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amismannallelC77\- -- =i1a0IIIV -- 4 - 1 4._ 1 1 111 1. 1 . 1 . 1 !\ THE MADISONIAN, VITLGINIA CITY, MONTANA. THE MArISONIAN la deroted to the advocacy of the principles of the Democratic party and to general and local news. OFFICE, Two doors West from Wells, Far- go a Co's. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Three Months aliV41113.) Ss M on th s 110 ADVERTISING RATES. THE MADISONIAN, as an advertising medium, is equal to any paper in Montana. z. oar e a a 4 .41 a .4 .9' Is so ... C:3 s.s2 oC I Is Is be: 1 Inch. .. 2 inches 3 Inches 4 Inches t; Inches 13 Inches 25 Inches $3 $-5 $7 $8 $10 $15420 $ - 25 5 8 9 10 12 24)H14) 40 7 9 11 12 15 4 5! 37 55 8 11 12 14 17 301 45 70 10 12 15 18 24 :IN! 63 90 18 24 :310 :31 40 .55i tin 140 30 40 50 55 035, 751540 250 The above scale of prices is for ordinary sin - le -column, display advertising. solid and tabular advertisements will be charged at the inch rate for space occupied. LOCAL NOTICES Fifteen cents per line for ffrst, and ten cents per line for each additional insertion. CARDS, One-half inch, $2 for one insertion; $3 for two insertions; $5 per quarter; $16 per year. !Cr' The foregoing schedule of prices will be strictly adhered to. All advertisements counted in Nonpareil measure. .1013 PRINTING - , Of every description, executed in the best and neatest style, and on reasonable terms. NEWSPAPER DECISIONS. 1. Any one who takes a paper regularly from the Postoffice—whether directed to his name or another's, or whether he has subscribed or not —is responsible for the payment. 2. If a person orders his paper discontinued, he must pay all arrearages, or the publisher may continue to send it until payment ism:tile, allot collect the whole amount, wheth , ..r the pa- per is taken from the oilier or not. 3. The courts have decided that refusing to take the newspapers or periodicals from the Postoffice, or removing and leaving them un- called for, is prima facia evidence of intention- al fraud. PROFESSIONAL. E. CALLAWAY, Attorney a,nd Cot - tn- senor at LaWe VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE, adjoining the office of the Secre- tary of the Territory. Z. W. TOOLE. J. K. TOOLE. TOOLE & TOOLE. ..Aitorneys at T.ZILAV. HELENA, MONTANA. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. JOHN T. SHOBER. T. J. LOWERY. 1 SHOBER & LOWERY, Attorneys and cottn- sellors at I_Aaw. HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. SAMUEL WORD, .A. - ttoi-rik,y at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. JAMES G. SPRAT T, Attorney and Conn - senor at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. Will practiee in all the Courts of Montana. 1 W. F. SANDERS, Attorney and Conn - senor at Law. HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all Courts of Record in Montana. GEORGE CALLAWAY. M. D. Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE. at the Law Office of J E. (unit - way, Esq., mai: further notice. I. C. SMITH, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. (mice at the Old Le Beau Stand, Wallace Street, where he can be found night or day E. T. YAGER, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. Will practice in all branches. Office one door above the City Drug Store. H. B. BARKLEY, M. D. Physician & Surgeon. RADraRSIIIIRG, M. T. Iii . u S h h is tit i l )r t o Wrili - o - u 011e fou yr e a N r . e s a ' rs e x o r je a n ctei mine a surgeon in the Confederate army. Ile is pre- pared to perform all kinds of surgery. IN FEMALE COMPLAINTS, his expe- rience is not surpassed by any physician in the Territory. TO THOSE WHO HAVE VENEREAL COMPLAINTS.—Gonorrhea, if called upon within live days after the first appearance, he will cure in seventy-two hours. In Syphlis, he will cure in tire days. Ills treatment is different from any physi- eiau in this Territory. He is prepared' for Cleansing, Extracting, and Filling Teeth. D. F. OG DE N. L. D. S., IiN r rIS9r. Wallace Street, Virginia City.M.T. HIRAM BRUNDAGE, GUNSMITH AND MACHINIST, AND DEALER IN GUNS, PISTOLS, LOOSE AND FIXED AMMUNITION, SPORTING GOODS. POCKET Ct1. LER Y. ETC., ETC. IT AVING secured the largest En- / glue Lathe in the Territory, which ena- bs•si me to repair anything in my line, from a quartz mill or locomotive to a sewing machine SHOp. one door below C. L.Da.hler'.1 anking Wallace St., Virginia City, M. T leltf ( T ) ilistor;ca' So&ety oi tilotitana, VOL. 1. -s VIRGINI A CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 20, 1873. T'oetry.. 3 1% e t THE PHILOSOPHER'S THANKS- GIVING. BY !Karr MCARNO. If the skies of Thanksgiving are murky, And the wind makes a drearisome sound. If you have to forgo your roast turkey For shin -pieces at sixpence per pound— If you dine with Duke Humphrey unbid- den. You ought to give thanks without ques4 - tion, And pity the rich who are ridden On nightmares by grim indigestion. If your pocket shows you are needy, And bad prospects for work make you sick, If your clothing looks theadbare and seedy And your tailor refuse* you tick— If you're heavily laden with troubles, Just think of our bankers distressed, Who by bursting of over -blown bubbles Lost the millions they thought they pos- sessed, It you find that your route of free lunches Is certainly blocked for a year, If you have to give up your hot punches And shut suddenly down on your beer, Don't despair, and don't envy the wealthy, Nor turn into paths that are vicious ; But remsmber that Croton is healthy, Albiet not vet y nutricious. If the friends you have loved prove un- grate ful, And turn like the Levite of old, If your enemies seem doubly hateful Because you are out !n the cold ; If they rend you and tear you with scorn- ing. And spit forth the venom of spite, Remember the sunshine of morning Follows close on the darkness of night. If the girl of your heart has refused you And rejected your suit in derision, If your rival has hurt and abused And distorted the fair creature's vision; If this fracture of dreams and of wishes Brings your castles in Spuin all to naught. Remember the sea contains fishes Quite as brilliant as ever were caught. Be grateful for Hope. She is the goddess Who turns into gold all the dross Of our poor human lives, and what's odd She's proof against \ proht and loss.\ When the skies are the blackest, her pin- ions Are spread like the wings of the day; All the souls in her noble dominions Are happy forever and aye. HABBX DOUGIIDS. By WARD WOOD. Sornedimes vhen der nighds vos ofol long, Lind you don'd kin shleeb a vink, Dot vos der dime vhen your doughds dey shumb lib-- Und you guick pegun tin dink. Oh nsy: vhen you vos laying dere Midoud much covers on, Your doughds vos sure du vent righd pack Du tays vat's come and gone. You lay rightl dere mid eyes shud ub So dighd as dey could Pc, Uud see yourself a papy poy Ubon your madder's knee. Und den you see vhen you firsd stard Pa doddle 'gross der vloor, Und diuk dere nefer vos some schild So smard like you pefore. Und dot gud old gross-mudder, Vot yore dot funny gap, Und all der dimes riled you vull Mid kisses—tmd mid bap— You see her now, like she vos dhen, Dot gud old vriend py you, Who always dook your bard dem tays, No madder vot you du. You see dot gud old home again. Mid all tier old dings dere— Yon look apout yoi, mid you see Kind vaces eferyvhere ; Uund den you go to shleob. und dream Uf dot old schildhood home ; Und dhen vake ub indo life rgain, Du vind yourself alone. • OWN IUM GATHLItt M. The Old Granger. (A PARODY.) Near the tracks of a railroad newly laid, A farmer leand on his earth -worn spade; While his taxes were high, and his crops but slim. The charge for freight played the deuce with him ; So he growled a growl at the train's sharp din— 'I'll gather you in; I'll gather you in! \I have borne you long, anti here I swow You railroads to beat, some way, or how; I will get no law, by the great horned owl To cut down your profits and make you howl; And but little, or nothing. I'll ship from bin Of horded corn, till I've gathered you in ! \We will rise in our Granges, bold and free. And 'Down with freight!' shall our war - cry be; Not a partisan crew, nor a party hack: Shall help us to gain our birthright back; For the battle is ours to lose or win— We'll gather them in; we'll gather them in!\ Now a gaunt politiLian came that way. 'O'er heard the old man's angry say; And he gave to his head a knowing screw, And cried to the Granger, \Count me too:\ With a thought to himself, replete with grin, I'll gather you in ; I'll gather you in !\ Then a twist of the eye, to seem acute, \The farmer's tongue has too long been mute ; I am just your man, if it suits your mood; So place me where I can do most good : If an office fit, you will help me win, We'll gather them in; we'll gathcr them in 1\ Touching hand to hand, in a wrrin ex- change, They take a waik to the Farmer's Grange, Where the stranger speaks with a rural air, And sprinkles the hayseed in his hair: .4Let railroads quail when our blows begin; We'll gather them in; we'll gather them So they vote for him at the coming polls, Those simple. rural, honest souls; Never dreaming that they of the iron horse Are voting, too, for the man, of course; As on him alone their faith they pin. To gather them in! to gather them in !\ When the election was over the railroads run A score of trains where they once had one, While the ditch by the track is found to hold A poor old Grange, stark and cold; For the chap he helped to office win Had gathered him in; had gathered in! Thankgiving day dawned beautiful and bright in the little town of 14—. The bells calling the inhabitants together to offer their songs of thanks and praise, smote heavily on the ear of a lady, who, sitting alone in a prettily furnished room of a neat little cottage, was indulging in reflections of no pleasant nature, as the weary sigh, troubled thee, and the tears shining in a pair of soft blue eyes, too plainly told. This was an anniversary day which Ethel Fairlie would never cease to re- member. It was on this day, seven years before, that all her hopes of human hap- pinesa were crushed ; and to -day, seeing all look so cheerful and happy, the thought forced its wey into her mind: \Why should this be a day of thanks- giving to me? Shall I oflbr thanks for a lonely life, and a heart blighted with sor- row? But Ethel was a Christian, and she stilled the rebellious thought with a mental supplication ihr patience and strength; and rising, she prepared to at- tend the house of worship, where she hoped to find comfort for her sorrowing heart. While she is gone, let us take a retro- spective view, and learn who and what Ethel Farlie is, and why her heart was so sad this beautiful day, when all else seemed 8J happy. Ten years before the time of which I write, a dying woman called her young and beautiful daughter to her side, and with kind and loving words bade her promise that she would never forsake her father, who was a helpless cripple. Ethel Farlie with a choking voice, gave the. promise. ••I wiii never leave him, mother never, and as long as I live he shall never want.\ The dying mother trusted iniplicitly in her daughter, and as the last rays of the setting . still disappeared, leaving the world in darkness, se - calmly sank to rest, leaving the future indeed dark for poor Ethel. Henry Moreland, a noble young man, loved Ethel Fairlie devoutly; his affec- tion ww, returned, and they had been be- trothed for some time ; and in this loving sympathy she found some consolation for her heavy sorrow. Ethel could not leave her father now; and there was not much hope that their marriage would ever be consummated. Her lover often ex.ko . granted with her for thus sacrificing herself, but ill vain. She would say— \No no! It cannot be. Urge me not, Henry ; If I could thus forget my duty and my promise to the dying, I should forfeit all claims to future happiness.\ And in his heart he felt she was right. Three years passed slowly away. Mr. Fairlie was rapidly failing, and it was evident that Ethel would soon be left en- ly alone. She had often thought of Zwino• her lover his freedom for she - thought it was wrong thus to allow him to hope for what might never be, and hoped that amid new associations he might forget her and be happy. Of herself she dared not think; she on- EthersThanksgiving and left his native :town, as he then be lieved forever. BY EMMA LEE. When Ethel received the note, li she would have sunk entirely under the blow, had it not been that her father then re- quired all her attention. She crushed het sorrow in her heart. and devoted herself entirely to him, but he did not need hei care long . , for he died in a few days, maturity. breathing blessings on her devoted head. She had at first prayed that she too. might die, but at length found peace and rest if not happiness. Ethel had never seen or heard of her lover since that Thanksgiving Day when she had received the note which baniah- ed all her dreams of earthly happineis. Now can you wonder why, this beautiful of t?ie night to comment on day, she was so sad? She was only na-y ;fact that the heaviest twenty-seven, although she was now i s as li g ht en d. spoken of as an \old maid\ by the, .\There!\ said Jones, as he wrathfully younger inhabitants of many on , e* . I pushed away the pie which his hi:Mt:ids whom envied her beauty. had just served him. \that stuff isn't fit for Ethel returned from church, refreshed a l og to eat, and I ain't going to eat it!\ both in mind and body; The fresh air had brought the roses to her cheeks and the sparkle to her eyes. She felt that there were burdens heavier than hers, and was thankful it was no worse. That evening a ring at the door; a card was brought to Ethel, and when she read the name, ‘*Harry Moreland,\ she sunk into a chair, scarcely able to credit her eyes. As soon as she could sufficiently compose her feelings, she walked slowly into the parlor. A handsome, 'bronzed man was impatiently striding about the room, but, at the sight of her, advanced a few steps, paused. then suddenly sprang forward and folded her to his heart. -Ethel?\ \Harry!\ What need to say more? After a while Henry told his story. He had not intended to return to L but an accident happened to a train of care on which he was traveling, and many were thtally injured ; among them was Richard Gregory. Before he died he sent for Henry, and begging his forgive- ness, told how he had written the letter which Henry thought was from Ethel. Henry. in a state of mental anxiety not to be imagined, hastened to Ethel, whom he had so deeply wronged, After all, for Ethel thought she had some cause thanks•giving. OUR FOREIGN TRADE. The foreign import trade of the United States for the last fiscal year, which end- ed Jur e 30, 1873, amounted to the large total of $663,410,597, over twenty-three millions more than for the previous year. Of this importation $166,295,017 were free goods. Congress, it will be remem- bered, at the session befooe the last r - pealed the duties on tea, coftne and a large number of other articles, and their Importation has greatly swollen the Est of free; goods, so that the total is more flan one hundred and five millions over the aggregate of the free list of the pre- vious year. Thus there came in during the year coffee to the value of forty -tour millions, tea twenty-four and a halimil- lions, and hides sixteen and a wafter millions, these three articles mAiing three -fourths of the increase p a p l importation of free goods, all having previously I been dutiable. Our foreign exports rot the last fiscal year amounted to $649,131,563, an increase of one hundred millionsover the previous year. The movemeat of goods shows that the increased tract has been carried almost entirely in foreign vessels. In the year 1871-2 they curried five -sevenths of our exports, whist in 1872-3 they carried three -fourths. The ballance of trade last year was slighly in favor of England. Besides tea, coffin and hides, mentioned above, the leattlig ar- ticles hnported are thirty-five millions of cotton manufactures, twenty-two millions of linens, etc„ seven and a half millions of glass and glassware, sixty tuitions of iron, twelve millions of leather anl leath- er goods, twenty-one millions of gold and silver coin and bullion, thirty-ene mi'as lions of silks, ninety-four million' of su- gar and molasses, fifteen million* of tin and tinware, ten millions of cigars and tobacco, nine millions of wines, eleven millions of wooden ware and timter, and seventy-two millions of wool and wool- lens. The chief articles exported were ninety-e:ght millions of breadstuffs, two hundred and thirty millions of cotton, seventy-four millions of the precious met- als, ten millions of iron and steel manu- facture, forty-three millions of petroleum aint other oils, seventy-seven millions of provisions, twenty-five millions t r svtete- co, chiefly leaf, and nineteen millions of timber and wood( n ware. ses.-o-- ELEPH A %TS. Elephants, at times, show much sae- Aude for, and attachment to, eaeh other and many instances are on record in which. when one of these animals has been wounded and disabled in a hunt, a comrade has come to the rescue. In one of these hunts, a male elephant was ser- iously woundei. Seeing the danger and distress of her mate, the female regardless of her own danger, quitted her shelter in the wood, rushed out to his assistance. walked round and round him, chasing away the assailants, and returning to his side, caressed him. Whenever he attemp- would be better if they met no more. ted to walk, she placed her flank, or her shoulder, to his wounded .side, and slip - or never knew how he reached home, or when. When he recovered his con- ported, hini. sciousness, he thought it was all a dream; but there was the cruel note; he read it Bad dreams are frequently caused by again, and while doing so, the thought , a tight neck band. which prevents the suddenly flashed through his mind why I blood when it has reached the brain from she had discarded him. •lowing freely back again.—Compression \I saw her walking with Richard Greg- of any part of the body should be avoided ory, and saw that she looked confused at all times. but especially during sleep. when she passed me, Now I lave the The lighter the bedclothes are the more solution—it is for him she has rejected refreshing and sweet will be repose, For me.\ And, seizing a pen he hurriedly this reason, comforters made of delaiues dashed oft u few lines, opbraiding Ethel or other thin woolen material and stuffed for her falsity, and telling her he knew with wool are far preferable to those made why she had so long refused to marry . of cotton and warmer even than blankets, him, and that he would never see her since the fibers of wool are wider apart again. After writing this he dispatched it, and made a hasty preparation,. and the same weight goes farther in h re- im taining the warmth of the body. - ly trusted that she might find strength to fmflll her duties. it was TI umksgiving Day, and Ethel was returning from a short walk which her father had persuaded her to take, for she was growing thin and pale, when she met Richard Gregory, a man who had long vexed her with his unwelcome at- tentions. She returned his greeting and hastened on, when to her disgust, he turned and walked with her. He paid no attention to her impatience, but talked on, eliding as Ethel knew he would, by asking her why she so persistently re- fused him, making at the same time, some disparaging remark about her lov- er, Hely) Moreland. Ethel told him that she -did not love him. and would never give her hand, where she could not give her heart, and that in the future— He interrupted her. \And that is your final decision ?\ \It is.\ \And you love Henry Moreland ?\ \I (10.\ \'Then beware !\ \Of what?\ asked Ethel. The man's eyes were fairly blazing. - I tell you, Eth.il Eddie, you shall never marry Henry Moreland—never! I swear it :\ Anti ne Was gone. She saw Henry in company with some friends, approaching in an opposite di- rection, and endeavored to compose her- self, for she did not wish to alarm him ; in this she only partially succeeded, for Heory saw at a glance that something had discomposed her, and though he saw Gregory, supposed it was trouble con- nected with her father. A few minutes after this, while on his way to see Ethel, a note was handed him in her writing. He broke the seal and read it, and felt like the world had grown I suddenly dark. The note, purporting to be from. Ethel, contained only a few lines, in which she said she felt that she had wronged him by not releasing him before, and—would he forgive her ?—she also felt that she no longer loved him as she once did. It ended by saying that it \ON THE SIDE S! When are ladies like loaf sugar? When they are refined. §ome poor, but pretty girls attract lov- ers by the face; some plain rich ones by the figure. Ladies are said to be like bills of ex- change. because they ought to be settled at How is this fbr a French description of a young lady? \She leaves off kissing at twelve and begins again at twenty.\ A private in the army recently sent a let- ter to his sweethart, closing with, \May Heaven cherish and keep you from yours truly John Smith. , • A Danbury man - woke up in the middle the extriordi- end of a match An Ohio paper publishes its soeial an- nouucements under the head of \Hatched \Matched Patched,\ \Snatched \De- tached,\ and \Dispatched as an improve- ment on \Born \Betrothed \Married \Eloped \Divorced\ and \Died.\ “If the wind blows this way for another how,\ said a captain on board of a ship in danger of being wrecked t, a passenger who had a clergyman, \we shall all be in heaven.\ \God fordid!\ was the prayerful answer of the divine. In Troy, on Wednesday last, a bunch of shingles fell from a wagon on the ferryboat and struck fairly on the head of a celored woman, who exclaimed: \Younoterer b\ shame to muss a cullud wom'us hair dat way. I wish de shingles fell overboard:\ “A little boy who appeared to be very much excited, ran across the room to where his mother was busily engaged in sewing; exclaiming, \Ma! ma! are they going Oa sell my pa?\ No, no, my dear, said the mother, \why do you think so?\ \Because ma, I saw a large government stamp on his back.\ \You poor little goosey, said his mother, \its only a strengthening plaster.\ Just because a young man in Evansville coughed up a gold dollar recently that he swallowed some time ago, the citizens of that place speak boastingly of their \coug- ers of gold.\ A Photographer In Glouchester, Mass. has been astonished by a young woman who came to ask, meekly and innocently, \How long does it take to get a photograph after you leave your measure?\ The Utica Herald says men will never know what effect it would have had upon Job if eleven little girls had called upon him one after another aud tried to sell him Sun- day School pie -nick tickets. \I &Mare, mother,\ said a pretty little girl, tis too bad! You always send me to bed when I am not sleepy, and you always make me get up when I am sleepy. \She died of a corset,\ is the inserption on a tomb -stone in Stenda, Prussia. A wo- man at our elbow says she probably died corset coulden't be helped. How to dress on a hundred dollars a year as a lady. By a la 'y, is the title of a book recently published. Another in press, shortly to be publishea , uniform to the above. \How to dress on nothiug g year as a Caffre.' By a Caffre. Doctor Blank attempted to defend him- self against the facetious assault of a friend by saying: \I defy any person whom I ev- er attended to accuse me of ignorance or neglect.\ \That you may do safely,\ said his assailant, for you know. doctor, dead men never tell tales.\ Young wife (to george, who arrived home in the small hours of the morning(—\we are one, dear, now that we are married, are we not?'? \Certainly my darling; why?\ \Oh I only wanted to know, because if we are I must have been dreadfully ine- briated last night.\ A very prudent man in Danbury provides himself with an extra hat for the month of November. He carries it in his coat tail pocket, and when the wind lifts the one from his head he straightway jams on the other, then puts after the other, and thus not only saves chaffing from the unregener- ate, but actually gets credit as a philanthro- pist—the general impression being that he is in pursuit of some one else's hat. A waggish journalist, who is often merry over his personal plainness, tells this story of himself: \I went once to a drug store for a dose of morphine fot a sick friend. The night clerk objected to giving it to me without a prescription, fearing I was going to kill myself. \Pshaw said I \do I look like a man who would destroy himself: \I don't know. seems to me if I looked like you I should be greatly temptea to Kin A tende r -hearted little ga ce caiffeo in from the woods and showed a face coye ered with mosquito bites. \Why did, yol not drive them away?\ said the niother. \They would not go,\ said the child why did you not kill them? \It would not have been right,\ was the answer. \But I have seen you kill them at home.\ urged Hht. surprised mother. \Yes mamma,\ argued the child, firmly, \if they come into my house and bite me, I kill them. But if I go into the woods; that is their house, and I have no right to kill. An old French shoemaker, who boasted that nothing could frighten him; was put to the test by two young men. One of them pretended to be dead, and the other, goiug to the the shoemaker, induced him to \sit up\ with the supposed corpse. The shoemaker was in a hurry with some work I he had promised to have completed the next morning. So be took his tools and leather aml began working beside the corpse. About I:! o'clock at night a cup of black coffee was brought him, to keep him awake. He drank it and resumed work. About 1 o'clock, the coffee having exhilarated him, forgetting that he was in the presence of death, he commenced to sing a lively tune, keeping time with his hammer, Suddenly the corpse arose and xclairued in a hollow voice: \When a man is in the presence of death he should uot sing.\ The shoemaker started then suddenly dealt the corpse a blow on the head, exclaiming at the same time: \When a man is dead he should not speak.\ It was the last time they tried to scare the shoemaker. HORNstiRS OF THE POORHOUSE. The horror and dread in which some people hold the poor -house is well illus- trated by a recent occurrence in Portage county, where, on Friday last, the prop, er officers took in custody and removed to that institution one Jerome McIntosh. of Mantua township. For some ten or twelve years past Jerome has been living in his cabin upon a small patch of ground of about three acres, and subsisting most- ly upon the charities of his neighbors. This he had practiced until the patience of his neighbors was exhausted, and some of them entered complaint to the Trustees. But Jerome had no notion of being ruthlessly torn from his home and its endearments, and go to the Infirmary; he swore he would not—he would die first, and when officer Beecher \went for him\ he armed himself with a, club and threatened to divide his corpus if he at- tempted his arrest. He had been at the County Howe above a day or t wo when his lifeless body was found suspended from a tree in a pasture lot belonging to the infirmary property. He had prefer- red to connnit suicide rather than remain in the home provided for him in common with other like unfortonates by his fel- low men. His sensitiveness could not have been a sham. The results\ were too genuine. But it was a result of false teaching, the teaching which points out the poor man, the unfortunate man, a disgraced man. Of the life of many an inmate of the poor house, it can to -day be said truthfully, that it is a success as com- pared with thousands of lives which are usually counted successful. The nom in the poor -house may have done his very best as well as the man, outside. The disgrace, then, consists only in a morbid and unnatural sensitiveness, and should be so regarded by those whose duty it is to teach the truth. A man's misfortunes, uolese the direct result of rashness and wrong doing, are not disgraceful. A man's poverty is not a disgrace, if he has done his best.—Akron Times, WHAT HAPPENED A DANBURY GIRL. A retired clergyman sends us an ac- count of a little afihir that happened in his place. It appears that tInre was a young woman, a flue spirited girl, en- gaged at a wash rub opposite an open door. Just behind her was a young man, as is generally the case, and in the yard was an old buck that was alio xed the freedom of the premises, which is not al- ways the case, we are glad to say. Well, this buck came to the door and looked in, and the young man, going close behind the young woman, pointed his finger straight at the buck, and the old fellow, recognizing the pressing character of this mute invitation, put down his head and pashed forward, and the miserable man stepped to one side and lied, and the young woman, all unconscious of the arrangement, received the shock lvitlm- out warning, and passed over the tub, and the air, for an instant, appeared to be full of slippers, and wet clothes, and soap and hot water and suds. And the mixt minute that goat came flying out of that door at a dreadful speed, bald the whole length of his spine, and with a wild look in his eye. And for an hour afterwards he stood back of the barn scratching his chin and trying to recall all the circumstances ofthe unfortonate affair. A writer In Notes and Queries has made a collection of singular names, which, if published some years ago, might have saved Dickens and Balzac some trouble. Dickens, as is w ell known, was very pe- culiar about the names of his characters, and was a month often in suiting him- self. The felicity of many of them well repays the pains taken. His works are a perfect cabinet of nomenclature. Balzac was equally, if not more scrupulous. It is said that he wandered about the streets reading the signboards to find names to suit his characters. The writer in notes and queries has certainly gotten together a comical collection. Here are Mr. All - chin and Mr. Appleyard: Mr. Bytheeea end Mr. J3ytheway—probably a forgetful gentleman—with Messrs. Baby, Barefoot, Butler, Bel hi Christmas, Camo- mile, Cutbush, a florist; Cobbledick, who should be a shoemaker; Death,Deadman. ,Draw water, Driiikwater, meinbets of the temperance society, and Drinkall, who believes in 'Anacreon. Eyes, Eatwater, Gosling, Grar, Goose, Gotobed, Ghost, HandsomebodY, Heozekiah, Hollowbread, Mackerel, Oysters, Punce and Pigeon, thce.o ctro cbsay :1 F.:Mattering. A MYSTERIOUS SLEEP • Missa - Jennie Warner of Highgate, Vt., itata. . -. sat i il, s a young lady of literary tastes and'tendencies, and has recently been en- gaged in writing foe the press with so much assiduity that her friends have Wen somewhat alarmed lest she overwork and *Ake herself ill. Iler aunt, Mrs. G. W. Foster. was at Miss Warner's, when that young lady intbrmed her that on Sunday, the 0th inst., she should go to sleep and not wake again until the 23d of' Novem- ber. She charged her aunt to see that this sleep was not mistaken for death, tbat her hair was not cut off and she buried. Al though these singular predictions were made with much seriousness little heed was paid to them at the time, but on Sun- day, sure enough, she fa asleep, and up to Friday night had not awakened but continued to lie in a condition scarcely distinguishable from death, save for quiet and regular breathing.--Doston Herald. NOV. 22. That was good advice which an old man gave to his sons, \Boys' don't you ever specerlate or wait for something to turn up. You might just as well go sit down on a stone in the middle of a 'wel- der with a pail twixt your legs, and wait for a cow to back up to you to be milked.\ A paper in the interest of \printer's us\ has appeared at Augusta, Me. tie NO. 6. FAMINE IN IOWA, The Osceola Register pubbslies she fol- lowing facts: The most of thc settlers came here last spring with little or no me -ms, depending entirely upon their ef- forts during the summer to carry them through the whiter; honestly and fairly have they toiled. A very large amount of ground wgs sown and planted in the spring—more than sufficient to raise sub- stance for all of the coining winter, if it had not been for an extremely wet, back- ward spring and the invasion of a vast , army of grasshoppers, which caused al- most a total failure of corn and small , grain crops, so that they now find them- I selves on the eve of a long, cold winter, worse off than in the spring—without food of ti.e plainest kind and without means to purchase fuel to protect theii,-... selves awl flunilies (luring the eoming winter. _i_.'here 4re hundreds of tiunilia , : who have oot sufficient clothing, and know not where the bread that they \WM cat ten days hence is coming from. These same people, relying on their crops to carry thera through the winter, have la- bored diligently through the stunmer, and thousands of acres of the prairie have been turned over ready for a crop next spring. Now, therefore, be it known to the people of the State of Iowa that, with- out liberal assistance from some source, a, very large portion of the citizens of this eounty will be without the necessaries to sustain life and also fuel to keep them- selves from freezing, and, unless from some source seed is furnished to these people to sow and plant in the spring, many of the brood acres that are 11QW ready will have to lie idle the coining season. HOW A REFORMED TOPER WAS MADE TO KEEP THE PLEDGE, There Was a man residing in this city who this morning was made the victim of a very practical joke. The man refer. red to was once an inveterate drinker, and a short time ago was taken with delirium tremens. His life was for a short time despaired of, but after a tune he recov-, -- t ered. Ile has been so near death that he feared a second attoek, and took the pledge, deciding never to touch a drop of intoxicating liquor again. For some time all o-ent well, and no temptations were thrown in his way. This morning, emboldened with his success in resisting the demon. he ventured to pass the sa- loon door where he had so often imbibed before. It was a cold raw morning, and it looked warm and inviting within, He hesitated ; but thought \I can go in and see the boys. I need not drink,\ and finally entered. The proprietor saw him at once, and keowing his promise, deter- mined to have sonic rim at his expense if he attempted to drink anything. A stuffed serpent WO been placed on the laelf a few days before and a confederate was instructed to call the tanperance man's attention to it in case he should drink. The appetite was too strong for him, he yielded, and called for a -hot whisky\ inviting the landlord to partake with him. Landlord complied, and both were raising their glasses to drink, viten the confederate staggered up and said, in drunken and idiotic tones, \Fine serpent you have there Mr—.\ The landlord replied. \I do not see any serpent you must be crazy. \I say there is a serpent there. Do you not see it, stranger. Tem. perance mum looked and saw the serpent. Landlord said there was no serpent there. Temperance man thought of the snakes that he had seen before; and with a - yell, threw down his glass and rushed from the place, exclaiming, \Got em by !\—Troy Times. strangersexhibition of sev- ARS eral his t emir anrortiati. ees THE DEAD 0 : F FOUR HUNDRED The cathedral d in the twelfth century i e interesting church of which Bremenboast. 1.t is noW a protestant n contains the finest organ Ge t greatest attrac- tioneral mummies, the oldest having heen 400 years and the mast recent 60 years in an undecayed condition. The vaults in which they repose possess the property of preventing decomposition, in proof of which poultry is frequently suspended in it, and a venerable turkey, 100 years old, being at the present time hanging on the wall. The corpses bear no evidence of decay as in the case of Egyptian mum- mies, but carry on their countenances the appearance of recent death, except the dust of age has somewhat discolored them. There are about a dozen bodies laid out in coffins. The flesh feels like parchment. and the checks of an old countess, who had laid here lbw hundred years, looked quite plump. One is the remains of an English officer, shot in a duel ninety years ago, with bullet hole in the breast and shattered shoulder, A corpulent old general is still corpulent, and a dozen chickens hung up ninety years ago have their feathers all intact. The vault in which they lay is about thir- ty feet long and fifteen feet wide, and is above the gronnd, in one of the crypts of the church. There is nothing peculiar abrett A, and there seems no reason why it should preserve bodies from decay more' than any other room in Bremen. The exhibition of these curiosities gives an income to the church of about twenty dollars per day, and is quite a valuable source of revenue. It is not everybouly that can expect to be so remunerative after they have give the ghost. A preacher in a Scottish town took up a collection one recent Sunday, and found when his hat returned, that there wasn't a cent in it. \I thank my God,\ said be, turning the hat upside down and tapping the crown of it with his hand, \that I have got my hat back from this congregatioo:\ A Chattanooga man offers to deliver a column of coal ninety feet high and tour feet square for the Philadelphia Centenni- al. The proposition. however, will propa- bly be made light of : THE MA1.140NIAN .4.911 Virginia City, *Om THOMAS DEYARMIN, Editor AD Proprietor. Papers ordered to any address east be *hanged to another address a4 Use. optima of the sueseriber. Resuattassce by draft, cheek, mosey ordes orrogiotered letter Easy be etas% at oar risk. SMALL FEET OF CHINESE LADlEm.. It is well known that in China it is cus, tomary to reduce the size of ladies' feet U.\ marvelously small diimensions, with mucti the same object as American ladies endea- vor to bring their waists to wasp -like d:- mensions. The Chinese process is thus described by a recent writer: The operation necessary for distorting the feet generally commences between tlie ages of six and nine, and the later it is deferred the greater is the pain inflicted on the girl. Long strips of native calico are bound around the foot„ going from the heel ONVI:. the instep and toes; they are then pAssed under the foot and around the heel, and fixed very firmly. The oporation cause!! much pain, and takes a long time (usually two or three years) before it is perfected, for the only agent employed is the long baedage of cloth; the feet remain ex- tremely tender and useless for all practical purposes till the bones, etc., have become set in the new shape into which they aro forced. It is said that after the lapse Of a few years, 1 . i -a li t e. operatiOr has been skillful, the, pain, and the foot be- comes, in a manner, deadened, the effect of the bandaging bein g to check the circula- tion of the blood and to prevent the further growth and developmeat of the foot. A medical observer tells us that \there is a class of men whose. vocation is to bandage the feet of eitildreo, and who do the work very neatly; and, frsain what I have seen, the Chinese womeo. who, in childhood have undergone skillful treatment, do not sufba- much pain, beyond the weekness of the foot, from the destruction of the symmetri- cal arch, and the ineonve.nience ef heing unable to walk when the foot is unbound and unsupported. if the feet have been carelessly bound in infancy, the ankle the woman is generally tender, and much walking will cause the toot to swell and by very painful.\ Without going too deeply into Purgterti minutiae, the foPowing seems to be the coil - sequence of the compression of the foot, the instep is bent on itself, the heel hone is thrown out of its horizontal position, and what ought to be the posterior surface is brought to the ground. The ankle is thus forced upward, and the great toe is the only one that remains, the few- smaller ones be- coming, in course of time, mere useless pieces of skin. The foot, too. becomes narrow, and tapers to the end of the great toe ; it is placed in a short, - narrow shoe, which is pointed at the toe, and very com- monly the heel is elevated by means of a bleek of wood, the consequence being that the woman seems to be standing, as it were, on tip -toe. The following paragraph will give a fair notion of the effect produc- ed by the force of fashion on the Chinawo- man's foot under the varying conditions : When the process is begun at the proper age, and the bandaging is properly attends ed to, the heel sontetimea conies dowo tti the mond, or rather to the level of the end of the large toe. The heel seems to elongate under he process of bandaging; but, when the foot is large and almost full- grown before the compression begins, the heel cannot often be brought down to a lev- el with the toe. Under these eircum- staoces, a block of wood is put in the shoe under the heel. So that the bottom of the block and the end of the toe are nearly on the same level when the individual is PtRildoo ing. We would here add that the fashion- able shoe which the Chinese lady wears is not much more than three inches long, and that long strips of cloth are wound rouncl part of the foot and the lower leg, Senator 1\ wton and several other prom- inent supporters of the Administra ti el have announced since the convening of Congress improvements upon the mode by which the wuntry elects President and Vice President. No \—re ;4 plenty of room for hinprovement, and since a change is to be made we suggest that the Executive be elected annuallV, or semi-annually. During the months that Grant was a candidata for re-eleeta ion, the monthly reductions of the pub - lie debt were gratifying amazing. Since his election, the periodical decrease has not been so perceptible, for example tht increase of nine millions tiering the past two months. When Radical officials ale on trial for a new lease, of life, their acts are sometimes commendable. But once seated in power, timings go back Watad at a tremen tons rate. The logic of thia fact Is: keep them on trial all the time. —Chillicothe, (31o) Constitution. A eorrespodent of the Herald of Health writes: A few years ago we were presen- ted with a fine pair of birds (turtle ring doves), and they cooed and were as happy as doves or other beings can be when they love each other. They had several off- springs, and would never trouble them- selves about them after they were able to take care of themselves. So time went as merry as a marriage bell? but alas: a line days ago the female bird got sick and died, and, would you believe it? the. mate refus- ed to take either food or drink, mid when forced to take some, he would spit out whatever did not. go down his throat far enough, then threw himself violently on his back, as much as to say I will not live without my mate. We tried to pacify him by putting another bird in the eage with him—one which looked very !mull like the dead one—but it was of no use, he was de- termined to commit suicide; and after care- fully feeding him, by forcing a few crumb , ' down his throat, we left him the fifth night only to find him in the morning lying still' and cold on his hack, precisely in the posi- . tion he would throw himself into after his mate died. Fort Scott, Kansas, has been fileing 4 snake in the sky. The Monitor, ;lays; \Time sky was clear, and the suurf t se, entirely an - obscured. 'When the diselt of the f , 1111 wriS about half way above the herizon, time form form, was plainly seen - weireliog it. and of a huge serpent, AprArtiltlyert Ii! was visible for some moments.,' The tor declares that he has the stet:1;10ot !Yol k , two reliable witness, who are willing to make affidavit te the above. It wilt aeon be time for a national proLihitory liquor law, if this sort of thing is to continue. • so. • -sr A young lady in Fond de Lae, while out walking with her lover, was attacked by a savage dog, who seized her by the laces's/ and tore it from her body. The lover fi:io . . ted with horror at the sight, but the yolipz, lady much mortified, went her the l a picket, remarking. \That em east a da pr and a half, an wale( made r.sr no dog to- chaw up.\ - 41.
