Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-03-28
Tho News.

removed soon.
The Daily Independent has enter
upon its ninth volume.
1T is thought that Congress will a
journ by the middle Of June.
A fife on the 18th inst, in Jersey Cit
rendered 100 persons homeless
The first telephone lire in Montana
in operation in Butte 1t is one mile Ion,
The New York Graphic, after havin
sunk for its owners $4,000, is at hst on
paying basis.
The United States Senate has passed
bill. making Washington's birthday leg
holiday after this year.
The military wagon transportation
Montana has been awarded to John "
Power, of Fort Benton.
A boiler explosion at Richmond o
22d inst. killed five persons, and severel
wounded seven Others.
The Vice-Presidcnt has signed the bi
in aid of the Polar expedition, designed b.
James Gordon Bennett.
Thirty thousand dollars have been col
lected' for the purpose Of establishing al
American college at Rome.
England is still trying to have some
thing to say in concluding peace arrange
ments between Turkey and Russia.
Some of the ST. Paul clergymen have
been circulating petition requesting TIN
Pioneer Press to discontinue its Monday
edition.
A new silver bill has been introduced
in the House, one section of which pro
hibits the further coinage Of accent, 5-cen
3-ccnt pieces.
The indebtedness of Beaverhcad cOun.
ty. March lst. 1873. was S23,S6l 80, being
an increase of S3,7E.02 over the indebted
ness of the previous year.
philadelphia in making strong effort
TO secure aid from the Government for the
Improvement of the Schuylkill river, with
reasonable prospect of success.
King IIumbert's first official act was
to commute the sentence of eighty-five
persons under sentence Of death. He
is bitterly opposed to capital punishment.
The Texans are dissatisfied with the
report of the Commissioners, appointed by
President Hayes and Governor Hubbard,
to investigate into the difficulties on the
border line. ..
WIN. Mahafley escaped from the Mon
tana penitentiary March 10th. Warden
Fish offers 500 reward for him. 4 full
description of him will be found in the
Ne,c NortA- Vest OF 22d inst.
Some United States Senators having
appeared in the Senate chamber one Sun
day morning in 4 state Of intOxication,
they have been severely censured by the
press and people of the country at large.
The bonds and preferred stock Of the
n. p. X. r. have advanced three and two
cents under the b0uyant effect Of the re-
port Of the House Committee on railroads.
n. Z. Land in bonds is now worth Sl.lO
per acre.
The Independent states that house for
the packing and grading of wool will be
established in Helena by Mr.. John Healy
now in the Territory representing E. Ores
ar & Co., wool graders and packers, San
Francisco.
A bill is now before Congress which
embodies The proposition to abolish the
Surveyor Generals offices throughout the
country and also proposes to make various
changes in the present system of survey
ing public lands.
-Orville Grant. who visited Montana a
few years ago, was interested in some
trading posts on the Missouri river, and is
notorious from being the BROTH
cr OF Ulysses. is in San Francisco vending
a patent smut machine.
Omaha will soon have White Lead
Works. The buildings are being erected
and machinery is being placed in the same
and the establishment will be running ia
about three weeks. 1t is owned by a joint
stock company and cost over $4,000.
Hon. Columbus Delano and family are
located on ranch, near the Una de Cato,
New Mexico. He and his son John pro-
pose to engage in the sheep business ex-
They have been leading breed
,rs of fine Merino sheep in Ohio for many
years.
A Boston paper says that the practice
If raising money on forged notes has been /:
'ery common, and connived at by the
banks, and even that some banks preferred
hat class Of paper when it came from
highly respectable persons" for the reason
hat special efforts were always made to
zee that it was promptly taken up.
Gen. A. NJ. West, Democratic Senator ,
n the Mississippi Senate, offered an amend ,
nent TO the Constitution of the Senate, in ,
Which. in one section of his article offered. ,
declared that NO person who denies !
ne being ola God. or future state of re- !
'ard or punishment, shall have any office ,
the civil department of State.''
-O'Donovan Rosa recently delivered a
'cture in Toronto to an audience of about g
ne hundred. A continuous volley of Q
zones for an hour and half was thrown a
the lecture room,' Kidding all the win +
ows. After the lecture a number OF per-
'ns in mob 1000 strens were injured.
inc men were reported wounded by the
Dung lrishmen's Society, one seriously.
The House Claims Committee have
greed to report iavorably the bill to pay |.
aek TO the widow of Cen. Custer 5000 :
hrh the Government collected of her :.
ther. the late Judge Bacon. of Monroe, I
lfchigan, as bOndsman of q United States :
larshal, whose accounts were not found =
} be short until two years after his time :
nd expired. This delay is made the !,
round for refunding the money. l.
-The President is preparing another 4
Ito message, this time for the bill which I
Is passed both Houses Of Congress APP q
,inting special terms of United States 9
ourts to be held on the scene of the seiz- {
'cs Of Government lumber by unscrupu- a