The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-02-16
PONY POINTS
THE CHILL MINE WILL HAVE
A MILL.
Good Ore in the BOzeman-GeOrg
Philips Experience-Chss. Miner
May is.veSt u Few Thou sand BRIDES
aud Bachelors-PersOn aud & ener-
al Mention

PONY. Mont. Feb. l2.-[Special Cor
pondenceI The lessees on the Boze-
man mine here are occasionally ship
ping ear load of quartz which, it is
said runs over $50 per ton.
The parties who bonded the Chilli
mine at Sand creek, have made their
last payment, and will erect u FIVE
stamp mill there in the spring.
Miss Maud Philips left last week for
Danbury, Conn, where she will re-
main for y few months visiting rela-
tives. She will be much missed in So
ciety here.
Miss Janet Davis will continue the
Pony school month longer by sub
scription.
Miss Nellie Switzer is here giving
music lessons to the children OF Mr..
and Mrs Frank Bell.
P. Y. jackson. Of Sterling, has been
nursing badly bruised foot for sever
al days, his horse having stumbled and
fallen upon him, while driving cattle
a short time ago.
While George Philips WAS ''snaking'
a large log in the timber, last Friday,
it caught against tree. The horses
turned on him, got him down between
them and the log, and, as he since said,
walked all over him. He received
several bad bruises and cuts, but for
tunately the horses were unshod or the
result would have been much more Sc
rious.
Dr. I. 5. Stafford's son Isaac, is over
! from Bozeman on visit, and speaks
highly OF the agricultural college, OF
which, he is a pupil.
Charley Miner, Of Richmond Flats,
is now in Pony, presumably to invest a
few hundred thousand in Pony mining
property.
On Monday last, that traditional lit
tie bird few over to South Willow
creek and warned a couple OF old bach
elors there, that something was going
to happen that night. They took the
hint, quickly did their chores, and
then made such lively music with
their brooms for while that the
spiders danced down from their ro0sts,
and the gum boots, etc, waltzed ont
from under the beds and benches, and
after making some extraordinary flour
ishes with the mop and dish cloth
yainly imagining that the ladies might
consider them double X housekeepera
they put on their store cloths,
parted their hair a la Bill Nye and
complacently awaited the coming
event.
And, sure enough. soon along came
the procession, with prancing steed,
aud jingling bells; with smiling bells
and gallant beaux. and, in a short time
that bachelor domicile was well-filled
with d happy throng OF sixty or more
''ye Lords OF Creation very little out
numbering ye ladies fair The games
music, songs and dance-intersper> &c
with an abundance of fire adible'-
were continued til midnight. when tht
surprisers, with expression, Of deligh
at the jolly time they'd had, jumped
aboard their sleighs and ~: srrily di.
glide along" to their homes, the ladie
slyiy leaving enough of iced cakes
etc, in the cupboard to keep the sai'
baches-nnskilled as pastry cooks-il
a comatose condition for several day
in consequence OF an over indulgence
in such luxuries.
We boasted of our sumInsrE wta.e
weather short time ago, and we ca
boast OF it yet when we read OF the in
tense cold in the east; but we don
chop wood in our summer clothes, jus
now by any means. The have ais
, secured "A corner on snow back there
four feet on the level-leaving Us abou
. enough for the beaux to cutter -we
with their sleigh bellies. 3.
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