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THE MADISONIAN. • V • SATURDAY, JIITILY 23, 1S74. •••!, . _ . _ 40FFICE, Two doors West from Wells, Far - u A Co ' s . • WAIF • TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year - (in advance) S's) 00 ciz Months 2 50 hree Months \ 1 50 •-•1.46-• ADVERTISING RATES. THE MADISONIAN, as an advertising medium, is equal to any paper in Montana. r • I - ir IC 2 2 2 —d .as ..,,c ..te t. , .1., - :.• i.; •.`\ -- :.... t...• ... -- ...- ..- ..- 2* ••• :.: 1 2 Inch ..... ... $3, $5! $7 $8 $10 all5 I :aches 5 Sr 9 10 12 20 3 Inche-; 7 9; 11 12 15 25 4 Inches S 1U 12' 14 17 30 •; laehes 10 121 15 IS 24 3S 13 Inches 15 Inches • • Ca GO .. 41/. ▪ og. orl $24) $25 30 40 37 55 45 70 65 90 18 24 30 34 40 55 90 140 30 40' 5o 55 115 75 150 250 The above scale of prices Is for ordinarY sin- „: e -coilintin, display advertising. solia and t a bular advertisements will be charged at the iuch rate for space occupied. LOCAL NOTICES. Fifteen cents per line fur tfrst, and ten cents uer line for each additional insertion'. CARDS, one-half inch, $2 for one insertion ; $3 for Moo insertions; $8 per quarter; Wt.; per year. E'• The foregoing schedule of prices will he strietly adhered to. ertisements counted in Nonpareil ntea.sure. .1013 ITLIINT r I I IINTC3 1 r, of every description, executed in the best and neatest style, and on reasonable terms. NEWSPAPER DECISIONS. 1. Any one who takes a paper regularly from the 1'o:46,11;re—whether directed to his name or another's, or whether he has subscribed or not —is responsible for the payment. 2. If a person orders his paper discontinued, be must pay all arrearages or the publisher anav co•ntinue to send it until payment is made, and collect the whole amount, whether the pa- po..r is taken front the office or not. 3. The courts have decided that refusing to take the newspapers or periodicals front the 1.u:44,1114.e, or removing and leaving them un- calk!! for, is prima facaa evidence of intention- al frauol. PROFESSIONAL. G. F. COWAN, ktiorne) and Counselor at Law. Rader...berg% Montana Territory. HENRY F. WILLIAMS, Att y & Counselor at Law, VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE over the Post Officer. J. E. CALLAWAY, Attorney and Conn- sz.elov at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE, ail s joining the ollice of the Secre- Iary of the Territory E. w. TOOLS. J. N. TOOLE. TOOLE & TOOLE. AItorneys at 1 - aw. HELENA, MONTANA. Win practice in all the Courts of Montana. i0IIN T. Sliour:!:. J. LowERY. SHOBER & LOWERY, Attorneys alidc!ourk- selovs at HELENA, M. T. craetiee in all the Courts of Montana. SAMUEL WORD. Attorney at 1 :11, VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. JAMES G. SPRATT, Attorney a nd C0an- selov at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. R. W. HILL. Attorney at 11:LA G tLLATIN CITY, M. T. W. F. SA N E RS, A.ttovney and Conn- selov at Law. HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all Courts of Record in Montana. C. W. TURNER, 1-$ 11?, VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. OFFICE: Adjoining Colonel Callaway's. WM. F. K I KWOOD. Attorney at Law, V '1 1tG I NIA CITY. Can he found at Judge spratt's °nice or Pro- bate Court Boon's. Will practice in all the Courts of the Territory . GEORGE C LLAWAY, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M NTANA. OFFICE. - he Law °Mee of J. E. Culla- - \ . until further notice. 1. C. SMITH. M. D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. Office at the Ohl Le Beau Stantl, Wallace ''r*.et, where he can be found night or day E. T. YAGER, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. Will practice in an branches. Whet one oloor above the City Drug Store. H. u. BARKLEY ! M. D. Physici an & Surg e o n. RADERSBURG, M. T. 11 ;'„ -- h l !\' l twenty-one years' experienc! in Prufessiom—fo - ur years of that time iu the Confederate army. Ile is pre- 4 o-ol to perform all kinolS or surgery. IN FEMALE COMPLAINTS. his e . b v any 141 .! . ' iciall in the 414111IosE HAVE VENEREAL 4 i3 , 1. I I .1 \ 4 . — t$011$4rrhea , if calltal upon , , •• • - after the tirst appearance,. .ne Hi seventy-two hours. In 111 +'!=n• ;ivedavs. . 11i,4 tr.1 , :o.t;;!. ; :iit is different from any physi- -411 nitury IL: is prepared 1 - or VOL. 1. .41111•1111111111111101.11, VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1874. `V. HOW PERSIMMONS TOOK CAH OB DER BABY. From the St. Nicholas for May. Persimmons was at colored lad 'Way down in Lou'sianny And all the teaching that he had Was given him by his granny . But he did his duty ever As well as you, it may be; With faithfulness and pride always, He minded missus baby. He loved the counsels of the saints, And, sometimes, those of sinners, To rim off 'possum -hunting and Steal \water-milion” dinners. And fervently at meetin', too, On every Sunday night, He'd with the elders shout and pray By the pine -knots' flaring light, And sing their rudest melodies, With voice so full and strong, You could almost think he learned them From the angels' triumph song. But the song he heard most often— His granny 's favorite one— Was, \Jawge Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Persimmons, Henry Clay, be Quick, shut de do', Get up off dat flo', Come heath and mind de baby.\ One night there came a fearful storm, Almost a second flood; The river rose, a torrent swolu Of beaten, yellow mud. It bit at its embankments, And lapped them down in foam, Till, surging through a wide crevasse, The waves seethed round their home. They scaled the high verandah, They tilled the parlors clear, Till floating chairs and tables Clashed against the chandelier. 'Twas then Persimmons' granny, Stout of arm anol terror -proof, By means of ax and lever, Pried up the verandah roof; Bound mattress upon it With stoutest cords of rope, Lifted out her fainting mistress, Saying, \Honey dar is hope! You, Jawge Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Persimmons, Henry Clay, be Quick on dat raft, Don't star' like a calf. But take good cab ob baby!' The frothing river lifted them Out on its turbid tide, Anil for awhile they floated on Together side by side; Till, broken by the current strong, The frail raft snapt in two, And Persimmons saw his granny Fast fading front his view. The deck -hands on the steamboat Heard, as they passed in haste, A child's voice singing in the dark, Upon the water's waste, A song of faith and triumph, Of Moses and the Lord; And throwing out a coil of rope, They drew him safe on board. Full many a stranger city Persimm•ms wandered through, \A-totin oh der baby,\ and Singing songs he knew. At length some City Fathers Objected to his plan, Arresting as a vagrant Our valiant little man. They carried out their purposes, Persimmons \lowed he'd spile 'em, \ So, sloping from the station -house, He stole baby from the 'sylum. And on that very afternoon, As it was growing dark, Ile sang, beside the fountain in The crowded city park, A rude camp -meeting anthem, Which he had sung before, While on his granny's fragile raft He drifted far from shore. SONG. \Moses smote de water, and De sea gabe away; De chilleren dey passed ober for De sea gabe away. 0 Lord! I feel so glad, It am always dark 'fore day, So, honey, don't yer be sad, De sea '11 gib away. . A lady, dressed in mourning, Turned within a sudden start, Gave one glance at the baby, Then canght it to her heart; While a substantial shadow, That was walking by her side, Seized Persimmons by the shoulder, And while she shook him, cried: You Jawge Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Persimmons, Henry Clay, be Quick, splain yerself, dat ar fool smile— Whar you don bin wid baby?' ' BIDDY'S PHILOSOPHY. What would I do if I was dead? And when do von think of dying? I'd stand by your bed and bola your head, And cry, or pretend to be crying! There's many a worser man nor you— I f one knew where to lind him— And mabbe many a better, too, Witt' money to leave behind him! But yon, if 1 was dying to -day (l saw you now when you kissed her,) 1'11 tell you, Pat, what you'd be at— Y ou'd marry your Avidity's sister! You'd make an ill igant corpse, indade, Sleeping so sound and stiddy; If you could see yourself as you laid, You'd want to come back to Biddy ! You would be dressed in your Sunday best, As tidy as I could make You, With a sprig of something on your breast— And the boys would come to wake you! But you, if I was dead in your stead, (Do you think I never missed her?) I tell you, Pat, what you'd be at— You'd marry your widdy 's sister! The underiaker would drive the hearse That has the big black leather; If there was no money in your purse; Your friends would club together, They 'd look at your cold lemains before They followed you down to the ferry ; And the coaches standing at the door 1Vould go to the cemetery! But yon, if 1 was once in the box, (I wonder her lips don't bliste44) I tell you, Pat, what you'd be at— You'd marry your widdy's sister! When you was under the sod I'd sigh, And—if I could do without you, Mebbe I've a strapping lad in my eye Would come here and talk about you! A little courtin' would be divertin', A kind voice whispering, \Biddy!\ A kiss on the sly -for what's the hurt in A man consoling a width . ? But you, before I was dead at all, (Now don't deny that you kissed her) 1 tell you, Pat , what you'd be at— You'd marry your wittily 's sister ! DISTANCE. 0 subtile secret of the air, Makitig the things that are not, fair Beyon•I the things that we can reach And name with names of clumsy speech; By 6hatloW-worlds of purple haze The sunniest of sunny days Outweighing in our hearts' delight; Optsiting the eyes of blinded sight; Holding an echo in such hold, Bidding a hope such wings unfold, That present sounds and sights between Cau come and go, unheard, unseen - 0, subtile secret of the air, Heaven itself is heavenly fair liy help of thee! The saints good days Are good, because the peel Lord hiys \ 0 hotind of shore along the sea Of beautiful Eternity. —Helen Iluut. MAN 500,000 YEARS OLD. The New York Nation condenses from an English scientific periodical some in- teresting speculations of Dr. Alfred Rus- sel Wallace, on the probable antiquity of the human species. They may well star- tle, it says, even those who have long since come to the conclusion that six thousand years carry ns but a small way back to the original home. In fact, in Dr. Wallace's reckoning, six thousand years are but a day. He reviews the Va- 'IOUS attempts to determine the antiquity of human remains or works of art, and and finds the bronze age in Europe to have been pretty accurately fixed 3,000 , or 4,000 years ago, the stone age of the Swiss lake dwellings, at 5,000 or 7,000 years, and an indefinite anterior period. The burnt brit* found sixty feet deep in the Nile alluvium indicates an antiqui- (a of 20,000 yeireer7,'/Cft$Stfler Irugtnent 1lf seventy-two feet gives 30,000 years. A human skeleton found at a depth of six- teen feet below four hundred buried for- ests superimposed upon each other, has been calculated by Dr. Dowler to have an antiquity 0150,000 years. But all these estimates pale before those which Kent's cavern at Torquay legitimates. Here the drip of the stalagmite is the chief thetor of our computations, giving us an upper floor which divides the relics of the last two or three thousand years from a de- posit full of the bones of extinct mamma- lia, indicating an Arctic climate. Names cut in the stalagmite more than two hundred years ago are still legible ; in other words, where the stalagmite is twelve feet thick and the drip still very copious, not more than a hundredth of a foot has been deposited in two centuries -a rate of five feet in 100,000 years. Be- low this, however, we have a thick, much older mid more crystalline (s e. more slowly formed) stalagmite, beneath wlach again, \in a solid, breccia, very dfferent from the tave earth, undoubted works of art have been found.\ Mr. Wallace as- sumes only 100,000 years for the upper floors and about 2.500 for the lower, and adds 150,000 for the immediate cave earth by which he arrives at the stun of half a million years that have probably elapsed since human workmanships were buried in the lowest depths of Kent's cavern. 11**.---e—onit • 310RAL COURAGE IN DAILY LIFE, \Moral Courage\ was printed in large letters and put as the caption of the fol- lowing items, and placed in a conepic- nous place on the door of a systematic merchant in New York, for constant ref- erence, and furnianed by him for publica- tion : Have the courage to discharge a debt while you have the money - in your pock- et. Have the courare to do without that which you do not need, however much your eyes may covet it. Have the courage to speak to a friend in a seedy coat, even though you are in company with a rich one, and richly at- tired. Have the courage to speak your mind when it is necessary that you should do so, and hold your tongue when it is pru- dent that you should do so. Have the courage to own that you are poor, and thus disarm poverty of its sting. Have the courage to tell a man why you refuse to credit him. Have the courage to tell a man why you will not lend him your money. Have the courage to cut the most agreeable acquaintance you have when you are convinced that he lacks principle -a friend should bear with a friend's in- firmities, but not with his vices. Have courage to show your respect for honesty, in whatever guise it appears and your contempt for dishonesty and duplic- ity, by whomsoever exhibited. Have the courage to wear your old clothes until you can pay for new ones. Have the courage to prefer comfort and propriety to fashion in all things. Have the courage to acknowledge your ignorance, rather than to seek for know- ledge under false pretenses. Have the courage. in providing an en- tertainment for your friends, not to ex- ceed your means. Have the courage to insure the proper- ty in your possession, and thereby pay your debts in full. BEECHER-TILTON - A COINCIDENCE. [From the lIartIord Times.1 There is a certain matter in this Beech- er -Tilton :Mar which may not have struck the hasty reader. In the \cove- nant\ of mutual forgiveness and retrac- tion between Henry C. Bowen, Theodore Tilton. and II. W. Beecher. which was made public on the 30th of May, 1873. there was a reference by Bowen to a let- ter which Tilton had written to him. and ill which Tilton had spoken to Bowen of certain damaging stories concerning Beecher, which Bowen hall told and written about to different parties. These stories related to a number of scandals. only one ofwhich in any way concerned the Tilton timily. Bowen, in the \cove- nant,\ took everything back, and all three agreed to forget and forgive, and Tilton agreed never to revive any of these unpleasant matters. The date - January 1, 1871. of Tilton's letter to Bowen, reciting Bowen's several charges against Beecher, is identical withthe date of Beechers extraordinary and humiliating letter to Tilton. asking his forgiveness, and expressing a wish tor deati Justice is sometimes swift in Oregon, even when administered according - to law. A brawling fellow named Gbbens tired a pistol at a woman in Portland. An officer interferred and Gibbens killed the officer. The next day. Monday, an inquest was held, and on Tuesday Gib - bens WaS conunitted for trial. On ‘Ved- nestlity he was indicted. on Thursday lie was arraigned, on Friday he was found guilty, and on Saturday he was sentenced to be hanged. It is almost needless to add that he hadn't any money. —411111••••••...11111 Balthnore turns its stray dogs into glue. Made of fitithful dogs it ought to stick, like bark -to a tree. Ominotta. There are 140,000 saloons in the country against 128,000 schools, and only 54,000 churches. ARKANSAS. The convention movement has swept Arkansas by an overwhelming majority, and the delegates elected are nearly all Democrats and Conservatives. This is the first free and fair expression of the will of time people of that State that has been permitted for years. and the result gives some idea of the nature of the minority despotism which the Clayton ring has so long maintained. It affords also a coin- plete vindication of the wisdom and jus- tice of President Grant's decision in favor of Baxter as the lawful goveruor of the State. Arkansas is now contented anti at peace for the first time since the war - even the colored people having abandon- ed the Brooks and Clayton party and wisely cast their fortunes with the . white majority. The convention will shortly meet and provide a new constitution. The old proscriptions will be abolished, the fraudulent part of the debt will prob- ably be disavowed, as was done in Greor- gia, and a good many of the partisan contrivances of the Clayton ring will be cast aside Mith the men who invented them. If the new party now come into power shall only avoid a reactionary pol- icy and adopt intelligent aod liberal measures for the government of the State, Arkansas will be the most inviting field for inunigrants in the Southwest. als•-•-saa SPANISH CUBAN RULE DISSOLVING. Spanish altars in Cuba are in a desper- ate condition. The finances of the island are in a frightful state. Gold is quoted at 2.92 and is rising /lister than the mer- cury would in a. cremation furnace. The tax on slaves has been increased from twenty-five to seventy-five cents a head on all between eleven and sixty years of age. No progress, rather retrogression, is made in the work of subduing the in- surgents. The entire political,mdustrial and financial heavens look black over Cuba. The struggle for independence goes bravely on, while the oppressor still grinds his iron heel upon the neck of the titirest and richest island of tile Western hemisphere. Is it not a cruel and an exasperating sight? How much longer shall we accord exclusive facili- ties, privileges, and opportunities to the brutal tyrants and soldiery that Spain sends to crush the beauty and the riches out of Cuba, who we do slot so much as return a respectful salute to the patriotic islanders? There may be some profound reason of State craft in this prolonged in- difference and coldness to a race that has for years struggled bravely for independ- eoce, but the popular mind fails to appre- hend it. •ssa-as--• • A YOUNG GIPL SOLD INTO POLYGA- MY FOR A SPAN OF MULES. [From the Salt Lake Tribune.] Two Mormon farmers are neighbors in the southeastern part of the city, near the Penitentiary. In the tinnily of one is a daughter, aged fifteen, a pretty English girl with the rosy beauty of her native land in a sweet and guileless face. Her father is a polygamist and often told his daughter that the system which tears mothers' hearts to pieces is, after all, but a cross of salvation. This the maiden would not believe. The other farmer, also one of the plur- ality class and an Englishman too, courts the neighbor's child. She, so young and comely, would make a charming. substi- tute thr the good old and wrinkled wom- an who has crossed the seas with him. Accordingly the two men meet for a bus- iness talk. At first the girl's father said that he expected Elder—, one of the Twelve Apostles, wanted her, but finally concluded to give up thinking so. These neighbors, each one fifty years of age, then agreed to the terms of a bargain by which the damsel was sold by her own father to the hoary lecher, the price be- ing a pair of work mules. The ceremony which is to complete the transfer ot that girl to her owner will take place in the Endowment House on next Monday. A child's hope, yirtue and happiness are to be sacrificed at the altar. Daniel II. Wells, Mayor of Salt Lake City, is to be the executioner in this moral tragedy. The slavery of former (lays sold negroes at a public auction block, but in Utah the -Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints\ robs the cradle and finds victims for its hellish traffic. Yet when these horrible things are published the monsters who do them cry out : -Perse- cution ! Persecution !\ A VERDICT OP CENSUR.E. The verdict of the Coroner's jury in the Mill River disaster investigation cen- sures a great many persons, and very justly, no doubt. It censures the Legis- lature for inaquate and defective legisla- tion on the subject of reservoirs; the mill - owners for their parsimonious disregard oflife and property; the contractors for manifest delinquencies and want ot' thor- oughness in their work; and filially the - County Commissioners for accepting a dam so shabbily built, when they had the power to order its entire reconstructioe. And we propose. as usual, that this ver- dict of censure will end the matter. In our opinion the stern punishment of the contractors and the County Commission- ers, who are directly responsible for the gre.at loss of life by the bursting of the Mill River dam, would have thousands of times more effect in deterring others from following in their steps than ver- dicts of censure. Men who will take the chance of sacrificing hundreds of lives because they can make or save a few dol- lars, are not ot' the kind who severely feel censure. THE SPANISH INDEMNITIES. The demand of our Government on Spain for prompt indemnity is quite proper, though perhaps hastened by the pressure of Great Britain for reparation. By the agreement of November 29th, 1873, Spain solemnly promised indemnity for the families of those Amerieans killed by Burriel at Santiago de Cuba. But she has not taken a step toward fulfilling that ob- ligation. Her excuse is that ahe has a cross suit for damages on account of the moral and active support we have given the Cuban rebels. This cannot stand ; for we have been exceptionally neutral, all things considered. Our sense of duty overcame our sympathy. But Spain will hardly dare to put in such a plea. If the feelings of this country had not been re- pressed and held in subjection by a due sense of duty and international law, there would not have been a vestige of Spanish power left in the New World. 1Ve hope the Government will press the claims which Spain has acknowledged, and when the indemnity is collected pay it to those to whom it ia due. Five thnes John I hippy, of has been engaged to one girl, not made her Happy yet. THE WAGES OF SIN. ••••••••••••••• [From the New York Tribune.] Not many years ago a clergyman of one of the strictest of sects in a neighbor- ing city -a man eminent of his piety and learning -had a daughter, a girl of null- sual beauty and charm of manner. Much of the story tells itself in those facts. The child was lio doubt carefully taught and tenderely loved. Father and mother gave her to the Lord; mother and father, too, as the wisest of fathers and mothers will do, were secretly glad of her beauty, and propheaied a fairer future for her from it. Why should they not? The world has Ito thture fairer that before a woman, young, good, and beautiful. There is no scepter with rule so absolute and sure as rosetintcd cheek and brilliant eye -no royalty that gives so prompt and keen a pleasure to its pos- sessor. IVIten it belongs to a woman in a happy home, where she is faiththlly loved, and from which she looks up faith - funny from her daily work for him to an upseen Vather and Helper, it matters lit- tle whether the home be rich or poor. Her happiness is fouaded on a rock. This girl went into a home, where she was, we have every reason to believe, loved and guarded from temptation. How temptation came first, or how she fell, is not worth the telling now even if any know. It is enough to say that, with the teaching of the youth and her father's prayer before her, she chose a brilliant life of profligacy and crime, married and was divorced once or twice, dragged into courts the men whom she alleged had wronged her, - vas known in the city and many others as a woman of exceptional charm and power, which was never ex- erted to a good end, carried her charm and reputation to Europe, and finally, chozened a boy, the nephew of the Czar, to his undoing, ran away to Paris with the jewels he had stolen, and is there now. The whole story of the fair woman makes a romance 11,S brilliant and dramat- ic as ever fell from the pen of a French novelist; her beauty has made itself felt in many countries; she has grasped at different times power and position. We have no wish to dull the dramatic story into a tedious sermon. But what is the end of it all? What are the wages which to -day she fluids she has been paid? The reputation over all the world of a thief and a Magdelen, and the stolen jewel in her hand. We have no intention to join in the hue and cry. God knows what claims sheints for mercy. We only wish to say, there are wages, and none better are ever paid for such service. No matter how fair the promise of sin, the score at the last foots up the same. lams-is.as NEW WAR SHIP. The Inflexible, the latest pattern of war ship, now building for the English navy, is an extraordinary vessel. What may be called her distinguishing characterist- ic is that she NVill have, in the sense of vulnerability, no ‘'wirid and water line\ at all. Every one must know that the vitals of a man-of-war he along the belt of her flotation -a breach of her sides in that region lets in the sea and swamps her. The Inflexible carries all her side armor upon a central space 110 feet in length. It is twenty-four inches thick, and protects with that monstrous wall of solid iron her engines, her crew and her battery of four eight -ton guns. Along the rest of her -four and aft -there is no vertical artnor, but a thick inside cushion ot cork of enormous buovanee, more than sixty feet square in section, surrounding bunkers full of coal for the supply of the ship. A horizontal deck of thick metal extending fore and aft from the citadel, at a depth of six or seven feet from the water line, will cut off all this unarmored upper portion from the real hold of the vessel. Thus if the enemy should send shot or shell through every coal bunker and corner of the In- flexible. forward and aft, letting - in the water everywhere, he could only -it the design answers expectation -lower her a single foot in the sea. Her citadel, it may be confidently expected, he could not pierce; at any rate with guns at present in use. In a word, the constructors of the Inflexible give an enemy the upper slices of the ship, except the citadel, to do as he likes with; and it is by making the ends floatable under any circumstances that the iron work of the ponderous cita- del, with its turrents and freeboard, can be carried. The ram and the torpedo are therefore the only perils which threaten this forthcoming lighting ship; but per- haps these also might be provided against if her bottom under the water -deck were constructed in many compartments. The gentle' edit the rural who press in California are vigorous, forcible, and graphic. writers. When they have occasion to speak of a rival, they always do it in terms approaching fulsome flat- tery. They don'i stint their praise out there. The San Jose Mercury had occa- sion to speak of the editor of the Patriot, and did it in the following flattering terms: \The Patriot has the facial area to lecture us on the \decencies ofjournal- ism!\ That is pretty good. coming from one who has been led around the streets by the ear, cowhided, had his nose pull- ed, the doors of private citizens shut in his face, and has been lampooned and reviled in every conceivable manner for his abuse of the privileges of the press; from one who can be bought to support or oppose any man or measure for a few dollars; who is known through- out the State as a gross libeler, slanderer. and infamous old wretch; whose very presence is a stench wherever he goes. A lecture on the amenities of journalism from thi*source is decidedly rich.\ We shouldn't be surprised if the Patriot man were so delighted with these complimen- tary remarks that he would load his dou- ble-barreled rifle and go to the Mercury office and fire a salute in honor of time editor. In California they don't feel as if they paid proper attention to any one until they've burnea some powder in his honor. lo• -41--$116 There is a man in Jersey City who owns an elevator. The other night he was asleep and his wife was awake. He dreamt and he muttered words in his sleep. She listened. He said: -Dear Ella -darling Ella -sweetest Ella.\ She would hear no more. Shay grabbed hint by the shoulder, shook him till he awoke. and then shrieked: \Who is dear Ella?\ \Who is dear Ivhat?\ he asked, with a surprised look, ‘-The dear Ella you've been calling darling and sweetest in your dreams?\ \Oh I suppose I must have been thinking of the dear elevator which ha.s cost me so much thought and trouble for the past few months. It's been very dear to ma. It's been all outgo and no income with it.\ The wife subsided. She may be fully convinced that he was whol- ly truthful, but she keeps a very suspi- cious eye on him. He chuckles when he's alone, and says: \By George! that ele- vator was a lucky thought. If she only knew.\ Then he chuckles a little more, and goes and elevates his elbow. •Iss•-o-sala A Maine clergyman says that if the bones of all the victims of intemperance could be gathered together.and made in- to a pyramid, no plain could be found large enough for its base to rest upon. and the planets would have to be swept aside to make room for its apex. A In a \---77.4.\--4-16. colhston bet %% e ' en Russia and v'ermont, and he has China, there will be some broken crock - cry• KLEP TOM ANIA----114.THEIt A FAN- CY STORY. Mrs. Is. has lived five years a solitary, lone exception to the rule that governs wives and Mothers-in-law. Iler grief was great when some fell disease removed her lord and master's female progenitor. Young Mrs. L. was inconsolable. The old lady had five and a half feet of splen- did rosewood casket, sixty-one feet of impressive Episcopal service mile of funeral procession, and a (laugh- . and half a ter-in-law's regrets of unusual sights. Some five years ago young Mrs. L. lost some pieces of silver, and, suspecting a servant, dismissed ler. Every now and then articles of value disappeared, and, one after the other servants were accused and sent adrift charaiterless. In one or two instances she was aaout to prosecute, butt mother-in-law L. advised difilm.ently. Admitting their guilt was incontestible, she still thourht it better not to bother, and young Mrs. L. easily influenced, yielded. After the house resumed its course and mother-in-law was well planted, a look- ing over of the old lady's traps took place. Up came the teapots and sugar bowls stolen years ago ; out from a pair of stockings tumble a chain and locket for which Biddy got the sack ; in a box was found ten yards of point lace that occa- sioned the taking off of some unhappy hand -maid. In fact, mother L.'s things restored the loved and lost of five year's disappearances, restored the character of an army of suspected and cast a queer light on the acquisitive old lady just gath- ered to her fathers. -St. Louis Repub. -aisa-s-aas INVENTIONS. Tradition says that John Faust, one of the three inventors of printing, was charged with multiplying books by the aid of the devil, and was prosecuted both by the priests and the people. The strong- est opposition to the press, has. however, been presented in Turkey. The art ,of printing had existed over three hundred years before a printing -press was estab- lished hi Constantinople. From 1720 to 1740 that press issued only twenty-three volumes. It was- then stopped, and did not resume its issues until after an inter- val of more than forty years. About 1780, a press was established at Scutari, and between 1780 and 1807 issued forty volumes. Again its operations were sus- pended, and were not resumed untill820, since which time it has worked more in- dustriously than heretofore, although fet- tered with the paternal oversight of the Turkish Government . The ribbon -loom is an invention of the sixteenth century, and, on the plea that it deprived many workmen of bread, was prohibited in Holland, in Germany in the dominions of the church, and in other countries of Europe. At Hamburg, the council ordered a loom to be publicly burned. The stocking -loom shared the fate of the ribbon -loom. In England, the patronage of Queen Elizabeth was re- quested for the invention, and it is said that the inventor was impeded rather than assisted in his undertaking,. In France, opposition to the stocking- loom was of the most base and cruel kind. A Frenchman who had adopted the in- vention, manufactured by the loom a pair of silk stockings for Louis XIV. They were presented to the French monarch. wever, who Supplied The parties, ho hosiery to the court, caused several Of the loons of the stockings to be cut, and thus brought the stocking -loom into dis- repute at headquarters. The Sawmill was brought into Eng- land from Holland in 1663 ; but its intro- duction so displeased the English that the enterprise wits abandoned. A second attempt was then made at Limehouse, the the mill was erected, but soon after its erection it was pulled down by a mob. Pottery is*glazed by throwing common salt into the oven at a certain stage of the baking. The mode of baking was intro- duced into England in MO, by two brothers, who came to Stalibrdshire from Nuremburg. Their success and their secrecy so enraged their neighbors that persecution arose against them, and be- came so strong that they were compelled to give up their works. The pendulum was invented by Galileo; but so late as the end of the seventeenth century, when Hooke brought it fin -ward as a standard of measure, it was ridiculed, a sN I N I . ? Ing p .. a s s , sed by the name of -swing- PREVENTION OF SUNNT 1101 , i E. As the season of sunstroke is at hand, the following suggestions from one who has given •a(lentific attention to the mat- ter mill be worthy of reading by all who I are compelled to be much in the sunlight during the heat of the day : \About a year since I saw in a newspa- per an account of a case of sunatroke, written by the party himself. After sill- fering a long time from the attack, and having to a considerable degree recov- ered, he experienced suffering . even from the rays of the moon. This led him to reflection that it was not altogether the heat of the sun that produced prostra- tion. After much research he discovered that the injury came from the chemical ray, and not front the heat ray. He was guided to this by observing the litct that a photograph could not be taken through ahollow glass. Accordingly he lined his hat with two linings -one of orange yel- low to arrest the chemical ray, and one ot green to arrest the heat ray. Thus pre- pared, he went where the rays of the sun were moat intense with perfect impunity It is well known that the negro is seldom sunstruck. The color of his 1 4 kill OVVr the skull being of the orange yellow, may assist in accounting thr the fact. I practiced upon this sup, - gestion all last summer, lined my hat with green and orange yellow paper and had confidence enour - h in the truth of the theory to neg- lect my umbrella, which I had never (lone before. I mentioned it to many, who tried it also. and in many cases that emite inflict my observation they uniformly a.:- serted that the oppressive neat of the ,:on upon the head was mite!' relieved.\ 11111112110•• - NO d -.)p- . ,14. THE INCUBATION PERIOD OF ny- DROPHOBIA. The incubatory period in hydrophobia, or the space . of time during which the virus may remain latent in the system af- ter a bite by a rabid animal, is seldom less than eight days, and but rarely ex- ceeds two or three months. The large majority of eases, says Reynolds, have occurred within four and eight weeks. Many authentic cases have occurred in which the period of incubation extended to eight or nine months, and a few where it appeared to be much longer. A re- markable case has been placed on record, says the same author, in which a man who had been in prison for a period of more than two years became affected with hydrophobia. although he had only been bitten by a mad dog seven years previously. The following ease, however, which we find in a newspaper, seems to show that the period of incubation in this diseise may be protracted indefinite- ly : Twenty years ago a daughter of Pe- ter Hawk, Esq., of Stroudsburg, Penn- sylvania, was bitten by a mad dog. Al- though cattle bitten by the same dog were seized with hydrophobia, the girl did not show symptoms of the disease. She grew to NVOl1111111100(1, and was mar- ried. Recently, as she was raising a glass of water to her lips, a shudder ran through her, and in a few minutes she was seized with hydrophobia in its worst form. A number of physicians were called, but they could do nothing - for her. She died in great a;_rony. Another recent case of protracted incubation we find re- lated as follows in the World of May 14 : Eighteen years ago Daniel C. Weidner, of Farmingdale, New Jursey, then only six years old, was bitten in the left arm by a rabid dog. He suffered a great deal of pain at the time, but it gradually passed away, and wps almost forgotten. A few days since. while attempting to wash his face, he was seized with the symptoms of hydrophobia. In spite of all the medi- cal care that could be given hint, his con- dition grew worse and worse, and, after forty-two hours' intense suffering . , he died. altua•-•-•asa PLUCKY GIRLS. [From the Akron (0.) Beacon.) Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Decovey, of West Exchanr-e street, being absent from home, their two elder daughters, Ger- trude, 16, and Eva, 14 years of age, kept the house and had the care of three young children. On Tuesday night last, or rather Wednesday morning about 1 o'clock, Gertrude, sleeping in the cham- ber, was awakened by a noise outside the house, and, on going to the window, dis- covered a man working at the blinds ot the lacdroom below. occupied by. Izo$L .41.11a the youngest child. On finding that he was discovered, the man sprang from the window and partially concealed himself behind some objects a fi.w feet distant front the house. Gertrude several times called to him that, if he did not want to get shot, he had better \clear out,\ but he maintained his position. By this time Eva had become awakened, and seizing a loaded revolver. in the use of which she had some practice, rushed up stairs. Ger- trude again called upon the rascal to leave if he didn't want to get shot, and, as he did not stir she pointed out his whereabouts to Eva, who held the revol- ver in the direction indicated and blazed away. The fellow fell forward upon his hands and knees, and . then raising him- self apparently with great difficulty. made off into an adjoining field. After daylight the girls made a reconnoissance of the premises and adjoining field, and not only the tracks of the wounded fugi- tive were plainly traced, but one piace was found where he had evidently lain down and rolled upon the grass as it' in great agony. imo•-•-ore VENTRILOQUISM EASILY LEARN- ED. According to a sTriter in the Chicago Advocate, the ventriloquist's art is as easily learned as falling °int log. He maintains that there is no difficulty in acquiring the power: In the first place, he says, speak any word or sentence in your own natural tone, then open :i-our mouth and tix your jaws fast, as thought trying to hinder any one from opening them further or shutting - them, draw the tongue back in a ball, speak the same word, and the sound, instead of being formed in the mouth, will be formed in the pharynx. Great attention must be paid to holding the jaws rag -id. The sound will then be found to imitate a voice from the other side of the door when it is closed, or under floor, or through a wall. To imitate a sound be- hind a door partly open, the voice must not be altered from the original note or pitch, but be made in another part of the mouth. This is done by closing the lips tights and drawing one corner of the mouth downwards or towards the ear. Then let the lips open at that corner only, the other part to remain closed. Next breathe, as it were. the words out of the orifice fionied. Do not speak the words distinctly, but expel the breath in short puffa at each word, and as loud as possi- ble. By so doing you produce the illu- sion in the minds of your listeners that they hear the same voice which they heard \Olen the door was closed, but more distinctly and nearer on account of the door being open. The lips must al- ways be used when the ventriloquiat wishes it to appear that the sound comes through int obstacle, but from some one. close at hand. Gen. Ileauregard has become the chief engineer of the Argentine 1:epublie, :um °thee which has the snug salary of $20,000 a year attached to it. (ital. Ileauregard fhiled as a field.otlicer during' die war ; but there is no doubt that he is a VerY capable engineer. His engineering work around Charleston showed that. lie haa our wishes tor his full success in his new home. The faitireh ‘ - .02 ETrian•I Synod of Can- ada met at Halifax this year, THE MADISON IAN, PUBLISHED EVERY SATIL'It DAY Virginia City, liontana: THOMAS DEYARMON Editor and Proprietor. Papers ordered to any address eon be ehanwed to another address atthe option of the sueseriber. Remittance by draft. eheefc. money order or registered letter may be sent at onr risk. THE MADISONIAN is devoted to the ildvneacv.n * the principles of the Democratic party add tO general and local news. NOTES ON SCIENCE AND INDUS: TRY. dlie Of the most eminent engineers hi Prussia Cthialdera it nu improvement hi the construction of teel sails to combitW hard ingots or blocks of that Metal, the process of casting. with lathinie of soft steel or wrought iron, in such a mati-: ner that the latter, in undergoing the rolling process, may assume an internal position. In this way the advantage is gained of combining a certain amount of elasticity, ductillity, and toughness in the interior in resiatance to fracture, with a hard exterior to undergo wear and abra- sion. The principle involved in this pro- cess is not peculiar, however, to the pro- duction of steel rails, but admits of a variety of useful applications, the value of which is well understood. An interesting exa - - mple of the indus- tries :nal important results which have sprung recently from the Acientitie treat- ment of substances long overlooked or unthought of, is that afforded by the silky vegetable downs which clothe the seeds of many trees. These are now largely employed in some parts of Eus rope for stuffing beds, quilts -in the place of eider down --also ladies' skirts, and for other purposes. Of similar char- acter is the conversion of the leaves of the Iir-tree into what is termed forest wool, which is manufactured into a spe- cies of Ilannel;also into wadding, blank- ets., and wool for stuflin,! , - matresses. the preparation of this singular textile material, an whereal oil is produced, which is employed 11A a curative agent, and for burning: the membraneous sub- stance and refuse are compressed into blocks, and used as fuel; and from the resinous matter they contain a sufficient quantity of illuminating gas is derived to be made practically available for that purpose. The aetior of water on lead luta heed made the subject of much scientifie inqui- ry, but the results appear to be tar front definite or mini -In. According, hows ever, to experimenta Which have been made by CbriStiSOn, elaims to find ground for concluding that the pnreat waters act the most powerfully on lead, corroding it. and forming a carbonate of peculiar and uniform composition; also, that all salts impede this action, many of them when in extremely minute propor- tions: and that the proportion of each salt required to prevent action is nearly in the inverse ratio of the solubillity ot the compound which its acid forms with the oxide of lead. These results, as is well knOW11, (filler considerably front those arrived at by some other investiga- tors. The test for lead -hy drosulph uric y wl i i i e r i t i te e tt i t s t e p t l i o , ye i t s i s h o t ( tl i t l i k; i e N aa v t e y a s n detect that metal Whell dissolved in ten million parts of water. or even more; but it is asserted that the impregnation inuat amount to at least ten times this quanti- ty before water can act injuriously 011 the human system. The success of iniero-photography, as . a means of transmitting dispatches, has been so clearly demonstrated, that the possibility is now sup-gested by a French engineer of establishing a general sys- tem of communication of this principle. In order to ellect this, it is proposed to reduceinessages photographically to mi- croscope size, and then, having - inclosed them in metallic spheres or other vessels, - to blow them through a tube to the point ot destination. At the office where the message is received, it would again be restored to full size, and would then be forwarded by post or regular tele- graph. The Straits of Dover are 1114 , n- tioned in particular, as a locality availa- ble for such :t plan; and as the two sys- tems here combined have both been sue- ceasfully tested, it is thought that no reason exists why the scheme should liot prove a success. A point in its twor ia that, in case the conveying vessel is a sphere, the tube need not of necessity lie pi a straight line, provided the curves bet not too abrupt. Prof. Newberry states that his observa- tions -and they - have been most ex- tensive and careful -in naaard to our asphalt formations, have convinced him that, without exception, they are more or less perfectly solidified residual producta of the spontaneous evaporation of petro- leum. In many instances, lie says, this procesa of the formation of asphalt may be witnessed as it takes place, and in oil stills varieties of asphalt are constantly produced. These are in some instances undistinguishable from the natural 0114 , and in general differ from them only be- cause the rapid artificial distillation at a high temperature differs from the similar hut far slower distillation that takes place spontaneously at a low temper:v. ture. A very singular action in iron has re- cently been detected by Mr. Johnsen, au English chemist. It appears that iron wits limner:4(4.1 in hydrochloric acid one or more hours, and then tested for ehm- gation arid breaking strain. after which, - on being heated and again tested, the followin(r results were shown, namely-, that immersion in acid (lhoiniahes the breaking strain of iron wire from Om -- half to three per cent. and of steel %vire about four and three -fourths per cent; and that immersion in acid appears. in some eases, to diminiala and in others slightty to allgillent the 4'1011g:1114M of ir011 wire, and to preinote the elongation of steel Nvire about thirty per cent. • 1111••••••••116•—. ---.---- Josh Billing.s says \there is two things in this lite for which we are never pre- ,. pared, and that is twins.\ James 'I'. Field, says that whenever he heara of a -pretty good scholar,\ he is reminded of a pretty goosI egg! little 010, white met- maging :4 bureau; -then. now. grandpa, haz4 gotte to heaven and kit his specta- cle. , .” .veitty-six jobrivilc in Miehig:1:1 in favor of woman auttrage. .t,
