The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-09-21
Local News.
From Tuesdays Daily
News from Far Away.

have received the illustrated Australian
\, the Weekly Times and the Farmers
dte, of July dates, all published in Mel
Inc, Australia. In glancing through their
! one is forciblv remined of the changes
uced by climate and different institutions
people originally of the same stock as
elves. Even the language, or SO much of
partakes of local dialect, is changed. The
h gives illustrations of a fight between
nd of road agents, or .'bushrangers" as it
is them, and a squad of police aided by
lex trackers." Those black crackers are
he Australians, who possess e%xtraordlna-
lmost miraculous, skill in following a
Even the trail of a mar walking bare
ed over bare rock will he followed uner-
" for miles, and hence the men having
skill are auxiliaries of the very greatest
. to the police. In its account of the fight
Of the murder which led directly to it,
Neus says the outlaws "bailed up'' a man
dwelling place and compelled him TO
decoy to Sheritt's cabin and call him to
door, in order that the bushrangers might
BIN as soon as he appeared, a programme
ID they carried out to the letter. But
does "bailed up" mean? Some of our
med fellow citizens, whose misfortune it
land in the cooler occasionally, under
very we'll what it is to be bailed out,
now and then we meet an over full indi-
on the street who might be bailed out
profit, but "bailed up is beyond II
brelension. Again, the NeaDs says the
rangers "stuck up" all the settlers at the
hamlet of Glenrowan, and that they had
E'stuck up'' a constable Brachen while on
way, calling at his house for the pur-
Those phrases are used as if they were
cry best of English, pure and undefled,
or readers at this distance our Austral-
incorporates should be provided each
glossary and foot notes. But the od-
feature Of the description is the accoun
Iers gives of the bullet proof armor
by the robbers. The armor was made
bugh shares and mould boards, which
been stolen FROM the nelghboring farmers
manufactured into coats of mail a quar-
an inch in thickness. Wearing one of
suits of armor, which was completed by
pyerted iron pot OF the same material
Il over the head and resting .on the
Pders, Ned Kelly, the leader of the bush
RS, was able to advance within ten
of the police, who fired at point blank
seventeen bullets striking t. e iron coat
but one going through. At length a shot
Oh the legs brought him down, when he
k~rerpowered and saved alive. The rest
gang had taken up their position in
hotel, where they maintained the fight
the building was fired, when the last
p~rvi1ers committed suicide, another of
members having come to his death a
minutes previously by being shot through
Pdy while drinking a "nobbler" of whis-
70 attack the robbers the police set out
Melbourne on the night of the Goth of
"a clear, frosty night as the Neus de-
it, which sounds a little strange until
member that winter reigns in the south
rate zone while summer is being EN-
here.
he illustration the rifles used by the po-
Pld also by the robbers, are presented,
y looking affairs, with cartridges look
If they might each contain about thir-
inns of powder. No wonder the iron
Pfthe worthy Mr.. Kelly was too much
zen cartridges, but the gentleman would
Oeen out of luck if a so calib.e Sharp
cen brought to bear on him while in
(ttire.
Tile advertisements the quack who
lerades under the name of Mrs. Allen is
mt III recounting to the Australians the
Pund OF sugar of lead and other poisons
he is pleased TO term his chair restor-
The Singer and the Wheeler Il Wilson
8 machines are also advertised, but in
billiard tables, etc, ETC., We meet
names entirely new. Coursing with
Oahds, a field sport borrowed from the
fountry, appears to be popular. The
advertises a meek for the 18th of Au
or thlrty-two dogs, all ages, at an en-
lee OF seven guincas each. The first
was 10 gnineas (about $500 and a piece
Ee valued at 80 guineas, from which it
appear that coursing is all amusement
lndulged in only by those who are flnan.
solid.