Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-11-27
News Of the Week

news OF the week.
e Indiana has a school fund of $1,000,
;. 600.
: --Diphtherh is raging in many places III
4 Minnesota.
+. Gold has been struck six miles from
, Sacramento.
st. Paul takes in about 10000 bushels
Of wheat day.
There are 100000 silver dollars in
the U. S. Treasury.
: An appropriation Of S2,75C, 900 will be
asked for taking the census.
The Burlington, Iowa. water works
threw stream Of water 307s feet high Tor
Gen. Grant.
Twenty States were carried by Repub-
licans, in tile recent elections, to five by the
Democrats.
The Republican journals say prom-
nent Republicans will go to Louisiana to
stump the State.
-Tildcn staked his all on New York
and lost. Trot out another horse Holly
Springs. Mss, Reporter.
-"Yonve got me down. remarked Ben
Butler. but, by the only good eye I've
got. you shan't sit ON mc.''
| Ex-Governor Stanford. Of California.
has taken house in Albany. and proposes
to live there during the winter.
Terrific and destructive gales recently
RI
damage on the Great Lakes and the Allan
tic seaboard.
Ben Butler need not despair. Marcus
Morton was defeated as a candidate for
Governor Of Massachusetts fourteen times. |
and WAS elected by one vote the fifteenth I
time.
General Sherman says all live Indians
arc bad, and in his annual report does not |
hesitate to say that the Utes are the worst
OF the lot. There is nothing more harm
less than dead Red
The Bulletins Washington special re-
wives the rumor that Ramsey. of Minneso-
ia, will be appointed Secretary of War,
and states that McCrary will be appointed
to the bench, at his own request.
Secretary Sherman has purchased ten
million SIX per cents from the surplus rev.
enues OF the country for the month OF Oc-
tober. Saving to the country 5000, 900 per
annum interest. The price paid was SlO6.
Three fearful explosions occurred in a
tunnel, on the narrow guage rail road
from San Jose to Santa Cruz, on the 18th
inst, seventeen cinnamon were taken out
terribly burned, and twenty tour are still
in the tunnel undoubtedly dead.
The Pioneer Psss says they entertain
the idea in New York of erecting monu-
Inent to Mr.. Adam. OF the Garden off
Eden, who gained some notoriety few
years ago in connection with family
scandal, and an apple.
A public meeting in San Francisco re-
Gently denounced the Bohanza Kings, and
demanded reform in mining management.
The actions of j. e. Flood were denounced
IN unnleasured terms by Col. Deane, a
prominent stock operator.
1t now turns out that Jay Cookies
statement that his creditors would receive
lollar for dollar from his assets was co.,
'ect prophecy. His liabilities at the time
If the failure were $4,000, 900, and his as
sets are estimated at Sl6,OO0,0O0.
An inspection Of the latest reports t
rom the Post-masters of all the proini-
lent cities OF the United States shows the
fact that the post-ofEce at Chi
ago did more business last year than any a
'ther in the country, except New York.
The novel announcement is made that
he Secretary of the Navy is going to con-
'ey into the Treasury the sum of million
dollars saved from the last annual appro-
'ration. This isn't the quarter into which
secretary Robson used to cover his un-
expended balances.
William w. Astor. of New York, who
ught to pay, SO the Star alleges. taxes on
4O, 0OO. GOO worth of property, only pays a 4
ax on Sl.3G0,0OO. 1t is by such frauds as Z
hese that the authorities find it necessary
0 increase the rate of taxation in order to
meet the current expense Of the Govern
lent.
The new Cuban Instruction is appa-
entity becoming serious affair. The pa
lots are mastering by thousands. and
arrying on the war in their peculiar FASH
N Of pillage and burning, while the Span \
h authorities ave ut their wits ends, and
,ok anxiously for reinfoTceMrnts from
Europe.
The highest mine In the United States.
nd probably in the world. is the Present
Ls!p, situated on Mount Lincoln, i'm the
'ain range Of the Rocky Mountains, Park
9nety. Colorado. According to Prof.
Iayden,s government surveys, the noun r,
ia is l4.297 feet high. and the mines :
Darding house. built alongside the main :
,att, u Only l40 feet below the extreme
luanlit. This leaves it il,l57 feet above
y sea level, aad makes it undoubtedly
e highest inLabiteR house in the world.