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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-10-31
jefferson County Teachers 1nsti~
tute.

JeI!eT6Ou OONAGy ACoSAoAS A0SoA
tute.
A Teachers' Institute for Jefferson
county, Montana Territory, will be
held at the Court House in Boulder,
commencing Thursday, the 18th day
Nov. A. d. 1853, at 2 O'Clock p. NJ,
closing Saturday evening, the 3Oth:
Sec. l,l6O of the amended school
law, makes it the duty of all teachers
engaged in the county to attend; and
ali teachers who may have charge OF
schools at the time are required to
adjourn their schools for the time
during which the Institute shall be
held. The time each teacher may
require in going and returning from
the Institute, should be included
in such arrangement.
District school officers Of the county
and friends of the public schools
generally are in vited to attend.
ALEX J. ELDER,
County Supt.
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SANDS & BOYCE.
To-Day. the Forked Lightning
Flashes and the Thunder
: Rolls.
W. are Laden to the Waters
Edge With Bargains.
We Mean to Shake the Markets
Of This Territory With the
Thunder Claps of Bank
rupt Prices.

The forked lightning of bankruptcy
has shattered in to smithers the
prices of ready-made clothing. blank
cts, quilts and some lines Of dry goods
proper. So many heavy and disas-
trous failures among eastern manu-
facturers and wholesale dealers as
have occurred within the past few
weeks is almost unprecedented in the
history of trade, and as we remarked
yesterday, the result was that mil
lions OF dollars worth Of the goods re-
ferred to were thrown upon the mar
ket and sold at such plices as close
cash buyers e willing to pay.
Mr.. J. Sands, our New York partner
and buyer, attended a number of
these sales, and he has laden us with
bargains.
TO THE WATERS EDGDE.
Several thousand dollars worth of
these bargains in
CLOTHING, BLANKETS,
CLOTHING, BLANKETS,
AND QUILTS,
were received yesterday. The inn
mense lot of clothing includes 80
overcoats, and suits of every cut,
quality and price, for men, boys and
YOUTHS, and much of it will be sold at
ONE-HALF
OF New Y ,rk wholesale cost.
FIGURES.
Men y So suits for Sc; $l5 suits
for 81. so; S25 aud $35 suits for SIS and
$18; and a few suits for $3.50 each.
$40 o%vercoats for s. and unprece-
denied bargains throughout the en-
tire bankrupt stock. Please remem-
Der that these fabulous reductions do
not apply to our entire stock but only
to that part of it which We bought
under the circumstances referred to.
A clothing salesman representing
one vi the largest New York clothing
manufacturers received intelligence
while here that his firm had failed.
He had about $1,000 worth of SAM
Piles, at cost Of manufacture, which
bought from him at spot cash for
less than One-half. The lot includes
o~vercoats, suits and odd garments,
principally for men, nc two of which
are alike-except the suits, and in
these no two suits are alike-aud we
offer them to you at a small advance
upon what We paid.
Four thousand dollars worth of
clothing came yesterday from the
firm above referred to, which our
Mr.. Sands bought after their failure,
from their assignee.
W. mean to shake the dry-goods
and clothiug market of this Terri
tory from center to clrcumfer ence
with the
THUNDER CHAPS
of bankrupt prices. We have the
goods bought at prices that will ena-
BILE us to do it. To-day the forAed
flashes and the thunder
rolls.
Very respectfully,
SANDs & BOYCE.
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The vein has been struck in the
south crOss-cut of the Washoe mine.
They are in nine feet and anticipate
that the vein will be fully twenty
feet wide. This mine is on the same
mineral belt as the Original and
Gagnon, and promises to rank with
them after further developments.
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have 300 acres ofthe best winter pasturage in
Deer Lodge Valley, either for horses or cattle,
The ranch is newly fenced and is we'll supplied
with water which never freezes in winter,
Parties who wish stock hay-fed during severe
weather can be accommodated For terms and
further particulars address or apply to John Il
Ear,iley. Willow Glen Postotfice, Oh Warm
Spring Creek, four miles east of Anaconda.
Dee. Lodge County. 1D-olSWtf
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Miss Katie Burnett and MI. Chris.
Houtchins, both of Glendale, were
married at that place last Friday.
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BORN.
n POSfur0Oc.

CLARK In Walkerville, October IS, 1858,
The wife of Patrick Clark, u daughter.
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AT every turn yesterday one was
greeted with stories Of the new gold
fields. If a bunch of men stood on
the street corners. and a reporter
eager to pick up items of interest, ap-
preached them, the first words that
fell upon his ear were Occur
d'Alenes." In the back ROOMS of sa-
looms, circled around the stove, old
miners told their wonderful tales of
Alder Gulch, and prospective ones
pricked up their ear as the fabulous
recitations of those golden days were
uttered. 1.-THE interest taken is as
great elsewhere as here, there will
undoubtedly be a large stampede in
the spring from all sections of the
country.
The Eureka market is still doing
business and is prepared to furnish
the best meat to be had in the city.
Beet, veal, mutton and pork on hand
to-day.
In the police court yesterday be-
fore Judge French, Giovanni Gano,
charged with creating a disturbance,
plead guilty ana was fined $40 and
costs.
Mrs. Grundy has it that pointed
waists are to be in style for dinners,
to be followed by pointed remarks
bv the enviOus ones
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High Mass at st Patricks.

The announcement that High
Mass would be celebrated at st. Pat
rick's church, last Sunday morning,
drew out all unusually large audi
ence and every pew and aisle was
filled at all early hour, while two or
three hundred late corners were I'M
able to gain admittance. The music
selected for the occasion was Mil
lard's mass, which is considered by
musicians the most difficult of execu-
ton and the grandest of choral
compositions. The several parts
were sung with magnificent
effect, and while the richness
of tone and volume of voice, with
which the grand symphony was rem
dered made the service a rare music
al treat, the solo Mcarnatus est, sung
by Mrs. J. B. Wilcox, deserves espe-
cial mention. Her rich melodious
soprano filled the church with a har-
mony which thrilled the heart of ev-
cry nearer. Rev. Father Dolls was
much pleased with the choral execu-
ton and desires us to express his APP
probation and thanks to Mrs Wilcox,
Mrs. Largely and Mr.. Grudelhoven,
who sang different parts, and Mr..
Casser, organist; all of whom added
much to the successful rendition of
the difficult composition.
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From Lincoln to Garfield.

It has been known for some time
in literary circles that the Hon.
James G. Blaine was engaged in the
preparation of a political history
under the title of "Twenty Years Of
Congress; from Lincoln to Garfield"
and yesterday we had the pleasure
OF examining the prospectus of the
same. The work is divided into two
parts; the first comprising Lincoln's
and JOhnson's administrations, and
the second those Of Grant, Hayes and
Garfield. In many of the most inn
portant measures presented the au-
thor was an active participant and
his words and opinions will be most
interesting contributions to history.
The work contains in addition to its
literary features, portraits of many OF
the authors political rivals and party
clansmen which add much to its
value. The work is sold by subscrip-
ton and MI. Moore, of the Broadway
Book Store, has secured the agency
of the book for this section.
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Personal.

Several days ago Secretary Folger
wrote to David Davis that a 81, 200
clerkship was at his disposal, and he
would like him to nominate a man
for the place. Judge Davis sent the
letter back, with an Endorsement
that he did not know a man quail
fed for the place whom he could
conscientiously recommend to &C.
cept a government clerkship. "How-
ever" he naively added, II know a
lady of good character and well fitted
for the place, whom l should like to
have you appoint. She is over 40
years old, and it would be a benefit
to her."
Ex-senator Tabor returned to
Washington on Friday last and Wis.,
tied the Capitol with a friend.
When they reached the Senate
Chamber he conducted his friend to
the seat he occupied for thirty
days. II sat here" said the great
mar of a moment; "here is where l
kept my papers, here is where I did
my correspondence and there on the
corner is where I left my mark"
pointing as he reached that subdi-
vision of his Grafton to a scratch on
the hard surface of the desk. He
then explained that he did it with
his enormous diamond cuff button. -.
1t behoeves editors to read their
proof carefully before their papers 90
TO press. Colonel Bill Snort, the edl-
tor of a Texas paper, is a fugitive
among the chaparral and prickly
pears of Crosby, all because in refer
ring editorially to a patron he says III
his paper that the patron is "thiev-
lug as usual" He wrote Thriving
as usual" According to the latest
advices received by TEXAS Sittings,
the indignant patron, assisted by his
numerous relatives, had Bill corraled
in q thicket.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-28
A Good Location for a Smelter

The opening up of new copper
properties this spring will doubtless
result in the erection Of additional
reduction works in the vicinity of
Butte, and the eligibility of several
locations~ for prospective smelters
has already become a matter of gen.
eral discussion. Among locations
spoken of that of Blacktail canyon
seems to possess all the requisites for.
the purpose. A site may be selected
at a point about seven miles from the
U. & N. depot on the Pipestone read,
where nature provides an abundance
of water and magnetic iron Gre, in
the immediate vicinity, while an ex-
cellent quality of lime stone exists
in abundance only three miles dis
tant, and the adjacent hillsides are
covered with a heavy growth of fir
and pine wood for fuel. Transporter
ton facilities might be supplied by a
horse railroad or a spnr of the U. &
n. r. r. which could be built at
comparatively small cost, the natural
gradient being exceedingly favorable.
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Produce Market Report.

BUTTE, NJ. T., March "a, 1883
The following are the wholesale
prices paid by merchants and hote.
keepers for the commodities enumer-
ated, delivered from the wagons
Price list carefully corrected every
Saturday:
Flour Ruby Valley, XXXX, $3.50
per cwt.
Mill Greek, XXNX, $3.50
per cwt.
Kansas xxx 1915.
Bakers, $425.
Mill Creek, New Process, $500.
Gallatin, $40 per cwt.
Union Mills, New Process, Cream
of the Valley, $500
Ruby Valley, NEW process) $3.50
Union Mills xxx Snow flake,
$3.50.
Utah Common, 1926
Utah Choice, $3.50.
Graham, $500.
Wheat per TO-, q cts, fair demand
Oats, $2.OOat2.5O
Butter, per h., $50 40 cts.
Eggs, per dozen, % at 80 cts.
Corn Meal, SC.
Beef, carcass, 8 cts.
Beets, 81 cts. perl Id.
Hay per ton, $23@$25
Bailed Hay, per ton, $22023
Cheese, 5000 cts.
Barley, s.. 25@2.5 so per cwt.
Dried beans, Montana, Fcts.
Mutton, 10 cts.
Pork, dressed, IA cts. per ID.
Veal, 124 cts. per ID.
Chickens, S. "a $3.50 per dozen.
Wood, $5.25 "a $500
Rutabagas, u cts. per h..
Potatoes, $1.75@2.5O p cWt.
Sausage, Is cts. per lb.
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Chicago has 3,799 licensed liquor
shops.
Texas has now 5000 miles of rail-
way completed.
There are 1900, OOa Hebrews scat
tered over the world.
Over two tons OF hairpins are made
daily by the factories in this country.
Jumbo, the big elephant, is grow
ng fat. His weight is now about
seven tons.
A bill has been introduced in the
Pennsylvania Legislature 10 make
cremation unlawful.
The Register of New York City is
said to have an income from his office
of SIS 900 a year.
Five thousand eight hundred
claims have been filed in the Geneva
Award Court, OF these 1900 are
from New York.
Only eight of 314 qualified women
in Burlington, VT, voted at the
recent election, against five in 1882
and sixteen in 1881.
Among the things taken by bur
glars from an Illinois minister's
house were a box of tobacco, six bot
ties of whiskey, and a pistol.
The Kansas Legislature, before il
adjourned, passed a bill to prevent
corners, options and gambling, and
declaring absolutely void all gamb
ling contracts.
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Custer County Embroglio.

At last advices, affairs in Custer
county remained unchanged. The
old Board of County Commissioners
refuse to surrender the records to the
legislative appointees and it is un-
derstood that Chairman Hubbell has
employed an armed guard to watch
the county archives day and night.
The Miles City Press of the 18th
says: Messrs. VanGasken, Miles and
Bryan, the County Commissioners
appointed by the recent legislature
held a special meeting to-day, in
pursuance of published notice. Mr.
Mr.. Geo. Myers acted rs clerk. The
day was occupied in selecting a grand
jury. The old Board is understood
to have selected a jury likewise
What complication is to arise out OF
the dual panel remains to be seen.
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PersOnal

Rev. T.. l.. Wood left for Dillon on
this mornings train.
Hon. b. F. White, Of Dillon, Is
spending a few days in the city.
Addison Smith, Of the firm OF
Kleinschmid 4 Co., Deer Lodge PAD
the MINER office a pleasant visit yes
terday.
The Helena stage due Monday
evening, did not arrive until l:so
Yesterday afternoon. Passengers re-
port the roads in fearful condition.
streams very high and bridges ncat-
ing. The outgoing stage left al usual
this morning, but there seemed to De
considerable doubt as to its getting
through.
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Notice OF Final Settlement.

In the Probate Court of Silver Bow Coun-
ty, Montana Territory.
In the matter OF the estatesof Frederick
~Breitenbacher, deceased.
Notice is hereby given th2tGAnthOny H.
Barrett and Christian Jackyss&e executors
o. the estate Of Frederick H~e'tenbacher,
deceased, have rendered andspresen,ed for
account of their administrator OF said es-
tate, ant, that Wednesday, st4e 9Th day #
April, A. d. 1888, being q d9y OF a term
OF said court, to-wit: the March
term, A. d. 1888, at2 o'ciocS p. III, at the
court room OF said probatk court, at No.
N2 Cup stairs), Main street. Butte City, in
said county, has been u appointed by
said account and for the AEaring Of said pc
titlon. at which time and place any person
interested In sa1dsesta1f may appear ard
file his exceptions to saj account and con-
test the same. and maa hen and there show
| not be made Of the 4 Idue OF said estate to
the heirs of said 1eel Esed, according 20 law.
Dated March 2fts3 4 2; 1883,
| s 24-sW I'd Clerk.
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From the Daily Of Tuesday.
AN INDIAN RAID.
Cree Cattle Thieves Whipped by
Whites and Piegans-
Troops in Pursuit.

On the 18th inst. a party of stock
men encountered some Cree Indians
IN wal paint, near Fort Conrad, and
exchanged shots with them. The
whites returned to the Fort, and. be-
ing Joined by a war party of twenty
Piegans, went after the Crees and
on the 10Th engaged them in battle.
Two Crees were killed and scalped
and two Piegans wounded. The
Crees, about 200 strong, are moving
down the Marias killing cattle, st sal-
ing horses, and fears for the safety of
the settlers n entertained. It is the
biggest Indian raid for years. An
Assinaboine dispatch of the 2sd inst.
says, two troops of cavalry, one COM
pany of infantry and Indian scouts
had left that post for the purpose of
intercepting the marauding Crees.
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Special correspondence OF the MINER.

Senator Pugh has a bass voice of
tremendous depth, and a correspon-
dent thinks his throat must be called
up like the stem of a brass horn in
order to get it into his body, ample
as its proportions are When he says
"no" during roll-call it sounds as If
the voice came up through the traps
from the sub-basement Of the Capt.
tol. Senator Sawyer also has a
strong. voice. When he responds to
his name it sounds like a man hol-
looing through the woods. Senator
Vance answers Ives" or mo" with
a hearty cheerfulness eminently
suggestive of the highly entertaining
stories he tells in the cloak-rOOm,
which provoke so much laughter
that it is often necessary to close the
cloak-room doors so that the business
of the Senate a proceed.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-28

j. G. Slavery, Superintendent OF the
Cable mine. and Mrs. Slavery have
gone to California. They will visit
Los Angeles in the hope OF climatic
change proving beneficial to Mrs.
Savery's health.
The postof1ice will be closed to-day
between the hours of II m. and 4. p.
m, in conformity with orders from
the Postmaster General, as a mark of
respect for the memory of the late
Postmaster General 7. O.. Howe
whose funeral takes place to-day.
A LARGE number of capitalists and
the representatives of capitalists are
in the city looking for investments.
As a rule they express themselves as
favorably impressed with the proper
ties they have examined and the out
look of the camp. With the opening
of spring new capital will start up
work on a great many old properties.
The Fire Brigade have received a
portion oftheir new apparatus, includ-
ing many very convenient appll-
ances for handling the machinery OF
the department, aud 500 feet of four
DIV hose with patent couplings. The
four wheeled hose carriage is ex-
pected to-day, when the Brigade Will
be splendidly equipped and ready for
any emergency.
Our cabinet has received an ad-
dition, in the shape of some very line
specimens of silver bearing quartz
! from an unknown correspondent at
Rirch Creek. The specimens are
said to be from the Melvina lode
at q depth of 20 feet and show we'll
for the value and permanency OF the
Melvina. Birch Creek has. many
fine leads and is no doubt destined to
come to the front as n of our best
producing camps at no distant: day
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The Way Congressman Drink.
WASHINGTON Letter in the Cleveland Leader

Washington Letter in the Cleveland Leader.
Iasked a bartender as to the prev,
alence of drinking in Washington
to-day. He replied. "Most of the
Congressman and Senators drink,
though there are q great many more
total abstainers now than formerly.
The Southern members drink more
than the Northerners and they
always take whisky. while your
Northern men now and then take
beer. Nearly every Senator from the
South drinks, and I have to carry
one who buys his liquors here every
now and then to his room. He COM
mences drinking intending to take
only q little, but he likes the taste of
the liquors so well he can't stop, and
the result is he gets booty and has to
be aided off to his room. The Foreign
Ministers, as a rule, drink, but they
seldom come to the bar."
1--WE have some curious drinkers
among the members Of the present
House," continued the bartender.
"A member from South Carolina
takes on the average about forty
drinks a day. He fills his glass to
the brim every time, and tells the
bartender his sight is bad and he
can't tell how much there is in the
glass till it gets full. Like all the
Southern members he always
drinks whisky, and he takes
it straight. A member of
the House from Kentucky wants
three Jumps of sugar, a tablespoonful
of water and q pint of whisky for his
usual dram. Dust a little nutmeg
owe this and, says he, 1T makes q
drink for the gods.' He can stand
this several times a day and can
repeat it during the evening""
"Any others?" asked I.
eyes" responded the drink-mixer,
and went on: II hate to see a sneak,
and the way some Congressman take
drinks on the sly and stink out when
they think they are being seen,
makes me sick. There is a member
from North Carolina, q namby-
pamby, utterly utter, aesthetic Sena-
tor, who thinks all the women are ir
love with him, and pretends to be
pious. He never drinks whisky
when any of his friends are in the
bar. He will come in, look around,
and if he sees any one he knows lie
will march up to me and ask for
change for a quarter and then slip
out. In half an hour he will come
back again, and, if his friends are
gone, he will call out for "a very
pretty cocktail. but he don't mind If
+ make it a little Stiff He is an
aesthetic, you know, and he wants ais
cocktail pretty He will drink
three Of these and then, filling his
vest pocket with cloves, he goes off
chewing them to hide his breath.
There are a number like him, but he
is the only one I know from the
South"
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Rev. Mr.. Woods Lecture.

Owing to the storm that prevailed
the entire day yesterday, a not very
large audience had the pleasure of
listening to the eloquent and enter
tanning lecture of Rev. MI. Woods
last night upon the subject of
"Shams." The lecture opened with
the shams that attend infancy; the
remarks about resemblances and
indications of future beauty and USE
fitness, and the suggestions about
the treatment in sickness and health
for the futurs promise of the infant.
The period of human life freest from
shams is girlhood and boyhood, con-
corning which the lecturer made
many humorous illusions, and
passed on to the shams of mature
life--the politician, with his rretense
of reforming abuses; the social world,
with its fair exterior and its skele-
tons in the closet; the business world,
where things r not what they seem;
the fashionable churches, where
affectation gushes from the minister
and permeates the flock. The delin-
cation of these various shams was
l~udicrously graphic and entertaining.
The greatest sham of the age
was intemperance, with its
pretense Of stimulating intel
lectual vigor averting sickness and
disease and adding to the social dis
position of humanity. In depicting
the miseries of intemperance and the
number of imbeciles, paupers and
criminals it was constantly sitting
upon the stage of life, the lecturer
rose to a height Of eloquence that
chained the attention of his entire
audience. The lecture closed with
eloquent tribute to real woman
hood and manhood, in contrast with
the shams Astounding in the world.
1t is impossible to give an adequate
conception of the excellence of the
lecture in a brief newspaper article;
to be appreciated it must be heard.
is to be hoped that the eloquent
lecturer can find it convenient to re-
peat his lecture in this place at some
time of more suspicious weather,
when the culture and intelligent ap- |
probation of worth among the people |
of Butte will ensure him a full audi |
ence in one of our largest halls.