Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-08-15
News Of the Week.

news OF the week.
The Topeka National Bank has close
It's doors.
business in New Orleans Is practical
suspended on account of the yellow feve
-IIoyt. of Michigan, who failed to |
confirmed by the Senate, has been real
pointed Governor of Idaho.
The coinage of the San Francisco mil
FOR July amounted to -, 4SO. 900, 81, $50, O(
in gold and 100000 in silver dollars.
The coal miners of Pennsylvania wi
make general strike to-day. The caus
is the operators refusing to raise Tie wages
Bishop Simpson will preside at IL
session of the Methodist Conference, fO
Utah, commencing in Ogden August 22nt
An observatory, 800 feet high, wit
calcium lights at the top, and filrnishe
with an elevator. is the newest attraction
on Concy Island.
-;.nn Francisco merchants not BEN.
willing TO stand the raise on railroa
treights, have combined, and ale now ship
ping Ill heavy goods by wafer.
Seventeen thousand pounds Of pow
der were discharged at 4 single blast in
Iline in Nevada county, California. l
shook up over an acre Of ground.
The boot and shoe manufacturers Of
Chicago have decided to employ Chinese
labor in place of tile striking shoe-makers,
unless the latter will consent to take $40. sc
per week.
AT the three days trial Of harvesters
and binders, just closed at Middleburg
Holland, the first prize was awarded to
Walter A. Wood. and the second to Cyrus
ii. Mccormick, both Americans.
A recent investigation revealed the
fact that there are n number of lepers eE.
gagged in manufacturing cigars in San
Francisco. This is interesting news to
people who smoke California made cigars.
Statistics show that one hundred thous-
and more Irish than German immigrants
have landed in New York during the past
thirty years. The total of botlrnation-
alities figure up something over four mil
lions.
A virnlent fever has broken out among
the American laborers on the MADEIRA and
Marmorc railroad in Brazil, and numbers
of them are dying daily. The laborers
were taken out by Collins l. Co., Philadel-
phia.
A difficulty occurred between two
men at a picnic in Kentucky last week, and
it soon eliminated in general fight, in
which one Of the original dispuants was
killed and fifteen persons wounded-some
OF them badly.
Every person who has purchased lands
OF the Pacific Railway Companies since
November 8, 1872, can recover all the mon
ey SO paid except $i.25 per acre. This is
rotary of the Interior.
-Messrs. Mccormick & Hardenbrook,
FOrwarders and Commission Merchant,
Corinne, dissolved August lst, and discon-
tinued the forwarding business, although
MIR. NJ. will remain to forward goods for
few firms until Oct. LIST.
-Bristow has been appointed by the
President rs Chief Counsel for the Gov
errmert in the South Carolina cases. lie
will have entire charge of the interests of
the Government, with power to select such
assistants as he may prefer.
wEAe Grant county .ll 0rsgonl Times
ooo. That of Robbie $4,000, Dixon $1,000
and Smythe $4,000-a loss of Sl22.OO for
four men.
Gen. Rosser, chief engineer of the N.
:. Railroad. John Ross, one of the ORIGIN
Il n. +. builders, d. Morrison and Gen,
\. Bracket. of the original construction
ompaDy, and the Rev. Jason &. futile. of
came in on Thurday morn .
lgs train and started Immediately for the
eii"wstone to look up feasible line for :
xtension OF the Northern Pacific.-Bis- ;
aarck Tribune. :
1t comes as wet blanket to English =
nthus'asm over the acquisition of Cyprus n
learn that tie Island has not a single n
arbor, and only four possible anchoraees $
'om which landing is oteasy. The Min 0
try have been greatly Inundated by hav- \
e these facts brought to public notice. e.
n Immediate outlay Of fifteen millions is v
e first instalment on annexation account. ii
There is nothing small about the Eng N
N Parliament when it undertakes TO set til
young couple up in housekeeping. This is
why the Commons have juat voted, by n,
te OF $40 to IS. that the Duke of Con- Hi
ught. son Of the Queen. shall have We
2o,OVO per ann,im for the rest of his life. fiC
q the young woman whom he is to mar of
shall have $4,000 if she becomes his ar
dow. All told. the royal family of b.,
gland costs 50, $4,000 year; but it is ful
rarely voted, not stolen. On
Old time miners, boys of 40. and the pr
Ter Gulch ristlers, went around town ro'
1day night with looks which betokencd ant
RENE disappointment The gang that AM
with Slade, when he used to bc division lac
mt on the overland, and filled the bows are
h ventilators if they called him a pre- erl!
Gator, al shook their heads and said tasl
JIG was up. The occasion of this was II G
arrival of preacher. who located him lars
on the corner of Mill and Main streets. less
advised tho boys TO ''look to the right. CERT
q the narrow, crooked paths of vice. che;
Several Montana men immediately peri
ured saddle horses and struck out for ing,
Bear Paw, proclaiming that they saw men
'ainc thing in Boise Basin, and that ii Cou
"hoodo" to the camp.-Btack Hills pub
graph Herald. coui
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>"'"ese question. and
w orb, August "a Washington B,