The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-28

Passenger wagons are making the trip from
the Terminus to Butte in three and four days,
charging $40 and SIS fer the trip.
A fine display of meats may be seen at the
Eureka market this morning. Call around
before noon if you want a choice cut for Sab
bath dinner. III 11a w IN
The G. & s. Stage Company have reduced
their rates on round-trip tickets between Hell
ena and Butte ria the Boulder route to SIP.
Tickets one way So as usual. CIV.
A few copies of Copp's Handbook of Mining
Laws still Oh hand and for sale at the MINER
Office. Call and secure one before the stock
is exhausted. Price only $1.O0. tt
Bcgk's new brick building is advancing
rapidly, under the skillful hands of Messrs.
Steel & Sutton. If good weater holds for an
other week it will be under roof.
Tn new Methodist church has this week
been receiving attention in the way of glazing,
, setting up of stoves, ETC., and church-goers to-
day will find the edifce comfortable for wor-
ship.
The "Manitoba wave,' so much unlike the
"SAratoga wave y in its effects upon the
human system, has evidently reached lis, judg-
ing from the number of overcoats seen upon
the streets to-day.
NJ. W. Endsley's OK train, with a carrying
capacity of 127, 900 pounds, arrived in Town
yesterday, with freight for Lee W. Foster &
Co., Geo. r. Hale, Dellinger & Hyde, and the
Silver Bow Mining and Milling company.
Areport was current about town last even
ing that Rush and Hammond had made an
other race, distance 100 yards; stake, $1,000 a
side, to come off at Butte next Friday. Fur
Their than this our reporter could not learn.
The G. p. c., and the o. S. c., are the
respective titles given to the two dancing clubs
of Butte. The G. P. c., is supposed to stand
for the "Champion Pioneer Club" but what
the full text of the o. s. q. is, no one seems
to know.
Mr.. Frank Stevens, Of the Valley has
purchased the lot on the corner of Park and
Montana Streets formerly owned by Henry
Schneple of Philipsburg, and intends erecting
thereon a frame building for business
purposes.
A man IS like a bird when he goes home
at 2 O'Clock in the morning. For the benefit
of the bachelors, it not being necessary to
the married faction, we explain that when a
man comes home at that hour his wife gener-
ally makes him quail.
Since the closing of the st. Nicholas hotel
the accommodations for the travelling public
are SO very limited that many of the boarding
houses in the city are reaping a rich bonanza.
The great problem to be solved by the pro.
prietors is, how many persons will one bed
accommodate
The LePetre-H Hudson Combination after
giving three excellent performances in Boze-
man left for Virginia City, on Tuesday
Their entertainments are not made up o.
sickly sentimentalism that makes a man fee
worse for having attended them but are jan
? full of something to laugh at.-Courier.
Look in any direction you may, everything
booms and evidences prosperity. Neat LITTLE
frame and brick dwelling houses are going VI
all over town; old buildings are receiving
covering in the shape of new "siding" ant
paint, and work is so plentiful that a mechanic
can hardly be had for greenbacks or glory.
During the past week the MINER office ha
received several thousand pounds of jol
printing material, consisting In part of Bill
Heads, Letter Heads, Note Heads, Statement
and Cards. We are now prepared to execute
orders for almost any class of printing III a
good style and at as low prices as can be OBJ
tanned anywhere in Montana. Send in you
orders. If
Messrs. Delhi. RS Hyde's new building
adjoining their business house on Main street
is being pushed forward in construction
rapidly, the basement walls having bee
completed Yesterday, ready for the carpenter
to lay the joists for the main floor. TIL siz
l of the building is 10Ox22, and when complet
ed will make a magnificent business hous
> for some enterprising firm.