Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-05-23
The News.


Poor life as was Tweed's. it was i
sllred for $4,000.
The telephone has been Introduce
and is now in operation in Japan.
Hayes, during his first year in Il
White House, granted 2l5 pardons.
Samuel J. TiIc!cn says Congress wi
Ike gully of neglect of duty if it does NJ
investigate the Florida case.
Bishop futile visited Ogden on III
18th inst. and administered the rite {
confirmation at the Church of the Goo
Shepherd.
-EX-Postmaster General CiesWcll is
millionaire. and lives in a 100000 hous
at Washington, the contents of which ar
taxed for 100000 more.
Editing a paragraph column is lik
riding the trick mule in a circus-eyer,
body thinks it's an easy job until they &c
straddlc Of the mules back.
Don Cameron was married TO Mis-:
Elizabeth Sherman. at Cleveland. Ohio. on
the 9th of May. The wedding present:
were quite numerous, and valued at 500,
900.
"A dangerous counterfeit note Of the
denomination of 500 on the Merchant
National Bank of Bedford, Mass, has been
been put in circulation in the Western
States.
The present Eali Ietrim has offered a
reward of 10000 for information that will
lead to the arrest Of the murtleycrs OF his
uncle. This is said to be the largest rc-
ward ever offered in Ireland.
Every train TO the temporary tenlinls
of the Ogden & Northwestern Railroad
takes up a number of Adventures, who
hope to better their condition by moving
ION wheels. "-Ogdea freeman.
Capt. Eads expects TO have an open
channel at the mouth of the Mississippi.
go feet wide and "a feet deep, within a
short time. when he will be entitled to an
other installmcnt of the appropriation.
Norman Buck. Esq, Of MIMI. has
been appointed L. S. Attorney. of Idaho.
This carpet-bagging has got down to
tramping business. but we gness our neigh
bors won't buck" very much on this
PLAT take.
"A new witness in the Beecl,er-TiltOn
case has come to the front. His name is
John Is. Mix, and his counsel is confident
that his testimony will show to the world
the inside of the great conspiracy to over
throw Bcechcr.
The steamer Rucker arrived mt Omaha
on the Both Of April. and left tor Fort Ben
ton on the lst of May, taking at that point
forty tons of liquors, valued at nearly 500
600. from Her Il Co.. who sold the same to
parties in Montana.
The engineers have arrived at Sioux
City. and the survey of the Missouri ri:er
has commenced. Their report will be
made to Congress Immediately, to secure |
an appropriation for the improvement of
the river at that point.
-Four hundred and twenty applications
for liquor licenses have been made to Uni
ted States Internal Revenue Collector Jen-
nings from the different precincts in the
Black Hills, Deadwood asking enc hun
dred and ten; Gayvillc. Central. Lead and
Crook. one hundred and sixty; and other
portions Of the Hills one hundred and
fifty.
Gen. Sheridan has transmitted to the
Secretary of War Il tabular statement of
expeditions and scouts made
in the Department of Dakota during the
third quarter of the year 1877. from which
II that tho n,,pnIap Of In
killed was Us. and wounded 80; and the
number Of troops killed i3, and wounded
SG.
The President has appointed Governor ..
Packard to the Liverpool Consulate, and
II is saM that he will accept, although he :
has contendel all the time that he would :
hold no office under Hayes except the New /,
Orleans COllectorship. The Liverpool I
Consulate has been held by Ex-Governor
Fairchild, Of Wisconsin. for eight years, :
md is worth about $4,000 to $4,000 a +
year. .
In California recently, Judge Sawyer,
If the United States Circuit Court, rem :.
Tered decision in the ease Of a Chinaman h
who applied for naturalization, holding d
hat a Chinaman is not white person :,
within the meaning of the term. as used in !,
he naturalization laws. and not entitled n
o become citizen. The ease will be ap- n
'caled to the Supreme Court of the United =,
states.
The Senate bill authorizing bona fdc fo
esidents of Colorado, Nevada and the W
territories to take tialber from mineral III
inds for domestic purposes, was passed by D:
he House on the 9th inst. with two amend to
nents-one excluding all railroad corpora in
ions from its privileges and the other ali- oil
lOrizing the Secretary of the Interior to til
rescribc regulations 10 prevent undue de- ar
truction. w
We understand that Prof. Carl c. Zeus si'
nd Mr.. Harry J. Norton will. during the oi
,mmer nrenarc tho artist sketches and de
tor handsome illustrated III
Ork called the BLACK Hills Pictorial AL 'e,
lm," to be published next fall. Prof. al
Gus is an artist of much celebrity in land
ape skctching. and Mr.. Norton is the l's
En- ., ,,Vo,Io,ll.., 49, .u,, tn
erefore promises to he a publication of 90
uch mcrit.-Biack Hills Pioneer wv
on
Louis j. Jennings. former editor of the We
ew York Times, has brought suit for ag
0,0O0 damages against John Kelly. Eras- TO
s Brooks and August Schell, tor libel in tn,
e Express. alleging him to be cockney raj
tor: that he beat his wife. used up her us
oncy, pawned her jewelry, drew checks on
/ banks in which he had no money, and ma
many other disreputable deeds. hi.
'Ooks says that the suit is rs good an us,
vertisement us he wants for his paper: VII
at he can prove every assertion made, by the
enty of creditable witnesses, and that
innings will be doing him favor by bu
inging other suits. rel