Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-02-07
The News.

The Supreme Court has adjourned,
ter AN unusually long session.
THE lMndisoniau says: The telepho
Is all the rage" in Virginia now.
General Mics is prepared to mo
against Sitting Bull on the 10th inst.
A New York idiot has accomplish
the singular feat Of waltzing twelve hou
without stopping.
"A treaty of commerce and fiiendsh
between the United States and the Same:
Islands has been signed.
A telephone is working successful!
between Nashville. Tennessee. and Loui
vile. Kentucky. The distance is ncarl
200 miles.
The steamship Metropolis stranded 0
the North Carolina shore on 3lst ult. Tn
hundred and ten persons We're on boart
and only 81 We're saved.
The schooner Ella Haynes, on the Is
inst. went ashore on Plum Island in Lon
Island Sound, went TO pieces and sank OH
of sight with all on board.
John Russell Young, Esq. an eminen
New York journalist. is appointed Com
missioner to represent Montana at tb
Worlds Fair in Paris this year.
A party of Mexicans, mostly from
Texas. recently crossed into Mexico. ant
attacking three towns. seized the principal
men and forced them to pay $4,000.
The New York postmaster recently re.
fused TO accept trade dollars on tie ground
that they were not legal tender. He has
been sustained by the Postnlaster-Gen-
eral.
Ex-Governor Washburn has given his
residence and grounds situated at Madison.
Wisconsin, valued at 100000. to the State
tor the establishment of an industrial
school for girls.
Type made out of indestructible
glass" is now being used in France. The
material is run into moulds. like metal.
1t is cheaper, healthier, and more durable
than the material in present use.
The remonstrance against the excess
i've tax levied by the Government on wood
and lumberin Montana has been forwarded
TO Washington. 1t embraces nearly 1000
names, and is upwards Of sixty feet in
length.
-DUBUQrE, iowa January 3l.-This
afternoon three men were buried by the
caving in OF the shaft of the Coleman lead
and coal mines. 1t is not thought possible
that the men can be rescued, although des-
per:,te efforts are making.
-lRoSToS. CO., February This after
noon Philip Wensel shot and MORALLY
wounded his wife, seriously wounded his
son, slightly wounded his daughter, and
then shot himself in the head. The cause
OF the trouble has not TRANSFERRED.
Some light-fngered gentry have been
on the registered letters between
The Sweetwater country and Green River I
City. II is estimated that the thieves have
distracted at least $1,000 from the mails. a
special agent Furay is on the trail. ;
w. W. Baker of Portland, Oregon. has {
patented a Three in One machine that @
lows the seed, harows it in and rolls it: G
n fact, combined seed sowcr. harrow a
md roller. Two horses pull il and one $
nan "does the work." as the Hibernian Il
aid. t:
WASHINGTON, January 80. - Isabella 81
'eecher Hooker was before the House III
JUDICIARY Committee to-day in behalf OF o.
&c Tux payers of the United States. Her !
rgulnent was to the effect that every wo- "
ian who was tax payer was entitled 10 II
vote. IN
lille Russians have been still advancing =
ward CoEstantinople, capturing all Turks -
no have attempted to impede their prog ~ ~
49, but the latest news is to the effect that -
'ace has at last been consumated. The o. .!
''ssians, however, will very likely march u
rough Constantinople. a.
-Four robbers On 2Gth ult.. boarded a 80
ain on the A. T. and S. f. r. r. in Colo ~
do, and attempted TO rob the express q,
essenger, but were unsuccessful. The "
bbers had previously bound and gagged N
e agent Of Il small station east of Dodge
ty and ransackcd bis safe.
Maj. Walsh and Col. Mcleod. of B. I'M
w. T., who were recently in Helena.
linn that Sitting Bull has not crossed to on
Is side OF the line. but is camped at Cy- u
ess Hills, 40 miles north of the bounda se'
They do not believe that Sitting Bull III
II attempt to cross the border.
The Colorado Muldoon that has at- tal
cted so much attention in the East. and W w
lined to have been discovered in Colo ~,
10 and thought to have been pretrifl- g.
ion or else an idol of the extinct Aztec ~ -.
e, proves 10 have been manufactured at IN
.land. Pa, by George Hall. maker of the -
rdif Giant.
"A big fire in Boston on the 3lst ult., Ger
apletely destroyed large furniture fac ST,
y and eight houses. Some twenty fam tin
are homeless and between four and 'oi
hundred workmen thrown out of en- :
vment. The details are not yet availa- mi,
The loss on the factory, machinery. ferl
stock Of furniture is estimated at $780, We
other losses about $4,000. PHI
Frank Leslie was arrested in Philadel- ., a
J. Wednesday, Willie in railway car the
en- route from Washington to New don
K, at the suit Of Wrighiley. lawyer, nit
libel. At midnight Leslie was still piil
ing for bail, and greatly excited. Les "a
aused Wrightley's arrest under ssailar ~
instances last summer. and this is tain
ably in revenge therefor. Leslie after to d
found bail to the amount Of $500. ed (
was released.
Wednesday evening the three compa- =,
OF the fifth Cavalry that went through was
a fortnight ago, TO Fort Hall returned ,,oi,
ned to quarter ut Forts Steele and Rus r's,'
1t cost the Government 10000 to eiai
these 200 men to arrest the murderer "he
hrodcn. A rather costly Indian. con- '''''''
Ing that the troops will not now be- eoi''
and TO prevent the expected outbreak ~:
e Bannacks in few weeks from now. "ni'
den Freeman 25 Nh vi III