{ title: 'The Madisonian (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, April 18, 1874, Page 1, Image 1', download_links: [ { link: 'http://www.loc.gov/rss/ndnp/ndnp.xml', label: 'application/rss+xml', meta: 'News about Chronicling America - RSS Feed', }, { link: '/lccn/sn86091484/1874-04-18/ed-1/seq-1.png', label: 'image/png', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn86091484/1874-04-18/ed-1/seq-1.pdf', label: 'application/pdf', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn86091484/1874-04-18/ed-1/seq-1/ocr.xml', label: 'application/xml', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn86091484/1874-04-18/ed-1/seq-1/ocr.txt', label: 'text/plain', meta: '', }, ] }
About The Madisonian (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915 | View This Issue
The Madisonian (Virginia City, Mont.), 18 April 1874, located at <http://montananewspapers.org/lccn/sn86091484/1874-04-18/ed-1/seq-1/>, image provided by MONTANA NEWSPAPERS, Montana Historical Society, Helena, Montana.
`alovalliniCv • • • • r el b- ly . - e .rd as r n.. ill 1- nd id • 111 r - r. sea ac- es, ;C S r, THE MADISONIAN. SATU RDA V. APRIL 1 s, I7 I. 111=1,21Mvimilmi - - - OFFICE, Two doors West froth Wells, Far. go& Co'. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year in advAnce , Six Months 6 4 Three Months * 110 , 4111 v 5 $500 • ADVERTISING RATES. TIRE M A IS ISO NI AN, as an advertising medium, is equal to any paper in Montana. I ..4 r) --y- Inch $:: $5! $7' $81$10 $15 $20 $2 - 5 ... Inches ., . et iot 12t sot 301 40 't 3 Inch 7 9; 11 121 15 25 37 55 u 4 Inches 11 1 121.14; 17 30 4.N. 70 :. t; Inches il I0 i 12! 15 18i 24 3$ 65 90 13 Inches 181 24! 3W 341 40 55 90 140 Inche ii 301 44, 501 56i 65 1 75 150 MO t5 s The above scale of prices is for ordinary sin- gle -column. display advertising. Solid and tabular advertisements will be charged at the ch rate for space occupied. -*OAF LOCAL NOTICES, Fifteen cents per line for ffrst, and ten cents vex line for each additional insertion. CARDS, One-half inch, $2 for one insertion; $3 for two insertions; itzt per quarter; $16 per year. The foregoing schedule of prices will be strictly adhered to. All advertisement , ' e0 !lilted in Nonpareil ineasure. at - 41 - 1 of every description, executed in the best amt neate-4 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 niav continue to send it until payment is made, and collect the whole amount, whether the pa- per is taken from the office 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. G. F. COWAN. Attorney and lounselor at Law. Radersber.T. Montana Territory. HENRY F. WIWI:11S, Atly & Counselor at Law, VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE over the Post Officer. I. E. CALLAWAY, Attorney and Coun- selor at T.fl:W. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE, adjoining the office of the S,ecre- tan - of the Territorv. TOOLE K.TOOLII. & TOOLE. ...tt.ttorneyS Zit :IL a,Av. HELENA, MONTANA. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. JOHN T. SITOBER. T. J. LOWERY. SHOBER & LOWERY, c-,..c10 .1131.irk- se1c.1%.4 at HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. SAMUEL WORD, Attorney at 1 - __Aaw. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. JAMESG. SPRATT, Attorney and Coun- selor at Law - . VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. Will practice mall the Courts of Montana. W. F. SANDERS, Attorney and Coun- selor at Lialv. HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all Courts of Record in Montana. C. W. TURNER, VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. OFFICE: Adjoining Colonel Call away's. WM. F. KIRKWOOD, Attorney at Law, 'VIRGINIA CITY. Can be found at Judge Spratt's office or Pro- bate Court Rooms. Will practice in all the Courts of the Territory. GEORGE CALLAWAY, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M NTANA. OFFICE, at the Law Office of J. E. Calla- Esq.. until further notice. I. C. SMITH, M. D.. Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. Office at the Old Le Beau Stand. NVallace i•treet, 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. RADERSBIJRG, M. T. Ii '1!1•; his twenty-one r i)f e) fo years' experience in rNa..ars of that time a s ire - eon in the Confederate army. He is pre- ivaeed to perform all kinds of surgery. IN FEMALE COMPLAINTS, hi expe- rience is not surpassed by any physician in the Territory. To 'most: WHO HAVE VENEUEAL 4 . 4)M r I N TS. ---Gonorrhea, if called upon Within live days after the first appearance, he cure in seventy-two hours. In Syphilis,, he ‘‘iii cure in five days. .11is treatment is different from any physi- - aim in this Territory, lie is prepared for 4.10 :sissing, Extracting . , and Teeth. D. F. OGDEN, L. D. S., W. - N r riS r rs Wallace Street Virg!nia City.M.T. Dr. L. W. FRARY. = riirr OFFICE: First Dool 'Below Crescent Hotel, ittGIN t IT1. I) lot - - - inemir.eipummer s „._ VOL. 1. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, APRIL 18 1874. l'€)EPTI1C. THE LOT OF LIFE. I know not if the dark -or bright Shall be my lot -- If that wherein my hopes delight Be best or not. It may be mine to drag for years Toil's heavy chain; Or day or night my meat be tears On ben or pain. Dear faces may surrourd my hearth With smiles and glee; Or may I dwell alone, and mirth Be strange to me. My bark is wafted to the shore By breath divine; And on the helm there rests a Hand Other than mine. One who has known in storms to sail I have on board; Above the raging of the gale I hear my Lord. lie holds me when the billows smite - I shall not fall: If sharp, 'tis short; if long, 'tis light: He tempers all. Safe to the land, safe to the laud! The end is this; And then with Him go hand in hand Far into bliss. SINGING. I ask not if the poet's gift be mine, Though in mine ear and heart sweet music, ringing, Makes a thtng half sad and half divine; I ever sing but for the love of singing. The wood -thrush asks not whether his the strain Of nightingale, throned minstrel of the mountain; No! 'tis ethereal joy, or love -taught pain, That bids him warble by the hidden foun- tain. Not his the song that 'trances, thrills, com- mands; Not mine the great, glad rapture of the poet Heard, like a trumpet, over far-off lands; I sang alone, nor cared though none should know it. But if the traveler, faltering on his way, Sees waters glimmer where the boughs are parted, Aud rests, and dreams, scarce listening to my lay, May he not grow a little lighter -hearted? -Clara W. Johnson. A CONCEIT. 0 touch that rosebud! it will bloom - My lady fair! A passionate red in dim green gloom, A joy, a splendor, a perfume That sleeps in the air. You touched my heart; it gave a thrill Just like a rose That opens at a lady's wid; Its bloom is always yours, until You bid it close. -Mortimer Collins. LIFE. Stop and consider! Life is but a day; A tragile dew -drop on its perilous way From a tree's summit; a poor Indian's sleep 1 While his boat hastens to the monstknus steep Of Montmorency. Why so sad &moan? Late is the rose's hope while ) et unblown; The reading of an ever-changing tale; The light uplifting of a maiden's veil; A pigeon tumbling into the summer air; A laughing school -boy without grief or care, Riding the springy branches of an elm. Keats. N UUSEIR V' SONG. From Froebel's \Mutter und Kose Lieder.\ Bump, bump, bump! %i hat noise is that, my dearie? Thump, thump, thump! Till your little list is weary. Tap, tap, tap! With the stick upon the table Rap, rap, rap! As hard as you are able. Bang, bang, bang! With your spoon upon the tray; Clang, clang, clang! Oh, nursey-what will she say? Ting, ting, tingl With the spoon upon the china; Ring, ring, ring! Could any noise be finer? Ding, dong, dong! With the :moon upon the kettle; What a pretty song Greets baby from the metal! Boom, boom, boom! Old nurse will have a notion A band is in the room, There's such a vast commotion. THE FLOOD AND THE ARK. A ••11ard-Shell - Methodist Sermon on Nature and Noah. In the Autumn of 1830 I attended a Methodist camp -meeting in the interior of Georgia, and heard a sermon which I have never been able to forget or de- scribe. The speaker had just been licensed, and it was his first sermon. In person he was small, bullet -headed, of a fair, sandy complexion, and his countenance was hi- dicative of sincereity and honesty. He was taking up the Bible in regular order for the first time in his life, and had got- ten as far as the history of Noah, the ark, the flood, etc. Besides, 'just betbre his conversion, he had been reading Gold- smith's 'Animated Miter,' and the two together, by the aid and assistance of the spirit, had led him into a powerful train of thinking as he stood at his work -bench, day in and day out.\ The text was: \As it was in the days of Noah, so shall the coming Of the Son of Man be,\ and he broke out in the following strains : \Yes my brethren, the heavens of the windows was opened -aim, and the floods of the g -r -e -a -t deep kivered the waters - au, and there Shem, and there ham, and there Japheth-ah, a-1-1 a-gwine into the ark -aim. \And there was the elephant-ah, that g -r -e -a -t animal -At, of whi.:11 Goldsmith describes in his *Animated Nater'-ah, what is as big as a house-ah, and his bones as big as a tree -alt, depending somewhat upon the size of the tree -all, all a-g;wine into the ark -an. And the heav- ens of the windows was opened -all, and the floods of the g -r -e -a -t deep kivered the waters -all, and there was Shen', and there was Ham. and there wasJapheth-ah, a-1-1 a-gwine into the ark-ah. \And there wa:; the hippopoptamus- ah, that g -r -e -a -t animal-ah, of which Goldsmith describes in his 'Animated Nater'-ah, what has a g -r -e -a -t horn -aim a-stickin' right straight up out of his for- ard-ah, six feet long, more or less -all, depending somewhat on the length of it- ah, a-gwine into the ark-ah. \And there was the giraffe-ah, my brethren, that ill -contrived reptile of which Goldsmith describes in his 'Ani- mated Nater'-ah, whose forelegs is twenty-five feet long-ah, more or less-ah, depending somewhat on the length of 'em-ah, and a neck so long he can eat hay off the top of a barn -are depending somewhat on the hite of the barn-ah, a-gwine into the ark-ah. And the heaven, of the windows was opened-ah, and the floods of the great deep kivered the waters-au, and there was Ilam, and there was Shem, and there was Japheth- ah, a-1-1 a-gwiue into the ark -all. \And there was the zebra, my breth- eren-ah. the b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-1 animal of which Goldsmith describes in his • 'Ani- mated Nater'-ali, what has three hundred stripes a -running' right straight around his body -aim, more or less, depending somewhat on the number of stripes-ah, and nary two stripes alike -ale a-1-1 a-gwine into the ark-ah. \And there was the anaconder-ah, that g -r -e -a -t sarpint of which Goldsmith de- scribes in his 'Animated Nater'-ah, what can swallow six oxens at a meal-ah, pro- vided his appetite don't call for less-ah, n-kgwino into tho ark-ah. And the heavens of the windows was opened -ale and the floods of the great deep kivered the waters -aim, and there was Shen', and there was Ham, and there was Japheth- ah, a-1-1 a-gwine into the ark -aim. \And there was the lion, bretheren-ah, what is the king of beasts, accordin' to Scripter-ah, and who as St. Paul says -all, prowls around of a night like a roarin' devil-ah, a-seekin' if he can't catch some- body -au; a-1-1 a-gwine into the ark-ah. \And there was the antelope-ah, my brethren, that frisky ltttle critter-ah, of which Goldsmith describes in his `Ani- mated Nater'-ah, what can jump seventy_ five foot straight up-ah, and twice that distance down-ah, provided his legs will take him that fur-ah, a-1-1 a-gwine into the ark-ah. And the heavens Ztf the win- dows was opened-ah, and the Roods of the great deep kivered the waters -aim, and there was Shem, and there was Ham, and there was Japheth-ah, a-1-1 a-gwiue into the ark-ah. 'But time would fail me, my bretheren, to describe all the animals that went into the ark-ah. Your patience and my strength would give out before I got half through-ah. We talk, my brethren, about the faith of Abraham and the pa- tience ofJob-all ; but it strikes me they didn't go much ahead of old Noer-ah. It tuck a right smart chance o'both to geth- er up all that gopher -wood and pitch and other truck for to build that craft-ah. I am a sort of carpenter myself, and have some idea of the job-ah. But to ham- mer, and saw, and maul, and split away on that one thing a hundred and twenty year-ah, an' lookin' for his pay in anoth- er world -aim -I tell ye, my brethren, if the Lord had a -sot Job at that it's my opinion he would a -tuck his wife's advice inside of fifty years-ah. Besides, no doubt. his righteous soul was vexed every day hand runnin' with the filthy communica- tions of the blasphemous set that was al- ways a-loaferin' and a-saunterin' around - au, a-pickin' up his tools, and a-misplacin' 'em, and a-callin' him an old fool or somethin' worse-ah ; and, to cap the climax, he was a preacher, and had that ungodly gineration on his hands every Sunday-ith. But the Lord stood by him, and seed him through the job-ah ; and when everything was ready lie didn't send Noer out to scrimmage, au' scour, an' hunt all over the wild world for to git up the critters and varmints, that he wanted saved-ah. They all come to his hand of their own accord, and Noer only had to head 'cm in and fix 'em around in their places -all. Then he gathered up his own family, and the Lord shut him in, and the heavens of the windows was open-ah. \But my brethren, Noer-ah had use for patience after this-ah. Think what a time lie must a -had a -seem', and a-wantderin', and a-cleanin' out after sich a crowd -aim. Some of 'em, accordin' to Goldsmith's 'Animated Nater'-all, was carnivorous, and wanted fresh meat-ah ; and some was herbevorous, and wanted vegetable food -all and some was wormivorous, and swallowed live things whole -aim ; and he had to feed everything accordin' to his miter. hence, we view, my brethren- ah, as the nater of the animals wasn't al- tered by goin' into the ark-ah, some of 'em would roar, and howl, and bark, and bray, and squeal, and blate the whole in- durin' night -aim, a-drivin' sleep from his eyes and slumber from his eye-lets-ah ; and at the first streak o' daylight the last hoof of 'em would set up a noise accord - in' to his nater-ah, and the bulls of Ba- shar weren't no whar-ah. I've often wondered how their women stood it. Scripter is silent on this pint-ah ; but I think I know of some that would a -been vapory and nervous under sich circum- stances-ah, and in an unguarded moment might a -said somethin' besides their prayers -all. \My brethren, one more word for old Noer-ah. and I'll draw to a close-ah. Af- ter the outheatin time he had, first and last, for so many hundred years -all, if he did, by accident or otherwise, take a leetle too much wine on one occasion-ah, I think less ort to a -been said about it -all. Besides, I think he was entitled to one spree-ah, as he made the wine himself, and, aecordin' to Scripter, 'It makes glad the heart o' \My brethren, as it was in the days of Noer-ah, so shall the coming of the Son of Man be-ah. The world will never be drowned agin-ah. It will be sot a -fire, and burned up, root and branch, with a feverish heat-ah. Oh ! %Quit will wretched, ondone sinners do on that orful day-ah? I They won't feel fit for to live, nor fit to die-ah. They will be put to their wit's end, and knock and straddle around in every direction-ah. For all at once, my brethren-ah, they will behold the heav- ens a-clarkenin'-ah, the seas a-roarin'-ah, the tombs a-bustin'-ah, the mountains a- meltin'-ah ; and everything, I think, will be in a confused and onsettled state.\ - Corr. New Y ork Independent. ARTIFICIAL LAKES IN THE SIEGRAS. The increasing demand for water for hydraulic milling and irrigation purpo- ses, on the western slope of the Sierras, is becoming of more serious importance every year. A great snperabundanee of water falls on these mountains every Winter, but left to its natural course it rapidly deseends through steep gorges and canyons to the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. The mountain streams that are swollen to torrents in May and June, from melting snows, dwindle don, in July and August, to insignificant brooks, or become dry beds. Within the last few years the attention of miners and capitalists has been directed to the most favorable localities in the Sierras fbr forming artificial lakes for the storage of water supplies, until such time as it may be needed in the Summer months for mining, irrigation, and manufacturing purposes. The South Yuba Canal Com- pany of Nevada City, last season, pur- chased Fordyce Valley, near Meadow Lake, built an expensive dant, and now have an artificial lake of several hundred acres in extent. The supply of water they will be able to obtain from this new reservoir will be greater than that which they have derived heretofore from all their other sources. In Summit Valley, on the head -waters of the south fork of the South Yuba, is another locality fa- vorable for the formation of an artificial reservoir of 700 acres or more in extent. The valley is nearly 7,000 feet in altitude above the sea -level, and the amount of moisture falling in that locality is said to be greater than in most any other por- tion of the Sierras. Nearly all such mois- ture is deposited in the form of snow , which remains on the ground until the Summer season is well advanced. On some of the higher points at the head of the valley, the snow, some seasons, re- mains the year round, and at this time lies on an average of thirty feet in depth. The valley, or a portion of it, lies nearly that, having a fall of only fourteen feet in a distance of over two miles. The valley drains a snowy region of over twenty square miles. It is surprising that such a favorable locality for forming a large artificial lake should have been thus far overlooked by the argus-eyed water -men west of the Summit. -Truckee Republi- can, 28th inst. The French are somewhat ahead of our American inventors in easy plains for the instantaneous extinction of fires. One of the most recent of these is due to the in- genuity of M. Montague. a chemical manufacturer of Amiens, who, it appears, has discovered a resinous substance which is quickly soluble in fresh water, and this solution, when employed for the operation of ordinary fire engines, is sta- ted to produce the following effects: The water is prevented from conversion into steam by heat, and thus effectually pene- trates and wets the bodies on which it falls, avoiding all the ordinary phenom- ena of heating in similar cases, and by which the action of pure water is so no- tably neutralized. Moreover, the resinous matter, giving rise to dense volumes of smoke, is thus unfavorable to flames and combustion. THE TRA1 EGER'S MOOD. When once one has fairly started on a journey and has but to go and go, by the impetus received, it is surprising what entertainment he finds in very small things. The traveler's humor falls upon us, and surely it is not the unwisest the heart knows. I don't envy people, at any rate, who have outlived or outworn the simple satisfaction of the sense of be- ing settled to go Somewhere, with bag and umbrella. If we are settled on the top of a coach, and the \somewhere\ contains an element of the new and strange, the case it at its best, in this matter wise people are content to become children again. We don't turn about on our knees to look out of the omnibus window, but we indulge in very much the same round -eyed contemplation of accessible objects. Responsibility is left at home, or. at the worst, packed away in the valise, in quite another part of the diligence, with the clean shirts and the writing -case. -Henry James, Jr. nis•-•-•.444111 PATTERNS UPON COTTON AND WORSTED. Many attempts have been made to pro- duce patterns upon cotton, worsted, and other tissues. by depositing reduced met- als upon them. It is found that though lead, bismuth, tin, copper, tic., can be deposited in given designs in a metallic state upon woven tissues, producing a variety of novel and striking effects, the great drawback to any extensive applica- tion of this method is, that the metals capable of easy reduction and deposition have all -with the exception of gold, which is too costly for general use -a strong affinity for sulphur, so that when exposed in thin films to the action of the air, they are easily furnished, and lose their beautiful metallic luster. A recent plan is to moisten tissues of cotton, silk, &c., with a solution of nitrate of silver, drying slightly, and then laying upon the cloth a metal plate with an engraved design in raised lines. Wherever this metal touches the cloth the silver is re- duced to fine black metallic powder, which adheres very tenaciously to the fiber, reproducing the design sharply and delicately. Messrs. Catlinft Co., of Beaver county, Pa., recommend the watering of the beautiful household plant, the Calla lily, with warm water. A native of the Nile, it revels in a rich, warm situation. By watering daily with nearly boiling water, the plants will bud and blossom freely. One plant has been known to produce twenty-two blossoms in one season. In the spring put them in a dry, shady place to gather new life and strength, and in November put them in rich soil, watering them freely, and they will return a thousand fold. It is said that the Illinois State militia consists of fourteen brigadier general and forty superanuated muskets, with no- body to carry them. In case of a var, the imperishable laurels of Illinois as a quartermaster or sutler would be some- thing to be prowl of. Naples hma opened its firat soup kitchen with imposing ceremonies, THE HIGHEST MOUNTAINS. All the highest mountains in territory belonging to the United States are west of the Missouri River. Prof. Hayden, the Government geologist, gives a list of more than sixty notable naountain peaks. In this list, only two are included in the Atlantic States, and these figure as mere pigmies by the side of the great moun- tains of the Pacific Coast. According to this authority, the highest mountain is not in California, but is really in Alaska. Two mountains in that Territory figure as follows: Fel Mount St. Ellis t 15,860 Mount Fairweather 14,786 But these are estimates, rather than the result of exact measurments, St. Elias, If the measurtneut does not shrink here- after, is taller than Mount Whitney. Mount Whitney, California Mount Shasta 11 / 5 Feet. Mount Tyndall 14,442 Mount Breno 13,886 Mount Dana 13,227 Mount Lyell 13,217 Mount Silliman 1101:600 5 62 77 3 San Bernardino 11, Lassen Butte This IS the best assortment of moun- tains in ally state in the Union. The are any number of Mountain peaks ranging from 7,000 to 5,000 feet. But these make no figure among the giants. Colorado makes the following showing: Feet. Mount Harvard, Colorado 14,270 Pike's Peak 14,216 Irwin's Peak 14.192 Gray's Peak 14,145 Mount Lincoln 14,121 Mount Yale 14,081 Long's Peak 14,050 Mount of the Holy Cross 13 500 Horse -shoe Mountain 13,806 Silver Heel's Mountain 13,650 Velie's Peak 13,456 Mount Audubon 13,402 Mount Guyot 13,223 Parry's Peak 13,133 Mount Flora 12,878 Spanish Peaks 12,00i Mount Englemann 12,000 Mount Wright 11,800 In Oregon the following mountains are most prominent. Feet. Mount Hood 11 Mount Pitt 11:02.5 4 2 0 Mount Baker Cascade Range 1 9,000 Besides Mount Ranier, in Washington Territory, set down as 14,434 feet high, Mount St. Helen's, in the same Territory, although only 9,769 feet high, is put down as a volcano. In fact, there is not an active vocano within the limits of our whole Territory, although the number of craters show that the volcanoes were active at no remote period. The following tables show the most notable passes over the two great ridges of Motmtains that have yet been found: PASSES OVER THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. Feet. 32i1 Parallel, near El Paso 5,714 35th l'arallsl, near Albuquerque 7,472 38th i Parallel, (Coochecopa, Pa) 10,000 41st Parallel (Union Pacific Raffroad) 8,241 42d Parallel (South Pass) 7,085 47th and 48th Parallels (Cadott's Pass) 6,144 47th and 48th Parallels (Deer Lodge Pass) 6,200 47th and 48th (Lewis & Clark's) 6,323 Flathead Pass (Northern Montana) 6,459 Kootenai Pass (British America) 6,009 PASSES OVER THE SIERRA NEVADAS. Feel. Tejon Pass 5,250 Walker's P11.38 5,300 New Pass, to Owen's River 3,164 Mono Pass, to Mono Lake 10,700 Donner Pass (Central Pacific Railroad) 7,042 Bec.kwith's Pass, to Pyramid Lake 4,500 Truckee Pass ' ,200 Madelin Pass 5,687 -San Francisco Bulletin. THE DOLLAR WE DON'T SPEND. We have to calculate pretty close at our house you know; and the whole fam- ily are called into council when any im- portant expenditure is to be made. Well, the other evening, we were considering the small remnant of the quarter's salary, ;and Mrs. Dobbs was trying to reckon how it could be made to cover everything. There was her new dress, and a new coat for me; and a new carpet tor the best par- lor, and a new hat for our (at present) unmarried daughter, besides a great many other thing, with which I will not OCCUPY your valuable space. The main point was the new dress, and Mrs. Dobbs was thinking of this shade, and scrutiniz- ing that pattern, wishing she could buy them, doubting if she could buy any of them; and our faces grew longer as the salary grows horter. Presently, with one ofmy happy inspirations, I said to her: \Mrs. Dobbs, there is no dollar that does you so much good as the one you don't spend.\ She looked at me a little perplexed, and presently she said: \Why doctor, I don't understand yon.\ So I said. \the handsomest dress is the one you don't buy.\ \Oh yes, that's true. The best dress I ever had was the silk dress that Mrs, Largehead gave inc when she came from Philadelphia. She bought it at Homer it : Collo , day's; it couldn't have cost less than--\ \Mrs. Dobbs.\ said I, interrupting her, \the handsomest and every way the best dress is the one you don't have.\ She was more puzzled than ever, and I was forced to explain. \Mrs. Dobbs,\ said I, \all the dresses youu haven't they?\o iv e haveev ever bought have worn out, h \Yes said she, very promptly, \all of them. I haven't a decent thing to my name. There is my bombazine-\ \Wait a moment,\ I said, for I was mor- tally afraid to have her get up that topic; \and did you ever buy a dress, did you ever have a dress, any way, that you didn't have some misgivings over; that the r, ti o d t i hd e n r 'ts7 some defect in; that you didn't rather wish that you had bought h tho \I ngh be t l th ie iv i - y. e you are right,\ she said, \But said I, \the dress that you don't buy has no faults; you are never tired of it; it never grows old; never fades; never wears out; or if you want to change, how easily the change is made!\ \Why. yes,\ said Mrs. Dobbs: \I nev- er thought of that before.\ \And so,\ said I, \of your dollar. You never spent a dollar in your life that you didn't feel at least a doubt as to whether you had spent it wisely. You wish you had bought something else. But the wish was vain; you couldn't make change, The dollar that you speud you 0 NO. And 3 • can spend but once, butt the dollar that you don't spend you can spend a hun- dred times. You can buy a hundred things with it every time you go out. If you are dissatisfied NN itlt any of your purchases, you can go back and begin all over. And so,\ I continued, \the dollar that you don't spend does you a great deal more good than the dollar that you do spend; and, better num all, it brings with it no regrets. no misgivings, even.\ Mrs. Dobbs looked as though she did not know just how to answer me, but at the same time as though she was not quite convinced. Presently she said: \Well doctor, I don't know that I see through it all; but no doubt you are right, for you are a great deal wiser than I am. And so we will go on that princi- ple. I will take the dollar that we do spend. and you shall have that dollar that we don't spend. which is, as you have showed, so much the better of the two. - Vermont Chronicle. The Australian newspapers have had much to say about a cure for diptheria, as discovered by Mr. Greathead, the se- cret of which was offered to the Govern- ment at a large price, and which was sub- sequently found to consist in the admin- istration of four drops of sulphuric acid in half a glass of water. This causes vom- iting, accompanied by the breaking away of the dip theritic matter which produces the suffocation. As the disease is very prevalent in Australia, the Gov- ernment has offered a reward of .£5,000 for an absolute cure, and Mr. Greathead is quite confident of securing this, since he claims that in nearly every instance he has been succesful in the application of his remedy. THE PULPIT AND THE PRESS. We go to the church and the lecture - room for counsel, for reproof, for intel- lectual pabulum, for spiritual consola- tion, for solace in our moods of sadness, for the living waters that fertilize the waste places of the soul and gladden and glorify the intellectuality of our lives. The press comes to its freighted with the world's thought -bearing upon its snowy wings the gems of genius -the golden grains of knowledge. It seek us where we live, whether in lowly cabin or pala- tial hall.. Damp with the dews of the morning, it greets us when we arise from our bed; it enters our -counting- rooms and offices before us -everywhere and always inviting us to its banquet of thought, sentiment, knowledge -spread out in the eternal realm of the soul. Twin powers in the world in the contest with darkness, hand and hand may they go down the ages, ever following the beacon light of truth. -San Jose Mer- cury. The first line of stages in the United States was established soon after the close of the Revolutionary War by Capt. Levi Pease of Boston, and Mr. Evans of the Indian Queen Hotel in Baltimore. and extended front Boston to Savannah. They were long bodied carriages on very low springs, having five seats and no doors, and were entered by crawling in at the front, upon your hands and knees, and proceeding in that way until you reached the seat you were expected to occupy. The celebrated Frenchman, Brissot de Warville, who afterwards suf- fered under the guillotine, made a tour of the United States in 1787. Speaking of these carriages he said \they were ad- mirably calculated for the country in which they were made use of,\ as if a better and more convenient kind could not have been used. They were at least as pleasant as the public conveyances of France at that tine and for many years after. Handsome and convenient dill- gences did not find their way into France to any extent until after the battle of Waterloo, when the French began to adopt English fashions. aims-so-sas The Rev. T. F. W. Ware, in his lectures on \The Conduct of Life,\ speaking of marriage said: \A yonng man in making his choice should seek a waman lovable for all things, and not a woman to be a figure -head for an establishment. Young men often make it an excuse for not marrying that they cannot bear the ex- pense, and this matter of extravagance is responsible for the modern institution of bachelor 1M, than which there is noth- ing more prophetic of death to manly virtues and rugged character. A man had better make his will and cut his throat at once than marry a giddy. fash- ionable fool; but if he wants a woman to stand by him as sharer alike of his joys and troubles, then is the plea of expense groundless.\ a The \Fille de Madame Angot\ has been performed at the Folies Drama- tiques in Paris 365 times, and has brought the management a profit of 759,000 francs. The poor, who have a right to 10 per cent, on the gross re- ceipts, gained 145,443 francs. The pub- lisher of the music sold 15,000 copies, clearing 200,000 franes, and the publish- er of the libretto was benefited to the ex- tent of 33,000 francs. The composer, Lecop, and the authors have touched 62.000 francs. At Portsmouth, N. II., recently, one of the children of Ralph Fracey found an apple in the yard, which he shared with the other juvenile members of the same family. Shortly after eating, all four became seriously ill, and before medical assistance arrived, the eldest, a girl, had died in great agony, with symptoms of arsenic poisoning; the other children continue in a precarious condition. It is thought the apple was purposely placed there by some malicious person. -.-aaa An Indiana doctor has invented a ma- chine which be calls & sheygometer, with which he means to learn all the ways and tricks of a man's pulse, Jupiter'sseen by moons may now be t he aid of a strong opera -glass, Dr. Radcliffe, in his recent Croonian lec- tures, is reported to have discussed,at much length and very acutely, the subject of brain exhaustion, 80 common at the present day. After describing the leading symp- toms, such as loss of memory, depression of spirits, increased or lessened sleepless- ness, unusual irritability, epiliptiform con- dition of the nerves, and sometimes transi- tory coma, he argues against urging the pa- tient to eat heartily, believing that such a practice tends to develop the disease; he equally opposes the training -diet system, as generally starving the nerve tissues by ex- cluding hydrocarbons from food; nor should the patient be urged to work more than is natural under the circumstances, nor to rest from head -work-in many cases cerebral exhaustion being intensified by the brain lying fallow; if there is undue sleepless- ness, the head should lie low, and, it undue sleepiness, it should be kept high. asss-o--saa The experience of French and Prussian authorities appears to go against the Arab as the best horse for service. A German corespondent of the London Veterinarian writes: \ All the Prussian cavalry regi- ments have bad to report to the Emperor William their experience of the French horses captured and utilized during the war. Though differing on many points, the reports agree in general that the Ger- man military horses are preferable in every respect to the French, and especially to those of Arab race.\ \ This \ the corres- pondent adds, \ confirms what was stated to me in September,1870, at the camp at Beverloo, in Belgium, when I went to see the French prisoners there, who had a number of their horses with them. The Belgian officers and the French cavalry sargeants (there were no French officers in the camp), all declared to me that the Arabs of which there were fine specimens in the camp, would be considered, in a military point ef view, only pretty toys!' THE TERRITORIES. The Renton coal mines, near Seattle, are going forward finely. The right of way for the Olympia-Teni- no railroad, is being secured rapidly and satisfactorily. The thermometer marked 34 degrees be- low zero, at lila. in Southern Colorado, a few mornirgs since. The Intelligencer is not elated over the prospects of the Seattle railroad, and ad- vises the citizens of that place to devote their means and time to developing the coal mines, which are located near that place. Messrs. Battersby, Rutledge, and Davis, of San Francisco, have arrived at Seattle for the purpose of making arrangements to develop a coal mine discovered on Cedar River, about seventeen wiles from Seattle. Congress will take no action at this ses- sion on the proposition to annex 'Northern Idaho to Washington Territory, but will wait until the Legislature of Idaho ex- presses itself on the subject. A rumor was current at salt Lake City, a few (lays since, that $150,000 had been col- lected and sent to Washington, to be used in defeating any legislation by Congress on the Utah question. The money is said to have come from Brigham, who has so fre- quently boasted that he could buy up Con- gressmen. isse-41-s4 1 111 PERSONAL ITEMS. Mrs. General Sherman is an anti-dancist. Lord Oxmorton, an English peer is one year old. Jeff. Davis is in England; his health con- tinues poor. Mr. Sumner worshipped at King's Chapel while he lived in Boston. Count Waldeck, the Paris painter, is still in good health, aged 104. Henry Wilson is soon to leave for the Ar- kansas Hot Springs for his health. The Pope's original name was Giovanni Mastai-Ferretti, and lie will be 81 years old on the 13th of May. Marshal Serrano, President of the Span- ish Republic, is to receive a salary of $100,- 000 per annum. The last day that Henry Clay ever sat in the Senate was Charles Sumner's first day in the Senate. The Crown Prince of Prussia has $80,- 000 a year and $30,000 a year from his wife, the Princess Royal of England. lion. George Bancroft, our Minis ter at Berlin, has taken a residence at Washing- ton, and his presence is early expected. Some Hartford men tendered Mark Twain a welcome supper, and the bill, amount- ing to $208, was sent to him. He paid it. Charles I). Warner and Mark Twain ha\ c each received $1,500 as their share of the receipts from the sale of The Gilded Age. Worth declares that he is tired of rear- ra nging and altering old dresses, but his soul revives at the prospect of the Sum- mer exodus of the Americans. General Garibaldi has twenty-one swords of honor, eleven of which have been sent him from abroad. He derives the modest income of $600 from the Island of Caprera, on which he resides. Senator Sumner's devotion to Harvard College was shown by his presentation to it, within five years, of 7,000 pamphlets and over 1,000 volumes, some of which were of great value. Madame Cornelius De Witt (the daugh- ter of Guizot), whose death was lately an- nounced at Paris, was a literary lady. She had written books for children which were very successful. Mr. Saul Isaac, member elect of Parlia- ment from Nottingham, is said to be the first Jew professing Conservative principles who has been elected a member of the House of Commons. Mary Clemmer Ames thinks that Chief Justice Waite's face has an expression \strangely like Lincoln's. You see it in the long upper lip ancl in the half -sad, half - smiling lines of the wide mouth.\ Dr. Carl Schenck, the new president of the republic of Switzerland, was not long ago an obscure pastor, and has lately dis- tinguished himself by writing on political economy. Eminent American writers on political economy need not migrate to Swit- zerland, however, for the president there increase, $ 7! 500 holds f iN fi ri c t e h o n n o l y h f oo p r c oo ne f year, The Emperor of h - ,*: been stied for Cal &alary of his hotel THE MAP 1 '\' \r - T,AN, - , PUBLISHED 1 t SATI RDA 1. Virginia City, - Montana. THOMAS DEYARMON, Editor and Proprietor. Papers ordered to any address can be changed to another ouldress atthe option of the sueserlber. Remittance by draft. cheek. mope, order or registered letter may be sent at our risk. THE MADISONIAN is devoted to the advocacy of the principles of the Democratin party and to general and local news. DIAMOND AND GOLD MINING IN SOUTH AFRICA. A correspondent of the London Thnea writing from Kimberly, South Africa,. says; The Colesberg Kopje Diamond Mine (he observes) is really at this moment one of the wonders of the world; it con- tains, I maintain, the largest number of workers in a small space that has been seen in any modern work, and I cannot call to mind any enterprise, excepting the Egyptian Pyramids, where it can have been necesary for such a swarm of human beings to be so closely herded to- gether. ('aim any of your correspondents cite a few instances? The Kopje is not now so busy as it was some time ago - I will say in October, 1872 -when them cannot have been less than 20,000 men employed in a space occupied by 2,500 claims of thirty feet square each. The actual present value of the mine is esti- mated at £1,000,000 ; three months agu it was valued at .£2,000,000 but claim have fallen sixty per cent. It is proposed to spend £60,000 immediately in render- ing the mine safe by removing the out- side dangerous reef. Some of the claims are 130 feet deep, and the whole mine, re- sembling a vast, basin, is being emptied by means of the wire -rope tramway sys- tem, which has cost an enormous sum in erecting. * * * I will tell you as plainly as possible what effect the news of the gold fields has produced at the diamond fields. *Household goods are sacrificed at any cost. Ladies, child- ren and men all have the gold fever, and look forward with the greatest pleasure to a journey of thirty days through a country almost uninhabited. Diamond claims are almost unsaleable ; the news- papers teem with advertisements relative to sales of goods belonging to parties who are'oll' for the gold fields.' rhe passenger cart, fare .£18 10s. is fully en- gaged for many weeks to come. hi fact, there is a regular rush, for people say, naturally, if' dialulnals have resuscitated South Africa, what may not be expected of gold ? illvv•-••••■2111114.--- SPRINGING OUT OF BED. Dr. Hall does not approve of the doc- trine which was 'formerly instilled into the minds of children -that they should spring out of bed the instant they awake in the morning. He says that •up to eighteen years every child should be al- lowed ten hours' sleep, but time should be allowed to rest in bed, after the sleep is over, until they feel as it' they had rath- er get up than not. It is a great mistake for persons, old or young -especially children and feeble and sedentary per- sons -to bounce out of bed the moment they wake up ; all our instincts shrilnk from it, and fiercely kick against it. Fif- teen or twenty minutes spent in gradu- ally waking up, after the eyes are open- ed, and in turning over and stretching the limbs, do as much good as sound sleep, because the operations set the blood in motion by degrees, fending to equalize the circulation ; for during sleep the blood tends to stagnation, the heart beats feebly and slowly, and to shock the system by bouncing up in an instant and sending- the blood in overwhelming quantities to the heart, causing it to as- sume a gallop, where the instant before it was in a creep, is the greatest absurdi- ty. This instantaneous bouncing out o* bed as soon as the eyes are open will be followed by weariness long before noon. ILLUSTRIOUS PENSIONERS. Pension Agent Dutcher paid out $29,517- 44 to 63.5 invalids and 318 soldiers' widows, Wednesday. When the Payments were begun at 4:30 o'clock, a.m., nearly 100 per- sons were in line. One hundred and sixty- two of the pensioners were minus an arm or limb. Mr. Dutcher has 9,000 names on his books. Among them are several wid- ows of soldiers who served. under Wash- ington. Two of the number, Mrs. Matilda Foote and Mrs. Arabella Riley, whose hus- band was inspector of beef in the Conti- nental army, draw $600 a year each by special act of Congress. They are eenten- narians. The 1812 pensioners embrace 200 widows and 500 men. The notable vete- rans who draw $24 a quarter, are Governor Dix, General Wm. Hall, formerly a brig- ade commander in the National Guard, General Morris, Thurlow Weed, who serv- ed as a fifer in the battle of Lewiston. Gov. Dix has a check on the Sub -Treasurer sent to him every quarter. Mr. Weed pays his money to a woman named Mrs. Crane, with whose mother he boarded on Pearl street, sixty years ago, while he was learn- ing the printing trade. Daniel Drew had his name enrolled in February, 1871, as a warrior of 1812, but has not yet drawn a dollar. Unless he appears at this payment his name is to be dropped from the list. Joseph Warren and Selleck Nichols, weal- thy retired merchants, are also 1812 pen. sioners. Mr. Warren is worth $4,000,000. He and Mr. Nichols give their pension away in charity, the latter bestowing his on the widow of one of his old comrades in arms. Mrs. Amelia Brown receives $74 every three months as a widow of Major General Jacob Brown, who was a regular army officer in 1812, and who died in 1837, The same sum is remitted to Mrs. Ander- son, the relict of General Robert Anderson, the hero of Fort Sumter. She lives in France. Mr. Dutcher expects to pay out about $250,000 this mouth. -N. Y. Suit.. ---ssems-assissos-,- \The President cif Spain,\ says an exs change, \is to receive a salary of $100,- 000 per 4noum.\ Well, keep that to yourself, please. It is calculated to make our President think he is running the concern for almost nothing, It is said that the \woman's crusade\ has played thunder with Cincinnati's trade in drugs and things -that the price of strychnine and rotten tobacco 11.9_4 alien at least fifty per cent. An exchange tells its that \Mr. Pal- mer, of Saratoga county, New York. swallowed four false teeth the cattier dly. and seven or eight wise doctors are grad- ually killing him in the effort to get them up.\ Why don't they tie is rope round some small-Jsized dentist and let him down there with a grab-hoois.:
