Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-02-14
The News.

The News.
The Russians are inside the line of til
Constantinople Notifications
A cyclone in Georgia. on the 9TH inst
destroyed considerable property in Angus
English newspapers give a fearful &c
count of suffering and destitution in Soutl
Wales.
Harry J. Norton is publishing the Ne,c4
Letter and Mining Reporter at Dcadwood
Dakota.
The House subcommittee on Terri
tories have reported adversely on the adj
mission OF Utah as a State.
Cardinal McClosky left New York city
on the 9th inst. IN the steamer CITY Of Nec
FORK. to take part in the election of a sue
ccssor to Pope Pins IX.
The new steamboat General Terry
is advertised 10 leave St. Louis for Fort
Benton on Marc!, 9th. II will very likely
he the first boat up the river.
Cardinal Bilio, ian enterprisins, dar-
and believing firmly in the syllabus" is IA
candidate for the Papal succession.
BISMARCK, February 1.-Two hundred
and fifty recruits for General Miles arrived
here to-day and Immediately took up their
march Of 400 miles tor Fort Buford and
Tongue river.
The halfbrecd Indian who outraged
sr6 then murdered Mrs. Smith. at Council
Iauffs. has been found dead in Il well near
the scene Of the crime. having evidently .
committed suicide.
AT a recent vote of the Indians of the
Red Cloud Agency. whether they would
remove from the Missouri river to Tongue
river or White Clay river, the Indians, by
vote, decided unanimously in favor OF
White Clay.
The word .collect." used in a message
to denote that il must be paid for at the
Office rcceiN ing il. is now charged for the
same as though it occurred in the body OF ,
the message. by the Western Union Tele- {
graph Company. 7
The Wigginton-Pacheco contested case d
was decided by "A strictly party vote in the {
House on the 18th inst. Pacheco. it will be j
was the person elected over u
at the last California election. "
10y a majority of one. I
Those who have given the subject at q
tcntion say that a careful canvass of the s'
senate shows that it is not probable that p
10 transfer the Indian Bureau p
o the War Department would be f;lvOra- III
ply considered by that body.
The Secretary of the Interior is inform ~ =,
ii that the Union Pacific II. r. Co.'S con-
FACTORS furnish the ties and timber used ~
y the road, by dcprcdating on govern ~ ~
nent timber, and these depredations -
mount to million dollars annually. a., 80,
A recent reduction in telegraphic rates 81,
y the Western Union Company is an mr.
Ounced. Rates from New DIRK. Wash co,
lgtOn, etc. to points west of Omaha are bo
,duccd from $50 TO Sl.5O. This includes. inf
e believe. all points in Montana where s,,l
ices are established. of
Blaine made a speech in the Senate on the
e 9TH inst. against the passage of the emf
and silver bill. He is in favor of the 7
mOnitization of silver, but holds to the oct
nsible conclusion that we cannot Lave tho
'th the gold and silver dollar. except by the
aking each the equal of the other. TEN
Col. George Gray, in speech before llre
e Senate for the Northern Pacific Rail- pie;
ad Company. in opposition to Senator ty f
tchell's bill concerning its land grants, tell
,ucd that the grants will not expire I'M chill
July 4. 1879, at the earliest. and that the ther
after con Lains certain limitations under will
ich the grants may continue beyond tell
It date. chill
The House Committee on Immigration hey
Labor has agreed unanimously upon the
Olcy to check the evils of Chinese inn mar
grafton on the Pacific coast. The com chilli
tee has prepared Joint resolution. re- er II
,sting the President TO see what can be on I
re by corresponding with China and man
,at Britain with view to abrogating pass
treaty stipulations permitting unlimited lie
nese immigrations. lesso
: A por,io, nj Roor rootb ,,,o,,,..;, than
niles from Helena. 800 feet in height, anu
feet in circumference Ii: its base. and SUI.
nj lJ0 feet at the top, recently fell down e'iii'
h the speed of an avalanche and swept ', VINO
,.,,.,, e,o.. ~ -. ,;,,,,,o lister
lter of a mile, entirely leveling it, The '"
ntry around is now covered with a sooo'
II mass Of broken trees and tons upon 4n"'e
! of rocks, many of them as large as an u'o'
nary house.-Indspendent go
Mark Twain is said by the Boston Hc,'- ,;or
to have apologized to Longfellow, wro,
ttier. Emerson and Holmes, for Lis ,nrs,
,ille of them in his speech at the Whit soha,
dinner. I'VE have not the letter at -,
!" the He,aM says, "but understand ho -,
he said TO them in substance that he ,,,,.
4 fool. that he knew it. but that God .,.a -
G him tool, that he was Gods fool 49, :,
couldn't help himself and that they a.s ~
II to have little compassion on him ,.,a, >
'od's sake, if not for his own All ,.:,,
OF MAGINNIS' TIN. with
BEK BILL. sustai