Florida,
Mississippi, Arkansas, Nebraska and Col
Orada, have none.
Unless man pay $50 rent for his
house in England, he cannot vote for
member of Parliament. This disfranchises
many clergymen-and they arc moving
for mobilization.
Paul Morphy. the noteJ chess>plsyer,
who is now practicing law in New York
city, wishes it distinctly understood tha,
he is not insane, statements to the con
trary notwithstanding.
Scotland is the mJst healthful country
in the world for dogs. In ten years only
one Scotch dog has died from hydropho-
bia, while IN England and Wales the
deaths have Numbered 334.
The inventor of 8 new coinage meta
proposes its adoption in place Of gold and
silver, arguing that such money would
not be exportt d or worked-up and that j,
would r, nam in the country.
Hon. Erastus Brooks, after forty-ont
years of service, has retired from ths
active superintendance of the New Yorl
Express. No less than one h ..ndred ant
twelve daily journals have been born and
died in New York city in that time, ant
the number to day is less than it wa
twenty live years ago.
Another tradition of our childhood 1:
gone. Ostriches have no longer an IRE.
psoachable digestion. Land and Watel
relates that one of these birds, whicn had
|eaten wire. nails ard sundry other hari'
ware articles with impunity, recently dice
from the effects of lace cap, three lac'
collars, and two baked potatoes.
Bonnet Duverdier, president of tn
municipal council, who was recently ar
rested. charged with insulting Presiden
Nc Nahon .nd inciting civil war and assas
Isination, has been sentenced to fifteeI
months Imprisonment and to pay fin
Of 1900 francs. Five other participant
of the meeting at st. Dennis incurre'
severe sentence.
The cork tree has been dcrnesticated, o
acclimated, or at the very Least cultivated
al Sono:na, Cal. A resident of that plac
has succte Jed in growing five trees, whic
are now twenty five TO thirty five feet Il
height, and from ten to twelve inches il
diameter il the trunk. One coat of cork
one and one-half inch thick. las bee
stripped off. The seeds were brough
from Spain twenty years ago.
A Washing ton dispatch to the Bulleti
says the Treasury is paying out only larg
United States notes for drafts. This
the beginning of q movement intended t
place the United States Treasury circuls
ton upon European footing, with D
small bills in existencs, and with specie q
medium of small operations. Ihe ide
|is to get silver out in a. large quantities q
the Treasury can supply. and also to max
the people prefer small bank notes to lara
legal tenders. ..5
u The Venus Of Milo.
The report that the arms Of the Vent
} |of Milo haye been discovered is confirlne
by letter received at the State Depar
lment from General Meredith Read, OF
Charge i'Affaires at Athens. He WRIT
that they were found on the Island {
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