Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-12-04

December promises to come in like
/. lamb. # 53 M# "
Services in all the Helena churches to
day.
! Wood piles grew beautifully less las
week.
The Boulder divide is crowned with fou
inches Of snow.
Helena has been sprinkled with SNOW
several times recently. G%0 .A@e g
The annual School Boys Ball comes of
on Wednesday, Dec. 3.
4 The Presbyterian Church social will bt
held at the residence OF Cornelius Hedges
Tuesday evening. AVA -
Three distinct shocks of earthquake arr
said to have been felt ut Belmont last Sun.
day evening.
Saturday was day of runaways. There
were two on Main street, one on Rodney.
and one all over town.
The County Treasurer is at present do
ing bigger business than any one else
in Lewis and Clarke county.
The lie Petre-Hudson Minstrel Troupe
has had quite run in Helena, and plays
at Sawtelle's Theatre all next week.
The Wickes Thanksgiving dinner was q
big success. Neat little speeches were
made by President Wickes, Gov. Potts,
DR.. De Grenier, Rev. Thos. Wickes, and
Messrs. E. w. Knight, W. G. Cullen. and
Cole Saunders. Wickes is the model min
ing camp of Montana-not single saloon
in it. r 4.a
The Sawtelle Theatrical Company played
in Helena Thursday and Saturday nights,
presenting two excellent plays. Joaquin
Miller's .'Danites,' and Augustin DAILY
divorce" The performances were wor~
thy of better houses. The company left
for Deer Lodge.
Thank sgiving services at the churches
were very SHINY attended. More turkeys
were dev0nred than on any previous
Thanksgiving day since Helena came int
being. The more people get the less they
are thankful-which is new and original
thought-patent applied for.
Rev. JAS. Patterson, a Presbyterian min
lister who has journeyed in many lands
and among many people. preached in the
Presbyterian church this morning and
evening. Mr.. Patterson has settled down
in Benton. doubtless thinking that COM
munity as much in want of his services as
any of the heather among whom he has
labOred.
The case OF Dir. A. +. IngersOll. charged
with the robbery of a quantity OF gold
dust-SlO.OO0. more or less-belonging to
J. E. Bristol, came up in the District
Court yesterday. The defendant moved
to quash the Indictment on the ground
that he had no OPPORTUNITY to challenge
the special Grand Jury summoned to in
vestigate his case. Judge Wade took the
motion under consideration.
Now is the season when the Sabbath
schools are crowded and the street gamin
becometh devout. The good Sabbath
school superintendent loads down the
Christmas tree with presents alike for the
longtime faithful and tile new aspirants
for celestial honors, and wipes his weeping
eyes on the Sunday after the great festival
when he behOlds empty seats where before
he saw smiling, though Outlines dirty,
faces. The youngsters are deceitful. but
they can hardly he blamed; if they didn't |
get presents from the Sunday school they
would have to get along without any.
The closing arguments of counsel in
Geo. w. Fox's case were briefer than they
were expected to be, and the case went to
the jury at noon on Friday. On Saturday
the jury thought they had agreed to disa-
gree, and sent word to that effect to Judge
Wade, but the judge said it was impossible
to discharge them, and they were kept to-
gether all last night. This morning they
were still at odds, but were not discharged.
The sheriff gave them walk around
town under his charge, and then locked
them up in the jury room again, where
they remain at this writing. They will be
kept together until tomorrow morning, if
not longer, but it is almost certainty
that new trial will be necessary. Fox
was cool under Col. Sanders cross exam
nation, but the subtle lawyer forced him
to acknowledge several misstatements as
to his operations while cashier Of the Peo-
pies National. 1t is rumored that his at |
torneys win get $1,000 if they clear him.
''Colonel'' Eads, brother of Captain
JAS. B. Eads, of Mississippi Jetty fame. is
4 prospector who makes Helena his head
quarters. The Colonel was an officer
in the rebel army, though one, wouldn't
think it, for he is no: now-a-days attired
IN the Partisan mode. His brother has
,ffered him financial assistance number
Of times, but he has invariably refused to
lccept 1t, preferring to paddle his own
,anoe. The Colonel does not wait, Meow
,er-like, for something to turn mp, but
'ustles continually. Quartz mines are bis
hobby, and he has several times been on
he point OF miilionarism, but circumstan-
'es always prevented his slipping in. Now,
however, if rumor and the Colonel HIM
elf may be believed, he has struck it in
arrest, and is prospectively the richest
nan on earth. The ore is free milling.
ssays SIS to the ton, and the Colonel
laims that the free body is sic hundred
eet scide, and that he has traced the lead
hree miles. This is the coming bonanza.