The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-08-17
MINOR ITEMS.
From TUESDAYS Daily.I

a couSHO al iiltClSDL
IN Parke's barber shop on east Broadway.
In to-day's issue will be found the proceed
ings Of the Democratic Central Committee of
Beaverhead county.
Bitter looters will please observe that ripe
tomatoes sell readily at Bate at the hand
some price of 33 cents per pound.
James Benson, the prospector, whose dis
appearance from Gave Gulch was lately mem
toned by the Huybandmaa, is in Butte, alive
and we'll.
"Missouli, Montana, is about the closest
approach that outside papers can make to-
wards giving the name Of our west county
metropolis.
The water pipes have been tapped at tine
corner OF Main and Park, and u section of
small hose attached to be used IN filling the
street Sprinkler.
Messrs. Marks Il Son have disposed of their
News Depot near the Centennial Hotel, to
Messrs. Graham & Anthony, who will contin-
ue the business at the same stand.
We learn from the Madisonian that a Mr..
Maiiey was to be tried the other day before
Sim Estes, j. p, on the charge of having
missed a man at whom he fired with a shot
gun.
The tight rope artist gives his evening en-
tertalnments to the admiration of the gaping
crowd assembled in the street below and ex-
pecting, half fearing half hoping, an accident
every moment
The brick addition lately made to the
west of Donnell, Clark & Larabie's bank is
nearly completed, the workmen being nov
busy with the roof. 1t makes a decided i'm
provemeht in the appearance of west Broad
way.
Daniel W. Nichols, mentioned last week
as having been severely hurt in a fall from
his horse dow at Bitter Root, has since died
OF his injuries. Deceased was twenty-eight
years OF age, and had lived in Missoula
county fer several years.
MIR. Jacob Ornstein is about to erect a brick
building 24x3O feet and one story high, on
the Main-st lot purchased last Saturday, in
the sale of the Wiebbold estate. The build
ing, as soon as completed, will be occupied
by Mr.. Ornstein's Peoples Market
The small frame house lately standing at
the corner of Main and Quartz streets, lust
above the postoffice, and generally known as
the Bedbug's Retreat, has lately been re-
moved to make way for the fine brick block
which Mr. (hnrlaS T,ou-L,;l-o ....
erecting.
"Shanlcy u Co., Druggists" Is the way the
new sign reads, up in front of Trisberger j.
Boardman's old stand. Mr.. Stanley is now
in the city and intends to open his house i'm
mediately. a smart business man of good
address, he will speedily commend himself
to our folks.
The departure of the junior branch of the
MINER has caused a very liberal amount OF
work to fall to the share of the senior scribe.
Overwork, it is said, has a tendency to sour
The temper; but then, you know, there are
some tempers too angelically sweet to be
calculated by any possible dose of grief.
0"s'S coe't tl HIN VI III Gtit Olu-tlslt
faro layout. The ner style has the figures
1,2,3, etc. to replace the suit cards, and the
letters j, Q and X, instead OF the court cards
OF the old style Wholesome of our readers have
perhaps occasionally seen during their mis-
sionary visits to the "gilded dens of vice.
Butte must be improving in the matter of
church going. Sunday evening Presbyterian
services were conducted in Good Templar's
hall which was unable to hold the congresa-
ton desiring to participate. Several ladies'
and gentlemen, unable to gain access, stood
grouped about The door while the services
were Going on.
Yesterday Mr.. l.. J. Morrison excited the
rock sharps of Butte by exhibiting some 600
ounce specimens taken from The Black Bear,
a ledge recently discovered Just across the
line i'll Jefferson county. The Black Bear is
a well defined lode, II feet in width, and is
situated about a mile south of the "Fouth
of July" another rich discovery recently re-
ported from the same ncighboyhood.
Mr.. John i. Bruce, a resident of Montana
for twelve or fifteen years, and who will be
remembered by ouI readers through his
g candidacy" fur Congress here two years
ago, has lately become the victim of pro-
nounced insanity, and las been sent to an
asylum in Kentucky. Close observers could
readily perceive that The mind of lie untor-
tunate gentleman was Unbalanced when he
made his canvass through the territory IN The
fall of rs.
\ case OF "divided house was to be OBJ
served on Main street yesterday. The north
line of the l0t purchased by Mr.. Ornstein
runs through the middle of the shoe shop of
Il. Thiverege, To begin with, the house was
only 0X23 feet, but yesterday afternoon car