The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-11-23

From Tuesdays Daily.l

Benton is to have a new jail. NJ
Another gold strike is reported from Yoge
It's too thin. @
Owsiey & Co.. are burning their last kill
of brick for the season.
Stanley & Co. have received the first inN
stallment of their new stock of drugs.
Miss Nellie Brightman, the lady who wa
shipped from Boston to edit the Record, ha
returned to the Athens of America and a die
of pork and beans. a
The report published several days ago I'd
the effect that the graders and track Layers
have been withdrawn from the u. & N. road
is contradicted on good authority.
We call the attention of our reade rs to the
price published to-day by E. L. Bonner &
Co. They do the largest business in Monli
tana, carry the heaviest stock, and are the
only adherents to the one price system.
The Rirer Press says that the Signal Serv-
ice has completed a transcontinentai military
telegraph line from Bismarck, Oak, to Day
ton, W. I. 1t crosses the Rocky mountains,
ny the Sahan pass, over the Mullen road.
Mr.. Rauthroff, whose arrival is chronicleda
in another column, is in Butte for the pur-
pose Of arranging the electric lights in The
shaft house and mills Of the Alice company.
Why not take advantage of the gentleman's
presence to negotiate for the electric illumir-
alton of Butte?
Our Philipsburg correspondent justly COM
plains that the MINER has not reached that
camp for several days. On inquiry, we ind
hat Taylor & Co.'S stage Office has been
changed from Walton & Lowery stables and
that our mailing clerk was not aware Of the
fact. He had not ''been looking upon the
wine when it was red" as { Slide Valve'' sug-
gests, but our regrets are n nevertheless offered
EFrom Wednesdays Daily.I
There is said to be six inches of snow i'm
the Park.
The mercury touched zero yesterday even
ing in Butte.
The new county will be named Silver Bow
and in two years it will be the banner county
Of Montana.
The three buildings of the Parrot COM
pany's smelter are looming up a short dis
lance southeast OF Butte.
The Helena schools, which were closed for
several days on account of the prevalence of
diphtheria, have been reopened.
1t is understood that Judge C. T.. Irvine
and A. G. Witter have written to the county
commissioners requesting a new count. and
specifying several cases wherein they alleee
mistakes were made in several ballots. IN
der the law We believe they have a right TO
demand REORGANIZATION of the tally sheets
and the recounting of each ballot cast.
From THURSDAYS DARYL
The stamp mill on a new and improved
plan, of which mention was made in the
MINER last Sunday, is expected to arrive 10
day or tomorrow.
There was a little unpleasantness among a
few of the boys on the street last night, but
no one was shot and killed, an event which
for a time looked imminent.
Owing to the extreme cold weather. on
Wednesday night the battery jars of our pro-
fame friend Marsh froze up and yesterday
afternoon broke, the result of which misfor-
tune was that our telegraphic report was
broken off in the middle of a very interest,"
ing and important ruling of Commissioner
Williamson in relation to the mining laws.
We shall take particular pains to publish the
dispatch tomorrow.
On the stage from the terminus a few DAYS
ago was a gentleman who came up from Salt
Lake to collect election bets. Soon after the
stage left the railroad the passengers began a
discussion of the writings of Socrates, bur
the sport from Utah didn't Join in the
conversation. At the first station he called
a friend to 'come outside a minute'' and then
asked with the most charming innocence and
in Scriptural language, "Who the HI is this
man Socrates that we've been talking about.
Is he some newspaper feller2 What's
the use of wasting time on
them kind of ducks anyhow. If you've got
any respect for me, you'll take up some intel
ligent subject for discussion.