The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-08-11
Local News.


on the New York market yesterday.
Grand Ball at the Atlantic Hall to-
night. Good music and fine wines,
liquors and cigars.
Miss Francis E. Willard organized
q large branch of the Woman's Chiis-
tian Temperance Union at Ogden.
The varoiloid cases are reported as
doing well, and there are no indica-
tions Of further spread of the dis
ease.
sdelegation of knights Templar
to the Triennial Conclave will leave
Butte on the afternoon train of next
Sunday.
The choice of the first two seats for
the Beeche1 lecture sold for $500 a
large number of single seats were bid
off at S. 90 and $3.50.
Thomas Mcguire has commenced
running a daily line of stages be-
tween Butte and Anaconda, coaches
leaving each end of the line al 7:3O
q. n.
Rumor has it that the marriage of
two young persons Of Butte, which
has been on the tapis for some time
past, will be among the social events
of the near future.
A new hoist has been erected on
the Anglo Saxon mine, situated
south of the Big Butte, and active OPP
erations will soon be resumed on that
promising property.
A resolution was passed in the city
council last night, instructing
the city marshal to enforce the ordi-
nance fer suppression Of hurdy
houses AID dance saloons.
The dog catcher will be around to-
day, and dogs which do not sport a
license tag had better hunt their
holes. The City Council has given
all such CANNES a 3-7-77 notice,
which means .i-ati. if their owners
fail to pay tbs iic:ase.
A Typographical error in yester-
day mornings MINER, afforded the
groveling mind Of the evening scribe
an opportunity to revel in prurient
glee, over what his own debased
imagination led him to interpret as
an obscene joke. Honi soft qui mal.y
pense.
The Utah & Northern will run an
other excursion train to Warm
Springs and Deer Lodge next Sum
day. Round trip tickets will be sold
to Deer Lodge at $500 and Warm
Springs $500. Hundreds of citizens
will avail themselves of the low fare
to visit Montana's most beautiful
valley.
The Northern Pacific Railroad has
established an office in Butte for the
sale of tickets to all points east and
south. Frank Marsh has been APP
pointed agent. He informs. us that
tickets to eastern and southern points
will be sold at the same rates from
Butte as from Helena: thus saving
the stagefare for passengers from this
city.
july and August are usually con-
sidered the du!lest months OF the
year for all branches of trade, but
real estate men report a steady,
healthy business, the ruling prices
indicating a good appreciation of the
value of Butte dirt. and dry goods
men say that their sales are so per
cent. larger this summer than for
the corresponding period last year.
At a recent meeting of the board of.
school trustees. Mr. Charles TidbalI,
a graduate of the John Hop
kins University at Baltimore, was
appointed teacher Of the VAUDEVILLE
public school. Mrs. Emma Wilson,
Of New Chicago, was assigned as
teacher in room No. I, at the Central
school. in place of Miss Carrie Cox,
who has returned to her home in
Minnesota.
Speaking Of gold and silver mining
the Chicago Mining ReuieW remarks
that mo other industry can show
such an inexhaustible and unlimited
store of resources reaching into the
centuries; permanent, enduring and
imperishab!e; and it is time that peo-
pie and legislators should grasp the
momentous magnitude and future
advantage of the proper utilization
of such a source of financial power
and industrial prosperity