The semi-weekly miner., 1883-06-27
Local News

Great activity is reported in the 'cl
trade.
Silver bars were quoted in the
New York market yesterday at 1.i94.
Arsenical pyrites in the nomencla.
ture OF the Coraish mine. is "mun.
die"
Excursion rates to Salt Lake will
probably be given by the railroad on
the Fourth.
Alice stock was quoted on the New
York Stock and Exchange Board
yesterday at $3.50.
Tickets for the Sol Smith Russell
entertainment are selling very rap
idly at Richards 4 Grix.
Claret punches and mint juleps 1t
the end of straw are much affected
just now by our young bloods.
Now doth the small boy hoard his
ducats for Investment in q circus
ticket md cochineal lemonade.
Henry E. Evans took out Of his
sluice boxes at Greenhorn gulch last
Tuesday a $500 gold nugget.
c. c. Thurston of Butte whose con-
tract calls for 1000, 600 brick for the
Helena depot reports that his ma
chimes are turning out 40, 600 daily.
The walls of e. L. Bonner l. Co.'S.
new store building are steadily rising
and soon the old corner will present
one of the most imposing fronts in
the city.
Pinkham made lightning sale of
lot of horses for the Montana Lun,-
Der Company. at the depot yesterday.
Fifteen hundred dollars worth were
ratified off in about An hour.
The only small pox sign within
the city limits has been taken down,
the young lady being convalescent.
The two patients under treatment
north of the city are rapidly recover
ing.
An excellent deposit of slate which
comes out in layers one-fourth of an
inch in thickness, and varying in
size, suitable for roofing and other
uses, has just been discovered across
the Jefferson county line.
Owing to the accident to Miss Dun
bar, the Lindsey dramatic company
will postpone their engagement at
Deer Lodge, but will probably secure
another leading lady in time to meet
their Helena dates.
In addition to the flyers already en-
tered for the July races, advices have
been received that Messrs. Armstrong
and Raymond of Madison county
will be here with several goers, in
cluding both trotting and running
horses.
Work on the new court house is
progressing with astonishing ra-
pidity. The foundation and base
ment of massive tool cut granite will
be completed this week, when the
brick layers will commence laying
the brick which are already on the
ground.
The Baptists are agitatihg the
matter of building church in this
city. The home missionary board
of New York will render financial
assistance, providing suitable
lot is purchased by the church and
they are now on the lookout for q
central site.
The Car of State which has been in
use during the past three years has
been decided to be unsafe and as the
committee propose to look out for the
safety of the young Americans who
will occupy the car, they have Sc
cured a new running gear upon
which a substantial platform is being
built.
The decoration of yards and house
fronts with evergreens, on holiday
occasions, is custom much in vogue
in many sections. Citizens of Butte
might add much to the eclat of our
Fourth of July celebration by ar
ranging the fir and pine trees which
abound in the neighborhood, upon
the side walks In front Of their stores
and dwellings,, especially along the
line of march.
Sheriff Irwin went up to Warm
Springs yesterday with Mrs. Charles
O'Neil in charge, who was committed
to the Insane Asylum. Mrs. O'Neil
has been demented for nine years
past, during which time she has been
cared for at home, but recently she
has been subject to frequent attacks
of violence and it became necessary
to place her under treatment At the
asylum, much to the grief of her hus-
l.-1 aud ob id ron