Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-09-25


major. 2 captains, 5 Iieutenants, l payn,a
ter, q,larteinas ter, ! deputy surgeon
general. 3 surgeons-inajor, and l cllaplai
Or were reported at the War Office.
Governor Hendricks has again swor
Mt on a stack of bibles that he will not agai
accept Il nomination for Vice Pesiden,
in "You may stack the bibles as high as yo
please he sai,i to friend in New York
~ land will swear from the topmost dow
- that won't take the second place.
-, -Capetown. Sept. 2.-When Ceteway'
= was captured he was completely prostrt
cd. The King was taken to Ulnndi. Dur
Ing the march. eleven of his followers triet
to escape, and six were successful. I'M
90 other five were Ihot. The King will b'
taken to Martizburg, and from there te
Is Greytown.
y" Cairo, Illinois. September l6.--CharIes
Glass was hanged to-day at 3:3G p. M, in
rs the Enclosure in the Jail yard, for the m,,r
III der OF Carter Newman, on the 23rl of last
March. Both murderer and victim were
d negroes. Motive. jealousy. Glass met his
y fate cOOlly. and refused to talk. His neck
was broken by the fall.
Il Chicago, September 1G.-A Quincy.
n ILL.,, special says: \ tie was bound across
the track, and wrecked the incoming {. B.
d 4 Q. train, last night. The baggage. postal
J. and smoking cars left the track. The fire
man was killed and the engineer severely
hurt. The passengers were badly shaken
Int li1laJ Ia <,f
the outrage is unknown.
I "A New York dispatch, of the 9TH inst.
says the principal office in that city of the
Western Union Telegraph Company trans
acts commercial business from % to 30
per cent. higher than the daily average at
this time last year. There could be no
more reliable barometer by which to meas
ure the commercial revival.
New York, Sept. 1.-THE World's
Washington special about the Chisholm
verdict, says Gu'ley was acquitted because
Mrs. Chisholm's testimony, on many ma
terial points, was directly contradicted by
seven unimpeaclled witnesses. 1t was Il
case of seven to one, with lite at stake. and
the jury sided with the seven.
Secretary Evarts went to Canada to
dine and vine with its royal rulers, upon
the principle, apparently, that leads prize
fighters to shake hands affectionately be-
fore setting to. Immediately upon his re-
turn to Washington, he will begin to press
the American demand for the abrogatior.
of the fishery clause of the treaty of Was!.-
ington upon Great Britain.
The contract for building the railroad I
buildings has been awarded to Smith d i
French, OF this place, they being the lowest {
bidders. The contract covers the depot at |
this place, six section houses and three I
tank houses at different points along the s
line. They will commence work witt II c
large force Of men as soon as the material I
for the buildings can he got on the ground /
-Mandan Criterion. 0
General Ord. of Texas, recently sent d
to the Springfield, Mass. armory piece il
of meteor picked up in Mex;.o some o
time ago, with a request that it be made n
Into sword for himself. The piece is IL
of iron mainly, but is SO soft 81
and brittle that the wOrxMen find it very o.
difficult to harden the metal sufficiently for
The blade, though they will probably be
,ble to finish it in good shape. h'
The ''biy boom" just now is found in =,
he wheat quotations. \ rise of two cts. ~
yer bushel vas declared in the Minncapo- -.
IS market on Thursday. and this was fol-
owed last evening by another increase of
hrec cents per ousllel-making rise of a
i've cents in two days. SO far as Mnncapo- att
is is concerned. The quotations this morn vo
ng for the highest three grades arc 80. IS t.,
nd 70 cents per bushcl.-Pionccr Press. if
ept. Is. pr
Tho man N one Of the engineering
artIes on the west side, whom the T,ib-
ne reported as so thin that at night he ,
unclled the lead out of his lead pencil and vi,
awled in to save his blankets. denies the rs
'scrtion. The Tribune accepts the denial, his
ut acers, without fear of contradiction.
lat he is SO thin that when he is troubled
ith an ache he doesn't know from which,
'urce it comes-his stomach or his back. :"
Bismarck Tribune. "isl
Ind
"A Chicago evening paper states that the t;rc
ippers in Chicago of live cattle to Er- nor
pc will be interested to learn that !: and
OPPOSITION has been made to convert the h,,.
ssel known as the Great Eastern into an stro
ornous cattle boat, and to make Port c,v.
I'd the port of shipment for Chicago tho
ef. The Great Eastern is 600 feet in
lgtb. and it is proposed to p. ,end $780,
10 refttng her for tie purpose re- =,
iud. 1t is thought she will be able to "
'ry $50 head of becves and $4,000 =, :, y
eep. Mr. John 3. Sherman, superin- .neN
dent Of the Union stock yards, is a ing
me mover in the scheme. ','o
dretl
"A Providence special to the Sun says er,l
'e" IL ""'e'y-t"o rooms IN the great have
1oncnet mansion had been filled with Daw
ir elegant furniture. the receiptcd bills and
re made out in the name of Mrs. and
ague. The value of the furniture, it is Ind;,
!, was S25,OOO to $4,000. Mrs. Spraguc
just filed petition in the Supreme Stri
rrt Of Rhode Island representing that
is possessed in her own right OF per- T.,
al and real estate ut Canonchet: that
and Ex-Governor Spragnc are not now S'""
" together as man and wife. and pray INV
that trustees Of her property be APP NV" oo,
nred. sever
dren,
"A snocH'ng scene occurred at the flu They
u ol colored woman ut Amherst. but v
, On the 9TH inst. a very large audi scent
sathcfed AZ tle church, where quar- into
ensred as to who should conduct the Staff
ices. An association to which the de- on D.
ed belonged. insisted on having the cidetl
Mr.. Cook, willie the relatives were in TN,
rmined that another preacher should humid
late. A fierce fight took place, in of tw
ch both men and women joined. In them
- .. "&x'c "'c cotnh was knocked over. der "
u'o ov,P>c .nsown OUT upon the hoor. age d
horrible sight did not stop hostili les, on II
the relatives fought until they drove crow,
y member of the association out of men
church. 1t was then found that bot, make
STEERS had fled, and the burial took know