The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-11-25

and hams is about to be opened at Stephens
vile.
The Beartown wagon road, leading to
many valuable quartz lodges, is about com
pleted.
Mr.. b. P. P. Rolfe departed for Helena yes
terday morning, and will be absent for all
indefinite time.
Mr.. j. F. Taylor, of the Teton Valley, re-
Gently lost thirty live head of horses. SIAM
peded by Piegans.
Business was never better in Benton than
it has been for the past two months. The
town is growing rapidly.
Alex. Cohen received, a few days ago, an in
voice of Concord harness and California sad
dies and saddle trees.
No town in The Western Territories outside
of Montana can boast as good a public school
as Butte supports.
Messrs. Dellinger and Hyde's new brick is
receiving its roofing of tin and will be ready
for occupancy in a few days.
Messrs. G.. A. Naddeau d Bro. are fitting
up a building on lower Main street, which
will be opened as a restaurant the last of this
week.
The MINER is pleased to note The appear
ance upon our streets again of Mr.. James
Matthews, who has been confined TO his home
for the past six weeks by sickness.
The invasion of a VAUDEVILLE serenading
club is threatened. A subscription should
be taken up to fortify the town and furnish
our citizens with weapons Of defense.
Sam. Sewers, an old and we!l-known citi-
zen of Benton, was shot in the hand by Cor
poral Brown, of the Eighteenth Infan'ry, on
the 10th inst, and died on Wednesday night
following from the indirect effects of the
wound.
The committee of ladies out la,5 F.iday
and Saturday soliciting aid for he Episcopal
church Christmas Tee succeeded handsomely,
something like SIS being the result of their
labors. When arrangements are moe COM
plete the MINER will particuIarize.
We notice another business opened in the
Wilcox building. Mrs. Neidenhofer has
stocked one of the rooms with confectionery
tobacco, cigars, etc. Park street is filling up
rapidly lately with various kinds of business,
and very soon there will be no vacant land OH
that thoroughfare east of the bridge.
We shall hear, shortly, of a vase oil
~s.bounce,'' perhaps more than one. George
Feitschen has established afree Lunch coz ntei
in his bjou of a pla,e on Main strae". This
will be TOO good for some of the ''rounders,'
and about the third time one comes around fol
a square meal he will find, without delay, the
hole the carpenter made in The house.
A general alarm was occasloned yesterday
af ernoon by the unexpected whisjling of a
hosting engine onthe Gagnon mine. Alalge
crowd began a stampede 10 the scene of The
supposed fire, but returned happily disap-
PORTED. The engine had just started, and
wastaking a little preliminary musical exer-
else by way of practice.
If the parties who are building on Broadway
would considerably remove planks and othei
obstruraions from The sidewalks when they
cease work at night, the explosion of large
volumes of very blue profanity would be
avoided. There is positively no earthly pleas,
ure to oe derived from a midnight contact
with a lot of two-inch pine boards.
Everybody was receiving freight yesterday
at least it would seem so from the number o.
teams pulling from one business house to an
other during the greater part of he day
Goods were unloaded at Messrs. Caplice q
Coz to the amount of 10000 pounds; al
Brown & Franks, principally liquors, 15,OC(
pounds &; at Manning & Lewis's 10000 pounds
furniture for J. NJ. Bowes, $4,000 pounds
and smaller lots for H. Barnett, Parchen &
D,Acheul, Trisberger 4 Boardman, Mrs. Lor
Smith aud others.