Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-08-09

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J Tom Scott played fair with the cam
paign funds On both sides last election
he subscribed $:0, 1000 to each.
William n. Evarts the other day bega'
to tell man that his coat tail was on fire
Before he got through the first half of tn
sentence three barns, twenty tons of hay
and nine billy goats were burned up, no
counting the coat tail.
X. N. Baskin sets forth in his documen
contesting Geo. Q. Cannon g seat in Con
gress, that Cannon has married two con
cubines IN the last two years, in violation
of the act Of Congress, and that he is al
unnaturalized Englishman. The notic'
of contest was served June 9th, and Can.
non had 80 days, under the law, IN which
to file lis answer, but he has failed to de
lso.
Ool. Bob Ingersoll, in speech full OF
ribaldry and blasphemy, made In Bar
Francisco, recently said:
~ will give 81 900 in gold coin to any
clergy man who can substantiate that the
death Of VoltGlce was not as peaceful as
the dawn; and Of Tom Paine, whom they
assert died in fear and ascny, frightened
by the clanking chains Of devils-in fact,
frightened 30 death by God. l will give
isl 900 likewise 10 any one who can sub.
Istantiate this absurd story, story with
Iout a word of truth in it,
Jennie June says the English women
always wear dress entirely out before
getting new suit, and .ience are rarely
dressed in the prevailing fashion.
Dr.. Mary Walker swears by yonaer pale
moon tiat she will never marry and risk
the humility of having her husband come
in and request the loan of her black
pants, so that he may join fireman s
parade.
Frock coats of enormous length are now
fashionable in London. 1.-THE other
day." says a writer in the London World,
l saw a faultlessly dressed young man
nearly dislocate his backbone trying to
reach his coat>tail pocket" Pr
Rev. DR.. j. P. Newman, in a recent
sermon On the Jews, spoke very kindly of
them, and Washington paper suggests
that the reason was that Mr.. Ncwman's
church was deeply in debt, and the Jews
hold the mortgage.
Rev II. w. 3eecher says: "AIen are all
the time praying for gsace. and acting like
the devil"
Rev. Dr. Rambler, in the Christian-at
Work, says, there are some religious peo-
pie "who deal in violent philipics against
dress, luxury and pleasure, who think
the world is fast going to the bad, yet
who do not allure it to better life by any
special beauty or sweetness of their
own.
Says an exchange: "'f promise to pay
is the great financial bane of the Ameri-
can people today, and their only hope for
is in exchanging it for the
more potent maxim: Il pay now.'"
The Bridgeport, Connecticut, Standard
says = young man shot at lady friend,
and he set up in defence that he was
possessed of . DEVIL" whereupon the
Judge sentenced him to be confined in the
State prison, "devil and all; so there will
be one devil less loose in the community
for those few years, which is an improve
nent so far as it goes"
''Have circus people any religious feel.
nf - rather imtsrtinently asked Tttbt
ane reporter of Miss Mollie Brown, the
young lady who does the feats Of horse
in 'Forepaugh's circus. "Oer.
Eainly," said the queen Of the arena
''why noti You don't suppose that rid.
ing on horse or jumping through hoop
prevents any one from fearing God and
wishing to do good? am. as my mother
was, member of this Church."
Mr.. F. x. Bliley, of Atlanta; is con.
sort Of machine horse, built
upon the veiocipede plan, and operated
Ivy combination of motive power. The
power consists in the multiplied weight of
the rider, who moves in the saddle exactly
as though he was riding q horse. The
wheel is three feet In diameter,
and Mr.. Bliley asserts that the machine
will carry man faster than any horse.
Madame Rumor, thstirrepres sible old
lady, whose tongue know, no rest and Is
ever on the wag, announces that Secretary
Shsrman will be ssnt as our next plenipo-
Tertiary to Great Britain, and that Coy.
Mccormick is to be promoted, pursuant to
the civil s, rvice rules, to the position of
Secretary OF the Treasury. Madame also
reports that Hon. Edward MCPHERSON, the
present chief of the bureau of engraving
and printing. Is to be advanced to the post
of Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury.
1t this ie true. the Treasury department
will be controlled by two of the most
brilliant executive officers in the country.
. "Pull, Adam, Pull" a
There was lad in Ireland who wcs put
10 work in linen factory; and, while he
was at work there, piece of cloth was
wanted to be sent out which was short of
the quantity required; but the master
though: II might be made the length by
q little stretching. he thereupon un-
rolled the cloth, taking hold of one end
of 1t himself, and the boy At the other.
He then said: e1s' ~o- -.'- ID.