The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-27
MINOR ITEMS.

Butte is out of both butter and coal oil.
The rush of pilgrims seems to be over for
the present.
1t is estimated that at least one foot of snow
fell yesterday.
The Helena public schools have been closed
on account of diphtheria.
Spring would be but gloomy weather if the
snow tell only six inches instead of a foot
every day.
Mr. II. &. Walton has accepted the nomi-
nation of mayor rendered him by the caucus
on Friday night.
The Algonquin company has made another
shipment of five bars of bullion valued at
about s $1,000 a bar.
The new shaft to be sunk to a depth of 500
feet on the Lexington, will not be started be-
fore the first of June.
The Alice Company received last week
from the terminus a new Knowles e fire
pump and a ton of drill steel.
Considerable prospecting will be done this
year i'll First Chance district, IN which recent
developments are of a very hopeful character.
The timber road north of Walkervllle is
almost impossible, and it will take a month
of fine weather to dissolve the accumulated
snow drifts.
Sa|telle, who Is now playing III Virginia
City, will arrive in Butte about the LIST prox.
and give a series of performances. Ingomar
will be the first play.
A report reached Butte yesterday that a
lady named Estes, who is unknown here,
suicided a few days ago at Watson. No par
ticulars have been received.
Mes rs. Mulville & Girard have just received
a screw manufacturing machine for their
blacksmith shop, and are now prepared to
execute all kinds of work at reasonable
figures.
The Salt Lake Herald records four elope-
ments in that sanity city within one week,
but neglects to state whether the affair was
polygamous or whether each girl bagged a
whole man.
We were yesterday shown some very fine
specimens of gold bearing quartz from the
Whippoorwill mine IN the Belmont region.
They were sent over to adorn the Alice cabi-
net by Mr.. VIM. Smith.
Rutherford & Co. have already begun
working their placers in Upper Missoula
gulch, and within the next week, if the
weather continues good, sluicing will begin
on a number Of claims adjacent to the city
The attention of parties interested is called
to the advertisement of Vim. Roe and Johr
Carhartt, of Bannack. They offer steam EN-
gines, boilers, a Douglas crusher, and a girls,
mill for sale. See ads. in this weeks MINER
The friends Of Mr.. Randall II. Kemp, The
Belmont correspondent of the MINER, vii
be panied to learn that in consequence of al
accident in a mine some time ago, in which
his eyes were seriously affected, he has within
the past few weeks completely and foreve
lost the use of one of them, and that the sigh
OF the other is seriously menaced.
This is very hard weather on amateu
poets. No sooner have they completed tn,
first fifty stanzas on the ever delightful them
of "Spring" than a heavy snow sets in. The,
then recall the muses., intending to compos,
a few hundred verses on the "beautiful
element, but before the first fifteen quires Q
paper are consumed the sun emerges iron
the storm clouds and the mercury goes up t
the nineties..
The unsavory subject of hogs is now aaita,
ing the good people of VAUDEVILLE. 1t
estimated that there are ten hogs to every in
habitant. This would be all right if th
owners of the ANIMALS would keep ther
penned up, instead of allowing them to graz
at pleasure. We are requested to state thu
unless the matter is rectifed, there will b
several families in VAUDEVILLE whose sun
mer's pork Won't cost them anything exceI
a little ammunition.
Mr.. A. w. Barnard yesterday received fror
a friend in Philadelphia a great curiosity i
the Photographic art. 1t consists of a plai
glass encircled in a frame and is perfect
transparent. However, by gazing ~intently q
it for a few moments, q perfect photograph {
the holder becomes apparent, which, howevei
does not last more than a few moments.
takes ladies' photographs perfectly and give
them a very life-iike expression. 1t is Gel
tainly an ingenious contrivancc.
Two Park street denizens We're arraigne
in the police court yesterday OH 4 charge