The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-07-24

The business of the postoffice depart
ment for the last week in June shows the
following increase over the same week
last year: Letters mailed, 21.7 per cent
sealed packages, 40.6 per cent; circ ulars,
81 per cent.
The senate committee on appropriation;
has changed the sundry civil bill so that
silver certificates for 81, 30 and IS, as
like certificates of higher denominations
are issued, against all the surplus silver
certificates in the treasury
Gladstone is Respondent, and in refer.
ring to his staying powers says that he
will be unable to fight in the face of an
embittered parliament. He says he will
do his best, but urges his followers to pre-
pare to rely on other leaders.
The Boston city council usually pass a
vote of thanks to the Fourth of July
orator, but at the last meeting no action
was taken in regard to George Fred
Williams Grafton, though Mayor O'Brien
suggested the usual resolution.
A horse of Otis Nelson of Milford,
Mass, kicked over hive of bees, which
attacked him furiously. Mr.. Nelson went
to the rescue and they pitched into him !;
then Mrs. Nelson, bareheaded and bare
armed rushed out and the bees attacked
her. So badly was she stung that at last
accounts it was feared she would die from
blood poisoning,
A man who several years ago clerked
for firm in Bath, Maine, stepped into
their office the other day and handed
them $50. 'You didn't steal this from
us, did you!'' asked one of the partners.
"Oh, no;' said the ex-clerk, 'but think
| was little careless in weighing, and
didn't work for your interests as l ought.
This will help make us square,"
Buffalo claims to be the home of the
most absent-mlnded man in the world.
The distinction is based on the fact that
the other night he went to his room
smoking, undressed with the cigar in his
mouth, and then knelt down and '.said
his prayers still smoking. He discov-
cred what he was doing when half through.
ut struck me as being little off color
he afterward said.
Winnipeg special: At noon, Saturday,
six mounted and masked highvaymen
robbed the mail coach twenty five miles
south of Humboldt station, obtaining $780,
600 from the mail bags. The coach had
left Quappelle on Friday. 1t is reported
that the driver was killed. The coach
contained two passengers. 1t is supposed
to be the work of Montana road agents.
Mounted police are securing the country.
There is little hitch in Miss Cleve
lands negotiations to take charge of Lit
erary Life. The fastidious lady doesn't
want her name on the cover, and insists
upon inspecting all advertisements which
are to go into the paper. When Miss
Cleveland gets little further along in
the editorial department, she will be we'll !
content to let the business end of the
publication look after the advertisements. |
Her book 'The Long Aim" is failure.
William Evans, Columbus, Ohio,
pugilist, struck Miss Lou Sanders, and |
when arrested said he guessed he was
guilty. "You guess you are guilty." said
the mayor. "You're a coward and a
brute, and I'm going to give you the full
penalty The mayor was much disap-
pointed to find that he could impose only
$40 fine and ten days imprisonment
He gave him that and said: "You'll
serve this out, and no influence on earth
IAN secure your release, and when you
get out you've got to leave the city,
A Utica naturalist says that song birds
n that region are fast disappearing. The
wren is almost unknown, the bobolink,
hat formerly abounded on the Mohawk
meadows, is disappearing rapidly, while
'lue birds, yellow birds, orioles, and even
voodpeckers, highoes and crows are be-
coming scarce. AS consequence, he
ays, fruit trees and all sorts of vegetation
re suffering from the ravages of insects.
Pot hunters and bird-nesting BOYS are
aid to be able to account for the disap-
'earance of the birds.
David Allen, of Lowvllle, N. Y, after
listing his daughter at Boonville, took,
s he supposed, the train for Lowville
BY mistake, he took the train going the
'ther way, and the conductor put him off
'etween Boonville and Alder Creek. The
Id man, instead of walking back, became
,ewildered and roamed through the
1ewls county swamps and fields for three
lays, without food. He left Boonville on
Monday, and was found on the following
thursday, quite out of his mind, and very
eeble In body. His recovery is very
doubtful.
Dora Schroeder, twelve-year-o girl
f South Holyoke, was playing on the
oof of a three-story building and thought
would he fine to walk on the brick wall
which surrounds the roof. So she
limbed up and fearlessly walked until
he came to a chimney, which she at
empted to pass by drawing herself around ;
on the outside. This was tempting
ate little too much. A brick in the
Kinney gave way and Dora went whirl-
ng down sixty feet. Hcrrifed passers-by
an to her aid and she smiled at them.
The had only broken her ankle.
The large brewing establishment of I
ohm Kopp at Portland Or, has been {
eized by United States revenue officers
or evad1ng the payment of the proper tax I
pon the output of the brewery. The
axe has been worked on Uncle Sam for
ONE time past by refusing the stamps on {
eer kegs. 1t is estimated that up to the
ime of the discovery of the crookedness, ,
hat some 1900 barrels of beer had been {
isposed Of upon which the proper tax in
he shape of stamps had not been paid.