The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-07-20
MINOR ITEMS.
From Fridays Daily

The stage road through the Park is report =,
ID to be in u very bad condition. !
Butte will shortly be visited by the Swiss
Ringers and the Kate Putnam troupe.
The Montana presbytery will hold its next
annual meeting in Butte on the 9th day OF
August.
Within the past two days twelve teams
loaded with bullion have left Glendale for the
The hills north of Walkeryillc are literally
with luscious wild strawberries. An
excellent chance for a church picnic party.
The stage line running from the terminus
10 Yellowstone Park has been leased to Golf
d Go. by the owners, Gllmer, Salisbury & Co.
The weather prophets, seers and revelatols
a spell OF exceedingly warm weather
during which it would be advisable to keep
Oh ice.
Mr.. w. II. Sutherlin, of the Husbandnan,
has been appointed probate judge and county
clerk of Meagher county. vice Il. f. Collins,
removed to Beton.
The extensive and rich placer claims in the
vicinity of Butte are being theoretically
worked, and the cleanup will doubtless be
very satisfactory to the owners.
Nearly 200 tons Of ore have accumulated
On the dump OF the Grey Rock, notwltLstand-
ing the fact that about 20 tons per day have
been hauled to the Silver Bow mill.
Judge Wilcox, while coming up the road
yesterday, counted sixty-tive teams between
Browns Bridge and Silver Bow loaded with
machinery for the Alice aud merchandise.
Mr.. E. j. Wundsrlich, of Wunderlich's,
and Miss Manning, OF Deer Lodge, were to
nave been married last night at the residence
Ut the brides parents. The MINER extends
congratulations.
The item from the S. l.. Tribune about the
Butte mines has a familiar look. If the
Mormon church organ had credited the note
10 the MINER, we should not have been mis-
led into copying it.
The Sunday school excursion to the vicin-
ity Of the Smith l. kessler arastra yesterday
was largely attended, and the youngsters had
a most excellent good time eating Ice cream
and guzzling lemonade.
The Dexter, Silver Bow, Alice, Lexington,
Burlington and Centennial mills, and half a
dozen arastras in the vicinity Of Butte, are in
successful and continuous operation, and all
have more ore than they can get away with.
lFromsaturday's DARYL
The Bozeman Courier reports the Sawtelle
troup as appearing OH the boards at that town
one night early this week.
Mart Newcome and Henry Mcfarland came
in last evening from Montana. They loaded
their pack train at Challis for Geo. l.. Sh0up
& Co.-Ydnkse Fork Herald, 10Th.
Mr.. 2. A. Largey has $50 brackets with in
s%ulators attached, intended for the repair of
the Helena and Butte telegraph line, which
is shortly to be put in thorough order.
Yesterday a covered wagon from the garden
of l.. b. Wells, Helena, loaded with different
species Of flower plants, was making the tour
Of Butte. Oleanders, fuschias, geraniums,
ETC., were offered at reasonable figures to the
lovers of those house beautifers.
Hard rock, in places, having been encou-
tered IN the excavation being made for the
rear extension of Donneli, Clark u Larable's
bank building, a recourse had to be made to
blasting. For the past two days we have ex-
pcrienced something resembling a chronic
Fourth Of July of very mild form.
The latest arrival we have to chronicle is
that of the house flies. They arrived in full
force with the warm weather, Two or three
days ago, and have entered upon full and
disputed possession. The fly is a bird whose
habits and characteristic change but very
little from year to year. The laudable per
severance which leads HIM to insist upon
camping IS right there when a resting place
has once been selected, is still to be observed
as strongly us of yore.
from Sundays Dally.)
Forty carpenters are employed at the Alice
mill.
;hc Try Of s. who speaks first ." was ans
wersed almoss before uttered. Lou. I. Smitl
and Jas. u. McMaster announce themselves
a, C Candidates in this issue.
f Tho eastern mail and passengers wer'
brought in last evening by an elegant new
coach, recently turned out at the establish
, mcAt Of Gilmrr, Salisbury u Co., Helena.
In addition to the religious notices regular
, ly announced it may not be amiss to mention
t that two or three. and sometimes a consider
i ably larger number of sinners are "~gathere,
+ together every Sunday morning on Il
baiiks of Browns Sulch where they discus
hard cider and investigate the habits an
customs of the "tinny dcnlZens Of the deep.
Candidates for Office are referred to a
: interesting item in another column heade
8. nnlilical." IN which is announced q rule :