The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-07-12

The colored citizens Of the town last night OF
he invitation Of Messra. Ford, Howard and
Cark, had quite an enjoyable dancing party on
East Quartz street and wound up with . big
supper. Between forty and fifty invitations
were extended.
Matinee to-day. The play will be Jane Eyre.
Those wLohave not seen the Charlotte Thomp-
son troupe have certainly missed the oppor.
tunity Of seeing q troupe that would draw In the
.argest cities in the Unit" d States. Their plays
are well chose en- and most excellently rendered.
The member ofst Johns Episcopal church,
Butte, are organiai 6 a 'Guild." the object of
which is to promote sociability among the
members Of he congregation and assist them to
become better acquainted with each o her. The
Guild is to hold q meeting once in two weeks.
sociability is to prevail, and games, amuse-
ments and refreshments are to be provided at
each meeting.
great deal is being said about Mr.. Blaine's
religion. If in . public life Of twenty-five
years he has not let his hight shine sufficiently
to show what it II, it is pretty evident that he
has not enough religion to hurt anybody, and it
is not likely that his religion will loom up big
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States. Mr.. Blaine is not so intensely religious as
he is intensely polite.
Yesterday Deputy Sheriff Bodley was dealing
in real estate and did a "land Office business"
He sold seven lodes for Duncan M. ellis to
satisfy Mr.. ellis mot Mr.. Bodley's) clamoring
creditors. Interests in the Scottish Chief
~',uyuawa, Last Chance, Daylight. Promising,
Monstrosity. Calumet, all went for $475. None
of the lodes were patented and very little work
had been done on them.
Messrs. McSheeny & Chaplain have obtained
the contract for the stone work to be done
about the Court house. The earth has been
dug down to the level of the street grade. A
stone wall is to be built up to the level Of the
yard. and on this is to be laid dressed stone for
the iron fence to set in. The ares walls are
included in the contract, also stone
steps at the entrances to the Jail. The whole is
to cost s., 1876.
MorrisB ros. will soon have their business
with the insurance COMPANIES arranged so that
they can begin work on their new building.
Messrs. Welsh and Hurley have been for some
days taking an inventory of the stock with a
view of ascertaining the loss. Their work will
be done in a day or two. 1t is the intention of
Morris Bros. to erect a two-story brick building.
It was their intention two years ago to do this
and they had the plans drawn up at that time,
but for one and another reason put it off from
time to time until this fire decided them to be-
gin new.
Yesterday morning two little girls, about
three or four years of age. were discovered by
Deputy Sheriff Lyle in front of the Masonic
Hall on Wet Park street, lost. He could not
learn what there names were or where they
lived. Mrs Rose Perkins, who mothers all the
lost little children, took them, and after work
ing With them a long time succeeded in getting
their tears dried up After a while the mother
of one of the children came along inqniring for
her child and that of her neighbours who had
wandered off with it, and Mrs. Perkins was
relieved Of her charge.