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Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-01-24
A viliianeus Conspiracy.

| OMAHA, january 0-A conspiracy to
ruin number'of respectable young girls
has been unearthed at Red Oak, bwyt and
intense excitement has been created there
by. There were n the conspiracy dbsea
men, some of them being married. They
were in the habit - dsceying girls into
the Office rooms " hoseh, ETC., - the
pretense Of passing the evening In social
games. AT last the daughters Of minis
ter and lawyer were ruined. The min
ister's daughter, who is only fifteen years
old, was kept away from home four days.
Her whereabouts was only discovered after
the most diligent search. The arrest Of
five men followed, two Of them being mar
ried. The parents are most respected. citi-
zens, and intend to push the case to the
bitter end. The offenders also moved in
good society.
-Adrianople has fallen into the hands
A.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-01-24
Bamnacks Taken Prisoners.

Ross FORK, IDAHO, January 16.-Or
the 9th inst, Captain Bainbridge, Of the
18th Infantry, captured the Bannack Indian
who murdered Rhoden in November last,
on upper Snake river. After this the Ban
hacks were more violent in their threats
than they had been. Yesterday Maj. Hart,
with three companies of the 9Th Cavalry,
arrived. At daylight this morning Genl
Smith, with three companies of the l4th
Infantry, surrounded the Bannack camp
and demanded their surrender, which de-
mand they quietly complied with. Fifty
five bucks. some arms and two hundred
and fifty horses were captured.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-01-24
CMadisoaian.1

The virllcncy Of the scarlet fever epidenl-
ic is abating, and most of the patients who
have been attacked with the disease are in
a fair way for recovery.
The citizens of Sheridan very agrceably
surprised their former pastor, the Rev. w.
W. Van Orsdel, by making him a Christ
mas present Of a purse containing $57 in
greenbacks. 1t was graceful and sensi-
BILE manner Of expressing the esteem in
which the reverend gentleman is held
among his former parishioners.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-01-24
Application For Pateut
10 THE CROWN POINT LODE Nry,
No. 10.


Us. LAND OFFICE.
BOzMEAN, NJ. r., JANUARY a lc, /,
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN that s...
y Rice, whose post Office address i, ~
City. Montana, has this day filed his appl,s,,s
for patent for ,4s5 linear feet of the d.
Point Lode Mine, or vein bearing silver !,
surface ground 2OO feet in width, sisus. \
a s Delay IN Havana Mining District, count
Madison and Territory of Montana. and h,
and desis nated by the field notes and oficnI'
on file in this Office rs Lots Number q and
Townships No. 2 and ; South, Range No II
OF Base and principal meridisn of Montsu,
| ritOry. The exterior boundaries of said lOs
| 81 and 30 being rs follows, to-wit.
Variation Is deg 45 min East Comm.r
said Crow Point Lode and rum ing hence I
u deg. f., ,4aJ feet to ! granite stone set
i. +. corner OF said claim, from which /
ton corner on township line betw cen ss
No. ~. in T. 5. T. 2 E., and No 3 in 7. 1
2 f.; bears n. j deg: a min. f.. 4o6 feet dia
thence ;: Is deg; W; 20 feet to = ssnsn,s
thence i. is deg: T.. zoo feet to place Of :
ming, containing $50 acres.
This claim Is bounded on the East BY In.
claim of o. r. Moore.
The location Of this mine is duly recs,
the Recorders Office of Madison county,
ginia City, Montana Territory, on pa T.
Any and all persons claiming adyens,
portion of said Crown Point Lode mine On
mining ground as hereinbefore described, An
quired to file their adverse claim with the Rs
ter OF the U. s. Land Office ut Bozeman; ia
Territory Of Montana, during the sixty danp.
riod Of publication hereof. or they will bebc
ed by virtue Of the provisions Of the stsui.
DAVIS WILSON, Rssias I
A. B. KNIGHT, U. S. Dep. Min surveyor
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-01-24
lButte Miuey.1

In Butte, to pop the question is to make
application for patent;' while going
through the marriage ceremony is per
fecting title as bar to all adverse claims. :"
As the nomenclature has not been extend
ed to the operation Of getting the mitten,
we infer that such 4 fate never bef;.ls the
Butte swain.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-01-24
A Famous Road Agent CaDtured.

CHEYENNE, January disappointment
ent VOORHEES,, of the Cheyenne and Black
Hills stage line, received a telegram to-day
from Hillsboro, Ohio, announcing the cap
ttlre there of McKenna. alias Reddy, the
last Of the famous road agents who oper-
ated Oh that stage route during last sum-
mer. He had settled down and married,
and had bought a farm from the proceeds
Of his summers work on the road. His
last exploit was June &c, when fourteen
thousand dollars was taken by party of
five, all of which Mckenna got away with.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-01-24
A Woman Drives Miners From Their
Mines.

DEADWooD, january 15.-This noon
Mrs. Elizabeth +. Lowell made her appear
ance at the Mather mine and ordered the
men at work there to leave the mine, at the
same time drawing six-shooterto enforce
her demands. The men withdrew, when
she cut down the windlass and threw the
ore car down the hill. One of the owners
of the mine began to expostulate with her
when she again drew her revolver and
fired, but with no other effect than to con-
vince the miners of the earnestness Of her
intentions. The miners had Mrs. Lowell
arrested.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-01-24
Application For pa,.s :
TO THE KENNEREr ro
No. IL. iAf

TO THE KENSEBEC Long.
!, { bozExAS, NJ. r., Jan TITO
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN u IVA
=. kiee. whose post Office add,.'h a u
City, Madison county, Mon,an, n
nieti ms application for palent f., nS ~,
| feet of the X enn eb~c Mine OR ysin '1f ,A'
with surface ground 100 feet in peariny y
lying and be1ng in Havana M;S,ah, ,h'
County Of Madison and Terriiornl b.
AMI Known and designated by lhs 4. o. No.
ofliciri plat ON lille in this Office a. neid bot
In Township No 3 South, Rang w Alas.
tory. 1ohlala /.
The extsrsey boundaries of said Iu,
Ing rs follows, tO-wit: yaria,;a." mo /,
min to lSdcg As min East Tnua Ia a.
granite stone set at the n. W eo, ,.lnencs,, h,
kennsbec Lode minSag aim and r.' fas's,
=. A. deg last, 800 feet to a eran a;M.hllsa
the n. Il. corner Of said claim. frn Soa,s
y section corner on n line of .ec,;oaAsaa
3, ). X. 2 L bears y. rs deg. q ny; No d
chains distant; thence 5. Al deg n n |,
cross ON grnnite rock in place. =, Nfsl
deg. W., 800 feet to n granite s,o,an'it
IL deg Il, 100 feet to place of bey;'si Aaa
tanning 6.SS acres aas
This claim is boHAded Oh the ys
Eberhardt Lode, claimed BY Gson.NNhs
The location Of this mine Is dujs Ia
the Recorders Office of Madison o..
ginia City, Montana Territory. t%fh
book % OF Records Of Lode Mining VA
lions.
Amy and all persons claiming N,.
portion Ofsaid kennebec Lode mineo,pH
ing ground as hereinbefore descriI.d MN
cd to file their adverse claim with M. ps
the United States Land Office at Bozsm.ssst
Territory of Montana, during the sirtr ~
riod Of publication hereof, or they wilih.Es
ny virtue Of the provisions of the staig,.
DAVIS WILSON. R.,;.-
a. b. KNIGHT, U. 5. Dep Min Sur.,ss
janl0-G0d
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-01-24
Great Battle.

CoNsTANTINoPLE, January ia great
battle was fought on Monday between I'll.
tar-Bazarjik and Phillippopolis. The fight
ing was resumed to-day. Suleiman Paslla
afterwards took up position nearer Phil
lippopolis. and ordered the inhabitants to
leave town. The Russians have reached
Tchierpan, south of Yeni Saghra, and are
marching on 1eni Mahalgre.
Phillippopolis is completely evacuated.
and the Turks have ordered it burned. Adj
jos and Karmabad have been burned, and
the Turkish fleet have shelled Sevastopol.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-01-24
NOTICE 70 MIsr>
pezxx., M y; 5: LAND orr,,,,

Bozr.AS, M NJ; y aAS p! OFFICE
George 4 Hale. Wis., ""' Eth, r..
il Lower Willow Greek a:n Is post OFF,.
tana, has filed his applicS,diaa,a tin Copn,I
cultural land, undcr Inc Uo,a TO enter!
North y Of Northeast !, .;r,,G = stead as%s
west II Of section . ID towns SNorh on
Range. No. East; which lanhn No. ,s
entry Notice is hereby give. Is ..,1lspeMsas
ary, A. y; 1873, At 10 o'cloct- 'h dayofss'
m m'n s,a g ,. 10 dne IN, minera! or nonnn.1
., .d5a '~ M; al ana to "ss
Ecceiver At the Land Oilics me Regis
tana, on the 2e:h day of Februsa,.b ozelnss1 !,
~ o CLOCK q. m A. b ~
II - alleged there are no tro VI
mining Improvements upon said iJ ,s1, mias
lIV wi DAVIS WILL Snu.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-01-24
TELEc GRAMS.
Mob Rule i'm the black Nflla.

DEADwocD, January l6.-A dispatch
from Lead City, three miles from dead.
wood, says: A mob Of one hundred and
fifty men, mostly roughs from outside
i camps, have taken possession Of the town.
All the streets in the town have been jump
ed, and all the roads leading to the various
quartz mills are in a like condition. A
meeting called by the trustees OF the town
was broken up. The mob have elected
officers and passed their own laws. one of
which is to the effect that the streets should
be but twenty feet wide. At the present
time the mob are yelling and shooting
throughout the town. The citizens are
arming and organizing to protect lite and
property.
A Man Horribly Mutilatcs a Woman
and Cuts His Own Throat. /
New YORK. January 16.-James John
son had an alteration with woman sup
posed to be his sister-in-law. Mrs. johnson.
When the police were called in, the woman
was found on the floor dead, her throat
cut, forehead mashed, and sixteen stab
wounds on her body. johnson lay near
by with his throat cut from ear to ear, and
two pistol shot wounds in his abdomen.
The floor was Il pool of blood, in the midst
Of which was found revolver, razor, shoe
makers knife, and an iron stove hook, a ,
massive blunt instrument. The man I'M
loubtedly killed the woman and then him
elf. Mrs. johnson was found to have -,
'een pregnant, and eight stab wounds i,
oo,,an1 TO Hnun hnos, ~:::.,sI ~ %1,o unknown ,
hid. johnson was formerly u wealthy i
iamond broker of Chicago and was worth q
rom S25O,00O to S3OO,0OO.- Three years d
60 he failed and came to New Y ork, where n
e had just got started again when $1,000 q
'orth Of diamonds were stolen from him, =
'hich used him up. :.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-01-24

-Adrianople has fallen into the hands
of the Russians.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-01-24
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Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-01-24

NC over ID CeUtt Oh Tic UOillr.
The farmers and land owners OF Knox
county, Nebraska, are making determin-
ed effort to get rid Of the Santee Sioux In
dians, who have squatted upon lands in
their county and are liable to acquire
homestead rights there under the provis-
ions Of Congressional bill. The argl-
inent against them is that they hare no
right to a reservation in State, that they
have jumped claims already owned by
white men, and that they are not wanted
anyway.
The operation of all offers Of pecu-
mary reward hitherto made for the detec-
ton and punishment Of persons employed
In the illicit distillatiOn of spirits is sus-
pended as far as regards the States of North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alaba-
ma, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas.
Missouri, and kentucky. Other and more
effective methods for the suppression OF
illicit distillation in those lOcalxties, the
Commissioners say, are now being put in
operation.
An ingenious robbery was perpetrated
in New York, occasioning the loss Of per-
haps $lOO, 900 to the Young estate. A man
called at the Office of J. II. Young, 40
Nassau street, about noon, and asked to
see directory. lie then went ou:, and
Young went TO lunch, when the stranger
returned and said to the bookkeeper tina.
man In carriage at the door desired to see |
him. The bookkeeper went down stairs,
after locking the door, and the stranger
forced Mr.. Young's door and stole iifty
Alabama bonds Of 81 900 and = package Of
including certificates Of stock
N the name Of J. II. Young. Mr.. Young
links that his loss amounts to about $780,
100.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-09-03
Wade Hampton on Grant and Hayes.

Gen. Wade Hampton in speech at
Edgefield, south Carolia, few days
ago, said =
1--WE enter this contest under far diff
ferent and more suspicious circum-
stances than the last. Then, the whole
power Of the Federal and State Govern
ernments was brought to bear to crush
us. All the political machinery of the
State. welded by men totally unscru-
pulous in the usa of it, was directed to
the sole end of perpetuating rule which
was disgrace to civilization and an Of
fence to Heaven. Bayonets in the
hands Of the paid soldiery of the
common country cleaned, in pal
pable violation Of the Constitution of
that country, at every polling place in
our State. Our people, broken by years
Of misruie and oppression, were almost
hopeless. We had as the Chief Execu-
tive Of the United States man whose
highest conception of the law vas en-
bodied in the findings of court martial,
and whose disgraceful ignorance of the
equalled by his shameless disregard of
norant and drunken, he hesitated not to
CiUoH tiiS tISOplC VI oilC hOOupiA Wy eiS
power Of paid soldiery. With an
armed hand upon their Threats he at
tempted to stife the breath of their lib
erty, and placing the iron heel of mill
tary oppression upon one of the thirteen
original States of the Union, he reduced
it to military satrapy.
"What is our position now? The
Chief Executive of the country lie one
who, however much we may differ from
him politically, we yet recognize as q
and one who deserves our
respect and gratitude for having, in de-
fance of the passionate appeals Of parti-
sans, restored local self government to /!
Louisiana and South Carolina. BY his
act the military was subordinate to the
civil authority; the armed soldiers of
Lhe United States who had for months |
bivouacked within the walls of our Cap
itol were withdrawn, thus showing his
condemnation of that greatest crime
ever perpatuated against liberty on this
continent. BY giving to us our rights
he has placed South Carolina on the
plane Of equality with her sister States,
where she may move forward and fulfill
she glorious destiny before her," l.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-09-03
A Tremendous Cave.
A REMARKABLE STORY THAT COMES
FROM HUNTDINGDoN-NEW NICKEL
DISCOVERIES.

A REMARKABLE STORY THAT COMES
| FROM HUNTDINGDoN-NEW NICKEL
| DISCOVERIES.
| [iffoGs Letter in Harrisburg Patriot]
Some time ago 2 Mr.. Nef, residing
near Alexandria, Huntingdon county
this State, went to his well to get a
drink and found it dry. He then went
down into the well to make repairs, and
| was much surprised to find not pint Of
water and the bottom fallen out. A
cool breeze blew up strong enough to
rustic the leaves of tree standing near.
He tied lantern to rope one hundred
feet long and let it down, and as the
lantern still burned he rightly conclu-
ded that the air was pure. He then pro-
cured spliced rope three hundred feet
in length, and to the end attached a
basket containing lantern, dog aud
a cat. He let them down, striking bot
tom at two hundred and ninety one
feet. At the end of six hours the bas-
ket was brought up. The lantern was
still burning and the only visible effect
on the dog and cat was chilliness. The
next day the owner of the well accom-
panied by trusty neighhor, Mr.. Lief
ford, descended to the bottom. What
was their surprise to find an immense
cave, stretching miIes and miles in eve
~ direction. Stalagmites and stalac-
titles of magnificent gorgeousness lent
beauty and variety to the otherwise
tonab-like scene. Here and there flow
ing stream of water rippled over stony
beds, while thousands and thousands of
bats huttered their clamply wings, sur
prlsed at the Intrusion of man. Petri-
fed sea shells of hundred varieties
strewed the floors and portruded from
hestrata. After spending ten or twelve
hours of continuous wondering. during
which time they penetrated beneath
and beyond Alexandria, and discovered
vein of nickel ore and Q nugget of
metal resembling antimony, they re.
turned to the surface, where their half
stricken wives clasped them to their
bosoms, thinking they had been lost
1t is supposed that this cave is connect
ed with those at Warrior Ridce and
Sinking Valley, only few miles away.
Specimens of the nickel ore have been
sent to Philadelphia and analysed. and
pronounced superior to the nj .kel of Ell
Their Lancaster or Germany, the only
two places on the globe where it is now
mined,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-09-03

HE WAS SATIsFIED--Just before a
late thunder storm a man stepped into
a telegraph Office and requested the
privilege OF talking through the tele-
phone with his wife, who was visiting
the managers wife at distant tele-
graph station. The assistant manager
granted the request, and the man began
operations. He couldn't be prevailed
upon to believe that it was really his
wife who was talking to him, and she
so many miles away. He finally asked
her to say or do something which was
known to themselves ;eonly, that he
might be convinced that it was she.-
Just then a rambling streak of light
ming came on the wires, hitting the
husband violently on the head, when
he jumped to his feet and EXCLAIMED, II
am satisfied all correct
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-09-03

REMARKABLE CAsE.-The Cam
bridge (Ill.) Chronicle says p robably
the most remarkable case ever tried in
this county, and one that has perhaps
attracted more attention and excited
more comment than any other, was
that of Flora A. Spurlock vs.. Charles
w. Green, for annulment of marriage
contract. The complainant is the
daughter of Rev. NJ. Spurlock, Meth
odist preacher now stationed at Ke-
vance. and formerly at Genesee, and
the defendant is a Methodist minister
stationed at Fairyiew, Fulton county.
The parties were married about two
years ago, and lived together as man
and wife, having one child born to
them, now nine months old. Fer some
time past complainant has not lived
with defendant, and recently she
brought suit for annulment of the mar
rage contract OF the ground that she
entered into it under duress of her
mother, and against her choice and pro-
test.
This she swore to on the witness
stand, testifying that she had never
loved the defendant, and had not will
lingly married him; and that he was
and always had been repugnant to her !;
that her parents had all the time known
this, but they had persisted that she
must marry him, and her mother had
watched and guarded her to that end !;
that her letters to Green had been
written or dictated by her mother, and
| filed with expressions of affection that
she could not voluntarily make; that
she had loved another man, and had
pleaded against this marriage, and had
prayed for death aud contemplated de-
struction rather than submit to it; and,
finally, being wea1ed out and worn
and distracted, had submitted herself
an unwilling partner to the marriage
ceremony, but did not consider in spirit
| that she was ever married to Green.
Mrs, Spurlock, the mother of the girl,
appearing as witness for her, fully cor
roborated this testimony in sill essential
particulars, astounding the crowd of
spectators by solemnly avowing In all
its Particularly her own part in this
extraordinary business, and pleading a
belief that she was doing right and Sc
curing her daughters happiness and
well being. The popular impression
left by such testimony was in the high.
est degree unfavorable, and there is not
heard anywhere any dissent from that
impression.
After the submission of this and other
corr0borative evidence, the defence con-
scented to a verdict. Mr.. Green testified
that he had never known of the facts
testified to by the mother and daughter.
and only wished to guard his own honor
and reputation from reproach that he
did not merit. Accordingly, verdict
was rendered annuiling the marriage,
and declaring it void-that is, that the
marriage had never existed; the parties
were not in law husband and wife when
they lived together. and that the child
was not born in lawful wedlock. That
such decree should be desired seems to
US as incredible as that mother should
have thought she was pursuing a right
eous course in compelling her daughter
to marriage that she loathed.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-09-03
What is a Compost Heap z

We sometimes here the inquiry made
and among farmers, too-what is meant
by compost heap? Weanswer that It
is collection of decomposable mateTl-
ais to undergo fermentation and decom-
position, to be used in the fertilization
of the land. 1t may be composed OF
weeds, spoiled hay, straw, leaves, woods,
earth. ashes, soapsuds, the hair, blood
and offal of slaughtered animals, car
casses of dead animals, fish, dishwater,
chamber ley, coarse stable manure,
swamp muck, and other materials ordi-
narily thrown away and wasted. Such
is compost heap, and no farmer should
be without something of the kind from
which to pay back to his soil the fertili-
ty of which it has been deprived in the
culture of crops; and nowis good time
to be commencing one. If the farmer
is not able to purchase other and more
expensive fertilizers he can at least be
scraping together all such decomposable
materials as are laying around loose IN
every direction, and be making just
such heap. In the North nothing OF
the kind that can be thus appropriated
and utilized is lost, and tits rather a
poor commentary on the farmers of the
South to see the vast quantities of worn
out land lying idle and perfectly useless,
when there are so many materials ready
at hand to reclaim and render them pro-
ductive. In building compost heap it
is well to add little lime occasionally
to hasten the decomposition of the
coarser materials, but not to apply it in
such quantity as will drive off the am
monia. In heaps containing much ami
NAL matter land therefore the more ca
silly decomposed) considerable caution
in this respect should be observed and
but slittle lime applied, otherwise the
ammonia will be rapidly evaporated
and lost. A bushel of unslaked lime,
well incorporated with the heap, is am
ply sufficient for cord of decOmposable
matter, and then, if the liquid manure
from the stable-yard be carefully saved
in pit for the purpose, and occasionally
added thereto, the value Of the heap will
be considerably enhanced.
On almost every farm there are enough
such materials, if properly utilized, to
prevent deterioration of the land, and
the farmer who neglects to so appropri-
ate them shows degree of carelessness
and 1--WE were going to say a lack Of
common sense not very commendable
SO that every farmer should make it q
point to build up annually one or more
Of these heaps on his premises.