The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-28
Local News

There have been nc cases in the 10
lice court during the past four days
Alice stock yesterday declined
from $3.50 to So on the New York
Stock and Exchange board.
The Invitation to deliver in Butte
his humorous lecture on "Rustling,'
has been forwarded to Rev. Mr.
Wood at Helena, and a response is
expected by telegraph on Monday.
A row occurred in a boarding
house at Blackfoot last Monday, in
which an employee Of the Utah 4
Northern Railroad was shot three
times and probably fatally injured.
A little boy in Quincy, ILL.,, knew
what he was talking about when he
closed his prayer by saying, "Good'
bye, oh, Lord, I'm going over to Mis-
souri, in the morning."
The Comique had an immense
house last night and was crowded as
usual. The audience were kept in a
roar by the peerless variety company,
from the opening to the close of the
entertainment.
The story is told of a well known
and we'll to do party, who under the
influence of a kleptomaniac drunk
purloined a pair of pants from a
Main street clothing house last week.
When he got sober he handed the
merchant a check for $50, with the
request to keep still about the matter.
House moving is an important in
dnstry just now. Odd Fellows Hall
has advanced to the corner of Gran
lite and Wyoming street. The dwell
ing on the court house site fronting
on Granite street has been moved in
to the street, and preparations are be-
ing made to move the cottages from
the Quartz street front.
The agricultural editor of the Inter
Mountain informs its bucolic readers
that ''cattle running at large are
doing great damage to young trees
and spring vegetable gardens. Butte
people will pray that their young
trees may be saved from destruction,
and the bucolic readers will thank
the Lord that their winter vegetable
gardens are all right.
A. P. Hodgdon, who has char. ed
with attempting to set fire to the
Geddes & Bertrand mill, at Eureka,
New, was acquitted, and upon re-
turning to the neighborhood of the
mill, was seized by the miners and
four miles astride of a 2x4
which had been shaved to
a thin edge on the upper side to
make the lesson more pointed.
The wonderful enterprise that has
covered with network of iron the
rich valleys and the bare wastes of
has laid its hand upon the
of Montana and is now span
ming the mountains, valleys and des-
ert spots with bands of steel, like
wands to conjure into life a
great population, and make all alike
,eem with a new civilization, a rich
prosperity and a bounteous plenty.
On.the complaint Of w. I. Lippin-
,ott a summons was last night served
lpon E. S. Thompson to appear be-
ore Justice Nichols, at 10 o'clock
his morning, to answer to the charge
II carrying concealed a deadly wea-
JON. In conversation last night Mr..
Thompson intimated that the trial
would give rise to some ''%georgeous
md picturesque oraculary skyroek-
and that a ''spade would be
,alled a spade"
The MINER office is in receipt of !!
ircular from the New York Lecture
conveying the intelligence
hat Eli Perkins lecture route will
ring him in the vicinity of Butte in
i've or six weeks, and favorable ar
angements may be made for
i'm to lecture in this city. We have
10 desire to discourage Mr.. Perkins,
r to de,ract from his reputation as
he colossal liar of the universe, but
n our humble opinion, there is so
much local talent lying (around
oese) in this vicinity that Eli
7ouldn't stand the ghost of chance.