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H E MADISONIAN. 4 sunsitessmzsmasseisata t rrin I Y., AUGUST 5, IS7I. OFFICE, Two doors West from Wells, Far.. go & Co's. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year fin adv,Inoe) Six Months Three Months \ ADVERTISING RATES. THE MADISONIAN, as an advertising medium. is equal to any paper in Montana. I 72 \C f'D 2,) I . 2.0 7.4 7.2 1..ft at , •A\ 3: ts .14 Inch ... 2 Inches 3 Inches 4 Inches 6 Inches 13 Inches 15 Inches .. $3 $51 V - $10 $1:ii$20;$25 5 8! 9. 10 12 201 30; 40 7 9t 11j 12 15 2a; ; aa ' 8 111 121 14 17 30i 4& 70 10 121 .15j 18 24 38 651 90 11 18 24; 301 34 40 551 901140 ;*; 30 40! 50i 55, 65 751150j 250 The above scale of prices Is for ordinary sin- ele-column. display advertising. Solia and tabular advertisements will be charged at the ;atelt rate l'or space occupied. -0-10-41•-•----- • LOCAL NOTICES, Fifteen cents per line for tirst, and ten cents oar line for each additional insertion. CARDS, One-half inch, 52 for one insertion ; $3 for t wo insertions; $8 per quarter; 316 per year. The foregoing schedule of prices will be strictly adhered to. All advertisements counted iu Nonpareil measure. .1013 l=\1-1 Cr, 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 hts paper discontinued, he must pay all arrearagea, or the publisher may continue to send it until payment is made, and collect the whole amount, whether the pa- per is taken from the office or not. 3. The courts have decided that refusing to take the newspapers or periodicals from the Postoffice, or removing and leaving them un- called for, is prima facia evidence of intention- al fraud. PROFESSIONAL. G. F. COWAN, thin Rey and Counselor at Law. Rader.herg. Montana Territory. HENRI F. WILLIAMS, Atly & Counselor at Law, VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE ov er the Post Officer. 1. E. CALLAWAY, Attorney and. Coun- selor at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE, toljoining the office of the Secre- tary of the Territurv _ w. r.,t,: F.. J. K. TOOL.b:. TOOLE & TOOLE. A.ti - w-neys at HELENA, MONTANA. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. JOHN T. ',110, - -1F111. T. J. LOWERY. SHOBER & LOWERY, _Attorneys:4 rind voun- selors at Law. HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all the Courts of 3Iontana. SAMUEL WORD. _Attorney at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. JAMES G. S P R ATI, _Attorney and Clout' selor I AZ1 AV. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. R . W . HILL. _Attorney at Law, GALLATIN CITY. M. T. W. F. S NDE RS, Attorney and Conn- selor at Law. HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all Courts of Record in Montana. C. W. TURNER, NV , VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. OFFICE: Adjoining Colonel Callaway's. WM. F. K I R KWOOD, Attorney at Law, 'VIRGINIA CITY. Can be found at Judge Spratt's office or Pro- bate Court Rooms. IV ill 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 - y , Esq., until further notice. 1. C. SMITH, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. Office at the Old Le Beau Stand, Wallace Street, where he can be found night or day E. T. YGER, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. Will practice in all branches. Office one door above the City Druz Store. H. Is. BARKLEY, M. D. Physician & Surgeon. RADERSBURG, M. T. 111Z hhiasdprt(wd.een.42/0-nonefzelir vreas'rs\oVetrgrteiniale a r , urgeon in the Confederate army. He is pre- pared to perform all kinds of surgery. IN FEMALE COMPLAINTS, his expe- ferritors. rieuet tiOt surpassed by any physician in the TO TII0SE WHO HAVE VENEREAL COMPLAINTS. --Gonorrhea, if called upon w ithin live daps after the first appearance, he will cure iu seventy-two hours. In Syphilis. h 4 ' will cure 111 live days. treatment is differernt from any phYsi- ?atm rhon - . Ile is prepared fvr VOL. 1. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, ATTGUST THE COSMIC FRAUD. From infinite depths of ether, Out from the realms of space, Where systems, world -encircling. Rush on in mad'ning chase; Where silence is everlasting, Where broods the Cosmic lien, Forth darts a woeful comet To smite the sons of men. Its tail streams wildly behind it, Like hair of Lucifer hurled Over high heaven's battlements Down to nether world, Now woe to fated mortals, Now woe to sons of men, When down on the earth conies swooping This chick of the Cosmic Hen! For his tail is measured by millions Of miles, as it sweeps on high, And his titan ts as Dig as Saturn, And gleams his baleful eye! And that awful eye is on us! Tail cocked, claw up, he pounces, One squawk! Bah! fuss and feathers! So much for his sixteen ounces! Now back to the infinite ether Where his mother sits in gloom Cackling like mad for her chicken, Or mourning his early doom, That chicken comes back, his tail out, Pin -feathers all blown away ;— Such fate awaits men and comets Who would snap up the world in a day. NOW. Arise! for the day is passing, While you lie dreaming on; Your brothers are cased in armor, And forth to the tight are gone; Your place in the ranks awaits you; Each man has a part to platy ; The past and the future are nothing In the face of the stern to -day. Arise from your dreams of the future— Of gaining a hard-fought field; Of storming the airy fortress; Of bidding the giant yield; Your future has deeds of glory, Of honor (God grant it may!) But your arm will never be stronger, Or needed as now—to-day. Arise! if the past detain you, Her sunshine and storms forget; No chains so unworthy to hold you As those of vain regret; Sad or bright, she is lifeless ever; Cast lter phantom arms away, Nor look back, save to learn the lesson Of a nobler strife to -day. Arise! for the hour is passing; The sound that you dimly hear, Is your enemy marching to battle. Rise! rise! for the foe is here! Stay not to brighten your weapons Or the h our will strike at last; And from dreams of a coming battle, You will waken and find it past. SLEEP. Weep you no more, sad fountains! What need you flow so fast? Look how the sunny mountains lIeaven's sun doth gently waste But my son's heavenly eyes View not your weeping That now lies sleeping Softly, now softly lies Sleeping. Sleep is areconciling— A rest that peace begets! Doth not the sun rise smiling, When fair at even he sets? Rest you, then, rest, sad eyes— Melt not in the weeping, While she is sleeping Softly, now softly lies Sleeping, —John Dowland. CHEATING GROCERS IN ENGLAND. In apt adulteration Our tradesmen now exult: 'They'd kill the English nation, Both infant and adult. In trade what lots of trickery! In ale how little malt! The coffee's full of chiccorv. The beer is full of salt. Nutrition for the nursery, For babies plump and arch, Turns out upon a cursory Inspection to be—starch! Maizena and Oswego Are starch without the blue; But where the deuce will he go Who dares such things to do? What thongh a man has led the list Of traders of renown? Even a Moscow medalist The analyst runs down. And 0 how sad to utter The statement Punch has seen, That even best fresh butter Is made from butterine! The truthful grocer non est— Alas! his frauds are gross; Neither is vinter houest Nor brewer, inter nos. If you would wear gray locks on Brains that with age won't fail, Grow your own sheep and oxen, And brew your own good ale. —Punch. POSSESSION. A poet loved a Star, And to it whispered nightly, \Being so fair, why art thou, love, so far? And why so coldly shine, who shineth ao brightly? 0 Beauty, vvoo'd and unposscssed, 0 might I to this beating breast But clasp the once, and theu die, blest? That Star her poet's love, go wildly warm, made human, And leaving for his sake her heaven above, His Star stoop'd earthward, and became a woman. \Thou who hast woo'd and has pos- sessed My lover, answer, which was best: The Star's beam, or the Woman's breast!\ \I miss from heaven,\ the man replied, \A light that drew my spirit to it.\ And to the man and woman sigh'il, \I miss from earth the poet.\ —Owen Meredith. THE SONG OF TAJIL. The love I bear you, dearest, Would make the prettiest tale, If I had for a peu to write it The bill of a nightingale. And what should I have for paper? I know what would be best: Each page should be a rose leaf, As snowy white as your breast! And with such pen and paper What ink should then be mine? Tears when! wrote of my sorrow; When I wrote of my pleasure wine! —R. A. Stoddard. Plato to his lady love: Thon gazest on the stars: Oh, would I were the skies, That I might gase on thee With all my thonsand eyes! MATRIMONIAL SWAPPING. [From the Pittsburg Commercial.] From our exchanges from Potter Coun- ty, Penn., we get the particulars of a most singular case. During the present spring, it is stated, a 'nail named Graves traded his wife to one Haynes, the con- sideration being one day's work, a razor - strop and a razor, Haynes to have undis- puted possession of the woman as wife or mistress. Haynes and Mrs. Graves lived together for some thne, when the former suddenly disappeared, and the woman was persuaded to return to the hearth of her lawful husband. Now for the sequel, as related in the Coudersport Journal : \On Sunday morning last there was brought to the Jail in his place George wick& treirra-mooes.xory tO the poisoning of Haynes, residing near Millport, charged H. D. Graves, of Sharon Township. It seems that an intimacy had existed for a long time between Haynes and Mrs. Graves. A couple of weeks since Mr. Graves was taken sick. On Monday, the 22d of June. Haynes, who was living at the house of Wm. Payne, said he must go away on business for Mrs. Graves. lie was absent all day, and en his return said he had been to Port Alleghany. Mr. Payne, seeing a couple of packages in the coat of Haynes hanging up in the house, while Haynes WaS doing the chores, ex- amined them and found one to be a half - ounce bottle marked strychnine and the other a package marked arsenic—both bearing the name of a druggist at Port Allegliany. The packages Payne re- placed. On the 23rd Haynes met Mrs. Graves near her house, and, it is sup- posed gave her the poison ; at least, the next day Graves was violently ill, froth- ing at the mouth and vomiting. Mrs. Graves, who was arrested Sunday even- ing and committed to the county jail, by Leroy Allen, J. P., of Clara, states that at the interview with Haynes on Tuesday, he was very desirous of going into the house to see Graves, but she refused, as Graves would be angry, and told Haynes he might stand by a window where he could sec Graves without being seen himself. In this window sat a bowl of lemonade, and Mrs. Graves thinks if there has been any poisoning done that Haynes must have put the poison into this lem- onade. At least, she knows that, taking a drink of it herself. afterward she was made very sick, but the sickness only lasted half a day. \During all of Graves' sickness his wife refused to let any one but herself ad- minister medieine or to sit up with him at night. Dr. Porter was in attendance upon Graves. and Dr. Butler, of Ceres, was called atter the poison was discov- ered. Graves said he thought the poison had been given him for some days. We believe the above embraces the main facts of the case, and probably all that will be known until the matter is tried by the Courts. Graves was alive at last reports.\ THE EXCAVATION IN ROME. An extract from a private letter, writ- ten in Rome to a gentleman in Boston, and published in the Boston Transcript, gives these interesting particulars con- cerning the excavations at the Coliseum : At a depth of thirty feet below where we used to consider the level of the arena they have reached the original pavement; which is of bricks, set up edgewise. Un- derneath that is an immense cloaca or sewer. A large number of marble and granite columns have been found, with finely carved capitals, all broken, some into three or four pieces. Many mutu- luted statues and much else that is frag- mentary and of interest is being contin- ually unearthed. Everything is to be removed down to the original pavement. This will take at least another year, when another row of arches will then be visi- ble inside. It is evident that there was a previous building on this site, and that some of these ruins tinder this monstrous masonry belong to an almost pre -historic period. U. S. NEUTRALITY TOWARD CUBA. The United States Government has not in any official manner recognized the fact that there is any such a thing as war in the Island of Cuba. Now it is admitted by the Spanish organ in Havana that there are 60.000 Spanish troops, of whom 40,000. are employed for the protection of the cultivated districts. The power which thus gives employment to this large force has never even been treated as a \belligerent\ by the United States or any other nation. At no time during our revolution did Great Britain have to exceed 30,000 troops in the United States. Yet we were immediately recognized as belligerents by all nations and in two years after our Independence was recog- nized by France. This war in Cuba has lasted more than six years. It is perfect- ly evident that nearly all the people of the Inland must be upon one side and a foreign despotism on the other. We do not allow any supplies to leave our shores for the Cubans, but the Spanish Government can buy freely. This is what some c.all neutrality. It is really inter- ference in behalf of Spain. If the United States had been really neutral and given both sides in Cuba the same opportuni- ties, the Island would have been free sev- eral years ago. That is certain to be the final result. It takes two-thirds of the Spanish army to retain possession of one - seventh of the island. This can not last long. The resources of Spain can not sustain the drain. It is exceedingly dis- graceful to the United States that it has not accorded belligerent rights to the Cubans, who have been engaged in a no- ble struggle for their independence. At the funeral of his sixth wife Mr. B. proffered the officiating clergyman a t wo- dollar greenback. The minister declined it, saying he was not accustomed to ac- cept pay for such services. \Just as you say,\ coolly replied the mourner, \but that's just what I have been in the hahit of paying. - CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIO\31 IN MASSACIIIISETTS. an.•••=4•••• The Congressional elections in Massa- chusetts thts tall are likely to be unusually interesting. In Mr. Dawes' District a score or more of Republican aspirants are in the field for his seat, and the Demo- crats present the name of Mr. George L. Stearns. In Mr. Ge F. Hoar's District. the most prominent Republican candi- date is Mr. W. W. Rice, and the Demo- cratic nominee will probably be Mr. George F. Vern-. In'Judge Hoar's Dis- trict Governor Talbot is the most con- spicuous candidate. Concerning the oth- er districts, the Boston Herald says: -Mr. Crocker is likely to be troubled; Butler to be harassed, if he concludes to ask for a return; and Gooch to be defeat- ed. In Mr. Hooper's district strong if not winning cards are held by Collector Simmons, and he is, doubtless, in a con- dition to award the Republican noraina- tion to the politician he best likes. In Filth District the unpopularity of Mr. Gooch affisrds the friends of General Banks strong reasons for anticipating his early reappearance in Congress. The proposed Representatives, it will be no- ted. are, with one exception, not men of commanding strength, and if they are chosen the new delegation in ability will not be equal to the old. It is therefore a good time for individual voters to exer- cise some of their reserved rights. It is an excellent opportunity for casting off party shackles, to pick our Congressmen, as we do our dictionaries, only mindful to get the best.\ •sess-se-sas USEFUL HINTS TO TEA DRINKERS. Never boil your teas. By so doingyou expel all the aroma and delicious flavor which you wish to retain. All that is necessary to insure a cup of good tea every time, is, first to procure a good arti- cle, rinse the teapot thoroughly with scalding water, put in the tea while the vessel is hot, pour on all the water you wish while it is boiling briskly, let it stand in a warm place (a pan of hot tva- ter if convenient) until sufficiently drawn or steeped, but not allow it to boil under any circumstances. Never allow teas to remain uncovered, as they not only lose their strength and flavor, but at the same time absorb all the impurities in the surrounding atmosphere, rendering them unfit for use. HOW TO GROW FAT. If any one wishes to grow fleshy, a pint of milk taken befOre retiring at night will soon cover the scrawniest bones. Although now -a -days we see a great many fleshy thmales, there are many lean and lank ones who sigh for the fitshionable measure of plutnpness, and whould be vastly unproved in health and appearance could their figures be rounded with good solid flesh. Nothing is more coveteCI by thin women than a full figure, and nothing will so rouse the ire, and provoke the scandal of one of those -clipper build's\ as the conscious- ness of plumpness in a rival. In ceses of fever and summer complaint, milk is now given with good results. The idea that milk is \feverish\ has exploded, and is now the physician's great reliance in bringing through typhoid patients, as those in too low a state to be nourished by solid food. It is a mistake to scrimp -the milk -pitchers. 'rake more milk aad buy less meat. Look to your milkmen, have large -sized, well -filled milk -pitch- ers on the table each meal, and you will also have sound flesh and light doctor's bills. POPULAR NEGRO MELODIES. The most characteristic if not the sole contribution which America has given to the musical literature of the world is the Negro melodies, made famous first by Christy's Minstrels. A collection of these popular songs is now on exhibition in this city, and the history of the compo- sition and success of these well-known melodies is now for the first time made public. This collection embraces upward of one hundred of the popular songs which were sung by the famous Christy's Minstrels; and in many instances the manuse.ript words and music, together with autogreph letters of the composers. accompanied the priuted sheets. Nearly all of the songs aro indorsed in Mr. Chi isty's own handwriting, with his opinion to the compositions in words em- phatic and to the point. The original manuscript of the well-known songs, Oh! Boys, Carry Me' Long, Old Folks at Home, and others equally popular, are in the collection. Sonic of the manuscript letters from the song writers and compo- sers are quite interesting in their way. Mr. Christy paid from tell to twenty dol- lars for an accepted song, and the au- thors invariably acknowledged the re- cept of the money in payment with `bmany thanks.\ Mr. Christy's advice appears to have been generally sought by all these composers; and to dedicate a piece of music to -Chi isty's Minstrels,\ by his consent, was considered . a sure road to success. There are a large num- ber of letters from S. C. Foster in the col- lection, in one of which he aeknowledges the receipt often dollars for the words and music of Oh, Boys. Carry Me'Long - , with many thanks. It was said during the life -time of Mr. Christy that all the songs published in his mune were writ- ten by Steve Foster of Pittsburg, as he ' was popularly known, but it was indig- nantly denied. From these letters from Foster to Mr. Christy it appears that the rumor was actually founded on fitet. Mr. Foster agreed to compose the music and words for ten dollars a song at first, but shortly after the contract was made he proposed to give Mr. Christy the whole credit of the compoeitions. which were afterward published for the additional compensation of five dollars each. This proposition Mr. Christy accepted. and all of Foster's compositions from that time (August, 18.51.) bore Christy's name as writer and composer. In the year follow - lowing. Foster writes to Mr. Christy and desires to close the contract as it then ex- isted, and again come out a song -writer. and composer. To this proposition Mr. Chlisty's answer is not given, but it may be inferred from the indorsement on the back of the letter in words more forcible than elegant. All the letters from the authors. and even from Foster, indicate that Mr. Christy suggested nearly all the good points in their compositions.—Gold- e en Age. soases.-sse The Detroit Union states that a compa- ny has been incorporated under the laws of Canada for the construction of a rail- road from Windsor, opposite Detroit, di- agonally across the county of Essex, in a southeasterly direction to the harbor of Two Creeks, in the adjoining county of Kent. on Lake Erie, a distance of about forty miles. This road will intersect the Canada Southern ten miles east of Am- herstburg. and will thereby shorten the distance by that route between the Niag- ara River and Detroit by some twenty- five miles, thus rendering the Canada Southern far more directly tributary to that city than it is at present. The Union ventures the prediction that this connec- tion will he of very great advantage to Detroit. and even claims t slat it will make Detroit practically the western terminus ot the trunk line of the road. A Providence, R. I., letter -carrier threw array letters because it was too much trouble to carry them. He is now out of g a berth. \ON THE SIDE.\ A bare hunt—a woman looking for a flea. A drunkard cannot walk in the path of erect-itude. Mrs. John Moats plucked Moats out of her eye with a shot-gim. .\ Local Option\—To drink whatever you please wherever you are. The Sandwich Islands wish to get rid of their King. Chuck him down a volcano. To aseertain the price of board—Read lumber market reports. Parton is said to be writing the biography of Tom Collins in ten volumes. Akron is the Ohio city that sets the ex- ample of excluding organ grinders. Omaha papers are stirring up a church seandal. its nature Is Methodistic. A. T. Stewart, it is said, never forgets a friend—if the friend owes him anything. This is the season of the year when flies enter largely into every article of diet. The Marrs of' Detroit want a fortune which has been left in Scotland. Their par was a Harr. A woman at Lowell, Mass., who weighs 391 pounds, is running the hack business in that plice. \How long will my chop be, waiter ?\ angrily asks a hungry man in a restaurant. Aboat hve inches,\ was the accurate re- ply. A Portsmouth, N. 11., woman was taking some baked potatoes front an oven, the oth- er day, when one of them exploded, seri- ously iajuring her left eye. A maa has started a paper in the State of aa be issued \occasionally which is a great deal oftener, the editor says, than lie will get pay for. Au cld gander was recently killed in Vir- ginia at the age of ninety, by drinking lye out et! a trough. Here is a warning for readers of Republican papers. Tit( New York Graphic complains of a lack o! dressiness at Saratoga. What does it meaa? Do the ladies wear their dresses too log or too high, this year? It is fashionable for the bride to throw a boquet at the bridegroom, at the conclusion of tht marriage ceremony. In a few years the haquet will be made of broom -corn. Th3 important questions which agitates Norwich, Conn., is, whether lobsters are dangerous to the health when eaten with milk. Astronomically speaking, Cancer is not in the milky way. Stanley is to lead an expedition, jointly arranged by the N. Y. Herald and London Telegraph, of discovery into the heart of Africa to conclude the unfinished N;ork of Livingstone. \On Stanley, on.\ A Titusville woman who had the dyspep- sht tried a novel remedy. She pounded up some glass and took a dose of it. She still liVes, but will avoid that sort of medicine hereafter. She very nearly gave the un- dertaker a job. The President was informed by an old lady at the Round Lake camp meeting that he was - a poor, frail mortal,\ and another prayed for \ his conversion on these very grounds.\ It is no wonder he got away as soon as possible to see a boat race. At a recent agrieultura! show in Norfolk one of the inhabitants uttered his senti- ments on a canvas banner: \Of all the crops the farmer raises, Or capital emnloyses, None brings such comforts and such praises As a crop of girls and bovses.\ A woman with red hair and clenched fists, chasing. A man with scared eyes and straining legs, chased. The woman shriek- ing—\ Pay me that board bill or I'll break every bone ia your bodyl\ The man cry- ing—\ Help! help! Police!\ These are the features of a street scene described in the St. Paul papers. Four doctors tackled Johnny Smith— They blistered and they bled him; With squills and anti -bilious pills And ipecac they led him. They stirred him up with calomel, Aad tried to move his liver, But all in vain; his little soul Was wafted o'er the river. It is related that an old Enallsh primer was printed, and the whole of the first ed- ition sent out, in which, by the omission of the letter \c\ in a singte place, a solemn stanza was made to read as follows: When the last trumpet soundeth We shall not all die, But we shall all be hanged In the twinkling of au eye. The Indianapolis Journal is anxious that people should spell hymeneal correctly and pronounce it with the accent on the third syllable. At the same time the compositor who managed to divide the word at the end of a line was allowed to divide it thus— hyme-neal. How is that for Hymen? As the sun in all its splendor was peeping over the eastern hills, a newly -married man exclaimed: \The glory of the world is ris- ing.\ His wife, who happened to be get- ting up at that moment, taking the compli- ment to herself, simpered: \What would g y o o v‘ u ,n th o i n nk ?, , , my dear, if 1 had my new silk A Chicago clergyman relates the follow- ing anecdote: \I once married a handsome young couple, and as I took the bride by the hand, at the close of the ceremony, and gave her my warmest congratulations, she tossed her pretty face, and, pointing to the bridegroom, replied: \I think he is the one to be congratulated.\ \Dad if I were to see a duck on the wing, and were to shoot at it, would you lick me?\ \ Oh no, my son; it would show that you were a good marksman, and I would feel proud of you.\ \ Well, then, dad, I peppered your old muscovy duck as d h o e w w n t flying over the fence to -day, and it would have done you good to see him drop \Oh gracious! no,\ exclaimed Mrs. Mar- rowfat to Mrs. Quoggs, raising her hands and speaking in a very excited tone. \She was so very ill when her new bonnet came home that she couldn't get up, but dear sakes! Jane, that didn't matter nothing, for she just put the hat on and lay with her head on the front window the whole after noon.\ A schoolboy's toothache generally begins at eight a.m.. and reaches its highest alti- tude at quarter to nine, when the pain is intense to an extraordinary degree; begins to subside at nine ; and after disappears with a celerity that must be very cemforta- ble to the sufferer. If at night that boy hasn't got four quarts of walnuts spread out to dry up stairs, it is because there ts no! place up stairs to do it. THE MADISONIAN. - PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY . V.T City, - Montana, THOMAS DEYARMON, Editor and Proprietor. Papers ordered to any address can I be Ci1:111C4.1i to another *address atthe option of the sneaceiber. Remittance lty draft. check, money I order or regl...tered letter nia, - be sent at our ria.:k. _ THE M DISONIA N is deteted to the a p d .ti v t 7,.a i e n v ( to ot' s tige t r l u ri i n u e n iF i l i t: ) s ea n i f t n h e e w tmocratin 118 114• NO. 39,1 .- -• A THE OLDEST TOTER LIVING. The following eXtraordinary statement is given in the Bloomington, Ind., cor- respondence of the Louisville Courier - Journal, where it appears just as here printed : noticed in several journals articles claiming for their va- rious localities the honor of having in their midst the oldest voter. I concluded to put in the claims of Monroe county, Indiana. Living near Bloomington is our venerable old friend IVilliam Ross. who, according to his own account and family record, was born at Guilford Court -house, North Carolina, May 17, 1759 ; consequently he was one hundred aird fifteen (115) years old the 17th day of last May. Father Ross is in splendid health, visits Bloomington frequently during the pleasant weather of summer, kills squirrels with his rifle, chops wood, works his . own garden, and occasionally follows the plow, and says he fee:s as young as he did half a century ago. Father Ross was not in the Revolution- ary war, but was an eye -witness of the battle of Guilford Court -house, North Carolina, and makes no claim to having been a member of the military family of General Washington, or even having seen the General. He has voted for nine- ty -tour years, but does not remember how many votes he has cast within that time, but it must have been well nigh on two hundred times, and has invariably voted the regular Democratic ticket, and never fails to pay his taxes. He is certainly the oldest man in the United States, if not in the world.\ •no• -•-•on TOLERATIONS. It is an insult - . to - any man to say that we tolerate lihn or his opinions. If we have learned only to endure the expres- sion of thought that is contrary to our own—only to put up with it as a nuisance we cannot get rid of—only to listen to it with the appearance or the consciousness of according a great favor, as if it were a virtue in us not to gag the impertinent who dares to dispute the wisdom of our owthopinion—then we are abecedarians in the philosophy of freedom. and have yet to rise to a true comprehension ofthe equal rights of man. Not to feel and to evince a genuine reverence for all honest thought, no matter how much opposed it may be to our OW11 1110St cherished convictions, is to fall into a grevious fault. If we tolerate others they tolerate us ; we have no more right to expect deference front others than they have to expect it 11-om us ; and the arrogation. of superiority, the air of condescending suflbrance, with which so-called liberals ap. -0 receive the essasaso- . • are too f elusions not identical with their own— nay, the impudent assumption of ant ty which they sometimes unconscious- ly betray in the treatment of the other- wise-minded—shows that free thought is not a principle, but merely an accident with them. Dr. Bastian punctured the conceit of more than one liberal when, referring to the supercilious manner in which Prof. Huxler treated his patient experiments on spontaneous generation, he sarcastically alluded to the latter's \air of restrained omniscience.\—The In- dex. THE PROSPECTS AND POLICY OF THE BON APA IITISTS. When parties are exactly balanced there is nothing to be done except to wait patiently until one or other oe them has grown strong enough to constitute an effective force, and during this inter- val of pafient waiting a Provisional Gov- ernment is the natural resource of moder- ate politicians. The situation in France is distinguished from this by the fact that the Assembly is believed. and believed with good reason. not to represent the country. At Versai lles. Republicans a nd Loyalists jnst counterbalance one anoth- er. Outside of Versaille-; the Royalists are a very small minority. while the Re- publicans command a large majority. At Versailles again there are only these two parties to be considered, tor the Bona- partists are too few to influence the de- cision of the Chamber except by acci- dent. But outside Versailles it is suspect- ed that the Bonapartists are much more numerous, and that. so long as the pres- ent oneertointy continues. their strength will go on inereaing. From these facts the Left Center deduce that the Reputlie can be organized it it can secure a major- ity of even one vote in the Assembly. and if it is to serve as a genuine bulwark against an Imperial reaction, it must be ornnized without loss of' time. The see- ond of these conclusions is certain enough. Whatever else is doubtful, it is clear that delay in determining what the form of Government shall be serves the purpose of the Bonapartists. It enablee their agents to preaeh with continued reiteration that the Empire is the only Government which can command the second vote ot all parties, and that thr this reason it is admirably fitted for a country in which no two parties can agree to what Government to give, their first vote. Royalists would rather live under an Empire than under a Republic. Republicans would live under a mon- archy restinfr on divine right. Neither of them will ever consent to yield to the other; consequently. the only hope for the country lies in the establishment of a Government to which both will yield. Tins, no doubt, is the substance of the Bonanartista, preaching, and it is near enough to the truth to make it a very useful weapon in the hands of indethtiga- ble and unscrupulous missionaries.—Sat- urday Review. lass...4+1111114, 'L./ • THE YANUEE SPINSTER IN P tRIS. The funniest person I have seen for a long time was a chippy little old maid from Connecticut, who, hearing me speak English, introduced herself to me at the saloon, a few days ago. She had come over to Europe all alone, she told me. and what she had come for was a marvel to me, for a more ignorant little personage it has seldom been my lot to encounter, and whatever induced her to come so far to see a country of which she had heard so little was a perfect riddle. She knew nothing of history, had never even heard of such a place as Versailles, and as to the pictures, lier delight at finding somebody who would tell her what they were all about was extreme. But when attempted to explain their subjects to her I found the task one of considerable difficulty, tor she knew nothing about the subjects themselves. She never had \heard tell\ of such a woman as Cleopatra, the mythological subjects puzzled her dreadfully, the his- torical ones were no better, and only the Scriptural ones seemed to awaken some familiar idea in her mind. At last we come to Betraud's beautiful picture of Romeo and Juliet. \Are they dead or are they asleep. and who are they?\ she asked all in a breath. I informed her that the picture represented Romeo and Juliet lying dead before the gate of Juliet's tomb. \Ah-h-h!\ she ejaculated. backing off to take a better view of the figures. Then after a long scrutiny, 'she turned to me again. \French people, weren't they?\ she asked. I could bear no more. I fled precipitately in the op- posite direction, and astonished the som- bre guardian ot the architectural depart- ment by indulging in wild shrieks of laughter before a huge drawing of a Grecian temple.—Lucy H. Hooper, in Philadelphia Press. A HARD HIT. The Grass Valley Union tells the fol- lowing story : A friend of ours, residing in this town, is a great lover of music. and he in inclined withal to be sentitnent- al at times. • He was up at Nevada city, a few days ago, while the German band was playing to the people there. The band discoursed several tunes to a knot lieteners among whom was our friend. They all applauded a piece played, and our Grass Valley friend went farther than applause. He made a chunk ot a speech to the boys. He said that WAS one ot the sweetest pieces of music he had ever heard. The time was perfect and the cadence was exquisite. He wound up by remarking ; - the fact is, gentlemen, I never hear 'Home, Sweet Home,' played without feeling like shedding teare.\ Our friend wiped a little moisture out of his eye with a corner of his hankerchief. But his auditors did not get sympathetic, but buret out into a laugh. The band had been playing the \Laet Rose of Sum- ter e,gn We give *no name, but suggest that Pope has a wooden overcoat ready tor the man who asks him about the dif- ference between Home, Sweet Home, and that belated rose of Faimmer time. ons•—•---00 A WILD MAN OF THE WOODS. [Front the Oregon (Ogle Co., Ill.) Register. J The township of Nashua, this county, has been the scene of speculation and sensational terror for about two weeks. A supposed wild man made his advent into the forest growths of that neighbor- hood, from whence he emerges at sun- down. lie has been seen frequently of late, but is always on the alert, and will stiffer no one to approach clooly to him. He will flee from a small boy, like smile men from the wrath to come. Siihstilar- ly are his actions—yet more singular is his costume. His dress is composed of cloth with bias stripes of yellow and white, something after the order of the state prison ,h - arb. He wears a short bloase w - hich extends to . just helow his hips. This uniform is rendered variegat- ed with patches of rag -carpet i tes. fastte ied on with eharnenel sticks and splinters; he ss as tirst .Secit Coining uown tne railroad track some two weeks since, just eller the arrival of the 3 o'clock freight at Honey Creek Station -house, ano while Mr. Wilson, station agent, was bust - about the cars, captured the carpet. wit \vhich he patched his clothes awl made his way to tlw woods. Mr. W. had merely seen he, she or it when (lithe a distance up the track. and knew not that the depot had received a visitation until he miasel the carpet. Last Saturday ni!tht the boys chased the strange being, and on nearing him, diecovered that his thee was covered with a pasteboard mask, with painted liens on the cheeks, and feet enveloped in rag carpets. On Sun- day mg - ht resrular orsanized chase took place, and a small boy eight years old. son of L. L Mayberry, chesed the ' . wild man\ on horseback. and discovered that he then had his thee covered with a cloth, having holes made for nose, mouth and eyes. - The etranger's hair reaches to his shoulders, and was quite !tray. but the little boy of Mr. Mayberry's says that when the hunted etreneer would push it front he back of his heat' over his eyes it was black. and when he pushed it back it was all white. The little thllow in- quires: -Do you think he emild color it that quick?\ The wild man, inssne man. or escaped Convict. intiniates the groan- ing and growling of a bear. and some- times walks on his hands and feet. %Viten chased be the boy on horseback Sunday night he made a leap and cleared a four - board fence of Chaney's past ure—thus evinced an aeility illy in keeping with the color of his wig or hair he was wear- inss. He has been s«ei thin- or live times duri ng the last two weeks by boys search- ing fOr their eows in Chatiey's pasture. Ellorts will be made to capture him. We cohjecture that he is an escaped jail- bird. THE PH/ LOSOIPZIY OF THE CHI- CAGO I'm 911.:S. As we pointed out when another great fire was threatened in September last, Chi- cago has a perfect magazine of combus- tible materials stored up on either side of that long bend of the south branch of the river, beginning at the limit of the old burnt district, and ending at the junction with the Illinois and Michigan canal. Whole blocks of wooden houses mark the upper part of this inflammable belt, and low down thesg give place to clue- ters of wretched shseities, stables, and work -shops, while still further along the line a long series of lumber -yards, con- taining on an average of two hundred and fifty millions of feet, complete the band that may at any moment become a fiery girdle. threatening the existence of the entire city. The great fire of 1871 start- ed from the north-western termination of the broad band we have described; the fire of last year started a little to the west ofits center, and the fire of last night began about the north-easterly corner. Whatever may be said about the ltunber- yard, it is high time that Chicago ehonld add to the prohibition against the erection of new frame dwellings some energetic measures for clearing away a dangerous mass of the old ones to be found not far trent the seat of yesterday's fire—New York Times. \And when in after days,\ said a learn - counsel in the court -room, \we meet to- gether around the social hearth, where I shall no longer be oppressed by the heat and burden of the day, and you, gentleman, will find yourselves in other scenes than this, at rest from arduous labors, thee, as we talk together of by - I gone times, may you be able to say that the first thing you did on returning to the jury -room was to unanimonsly agree that you could no reliance wha.tev- er upon the testimony of that man Smith.\ CONFLICT (IT RACES IN THE SOUTH. There is a pitiable state of affairs in Vicksburg. growing out of the partisan teachings whieh are leading so rapidly to a conflict of races in many of the South- ern States. The blacks in Vicksburg hold the political power, being in a majority with their rascally white leaders, and so arrogant and offensive have they made themselves that the division is no longer between Republicans and Conservatives, but between white and colored. As a measure of intimidation, the negroes con- teolling the State Goeernment recently made an attempt to disarm the white militia of Vikcsburg while allowing, the black company to retain their rifles. The whites hid their arms belonging to the State, and bought themselves revolvers, instead. while the negro company para- ded the streets -with loaded rifles. acting as a self -constituted patrol and stopping ladies and gentlemen, whom they de- tained until they gave an account of themselves. Furious speeches by negro orators. urging the blaeke to violent demonstrations. have fed the flatneeind outbreak between the disgusted and indig- nant whites and these aggressive blacks is possible at any titne. One of the most unfortunate features of the business is the excuse it has given for a call upon Grant for troops, whieh means only another case ot political interference. It is, how- ever, the legitimate consequence ot the instruction in iniquity which the blacks havereceived from the low politicians who manage the State in the interest of the Republican party and the AdMilliA- tratiOn ; and thc,4. must be held respon- sible for any outbreak. GOING TO THE GRAVE FOR EVI- DENCE. .1 correspondent of the Southside Sen- tinel, Virginia. gives an aeconnt ot the search for the remains - of William Jen- nings, who is said to have been buried about a hundred years ago near Jen- nings' Ordinary, in Nottoway County. The object of the search is to establish a claim to the great Jennings fortune in England. TWA William Jennings was an Wheel- of Ilis Majesty's army, and is said to have been buried in his regiment- al snit. It is thought that perhaps his Sword also was buried with him. Could these be recovered a valuable clew would be added to the evidence already ob- tained. On Monday morning there were , gathered at the old burying -ground. which is now thickly surrounded by pines and grown over with csalam and enormous grapevines, a number of people te wit ne s e: the exeavations. Many graves were Opened wit hout finding the desired one. The search) was resumed next day, after the correspondent had lett. THE sPIRITU A 1. MA NIFESTA- TIONS. tile laSt teW months. says an exchange, a new impulee has been given to the doctrine of spirit ualism, by a set ies of wondertul manithstations in England, so remarkable that all other startling - de- velopments of the kind sink into utter insignificance. A no less remarkable re- sult has been attained than the appear- ance, in London, of a spirit in the as- sumption of a bodily firm, which could be seen and handled by those present. It appears that a young lady medium would fall into a trance, and be visited by a spir- it who did such remarkable things that some ot' the most reliable and best known men of London went to her last seance, in a private house ; when the spirit of a woman, calling herself Katie King, ap- peared in the room. and spent two hours conversing with those present. In leav- ing, the spit;t cut oil' locks of her hair, without produeing any lessening of its quantity ; it also eut pieces from her dress. without making any holes. and presented them to those present. Then, alter bidding them all an affectionate farewell, it disappeared. If these theta, which are attested to by people of the highest standing and respectability, are not the result of trickery, and the ac- counts are in varaence with sueh a. hypo- thesis, the appearance of an inhabitant of another world, in bodily form, is indeed the most remarkable thing which spirit - nil is In has (We r produced.—Eureka Sen- tinel. A marriage I issued to Joel ic so--es--m ense was Mansfield recently permitting him to unite his fortunes with Mary Hein. The reader may remember. says the Califor- nia Alta. that the bridegroom in this af- fair is no less a personage than the man who, more than than two years ago. shot his present bride twice, with the inten- tion ot killing her, and then attempted suicide, the bullet piercing his side. He recovered, and was tried three times for attempting to murder ; the jerks failed to agreee, and eventually the ease was I t ‘ h .e r l o i l i t .) - t y i o u t: e t u o n f io cc i i l i . irt. All is IluW made In a friendly official note to Minister Bingham. the Japanese minister of for- eign aflairs acknowledges the invitation to the American Centennial, and stays that his government will take great satis- faction in spreading among its subjects a knowledge of the intended ititernational exhibition, and that those who desire to exhibit Japanese productions will receive every assistance and facility from the government. A national commission will be appointed to take charge of the work. The mieister thrther says -it id probable that a special mission will he sent from Japan to co-operate in the cel- ebration of American Independenee. and to hear token of our frienship for the United States.'' 0-- -- A female gymnasium ha , twen started in San Francisco. It is theuri-hing ; so also is the surgene next door. There have 1).*n ten bre! , e0 iegs and spade , innumerable. He hieseee :he gymnasium. and says it's his next beet friend tes orange peel and w..termelon rind. 4 :; a
