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1 0 ;,...0•0•v ar* 00.40 , 1 , 4 • I I THE MADISONIAN. SATURDAY, MAY 1S74. 10107171~6141111111M.In OFFICE, Two doors West from Wells, Far- go& Co's. • Wit •------_ TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. 85 90 I a One Year in adVanCe) 4 S ix Months three Months \ • Wilt* ADVERTISING RATES. THE MADISONIAN, as an advertiaing medium, is equal to any paper in Montana. ra s 1/D 7) )0 vbi :J Z) CL• •40 In es Inch ..... ... $3 $5 $7 $8 $10 $15 3 Inches 5 8 9 10 12 20 3 Inches 7 9 11 12 15 25 4 Inches 8 11 12 14 17 30 6 Inches 10 12 15 18 24 38 13 Inches 18 24 30 34 40 55 S5 Inches 301 40 50 55 65 75 $20 $2.5 30 40 37 45 65 90 55 70 90 140 15o, 250 The above scale of prices is for ordinary sin - de -column. display advertising. Solid and tabular advertisements will be charged at the Naen rate ;or space occupied. LOCAL NOTICES, Fifteen cents per line for ffrst, and ten cents psr line for each additional insertion. CARDS, One-half inch, $2 for one insertion ; $3 for two insertions; $8 per quarter; $16 per year. The foregoing schedule of prices will be strictly adheres\ to. All advertisements counted in Nonpareil measure. ..J . 0013 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 tnav continue to send it until payment is made, anti 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 rostollice, or removing and leaving them un- called for, is prima facia evidence of intention- al fraud. PROFESSIONAL. G. F. COWAN, ittorno , and Counselor at Law. Radersberg. Montana Territory. HENRY F. WILLIAMS, Att . ) , & Counsdor at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA OFFICE over the Peist OffiPer. J. E. CALLAWAY, A.ttorney and Comi- selor at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE, %di -rifling the office of the Secre- tary of the Iserritory. g. W. TI,OLE. J. K. TOuLF.. TOOLE & TOOLE. Axtoi-neys HELENA, MONTANA. Will practice in all the Courts of Mentana. JOHN T. SHOBER. T J. LoWERY. SHOBER & LOWERY, Attorneys n,nd selors Law. HELENA, M. T. Wi11 practice in all the Courts of Montana. SAMUEL WORD, _Attorney at I_Aa.w. VIRGINIA CITY, X. T. JAMES G. SPRATT, Attorney and Coun- selor at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. praclirks iu c.urts of Montana. R. W. HILL. Attorney at Law, GALLATIN CITY, M. T. W. F. SANDERS, Attorney and Conn- selor at Law. HELENA, M. T. Will practice i:i all t'ittirts of Record in Mi,ntana. C . W. TURNER, 1_4 1 - 1 VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. OFFICE: Adjoinine Colonel Callaway's. WM. F. K I R KWOOD Attorney at Law, VIRGINIA CITY. Can be found at Judge Spratt's ()Mee 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- way, Esq., until further notice. I. C. SMITH, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. Office at the old Le Beau Stand, Wallace Street, wile' e he can be found night or day E. \T. YAGER, M. D., Physician and Surgdon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. Will practice in all branches. Office one door ab.,ve the City Drug Store. H. 3. AR:(LEY, M. D. Physician & Surgeon. RADERSBURG, M. T. p As had twenty-one years' experience in _AL in his profession—four years of that time a surgeon in the Confederate army. lie is pre- pared to perform all kinds of surgery. IN FEMALE COMPLAINTS, his expe- rience is not surpassed by any phpician in the territory. TO THOSE WHO HAVE VENEREAL COM PLAINTS.—Gimorrhea, if called upon within live days after the first appearance, he will cure in seventv-two hours. In Syphilis, he will cure in tive - days. His treatment is different from any physi- cian in this Territory. Ile is prepared for cleansing,-, Extracting, and Filling Teeth. D. F. OG DE N 3 L. D. S., 11_)INTrrIS 1 11 . . Waliaee Street Virginia City.M,T. VOL. 1. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1874. A DIRGE. Why were you born whim the snow was fall- ing! You should have come to the cuckoo's calling, Or when grapes are green in the cluster, Ur, at least, when lithe swallows muster, For their far-off flying From summer dying. Why did you die when the lambs were crop- ping'? You should have died at the apples' dropping, When the grasshopper comes to thauble, And the wheat heists are sodden stubble, And all the winds go sighing For sweet things dying. —Christina Rossetti. SHADOWS. BY JOSEPHINE WALCOTT. The Summer will bloom into roses, The laughter will follow your tears; I linger alone in the shadows That fell from the beat/LH - al years. The Autumn will shine into harvests, The grapes will hang purple with wine, The lark will sing high in the meadow; The shadow—the shadow is mine. The mountain will lean to the billow, And billows flash foam from the sea, The white ships will vanish, but never This shadow forever with me. They will stand in their own bright places The mountains, the valley, and sea; But shadows will deepen and darken The mountain, the river, the tree. A shiver of winds through the valley, A shudder of storms from the sea— Alas! for the eloquent faces That laughed thro' the sunshine with me. I wait in the shadowful Presence, That baffles with hopes and with fears; Ah me! the blossoms and sweetness Are lost in the weariful years. FAULTLESS AND FAIR. BY APS.LEY ROBERTS. Oh, thou so faultless and so fair, Where has thy gentle spirit fled? Me thought that Death would never dare To hurl his terrors on thy head, Or gaze upon a gem so rare With aught but reverential dread. Perhaps :n some angelic choir, Borne upward on aerial wings, Thy ringers sweep the hedvenly lyre Till melody an anal the springs; Ah! may those tincee, nerei* tire, But move in rapture o'er the strings! Le none re ; •ine Ow thou art borne regio fitr beyoud the skies, Wral,eit in an everasting tu-rn, where ambierit suns forever ri, , e ; Wee! e 'aearto n , , ric .virh grief are torn. 11,:: hew: wit1i jo,y that never tEe-t. SING TO ME. BY RUTH KEADE. ' 4 ing- me a song of my childhood, Guile with the sweet , dead years; Sing me It sort, low minor, While the storm nenIs time with tears, Sing, for my - life is dreary, Sing, for my heart is weary, Tired of failures and of fears. Tell me of tithes and snowflakes, Tell me of all things white, I'm wearied of show and color, Sing of the pure to night. Sing for my life is dreary, Sing, for my heart is weary, Tired of ev'rythihg bright. Sing me away from my passions, Make me forget their stain; And sing till 1 long for heaven And hope for its rest again Sing, for my life Is dreary, Sing, for my heart is weary, Tired ot nin awl ka i pt4in . THE MIRACLE OF FROST. 11Y JOIIN JAMES PIATT. It blossomed on the windows, All the long December night, While the earth in moonshine slumbered With face upturned and bright. It blossomed on the windows, The phantom -summer of frost, With trees and flowers and foliage— All loveliness that is lost. The children, awakened at dawning, stand gazing with hushed delight; They see, with sight beyond seeing, The miracle of the n ight ! An Hour in Bedlam. flow Gadaley Kept House While His Wife Went Crusading. Learning that Gadsley's wife had be- come a leading emotional force in the crusading party, leaving her husband in charge of some affairs, I took thee one afternoon to call on him ; and I may as well confess, now that I am out of his hearing, that it was purely a motive of curiosity that led me to Glagsley's house on this occasion. I was attracted thither by an uncontrollable desire to see how a poor, lone, long-su&ring man would manipulate a family of eight or nine chil- dren. How he would manage , curb, re- strain, subdue, control them, teed them and wash them up in a way they should go. He met me at the door, and I lin- mediately perceived by the signs of de- light which shone in his eye that he was glad to see a familiar thee. \Well well,\ said he, \really I am overjoyed to see you. Come in, come in; haven't seen a soul before in three weeks. Sorry, though ,only halt of us are at home. Very sorry -sorry on your account. Fact is, Brown -here, Dateline Bell, take Mr. Brown's hat -fact is, my wife is not in. A glance at the surroundings of this in- terior will prove sufficiently convincing to you that no gentle woman lends her cheering influence here. Wile is out in town to -day -at Heonchensphlizer's or somewhere -started promptly on time, as usual. early this morning. See is out doing what little she can in her feeble way, poor thing, to clog the wheels, ot the social juggernaut. Samantha, daugh- ter, bring in the shoe -brush and duet a ehair for Mr. Brown. Whew ! how the dust flies. There, that's better. Now, Brown, do take this arm -chair and make yourself easy ; play as well be comforta- ble when yot, can. 1 do so like to see people comeirtable. Well, as I was about to say, wife has been out battling man- fullk against the accursed num traffic. now going on seven weeks, regular, and-\ \And meantime,\ interrupted I, \you have the supervision of affairs in the house and look after the children.\ \Supervision ? Well, yes ; exactly ! I am throwing in a few endeavors in that line. Am doing something in- Only look at that child. Buddy, give me that poker. I do think in my heart ! No, I don't want the window fixed. You have fixed windows enough already. Here ! sit down here. There ! now fish away in that ashpau and be quiet oue minute, will you?\ baby,\ resumed Gadeley, in- sane on fixing things. He never rests from his labor of repairs to this house. Look behind you at those windows - scarcely a whole pane to be, found, See we disagreed. Wile wanted me to get- - Hello ! what's that ? Don't you smell fire. Brown?\ -Yes,\ said I,\ something burns. There it is. Gadsley, its the baby -the baby's clothes are on tire !\ \Why Buddy, what in this world - never mind, don't cry. It's all out. There ! Tush-there! Now. NV110 would have thought there was tire in that ashes? Such a thing never occurred to inc. There ! n -e -v -e -r mind. Want down ? Want to go to Charlotte Ann? Well, take him, my daughter. There ! go W Charlotte At in.\ \Yes Gadsley went on. \she wimted me t9 get a black woman -old Aunt Lin- da -to come and look atter things and do the cooking. Well, to tell the truth, old Aunt Linda isn't any too honest ; and beanie, the children don't like her, and so I suggested that we get the white girl wir formerly lived at Smith's. and wants a place. bite is an excellent girl -honest a.t eke day's long, and neat as wax. But, no ; wile wouldn't listen to the proposi- tion, and would have old Aunt Linda or nobody. I can't understand why she should be so set in her ways. Can't fath- om her motives in the matter, but at any rate I took the offer alternative. I took nobodv, and here I am, sole supervisor ol tlds menagerie -supreme controller of the outfit -master of the ranch -and whene\ Gadsley's attention was here drawn to the movements ot the twins, who, by means of some twine, appeared to be making up a sort of lightning express train by coupling the cats . together by their tails, but the father laid an injunct- ion on the train, and it failed to go out on the regular run. \Now Herbert Spencer, and you, John Stuart Mill, just untie those cats this mo- ment -this moment ! What is the earth- ly use in tangling up those cats in that cruel way ? It does seem that you are trying to drive your father into a mad- house. There ! Now turn those cats out doors and march yourselves oft' into the kitchen. Hush! No words to me. 3larch, I say! \Those twins are more bother to me than all the other children put together. \I say, - Brown, when you consider how short a time 1 have been engaged in this work, I think you will find that I am do- ing about as well as can be expected. I am by no means perfect in it. Of course not. You cannot reasonably expect a man to till a situation like this in ev- en weeks. Really I have succeeded be- yond my most sanguine expectations. At first I didn't like it -didn't regard it my duty -and undertook to express my views on the subject to Maria ; but, Lor' bless you, she talked me right down ! You know how she can talk on tole- rance and when she warms to the sub- ject a little. Why, that woman talked to me like a father, as it were. She is mere- ly a mother, you understand. but she talked to me like a father ; and the result was I became a convert to her ideas at once, as I always do atter listening to one of her overwhelming speeches. Then I settled down to my work, and went at it with a will -went at it with just as much dead earnestness as if I were going to take a drink.\ At this juncture there was a crashing noise in the adjoining room as of broken glass, and soon Samantha peered through the door to say that -Herbert Spencer had gone and broke mother's bottle of rheumatiz-liniment and spilled it all over things.\ \Ye !\ exclaimed Gadsley. \I knew it. I knew that liniment would go. Well, when your mother conies home with her rhetunatiz in her knee -joints, there will he lively times in this house; that's all. There will be a storm in this locality that .0h.1 Probabilities' hasn't got down in his chart. You couldn't have broken the clock, or some furniture, or a look- ing -glass? No ; you must break the lini- ment -bottle, and shatter your father's peace of mind for the next month to come. You couldn't have gone out in the yard and chopped down a few trees, or killed the canaries, or sawed the ban- isters out ot the porch -railing ? Of course not. There is no amusement which is comparatively innocent that will satisfy you. Don't boo-hoo around here. It's not tears we want, it's liniment. \Hold on, Brown, you are not going?\ \Yes said I ; \I must be off. I have an engagement in town for 5 o'clock. 1 merely dropped in for an hour to see if there was anything I could do for you. Well, good-bye, Gad. Good-bye, old fellow.\ \No -but hold on, Brown ; won't you stay for tea ?\ \No I can't possibly. You nnist ex- cuse me to -day, Good afternoon !\ A nd I was off', I have given only the most prominent incidents which happened in this bedlam during my stay. There were many, very inany of those minor enjoys that sweet and flavor domestic life, which came un- der my observation, and which need not be told. I have not time nor space to narrate them. The public is now, I be, lieve, willing to admit that, before hia conversion, John Allen was the wicked- those of young children. and fragmente dest man. And only a day or two ago or teeth, back and front, which must we read in the newspapers of one who is have belonged to the mouth of a child; not and also a rodent animal's tooth, which the meanest man ; but if you haee fully settled upon a candidate, and should had obv l iqusly been worn as a neck orna- ment. iev were found last week under be called upon for a verdict as to who is an ancient mound, which was removed the most patient man -won't you please for the purpese of building the approach - vote for Gadsley ?-Courier-Journal. ' esto the Newtown bridges. They lay in a large bed of coal and ashes, which al- ready indicated that the tire had covered a space of twenty-five feet in diameter. That it must have been a very hot and lone . continued coutlagration was evident by the hardness and color of the ground and remains which hail been affected by the heat. When the fire had burned out, the coals and aehes had been raked to- gether into a heap from four to ten inches in depot. From this heap tlh. pieces ,.tycie in the collection shown to use have been picked out. Amoug the dis- ceveries were a skull which escaped complete eembustion, but hail been flat- tened dowo by the weight of the dirt above it, leavIng its character plain and distinct however. Close beside it lay three front and tour jaw-teetie seemingly unaffected by tiv fire. Most ot the other bones lay promiscuously among the ash- es. The munfer of victims was evident- ly Imere, and wee all those of children. ft seems quite certain that the little ones were the victins of some superstitious rite akin to these practiced by the ancient Uanaanites :mouton of their go.1 Moloch. The mound beneath which he remains lay buried NVLS of medium size,' and was composed of materials trasported from some consida•aide distance. mid om very many points of localities. Each variety was etreftilly deposited by itself, and the difference between the materials was so great t tat their respective charac- ters were clearly destinguishable.-Cin- cinnati Gazette . THE WA Y 0 i 7 TRANSGRESSORS 11 - tAlY EASY. STARTLING REVELATIONS OF A PRE -HISTORIC MOUND. PARENTS' PARADISE. We were much impressed lately by the orderly behavior of a large family of chil- dren, particularly at the table. We spoke of it to our host ; and he pointed to a e e r ier e niiiioa ei. tee -sato, on which were written sonic excellent rules. He said he gave each child who: obeyed the - rules a reward at the end of every month. We begged a coppy for the benetlit of our readers. They were called 'Rules and Regulations for Parents' Paradise :\ the array of old hats and things that I have crammed into the sash, and only look at the wall paper where he has skinned it off until the walls resemble the ruin of a panorama of circus bills. I tell you, Brown, the very old boy is in that last hope of ours. But, let me see. Where was I? Yes, I am supervising things here. I rather like that word, it is so fitting -doing something in an ama- teur way toward housekeeping. You re- member the story of the man in Arkan_ sas-how he kept hotel? Well, I am keeping house something as he kept tav_ ern. I am a feeble imitator ol the man in Arkansas. I am doing my levelest to keep the house from going to the dick- ens ; but it will go there in the long rim. It is bound to go there in spite of my adayalerziestraitirre abilis a ee \Do I understand you to say,\ I ven- tured to inquire. -that you are taking care of the house and all these children without other help?\ -Certainly ! That's just what I am do• ing. I am devoting my whole time to it, giving the matter my exclusive personal 1. Shut every door after you without attention. IVIty, bless me, yes ! You slamming it. see, we fell out about a servant -I mean 2. Never shout, jmnp, or run in the house. 3. Never call to persons up stairs or in the next room ; if you wish to speak to them, go quietly where they are. 4. Always speak kintLy and politely to the servants if you would have them do the same to you. 5. When told to do, or not to do a thing, by either parent, never ask why you should or should not do it. 6. Tell or your own emits not of those of your brothers and sisters, • 7. Carefully clean the mud or snow o your boots before entering the house. 8. Be prompt at every meal hour. 9. Never sit down at the table or the parlor with dirty hands or tumbled hair. Never ireerrtipt any conversation, but wait - patieetly y•tir turn to speak. 1 1. NeVer reserve yeur good inamiers for company, but be equally polite Ili home and abroad. 12. Let your first, last and best confi- 4 lant be your mother. -Oliver Oetic's Magazine. is THE smENGTH OF M tmut A LS. Gold may be hammered so that it is only- 1,300.000 of an inch thick. A grain of iron may be divided into 4,000,000 parts. Stilt, chemistry tells us that there are ultimate parts ealled atoms or mole- cules, which are absolutely invisible. These atoms are attracted to each other by the attraction ol cohesion, and repelled by the force of repulsion. By the action of both these forces the atoms are kept in a state of rest. Tho solidity of a solid depends upon the fact that each pair of atoms are in this state of equilibrium. tense° aroma are supposed to be of an ob- late, sphreoidal form. An iron bar would support its own weight if stretched out to a length of three and a quarter nines. A bar of steel was once made which would sustain its own weight if extended to a length of thirteen and a half miles. Our ideas of great and small are no guide to be used in judging of what is truly great and small in nature. The Bunker Hill Monument might be tmilt over a mile in hight, without crushing the stones at its base. When bars of iron are stretched until they break, those which are the strongest increase in length less than the weaker ones. A piece of wood, having a breadth and thickness of three inches, and a, length' of four feet, if sup- ported at its ends, would be bent one - millionth ot an inch by a weight of three pounds placed at its centre, and a weight of one -tenth of an ounce, would bend it one seven -millionth of an inch. Prof. Norton described a machine for testing the variations of sticks of wood. The machine consists of levers and screws, so contrived that the amount of weight brought to bear upon the stick can be accurately measured, and the variation ot the stick, from a straight line, can be measured, even though it does not exceed one seven -millionth oran inch. 11•4--•-saM SCNDERLAND AND HIS OFFICIAL PRA Y k.Rs. Chaplain Sunderland, of Washington city, is a sort of heavenly wire -puller. Ile excels that North Pole prayer builder, his predecessor, Chaplain Newman. It seems ti at, somewhere in the finieral services of Senator Sumner. Chaplain Sued:eland ventured to ask blessings upon the officers ot the Government, and then, on the way toward Boston to the burial, it occurred to the distinguished petitioner to the Throne of Grace that he had forgotten the Vice -President. No doubt the Lord would have overlooked\ any little omission like that, but Sunder- land's prayer was directed to the news- papers as well as to heaven ; mdeed, possibly, rather more toward the press than the Throne. And, ruminating upon the look of the thing in print, rather Wall expecting an answer from the skiee, Chaplain Sunderland telegraphed hori- zontally to Washington city to the print- ers to stick in the Vice -President. Wheth- er he sent the same supprementary pe- tition vertically in such way as to over- take the New Jerusalem message is not known. • 111...-1111-•••112 • AMERICAN FASHIONS. A correspondent says: \You never see a young girl in velvet and her mother in tulle except they are an American mother and daughter, and I never saw a French woman whose front hair looked like a poodle dog's back. Vanity without common-sense has made nwre \frig - hts\ in looks among American women than their Creator is accountable for, and nowadays, when fashions are so adapta- ble, no one is excusable in not being at least presentable. But so long as the \stylish\ supersedes all others in our vo- cabulary, and so long as \oddity\ is the synonym of style. I suppose those of us who are neither one or the other can only fold our hands and wait for our turn.\ S. A. Bell, of Plainville, brought to our office, on Saturday, some pieces of wood almost carbonized into charcoal, a number ot traconents ot bones, evidently From tit Ctut'ago Tribune. The Governor of tile District of Cohen bia not only sillies as a patent -roofer, but he is also a plutaber and a gas -titter. He has. a plumbing shop in Chicago,one in St. leans. one in Cineintatti, one wherever a Government building is in process of erection. Suppoae, for instance, it is nec- essary tO ma lie some plumbing - repairs in the Post Office at Portland. Mullett, without any advertising, gives the job to Shepherd. The latter ships his men and materials from iVashington, and opens a plumbing shop Portland, and the Gov- ernment pays the fares 01 the workmen amid the freight on the material. This ar- ran gment for canwing on rooting, plumb- ing, and gas -fitting for the Government is so complete. and must be so satisfacto- ry to Shepherd, who has the contracts, and to Mullett, vho lets the contracts, that it seems almost a pity to look into this warm and snug little nest and see the golden eggs latched in it. A MINISTER ELOPES WITH A YOUNG GIRL. [Lexington Ky. Press of April 2' th. About duali. yesterday evening, a horse and buggy containing a lady and gentle- man, drove up to the ladies' entrance of the Phamix Hotel. The couple alighted and soon were registered. They were Rev. M. D. Reynolds and Miss B. L. Crooke, of Richmond. They were on a (His 4on of love and intent on matrimony. Rev. Mr. Rand, of this city, was to have met them at the hotel, but owing to cir- sumstances over which he had no con- trol, he could not keep his engagement. The young couple stayed in the ladies' parlor for some time. At lenoth the preacher arrived, who after consultation with the gentleman, concluded to have nothing to do with the marriage, as the young lady was under age. The young gentleman was only twenty-eig - ht, but the lady looked decidedly more than eighteen, and no chicken. As justice could not be obtained in Lexington, the couple, bent or mandage, dteermined to go to Chichi . tad, and started on the night tram. As a protection to the lady, however, as a safeguard during the twig weary hours of the Hight, Mr. Rand con- sented to accompany the young couple and nset up with them\ until mornmg, for the night train for Covington leaving Lexington at 8 o'clock p. in., does not reach Covington before 5 o'elock next morning, too long a ride for young peo- ple eager for matrimony to ride alone.. To accomodate his brother preacher, Mee Rand consented to the arrangement. The esithered in the hotel to witness the wedding ceremony, were disappoint- ed. And when the gentleman annonne- Liza the \Cincinnati cars were waiting,\ the young - la ty gathered her shawl about ler, smiled, coesciou , of the observation if not admiration of which she was the object, and departed. lea ling upon the arm ofher lover, who by the way, is a fine looking fellow, and ought to have made better headway with \the old man.\ sessi--0--sass THE STRORY A DEAD LETTER. [New Orleans Picayune, March 22.] A year ago or thereabout, a festive young man, well known in this city, wrote a letter, or rather a note, to a young lady, requesting her to accompa- ny him to the skating -rink, which was flourishing at that tune This note occu- pied a very small portion 01 the sheet of paper, and must have been dropped when it was read. The paper was then found by a lady friend of the young lady, who. apparently having nothing else to do at the time, wrote a note on the blank part to her sweetheart in Indiana, forwarding it by mail. The letter, going to its disti- llation, knocked around the hotel to which it. was directed; not being called for it was ferwarded to the dead letter office in Washington. Here it was open- ed. and the name of the writer of the note to the young lady catching the eye of the clerk, it was directed to hen in this city. according to the original post- mark, and here received yesterday; the writer of the original note receiving it back a year after he had invited a young lady to go to the skating -rink. Wonder- ing at first what it all meaut, lie turned it over, and there was the other note, saying: -On the other side you will see a note from —, of this city; he is a real - nice fellow, and it would be well it' there could be a match,\ together with various other remarks of a highly personal na- ture. For all of which the original writer is ever so thankfid, for he finds. maybe for the first time in his life, somewhat of a character from the dead -letter office Washington. Sir Lampton Lorraine sailed for Eng- land recently. Ile was accompanied to the . steamer by Major -General Hancock and staff, and other gentlemen. En- grossed complimentary resolutions of N. Y. city were presented to him. \Doctor said a conceited literary man to Holmes, on the streets or Boston. \I am going to deliver ma- lecture in Low- ell to -night.\ \I am glal of it; I dislike those Lowell people,\ retorted the doc- tor. NO. 26 CREMATION. Opinion of an English Bishop—The Resurrection Objection Disposed of. The Bishop of Manchester recently consecrated the additioual land which has been taken for a burial -ground, in connection with the church of St. Peter's, Hilliwell, Bolton, and in the course of his sermon he referred to the subject of cremation. After having rerred to the present practice of disposing of human bodies the Bishop said it had been pro- posed hy an eminent London physician that, instead of burying. our bodies in the ground -a practice which was said to Initail sanitary inis.caief and a great loss of Valuable land, -we should burn dead bodies ; and it was now a question of the cremation of bodies instead of their inter- ment. He felt a sort ol shudder at the idea of burning the dead, and yet the time might come when the idea would have become femiliar to their minds, and in a hundred years or so it might. per- haps, become the custom for bodies to be burned. Peopie who had believed in im- portality had in previous times burned the body of their dead. The ancient Ro- mans believed in importality, and yet they believed in burning the bodies of their dead. Cremation was certainly quite as decent as the practice ot inter- ment, for anything he saw, and urns containing the ashes of the dead were more picturesque than coffins. He sim- ply, however, referred to the subject be- cause he wished his hearers to disassoci- ate the resurrection from physical con- ditions. Could they suppose that it would be more impossible for God to raise up a, body at the resurreetion, if needs be, out of elementary particles which had been liberated by the burning than it would be to raise up a bcidy from dust and from the elements of bodies which had passed into the structure of worms ? The omnipotence of God is not limited, and He would raise the dead whether He has to raise our bodies out of the church-y-ards or whether He has to call our remains like the remains of some ancient ROMallS, out of an urn in winch they were deposited two thousand years ago. In the course of his sermon the Bishop also alluded to the words used in the Church of England Burial Service, to the effect that the dead were commit- ted to dust \in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life.\ He said some people thought from that that the Church believed that with regard to ev- ery one committed to the ground they entertained a sure and certain hope of their resurrection to eternal life. That expression, however, meant that they perfisrmed that act in the full belief of the doctrine of the resurrection, Whether a nrin would rise again to the resurrection of salvation or damnation must depend on God's inexorable moral laws. A CORSICAN TRAGEDY. The Paris papers report a fearful 3cene as having recently taken place at Eastia, in the office of the local magistrate. It appears that two brothers Corti had mu- llioned one Francois Campona, on ac- count of an alleged trespass, and the ease was duly heard. Illicit the magistrate had retired, an altercation arose between the parties; Jean Antoine Corti drew a dagger and stabbed Francois Campona, while the other Corti fired a revolver at Camponies brother, who was wounded in the chest. A relation of the Campo- nas. who interfared, was stabbed, and a bystander was wounded by a ball from Corti's revolver. The two Corti were allowed to retire without any attempt be- ing made to dentin them. The feud be- tween the two parties is believed to have arisen out of events which occurred many months ago. In August, 1872, a bailiff rained Fontecelli was found nen-- dered on the high road, and public ru- mor accused the Collis of having hired the assassin. Corti, the father, died while the investigation was proceeding, but his son, Jean Antoine, and his daughter were tried for being aceessory to the crime, but were acquitted. Two other inert woe convicted of having; been concerned in the murder, and were sen- tenced to twenty years imprisonment. Thie judgment was annulled, and they were tried a second time, but both were condemed to the same penalty. Among the wittnesses against them were Fran- cois Campona. and a relative, e ho thus, it is believed, attracted the animo-ity of the Corti family. A MODEL OBITUARY. A disconsolate editor thus bemoans his deserted spouse: \Thus my wife died. No more will those loving hands pull off my boots and part my hair as only a true wife can. Nor will those willing feet repleeish coal -hod or water -pail. No more will she arise amid the tempestuous storms of Winter, and hie away to the fire without, disturbing the slumbers of the man who doted on her so artlessly. Her memory is embalmed in my heart of hearts. I wanted to embalm her body, but I found that I could embalm her memory cheap- er. \I procured of Eli Mudget, a neighbor of mine, a very pretty gravestone. Ilk wife was consumptive, and he kept it on hand several years, in anticipation of her death. But she rallied last spring, and his hopes were blasted. Never shall I forget the poor inan's grief when I asked hitn to part with it. -Take it, Skinner, and may you never know what it is to have your soul disappointed as mine has been!\ and he burst into a flood of tears. His spirit was, indeed, utterly broken. nI had the following epitaph engraved upon the tombstone:\ -To the memory ot Tabitha, wife of Moses Skinner, Esq.. gentlenianly editor of the Trombone. Terms $3 a year, in- variably in advance. A kind mother am I exemplary wife. Office over Colinan's grocery. up two flights of stairs. Knock hard. We shall miss thee, mother, we shall miss thee. Job printing solicited.\ Thus did my lacerated spirit cry out in agony, even as Rachel, weeping tor her children. But one ray of light penetrates the despair of my soul. The undertaker took his pay in job printing, and the sex- ton owed me a little account .1 should not have gotten any other way. Why should we pine at the mysterious ways of Prov- idence and vicinity? (Not a conund- rum.\) OCEAN DISASTER. • The past twelve months have been marked by an unusual fatality in ocean travel. no year has the press of the country been called upon to record so many disasters of the sea, attended by so terrible a loss of lite, so great a loss in property, and such a fearful array 'of hu- man suffering. To render this more re- markable, nearly all of this great de- struction has occurred ou the broad high- way between our eastern ports and Eu- rope. The first event in point of time and magnitude of horror was the loss of the steamship Atlantic of the White Star line, which went ashore on the coast of Nova Scotia on April 1, 1873. In this calamity, five hundred and forty-six lives went down to their graves in the deep. In less than three months, the steamer City of Washington, of the Inman line, was wrecked on the same treacherous coast, within fitty miles of the rock where the Atlantic struck. The passengers, numbering 28 cabin and 481 steerage, were saved, as were the crew, but the no- ble ship and her cargo were a total loss. On September 29, 1873, the steamer Is- mailia of the Anehor Line, front New York to Glasgow, carrying freight and no passengers, was lost at sea. Site has never been heard of since, or man or spar on board. The loss of the Ville du Havre comes next on the list of horrors, by which 266 lives were lost, and the shadow of death from the waves of the Atlantic passed sorrowfully over our own state. The last instance is that of the French steamer Europe, from Havre to New York, which went down a little more than a week ago in mid -ocean, with all her cargo on board, her passengers and crew being saved by the Greece. This numbers five first-class ocean steam- ers lost within twelve months, all sup- posed to be perfectly constructed and well commanded and elegantly appointed, with 772 souls and unknown millions of property. Verily, those who go down to the sea in ships and do business (or pleas- ure) on the great waters, ride with death over the billows. -N. I. Dispatch. MARRIED AT LAST. Tee Geneva Courier reports that a re- markable wedding occurred near Ham- mondsport, Steuben county, New York, a few days ago. It says; \About thir- teen years ago, one Silas Silsbe, having formed an attachment for another man's wife, quietly bought the woman of her husband, giving him in consideration a gun and a watch. Ever since, the wo- man in all respects ha.s been a thithful wile to Silas, and to all appearances they have been as happy as the majority of marrital people; they have a son twelve years old. Lately a protracted fleeting has been, held in the neighborhood, which has awakened the conscience of Silsbe, and as a result lie became dissatis- fied with the condition of affairs at home. He frankly told the woman that he could no longer consider her his wife. nor treat her as such, unless they were lawfully married; accordingly, Rev. Mr. Gates was called to the residence of Silsbe, and in the presence of the twelve a - ear old son they were united in marriage.\ TUE STRANGE GUEST. The gifted Sargent S. Prentiss ome gave a sumptuous dinner to some friends at a hotel in Vicksburg. Early in the evening a stranger entered the room in a mistake. Prentiss courteously invited him to join the party. Before long the strange guest began boasting of how much he had drank during the day -a cocktail here, a smasher there, a julep in this place, a sling in that, and so on, ap- parently without end. At length L'ren'iis said : \Sir do you believe in the doctrine of mete in psychosis ?'' \I don't know,\ was the reply, \and I don't see that it has anything to do with what we are talking about.\ \ft has,\ rejoined Prentiss, \much - much every way. I have firm faith in that doctrine. I believe that in the next life every man will be transformed into the thing for which he has best qualified himself in this. In that life, sir, you will become a corner grogery.\ ROWING FOR THE GIRL HE LOVED. [From the Evansville Journal.) A young man of this city, being at an up -river town a few days ago, took a skiff to row to time next town down the stream. Abotst the time he put out he noticed a man and woman in a simi- lar boat on the oppo ite side of the Ohio, the man pulling with all his might down stream. The Evansville yoath did not want to be beaten by a man who had a load while he had an empty skiff, so he bent himself to his work with great ener- gy. Row as hard as he might, the oars- man on the other side kept ahead of him, until the young man made up his mind there was something wrong with the current and he tried to cross. This seemed to give additional energy to t he other oarsman, whose \feathered oar\ wits piled with such a will that he . gained sensibly,and our Evansviller drop- ped back, but still kept the couple in Sig A h ker half a day's row the sinele oars- man stopped at a town, rested and did sueh business as he found, and took tile next steamer for home. On the way CiONVII the steamer was hailed, and the couple from the skiff got aboard. The young man, atter a short thne, approach- ed the champion oarsman and remarked: -Well you beat me, didn't you: hut I tried hard to get ahead.\ -Thunderation !\ exelaimed the man. eWas that you a pain' after us. I tho't it was Lize's dad, an' I jest lit in with all my might, but it's no use now; we's married for good now, stranger, an' I NVOtiltill r t row that hard. even ef the old man was to heave in sight.\ The as de- livered r the the fi ; for rsb - • — tat citi oaa epkyoadfniciteihstecoo:,, ehtaiaires ecb7oe:oet ;009 the corresponding quarter last year the amounts was $'5,166,300. The exports through mercantile channels for same term have been $4,017,184; for the corres- Pondine: quarter last year, $6, 4'27, 979. The decrease, amounting to nearly two and a half millions, is due almost exclusively to lessened shipments of gold coin, This is a favorable showing, but it is not a reliable one, as we do not know. for either period, the amount shipped through the III:111F.— Sacramento Record. THE MADISONIAN', -IS- PCBIESIIED EVIAN' SATT•RDA\r• —A 1— Virginia City, - Latate. THOMAS DEYARMON. Editor allfl Proprietor. Papers ordered to any address ec ?.1 be chatixed to another address at the option of the sucseriber. Beruittance by draft. cheek, money order or registered letter may be sent at our risk. THE MADISONIA.N is devoted to ths advocacy of ihe principles of the Demoaratis party and to general and local news. . NOTES—SCIENCE AND INDtSTRA. One of the London photographers ha 1 / 4 recently introduced much needed method of insuring the durability of photographs to a degree hitherto unattained, and which is said to prove quite successful. His plan is to employ a tilm of collodion, not for tar- - ing the glass negative, but also to cover and fix every positive impression printed from it. In this simple way, it is claimed, all the fine detail which is known by artists and other competent judges to constitute a really choice photograph, is brought into unusual relief, and, over and above, the picture is thoroughly sealed from the influ- ence of light and moisture, and thus the almost perfect durability or permanence of the photograph is secured. Au excellent description of artificial el ony is now prepared, and on a large settle, by a new and ingenious process. Sixty parts of ground charcoal, obtained from seaweeds previously tieittr.:d with diluted sulphuric acid and dried, are mixed with ten parts of liquid glue, five of gutta per - elm, and two and a half of India rubber, care being taken to mix the two latter substances with coal oil tar to render them gelatinous ; then ten parts of coal tar, five of pulverized sulphur, two of pulverized alum, and five of powdered rosin are add- ed, aud the mixture heated to 300 degrees Fahrenheit. On being cooled the result is a substance equal in many respects to ger- uine ebonywood, but much less expensive, and capable of receiving a finer polish. A \ regulator \ for car lubrications in which oil is used -allowing the latter to act in the usual way when the train is in mo- tion, but stopping the supply of oil with the stoppage of the train -is a recent Ger- man invention. The regulator consists of an elliptical vessel, funnel -shaped, whieh is fixed by means of a screw on the top ot the oil -box, and within it is Small ball Avhich, when the train is not in motion. falls to the bottom, closes the orifice there against the air, and arrests the flow of oil ; when the train begins to move. tho ball ro- tates around the hole, which is thus lett free. The ball acts with perfect regulari- ty, and being always greasy, is not liable to wear. It has been shown that, by plac- ing one of these regulators on one side ot a locomotive, the consumption of oil was some thirty-five per cent less than at the other end of the same axle not so provided. It does not interfere with the replenish- ing of the box, but with the oil chamber may be made large enough to require till- ing only once a day. A well-informed writer in Iron argues that for a long voyage a vessel should be of the following dimensions : Length, 300 feet ; breadth 40 feet; depth of hold, 2-1 feet ; with accommodations for passengers, officers, and crew on deck, and a pair of di- rect -acting engines placed in the after part of the vessel, below the main deck, capa- ble of working to about 150 horse power, with boilers to maintain a steam pressure 01 60 pounds to the square inch. The con- sumption of coal, says this writer, would be about 72 cwt. per day, and the speed, with a folding screw propeller, about six knots in a calm. Iie also states that in sail- ing vessel built from this design the best day's work NV:IS from 330 to 360 miles for nine days; that it is a great pity to dispense with sails when such results can be obtain- ed ; and that if a small auxiliary power were introduced, as thus described, into a proper proportioned vessel, it would be the most economical and effectual carrier for ocean navigation that has yet been pro- posed. Quite a valuable improvement has been made in ears employed for railway con- struction and ballastiag purposes, and by which great convenience and facility of op- erating are realized. The floor is composed of a series of trap -doors, which, when open, form a kind of grating, and when closed, constitute a level surface. Being loaded with ballast, and removed to any required spot, the contents, by simply loosening a bolt, drop through the track, and an arrangement beneath secures their distribution between and outside the rails, which are kept clear. The cost of cars made according to this design is said to be slightly in advance of that of the ordina- ry make, while the advantages of the im- provement are uuquestionable. The cheapest, and most shnple. and prac- tical fire -alarm, for ordinary household pur- poses, says the Manufacturer and Builder, is a small weight of lead or iron, made to ad- here to the ceiling of each room with a piece of wax. When the temperature. becomes elevated, above the ordinary atmosphere. the wax loses its adhesiveness and allows the weight to drop. The weight can be at- tached by a piece of wire to all the bells in the house, or so as to sound any alarm ex- temporized for the purpose. The weights are to be kept away from stove -pipes and out of the sun, and there should be one in each room and hallway. They will give the alarm when there is an excessive in- crease of temperature. Unfortunately for the reliability of such a device, our clitnato is so variable as to produce the excessive changes in the temperature -independent of tires --in the course of twenty-four hours. Still another addition has been made to the almost innumerable substances and processes for removing incrustations in boilers. This latest composition is of English origin, and is made in three different form , . in block, in liquid, and in paste. The block composition is compounded of oak galls, Australian bark, soda, glue, Irish moss, and filtered water, to be set by the applica- tion of 170 degrees of heat. Into the ves- sel in which the ingredients named are mixed is put a small quantity of arsenie. The liquid eomposition is formed of the same ingredients as the preceeding, boiled together for three hours, as is also that in the paste form. Tannic acid from Vegeta- ble matter is finally added, and the com- pound is said to be completely effective. A correspondent of the English Mechanie says that he has used the following recepe with the greatest success for tho cement- ing of iron railing -tops, iron gratings to stoves, etc., and ivith such effect as to re- sists the blows of the sledgehammer; take equal parts of . sulphur and white lead with about one -sixth of borax; incorporate them so as to form a holuogeneous MASS. When going to apply it, wet it with strong sui- phurie acid and place a thin layer of it be- tween the two pieces of iron, which should then be pressed together. In five days it will be perfectly dry. all traces of the ce- ment having vanished, and iron have gother. the appearance of having been welded to.
