The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-03-29
fFrom Wednesdays DaiIy.)

A pocketbook containing $l6O is advertised
as being lost.
Prayer meetings this evening at the differ
ent places of worship.
Appeal is to be taken III the case of, Bon
ner & Co. VS.. Foster & Co..
Tickets will be printed at the MINER job
rooms with accuracy and dispatch.
Two well conducted hospitals are open in
Butte for the reception of patients.
Pluck, prudence and perseverance, are Of
ten rewarded in the capture of a bonanza.
The police court yesterday enjoyed perfect
repose, and this tells the tale of good order in
Butte.
The manager of the gilt distribution is
meeting with much success in dlsposing of
tickets.
DR.. Jones, electrician, publishes a certificate
elsewhere of the rapid curing of many obsti-
nate cases.
Cordial invitation is extended to citizens
to attend the teachers institute. The meet
iDgs are interesting.
~ fSPuoiiSal SoultJ Coh1Ch0lOl Will
consist of tifty-nine delegates. There's bad
luck in odd numbers-mark it.
Considerable cleaning up is noticed in
places around the city, Much Of this kind of
work could be performed to great advan.
tage.
The very excellent reason why the peace
and dignity of the city is so we'll maintained
is the activity and watchfulness of the police
force.
At Centervil;e Mr.. j. E. Williams is giving
his hotel a thorough overhauling. The rooms
are being. enlarged, making them much more
desirable.
Secretary Warren's address at the meeting
of the republican central committee was ST.
lently %applauded. 1t was drank in silence.
so to speak.
Mrs. Gillet, NJ. D whose card appears in
this mornings issue, comes in our midst
highly recommended by partlesin high stand
ing in California.
The Blackfoot, Idaho, Register predicts that
$4,000 to 10000 men will go to the Wood
river mines this season, and that the crowd
has began pouring in.
Jos. A. Hyde announces himself a candi-
date for the office of treasurer of Silver Bow
county, subject to a nomination by the demo-
cratic county convention.
We notice that T. F. Newton is busily en-
gagged in putting up the fixtures in his drug
store, and he expects to have it ready for the
stock. of goods by April lst,
, Those who desire an enforcement of the
laws aud an economical administration of the
peoples affairs cannot help supporting the
democratic ticket at the coming election.
The late flood at Miles City was caused, so
reported, by the devil blowing' his %sulphuric
breath on the ice Of Tongue river and caus-
ing it to break up. The devil alluded to be.
longs to the Journal office and is a dangerous
red-headed imp.
The republican primaries are called for
3 Thursday, the oath. Their county conven-
ton for Saturday, the Goth. The rallying
call of the committee has the peculiar ring of
its secretary, whose windy political efiusions
have invariably been Summers.
The last Madisonian says that "committees
of safety" are being organized in various Mon
work of regulating the morals of their respec-
tive localities. There is considerable talk of
reviving the organization in Virginia; and,
as its first work, Strengthening out the Mongo-
liam muddle.
The Yellowstone Journal, of the 9Th, gives
~, ,,o,,,,t &c t1,o Hoolinr ~ NJ;1o. IN;t, l,o,o
tofore reported in our telegrapAic dispatches.
The entire town was under water for two
days, causing much alarm and inconvenience
There were no lives lost, and the Journal
says, ''not a dollars worth of property was
lost IN the city by the flood"
Rev. Henry Sleeves, formerly pastor of the
NJ. E. church at Virginia City, this territory,
died at De Lassus, Mo-, on the It'll, after a
lingering sickness of many months. Mr..
Sleeves, during his ministry IN Montana,
made many warm friends, and among his
Methodist brethren he will be especially re-
membered with feelings of loving kindness.
Some one. evidently inflicted with dropsy,
or water on the brain, writes a communica-
ton to the Inter Mountain and signs himself
"StyX.' This communication reads like the
maiden prescription of some one-horse coun-
try doctor seeking notoriety and fame, which
he cannot gain by p~eddling an empty pill bag
round the town. Hence, it is pointless and
harmless.
There is no mining district in the world
with as good prospects as the Summit Valley
district. All the veins are strong and resu-
lar. As the mines are opened they prove
rich and undoubtedly permanent Long age