Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-01-02
News Of the Week

Twenty degrees below zero on
| the morning of The 18th ult.. at Butte.
| AT Wilmington. \. G.. December 24th
| the steamer J. +. Untlerlill was burned Il,
| Ter wharf
! A batch OF five road agents We're cap
tured near Rock Creek. Wyoming. on De
ccmber Bird
Orders for $4,000 in standard silver
coin were received at the Department on
the 18th of December.
| -Foretaiher's Day was appropriately
celebrated by the New England Societies
! N New York and san Francisco on The
! BIRD nit
/ The fight over the transfer Of the Indian
Burrau grows more and more in earnest
and each side is searching eagerly for cf
f'rtiyc ammunition.
The New York World recently dis
charge all its comDositors belonging to
the Typographical Union and substituted
Others in their stead.
Tie Governor Of Kansas is de
sirous of having strong military force
along the Sonthern border of Kansas to
hold the IrdianS in check.
The heaviest snow fall in thirty years
recently visited Great Britain and many
parts ofthc Continent. blockading railways
and susprnding traffic.
Tile Treasury Department regards re-
sumption as an accomplished fact. Bond
holders now prefer greenbacks to gold in
payment 70 gold coupons.
The Goloid dollar. which contains half
the quantity OF gold in a gold dollar and
half the qr,antit! of silver in silver dollar,
is the last monetary proposition.
Troy (N. Y. December Oh boiler
exrlosion at Star Forge killed Alfred St
Charles water tender. and Thomas Gentle
man. putlhler. and four Others injured
Buffalo. December 23.-Thc severest
snow storm since 1871 visited this section
last night and is still raging Fully three
feet of snow has fallen and badly dritted.
The German Fishery Verein intend
holding IN international exhibition at Ber-
| n. April. 1880. and invite the COOPER
ton of Americans engaged in canning and
hryin" fish.
The Northwestern States We're visited
viii, IN extremely cold snap. accompanied
by wind and snow. last week. The Their
ranged from to 80 degrees be
low zero.
An immense iiSSllrr has been discover
III in the Blue Ridge Mountains. extending
from tie m;Idle fork of The Rapilan river
70 the S',"nlnlolh. distance Of twelve or
fourteen miles
-Portland (O.) December 23.-one hun
lr"d cHvalrvmen. under Col FORSYTH. left
N'llnls by steamer Yesterday for Priests
Rapids. 1t is reported that Chief Moses
nd several OF his chosen warriors have
,enn taken prisoners by fhe Yakima vol
lntpprs.
Mrs. Ma'inda Mack. indicted at James
lille. Wis. 'or the murder of her husband /
aSt July. was on the 2Gth ult. found guilty t
nd sentenced - tie State prison for life.
he utmost limit in Wisconsin. Decker
on. the hired man. who turned States
violence. will he tried soon.
Washington. December 24-Th> snit
"ainSt the Government. brought by the
eirS Of Stephen A. DOUGLAS for certain
ntton rantrlred by the L. s. Government
, MisSiSSinni during the war and sold rs
h"nhoned Dronrrtv was settled finally in
20 Court OF Claims today, by Judgment
, favor of claimants.
Chicago. December 2f.-S. ID. Richards.
Young mon % wears old. was arrested ut
feuhenvilln. Ohio. last night on charge
tho murder Of Mrs. Harrison and three
'i'dron If ke"rnev. Nebraska. on the Sth
st. After the arrest I've confessed TO sew
, murders and said ne exDcctcd to die,
III th"t is ''eath would I've avenged.