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

FROM wednesdays Daily.J
The Democratic Convention of Lewis &
Clarke county will be held at Helena OH Fri
day, Sept. Sd.
A party of Deer Lodge ladies and gentle
men arrived at Butte last evening, on their
way TO the National Park. They will be
joined by a number of citizens from this
place.
The showers of a few weeks ago partly re-
Vived the pasturase in this neighbordood.
But the present drought is getting in its work
and the grass is fast whitening and burning
up in the dry heat repeated day after day.
Mi. - Smith, representing the house of
Mosler, Ballman & Co., Cincinnati, is in
Butte, recommending to merchants and pro-
'essIohal men the warranted fire-proot and
bnrglar-proof safes manufactured by the
above firm. No 'shoddy safe - this time.
Helena had an |. o. G.. +. installation The
other day. This reminds US that Butte has a
Good Templars' lodge, although the brothers
are SO retiring that such items as elections,
installations, etc, are never handed in to helm
out the newspaper man when items are
scarce.
On Monday, at Helena, Thomas Mcclure
was committed to Jail in default of $500
bonds, to appear before the grand jury and
answer to the charge of grand larceny. Nc
Lure is charged with the theft OF SOS from a
man named Flynn, whom he went through
while Trunk.
In the sail IF tha yViahholl o,,..u A.. ---.
were cash down, be it remembered; Eligible
building lots on Main street bring nearly
S2OO per foot tor each foot frontage, whereas
three years ago lots in central block. or be-
tween Broadway and Granite street, were to
had at about 500 apiece.
The Celestial artillery was out for practice
yesterday. About 6 a. III. and again at noon
the blue empyrean reverberated with peals of
thunder which would have been no discredit
to the "mouth of the Plata,' believed by
sailors to be a sort of s%torehouse or manufac-
tory of thunder and lightning.
The late hot spell of weather has been
water on the wheel of the soda water man,
Up to a month ago Tom and Jerry was our
most seasonable summer drink, but with the
thermometer in the nineties thirsty humanity
calls for " suthin' c%oolin',' and "soda with a.
stick is once more the order of the day.
The stick is probably used in stirring the
compound.
Butte is rapidly growing towards the east.
Those who haye not visited that portion of
the city for the last three months will be sur
prised at the Improvements made during that
time. Park street is already pretty solidly
built up all the way through Leggat g. Fos-
ter's addition. The town now extends fully
half the distance from the school house to the
Silver Bow mill.
From Thursdays Dally.1
Anew days ago a man named Smith was
brought to Butte wounded with three or four
knife cuts received in a fight over IN the Cat
aract district. We were unable to learn any
particulars of the affair, further than that the
difficulty was over a piece of disputed mining
ground.
Yesterday the partition separating the old
salesroom from the new addition of Sands &
Boyce's dry goods store was removed, throw
Ing both into one elegant salesroom 100 feet
in depth. Shelving will be put in immedi-
ately and Is distributed throughout the
entire length II the room.
Yesterday a man named Thomas Neyens
was fined S. and costs by his Honor, Judge
Wilcox, for fighting and general cussedness.
"A celestial for giving The pedigree of a Park
street lady otherwise than as the law directs
was the object Of a like sentence. Two or
three other cases We're brought up for hearing.
but were dismissed.
Butte is Illuminated with large colored
posters announcing the eleventh annual fair
OF the NJ. A. NJ. IL NJ. Association as BEGIN
Ming at Helena on Monday, Sept. 6, three
weeks from next Monday. The fair this year
is fixed at an earlier date than usual, and good
weather may be counted on as almost a mat
Ter Of certainty.