The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-12-05
The Semi Weekly Miner
Local News.
From the Daily of Tuesday.

~ ONPPSA "0o 0OAl4uk at 10
cents. 1t is now quoted at l4t and Is
cents.
Will "24 o'clock" dials be placed
upon the four sides of the new court
house tower?
The Lexington company made a
handsome shipment of bullion yes
terday, valued at $50, 900.
DR.. De Freye has secured office
rooms on West Park street, immedi-
ately west of Renshaw Opera House.
Hay is worth almost it's weight in
gold in some sections of the Terri
tory. In Butte prime loose is plenty
at SIS.
The total output of copper in the
United States this year will not be
far from $1,000 tons, against As, 800
tons in 1882.
Katie Putnam lost about So, 1000
worth of printed material in the re-
cent destruction by fire of the John
B. Jeffry printing house in Chicago.
A great many men are coming into
winter quarters from surrounding
camps, and the additional number of
people on the streets is quite notice.
able.
"Inquirer'' is informed that trains
began running through Mullan tun-
mel or the 4th of November. The
tunnel is $3.50 feet long and 5,54s feet
above the level of the sea.
The ladies social aid society of the
Baptist church met yesterday to slz
up accounts on the Thanksgiving
dinner. They found their ~exchequer
improved by the addition of $50.
That monthly ray of sunshine for
the little folks, Our Little Ones and
The Nursery, for December, is at
hand, replete as usual with finely il
Illustrated gems of juvenile literature.
According to the reports of return
ing local Nimrods, game is plentiful;
and they have slaughtered about
forty million more elk, deer, bear
and small game than has yet been
hauled in.
A large heating furnace is being
placed in position in the basement of
Thomas amphitheatre. Its ample
proportions and the arrangement of
hot air pipes are suggestive Of solid
comfort when the cold days come.
The Scientific american declares
that there has not beer a lead pencil
for so years past. The so-called lead
pencils are made of plumbago or
graphite, a carbonate of iron, capa-
BILE of leaving a ~lead-colored mark.
According to the Helena Herald
the operation of amputating both !
legs OF d. J. Sullivan, M Of the vic
TINS of the Wickes branch accident,
was 80 successfully performed on
Sunday that the subject died on Mon
day.
The hotels are crowded as usual.
The r~eopening of the Mt. Vernon
house by Messrs. Aylesworth & Nc
Farland will greatly relieve the pres
sure upon the present accommoda-
tons and be a boon to the travelling
public.
The bright sunshine and balmy at
m~ospbere of the past few days re-
minds US that we are on the "banana
belt" and a miscue on the ice which
still covers the shady side of the
street made an old lady last night
think she was on a banana peeling
When the new standard time sys-
TEN is fully inaugurated, and the
reveller gazes upon the
bawdy hand of time pointing to the
hour of "a o'clock, then will he ex-
claim with the pathetic ditty, "Back-
ward, turn backward, oh time in thy
flight"
John Dreeland has been appointed
on the police force to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation of
Capt. Owens. Mr.. Dreeland enters
upon his duties with a long expe-
rience as an officer and will be q val
liable addition to the force.
After downing fifty men. more or
less, and producing innumerable con-
tusion,, ab%rasions, broken limbs and
dislocated joints, the backbone called
bv courtesy a crossing, on Broadway
and Main streets was leveled yester'
day so as to make it passable for
pedestrians.
In the police court yesterday, the
charge of adultery against Joseph
Revel was dismissed upon the urgent
appeal of MIS-. Revel. The happy
pair are now reveling in connubial
bliss, and are probably both hunting
for the man that started that false
report about 10. |
Matt Conner, of Virginia City, Ne
vada, is getting up a highly ornate
article of furniture in the shape of a
writing desk, which will be placed in
the postofice for the convenience OF
the public. An ornamental frame