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4111.1,001 1 / 1 10aNYINISIMMIRIMINIOr THE MADISONIAN. /M. • • SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1S7-1. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year in adv . rtnee Six Months Three Months \ $5 Wa 5Q 1 50 ADVERTISING RATES. THE )IA DIS0 %IAN. as an advertising medium. is e q ual to any paper in Montana. I ,, . _ ri I gi tie .Le 8,3 s5 , ig,.! $6410 i $15420!$25 loch ..... 5 s' 9! 10; 121 201 301 40 a Inches :; Inches 1 7 9 11 121 15 251 371 55 s VI 12 HI 17 30; 45' 70 4 inches ti Inches 1.0 12 15 181 24 381 65 90 13 Inches I Is, 24! 30 341 401 55! 90 140 .e\) Inches 30 ; 4o 51) 55! 651 751150125() The above scale of prices Is for ordinary sin - ale -column. display advertising. Solid anti :sibular advertisements will be eharged nt the •.. , t• rate iittr space occupied. &di F LOCAL NOTICES. Vifteen cents per liue for tirst, anti ten cents uceliee 6ir each additional insertion. - CARDS, One-half inch, $2 for one inSertion ; $3 for , two insertions; SS per plarter; $16 per year. The foregoing schedule af prices will be strictly adhered to. All advertisements counted In Nonpareil JCIII - 11'ITI,IN'TIN (4-, i I 4 )t c L t• ry description, executed in the best sod isr:ItrIt sts - le. and on reaaonable terms. NEW P MONS. —s-----•Apiir Lic 1. Any one who takes a paper regularly from the Poatoifice—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 discontinged, 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- tter is taken from the office or not. 3. The courts have decided that refusing to take the newspapers or periodicals front the Poatoffice, or removing and leaving them . 1m - called for, 1.; prima jitcsa evidence of intention- al fraud. PROFESSIONAL. G. F. COWAN. Attorney and Counselor at Law. Rattemberg, Montana Territory. HE R F. II ILL' Atly & Counselor at Law, VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. (lama: over the Poet Officer. J. E. CALLAWAY A.ttovney and Conn- elt)r. at - 1_,•aw. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE, atijoittitig the office of the Secre- Lull thr Territtirr W. TOOLE. J. K. TOOLE. TOOLE & TOOLE• tipi-noy!-: zit \Law - HELENA, MONTANA. Well practice in all the Courts of Montana. JOHN T. SHOBER. r. J. LOWERY. SNORER & LOWERY, Attorneys rtna c•ottn- .selors at LANs-. HELENA, M. T. Will IPTnetiet in all the Courts of Montana. SAMUEL WORD. t torntt-y at 1 Aaw. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. JAMES G. SPR AT T, Attorney a 1.1d. €7011.1.1s. Se101 - at Itt - t - w- VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. win practice in all the Courts of Montana. R. W. HILL. Attorney at La.w., GALLATIN curl - , air. T. ^ W. F. SANDERS, Attorney and Conn- selor - 1,aw. HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all Courts of Record in Montana. C . W. TURNER, A VS . X' IF: VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. oFFICE: Adjoining Colonel CallaWay'e. WM. F. K R KWOOD, Attorney at Law, VIRGINIA CITY. Can be found at Judge Spratt's office or Pro- bate Court Rooms. Will practice in all the Courts of the Territory . GEORGE CALLAWAY, M. D. Phyaioian anti Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M NTANA. u FFICE, at the Law Office ofJ. E. Calla- kay , Esti .. until further notice. I. C. SMITH. M. D.. Office at tio: Old Le Beau Stand, W Mince t tt e can be fonnd night or day E. T. YAGER. M. D.. Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. +4 ill practice in all brunette- ornee one door abot c the Drug store. H. U. BARKLEY. M. D. Physician & RADERSBURG, M. 'T. xpounding to his iloek on the as - 1 '- / VOL. 1. I' Co - 4 . 'r1\1E1 TROI\T-FISHING. BY WILL WALLACE HARNEY. From Harper's for August 'Tis twenty years. Do you remember NVhen, boy and girl, we stole the skin% Aud went a -fishing one September? The lake so clear, it was as if, Cpborne on ib• e's delicious leaven, We floated in a pure mid -heaven, With clouds of lillies for a border. The fragrant summer seemed to ache In blossom for dear paasion's sake, Excessive with its sweet disorder. In you, too, was that fond distres4 Of flush and fear and happiness, Caresses by caress unhanded. Till, fingers mated on the reel, 1 thought the very trout could feel 'Lis double spoil was caught and landed. Ala:t! that love whioh we remember_ Bhisti-rtpe as all mese wanton weeds, Should be a Intl3:frytla. <>e •;.. I .eattrouse, the promise seeds— Born guiltless of Sweet dying things, whose only duty Is clothing life in forms of beauty! For though I held you in my arms, As full of honey in your charms As when the trefoll holds the clover, Your 'lagers, tutored in a thimble, In playing trout were found so nimble You hooked the fish and cast the laver. But often, since we slipped the books To play for life with baited hooks In pools less pure, do I remember The fragile blossom of September, Born guiltless of the promise seeds— A dying thing, whose only duty Was clothing life in forms of beauty, With heaven above and heaven below it, Though life has grown to other needi, Our boat lies rotting in the weeds, And we can neither raise nor row it. 110411- 0 - GEMS OF POETRY PROCRASTINATION. Shun delays, they breed remorse; Take thy time while time doth serve thee, Creeping snails have weakened force. Fly their fault lest thou repent thee; Good is best when soonest wrought, Lingering labors come to naught Hoist up sails while gales doth last, Title and wind stay no man's pleasure: Seek not time when time is past, sober speed is wisdont's leisure THE LAND OF SONG. The laud of song within thee lits-1. Watered by living springs; The lids of fancy 's sleepless eyes Are gates unto that Paradise; lIoly thoughts like stars arise, Its clouds are angel's wings. Look then into thine heart and write: Yes, into life's deep stream! All forms of sorrow and delight, All solemn voices of the night That can sooth thee or atfright, Be the henceforth thy theme.. —Longfellow. OUR TRUST. All are not taken; there are left behiLd Living beloveds, tender looks to bring And make the daylight still a happy thing, And tender voices to make soft the wind, But if it were not so—if I could tind No love in all the world for comforting, Nor any path but hollowly did ring, Where dust to dust the love from life disjoined; Anti it', before those sepulchres unmoving, I stood alone, (as some forsaken lamb Goes bleating up the moors in weary death) Crying, \ Where are ye, 0 loved and loving?\ I know a voice would sound, \Daughter I am; Can I suffice for heaven and not for earth'?\ —Mrs. Browning. FATE. Why should a man struggle early, late. When all is fixed by Fate? . For everything that comes and goes. Goes, comes at its appointed date. The wind is measured as it blows, The grains of sand have each their weight. Only the fool can say he chose The woman that i4 now his mate! And so with friends and so with foes, The rising and the falling state. \fis idle to support, oppose, To open or to shut the gate. What is we see; hut no one knows What Was or will be, small or great. Nothing is certain but the close, Ault that is hitl from us by Fate! —It . H. Stoddard,in Independent. _ MAUD MULLER IN COLORADO. The Judge came riding slowly by ; A tear stood in his bright blue eye. His thoughts were on the checkered past; Five !oyes, llve graves, and on the last The wild flowers, scarce a fortnight old, His latest, keenest anguish told. Ah! wretched man! Five times bereft. To him what earthlv joy was left? When, like a sudden burst of light, '•31aud Muller\ flashed upon oiE sight He gazed. he sighed his heart away He kneeled before her on the hay And breathed a tale of deathless love That mast have moved the gods above She softly smiled and looked away, Still raking up the new -mown hay . Then paused, and grandly, like agueen, She pointed o'er th- meadow green To where a stalwart yeoman stood, \That's Bill,\ she said; ''observe ! (\ideas you've got uncommon grit, I guess, old chap. you'd better git!\ NELLIF. GRANT'S CHILDHOOD. We recall the time when General Physician and Surgeon. Grant lived in Galena. and supported his thmily on $1.200 a year. We were tiler - VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. chandising at the time, and business , made us a frequent visitor at the store . where he presided, as well as acquantted with the following incident. which is strictly true and has never before ap- peared in print: Among their near and intimate neighbors was the family of a Mr. F., a wealthy merchant. and both having children there naturally grew up con.sitierable intimacy between them. One day Nellie was visiting her friends. anti remained to dinner. Mrs. Fe a tru- gal woman . apologized for using nap- kins fabricated from a worn-out table- elotb, and said she did not suppose her (Nellie'a) mother would do that. An- swered the matter -of -ilia Nellie: -We don't have any at all at our house.\ Surgeon. A zealous butt ignorant negro preacher ui -1 , - , had twentv-one years' experience iu totutding.nature of miracles got a trifle 1.1 in his prolesslon—foiir years of that time contused in the matter. He sanl—n My pareti l l0 perform all kiuds of surgery . isles; was 'bout the loavea and fishes— sitte'eoti iu the Confederate army. lie is pre- beloved friends. the greatest of all mira- IN FEMALE COMPLAINTS, his expe- . 1 re was 5 000 loaves and 2.000 fishes,and r t enge is not surpastsl 1, y any physician in the territory . ( OMPLAINTS.—“onorrhea, a ithii • THOSE `WHO HAVE VENEREAL it called upon he TO t the days after the tirst appearance, ‘ 4 % i , i 1 t i c e i i n t r c e u i r n e s i n e v il e ,t R e O t i ' -1 3 , - s o hours. In Syphilis, , ilis treatment is different rsom any physi- ::ta' it in this Territory. He la prepared fur all. . de twelve 'postles bad to eat dem all, and de miracle is dey didn't bust!\ A Sew York company will inaure poodle dogs, but won't take a cent risk on babies. They know which receives the most care. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1874. A NEW HORSE DISEASE. [From the Boston Advertiser.] Stable keepers are again alarmed by a contagious horse disease which appear- ed in some of the sale stables last winter and has since been spreading at the South End and in Roxbury. The symp- toms are a loss of appetite and weakness, followed by slight cough and discharges from one or both eyes, and from One or both nostrils. Sometimes the case ends here and disappears in a few days. Then again it manifests itself by a sudden clos- ing of one or both eyes, or severe swell- ing of the legs, or sore and ulcerated throat, or with an irruption all over the body similar to the hives in a human being. The horse becomes dumpish and and shows a strong disinclination to move. These symptoms all yield readi- ly to proper treatment. and aa fire ayturt tont:: tzne.e , €‘43. oiceootlen g ly V, pct.:7111c remedy can be laid down. A fatal result is rare, yet at the present writing there are over one hundred horses at the High- lands that are afflicted with the disease, which is increasing. It lasts from three to ten days. A veterinary surgeon says that all animals troubled with the disease should be kept to themselves and par- ticular attention given to proper ventila- tion anti cleanliness, as experience has shown that in the cleanest and best ven- tilated stable the illness has shown itself in its mildest form. yet those have not been exempt from the tli:3eeteie, as it has manifested itself in pastures outside the city limits. THE TRUE VALVE OF MAN'S LIFE. When men taken out of life, in the midst of their strength and work, peo- ple marvel. Useful men they were, and yet they were removed. Why was it? 1Vho will take up their work, and what will become of it. Do you forget that dying make only a very little void in this world? Indeed, when Christ (lied he lived more efficaciously than before. The death of the apostles stopped noth- ing; it sped much. They died, but their works lived after them. The effects of a man's life are not simply those things which you can count, ennmerate, and describe. A man may build a mansion. He may be able and willing to spend un- counted stuns in rearing up his walls of marble, and storing his house with every element of beauty, and yet dying he may have done very little; while over the way is a man who never built a house. except the airy house of character. The pre- cious stones laid in the walls of the New Jerusalem he laid around about his char- acter. He lett but little save his influ- ence; but that influence, from day to (lay exerted, fell into sensitive souls. A good man's heart is a seed -soil, and goodness is perpetually throwing itself out and out.—Henry \Vard Beecher. A DOG AND A SNAKE STORY. Several days ago a. gentleman in this city went out into the country fowling, taking with him an experiericed pointer. After hunting some time he observed the dog come to a sudden stop, and suppos- ing. the dog had \stood\ a bird, advanc- ed to shoot it. But coining nearer he noticed that the animal. was foaming at the mouth, as it suffering from the effects of hydrophobia. Under closer observa- tion he discovered that the dog was the victim of an enormoes snake, which was charming it and steadily advancing on its prey. The dog stood immovable, per- fectly transfixed. The n trentleman spoke to it, but it gave no heed, so completely was it under the influence of the dread charmer. Seeing Mt the clog was in the most excrutiating agony the gentle- man raised the gun and shot the snake dead. Inatantly, and simultaneously with the shot and the death of the snake, the (log fell down perfectly helpless, and to all appearances dead. It revived after some little time, but had it not been for some timely assistance from the master, it is believed that the poor animal would have expired with the vicious reptile of whose charm it was the victim. The snake in question was a blue -racer, about four or five feet long.—Atlanta, (Glue) Sun. A METHODIST MINISTER'S BAT- TLE WiTli A RATTLESNAKE. We learn, from a letter from Athens, that a heart-rending scene occurred in Clarke County-, about eight miles from Athens, recently. While A L. William- son was ploughing in his field he turned up a young tree that he had planted in the Fall. He stooped to pick it up, when he heard a singing noise under some brush at the corner of the fence. He pushed aside the brush and saw a huge rattlesnake. He jerked up a rail and commenced striking at the serpent. Un- fortunately, however, he got too near the snake, which sprang at him and buried its fangs in the calf ot his leg. Mr. Wil- liamson finally killed the venomous rem tile. One of his employees reached him about that time and found his leg dread- fully swollen. He carried him home and .gave him stimulants freely, but without avail, as the sufferer died in a few minutes. Mr. Williamson was a methodist minister, and much esteemed in the community. The snake which caused his death was ten feet long, with eighteen rattles and a button.—Georgia Chronicle. iino•-•-•101 HOW TO TREAT THE DEPRAVED. I care not how impure a man is in his personal lite, if he will give me supreme control of his food and drink, I will pledge myself to so reform him as that he shall become pure in his conduct in life. He may be a debauchee. a gambler, a profane man, a loftier, a man whose passions are uppermost. so that they riot and revel like tire in a brushwood. Not- withstanding, I will agree so to regulate that man's life that penal courts and offi- cers of retributive justice shall have no need to deal with hint. There is only one possibility of failure in such a case, which is that the man's vital force shall have become so ruinously uaed up that he is not able to stand the taxation which change in existing habits must necessarily impose. If he is physically incurable of any disease, I wilL not take him as an example. But if he have con- stitution enough to undergo the necessa- ry recovery, I will agree, under the con- dition named above, to cure him, not only of his disease, butt to make him out- ward a decent man. 1 do not care how debauched or guilty such a. man may be. I pledge myself that, giving complete su- pervision of his table preparations, I will bring him where he will cheerfully walk in the paths ot morality and righteous- neas.—Dr. James Jackson, 31 . Danville, S. Y. sons-o-eoa. High among the exploits of modern utilitarians must rank the iuvention of a Frenchman near Hicksville, L. I., who has and successfully uses a machine tor hatching chickens through the warmth furnished by ordinary stable manure. THE FUNDED LOAN. Open as the recent loau would superfi- cially appear in the offer of it to the world, American bidders and financiers do not hesitate to criticise the course of the Treasury in giving $45,000,000 to a foreign syndicate at one -quarter per cent. less than par, with the exclusive option of taking nearly three times as much more at any time within six months. It is easy enough to see that here is where the real profit of the transaction lies. The syndicate has six months margin for operating $122,000,000 in the market. For the past two months, at least, the five per cents have ruled -one and a fraction and two and a fraction above par; the reasoning is, if the syndicate can, with the use of what they positively subscribe for, hold up the market price at the nonit where it has been, they will Inakt one to two per cent. and possibly more by the operation, a thing which they have an uudoubted ritrht to do. But the special favor granted by the Treasury is this: in case the bonds do not hold up, or advance, but go the other way, S3 that the syndicate is threatened with a loss instead of a gain, they can refuse to take any more and return them upon the hands of the Government. American bidders make complaint that they were allowed no such triple option as this. What little was awarded to them they took unconditionally. Nothing like an option came to them as their share at all, although they claim that their bidding was practically more ad- vantageous to the Government than that of the syndicate. Reckoning on the terms on which this loan has been given out, they assert that it will be found that it does not command par. but goes from one to two per cent. and more below par. It is likewise declared to be premature to propheay that the price of gold will re- main unaffected by this transaction. Whatever the cause given for it, gold :stiffened tip at once on the announce- ment of what had been accomplished by the Secretary. The myetery that notori- ously surromeled what was promised as an open loan, short as was the netice given, meete with lig explanation in this arrangement with the foreign syndicate, to which all the option is granted, and which can therefore lvell afford to co-op- erate in the plan of making the eost of the transaction so surprisingly low as one -quarter of one per cent. It is mis- judged to pronounce this transaction a fair test of the public credit. While all Americans muat sincerely rejoice at every a3-mptom ot an advancing state ot the public credit, every intelligent citizen comprehends, as well as the financiers do abroad, that nothing can be permanent- Is- strong until the foundation is strong, and that an irredeemable currency, waate- ful expenditures, corrupt legislation and war taxes do not supply the conditions on which productive prosperity and an unshaken credit habitually rest and rely. HIS FA I LURE NOT DISGRACEFUL. It seems that Cadet Smith, the colored young man at West Point, has failed to pass the final examination. Hardly any one would have stood the ordeal to which he has been submitted. None of his fellows would take his hand, and in the cavalry mounting, sometimes at a fast trot, this is dangerous. The.boy pluckily stood all the rebuffs until examination day arrived, when he thiled in his pintos- op113- class and some kindred studies. This is to be regretted, as Smith scented to stand a representative of his rats.. It' successful, he wou:d have added another to the list of well-meaning, earnest col- ored people who have gone to the front, not of war, but ot civilization. His fail- ure proves nothing except as concerns him individually. His sucess might have 'worked out a far more exceeding weight of glory for his race. As it is, another will have to win the honor which seemed reserved for him, namely, of being the first colored cadet to graduate from the military school at West Point. Smith is to be nitied ; his opportunities, unlike his name, were un- common. THE INDIANS IN THE PelgaSIESSION S. It is a fact worthy of attention that al- though there are many Indians in the British possessions in North America, we never hear of their committing outrages on the whites. A recent number of the Manitoba Gazette gives an account of the reception by Lieut.-Governor Morris ot a delegation of Sioux Indians from the Turtle mountains, in the Northwest Territories, headed by the chiefs Running Grizzly Bear, and The Young Chief, who wished to obtain information in regard col the reserve which the Dominion Govern- ment has granted to them near the junc- tion of Assineboine and Little Saskatch- awan. After the usual ceremoniesonat- ters were explained to their satisfaction; and the Gazette says that in a few weeks all the Sioux in the province will be loca- ted upon the reservation. The secret of the succesa which has attended the deal- ings of the Canadian authorities with the Indians is very easily explained. When they make treaties they respect them; and when, by the terms of these treaties, the Indians become entitled to goo i ls or annuities, they are sure to receive them. In the United States, on the contrary, the Government invariably violates treat- ies entered into with the original possess- ors of the soil at its pleasure, and al- though enormous sums of money are annually appropriated to - the use of In- dian tribes, a great portion of it is stolen by the members of *the rascally Ring, which at the present time is fostered and encouraged in every way by the Admin- istration. And this is what Grant calls peace. 1N IMMEASURALE REBELLION. The Never-Endint; War of the Cats. In the burlesque novel which Punch is now publishing, after the French of \ Fictor Nogo \ (Victor Hugo), the fol- lowing remarks on cats appear in connec- tion with the passage of the hero through the streets of London at night : str \ e 'lleighlior and passed along the deserted et t s n . toneroly muttered to Iiimself \ He seemed to be treading on the si- lent tombs of the nameless and forgot- ten. \ He heard the march of eats through the darkness. \ They rushed to all attack with loud cries, springing up suddenly from every quarter—areaa, roofs, balconies, lamp- -- posts, gutters, lanes, paasagete eourts, al- leys, and thoroughfares. \ They flew up the trees in the squares, and hurried:madly- round the crescents. \ All their habits were nocturnal. \ The feline rule always Is to appear nexpectedly. \Host many tragic aights have been witnessed by the statues of the metropo- lis! \ At antonerly's footstep the cats fled, filling news after mews with their un- earthly tries. \ Quiet neighborhood—back streets. These words sum tea the whole of the Feline Var. \rhe live in purr -liens. \ It is a quarrel. of localities of family against family; tabby against tortoise- shell; pussy -cat against pussy -cat. \ All cur attempts, our movements in legislation and in education, our encyclo- predies, our philosophies, our genius, our gloriee, all fail before the Cats. \ Conk. ita youth be trained? \ The cats -cradle has ever been a puz- lz1)1:::1:1:11‘112! love \ A colossal scuttle. a janggling of Tit - turns, an i mmeasurable rebellion. With- out stra'egy, without plan, chivalric and savage, appearing like fantastic black shadows, taila of the past, the devasta- tion of glass, the destruction of flower- poes back yards, the ruin of squares, the terror of invalids—such is the sleep- less warfare, the unreasoning effort of the Puss -cat. \Antoneroly vanishing shadows. The Philadelphia Steamship Company recently paid to Mr. Brady $4.000, with $150 costs, for the salvage of the steam- ship Pennsylvania. blind alleys. Strange ii0...- - 01 — . 011 .1 on among the HOW CARL ROSA GOT M A URI ED . Carl Rosa and Parepa, antipodal as they were in complexion, stature and aaoirdupois, were supremely harmonious, excellently adapted to associated enter- prise. He had never undertaken man- agement until atter his marriage, and he is indebted to her, it is said, for the inspi- ration. He is so modest and retiring a little fellow that many persons haye won- dered how he could summon courage to propose to a woman so muell larger than himself. The manner of his proposal is thus re- lated: The musical twain were en route to Hartford by rail, seated side by side ; Rosa seeming to be unusually depressed. Parepe, a close observer, and always sympathetic, noticing his melancholy, inquired the cause. He answered: \ I have been unlucky in this country. For some reason or other I have not been able to keep my friends hi America. With the best of feeling and intentions, 1 appear to lose as rapidly as I make them. think to -day I have not a single friend.\ Oh, lam !etre you have.\ responded she brightly. \Alas!\ he exclaimed, sighing, ' I fear I have not!\ Indeed you are mistaken, Inv good Carl. If you have not so regarded me heretolore, I promise you now that I will always be your friend.\ Rosa's boyish' face kindled with de- light, he took her gloved hand and with chivalrousinstinct lifted it to his lips. \ And,\ she added with a charming ingenuousness, I will be your wife also, if you like.\ A fortnight later they were married. She had long been very' fond of him, and he of her, and she knew it. But Ile was so sensitive and self -deprecating that she felt that he would not reveal his affec- tion unless he were liberally encouraged. Few men or women have been better partners, sentimentally or financially, than Parepa and Rosa. They gave En- glish and Italian opera at the Academy in better style than it had ever been giv- en, and notwithstanding the great ex- pense to which they had gone, they real- ized handsomely from the endeavor. Rosa and his wife cleared here over $250,000. It is hardly worth while to be an Earl if the fact of your getting drunk must theroore be telegraphed all over two hemispheres. One of England's heredi- tary legislators was coaxed into a pri- vate room of the House of Lords recently by an attendant who believed him to be in \a worse condition thau usual,\ and his lordship has been missing ever since. As the telegraph intimates that tempor- ary disappearances are not uneommon in this nobleman's gay career, it is not easy to understand what all the fuss is about. We don't trouble ourselves much when our legislators do such things. Our dig- nified Senate doesn't even think them worth noticing, when the deck of a Long Branch boat is selected for the first offen- sive displays, and the subsequent pro- ceedings become too strong for the stom- ach of a Long Branch landlord. There is nothing proud about us. A man may not be fit to be an inmate of a respectable hotel at a seaside resort, but that's no rea- son why he should not sit in the seat of the Vice President of the United States. It takes 3 -our bloated despotism to make such a. fuss about little things.—N. Tribune. I - OLD WOMEN WHO ARE tratID OF BECOMING WITCHES. Jones is not the only thing Nevada has to brag of. There is a man there who f p a i llle i se , d e a it l i l le t r h . e hair from a woman's head by the roots, the other day. and it wasn't The wife of Don Carlos has left the ci- ty of Pau. A Pau -city of stamps was what sent her away, probably. From Major Powell's forthcoming Book. The life of an Indian maiden is blithe and merry for a few years, but when- she becomes a wife she is soon broken down with the pains of' motherhood and the heavy labors which tall to her lot, she soon becomes wrinkled, garrulous, cross, scolding, in fact an old hag. Of course such hags are not pleasant company in camp, and in the belief of the Numa such hags grow uglier and meaner until they dry up and whirlwinds carry them away. when they are transformed into witches; and lest such fate should befall old women, they are taught that it is their duty to die when they are no long- er needed, and if they do not die by nat- ural means in reasonable time, they must commit suicide. This they seem very willing to do rather than to meet that horrible fate of being transformed into witches and being compelled to live in snake skins, and wriggle about among the rocks, their only delight being to re- peat the words of passers-by in mockery. I once saw three old women thus volun- tarily starving themselves. 1 rode up to what was almost a deserted camp, the three old women only remaining, sitting by the tire and intently gazing into the embers, They seemed not to heed my approach,. but sat there mumbling and groaning until they rose, each dragging up her weight with a staff, and then they joined in a sidewise, shuffling, tottering, senile dance around the fire, propped up by their staffs, and singing a doleful song ; having finished which, they sat again on their heels and gazed into the fire, and I rode away. On coining to the new camp of the tribe the next day, and inquiring of Chui-at-an-umpeak, their chief, why these women were left behind, and what they were doing. 1 was inform- ed they had determined to commit sui- cide, fearing lest they should be trans- formed into witches. UNDER cavEss OF A SHOT -GUN. Peculiar itlea-s of Law and Order. NO. 41, Parties in Chico were astonished re- cently to see Jerome Moore bringing a man into town at the muzzle of a shot- gun. Upon inquiry we learned the fol- lowing facts in relation to the. somewhat singular proceeding : It appears that a man by the name of N. B. Moore has been working for Je- rome for some time past, and one day he complained of being too unwell to go to his accustomed work. Jerome not dream- ing of what was to follow, left the house, and in it his and children. Shortly after the departure of Jeronw, the man attempted an outrage upon the person of Mrs. Moore, and was only prevented from accomplishing . his hellish design by her immediate flight from the house, closely pursued by this monster in the shape of a man. Fear lending wings to her feet, she soon outstripped her pursuer, and soon gained the home of her father-in- law, Thomas Moore, about half a mile distant, where her husband was. He immediately armed himself with a shot -gun and started to hunt the man, whom he overtook on his way back to the house. Incensed with feelings bet- ter imagined than described„Ierome leveled his gun on the fellow ann pulled the trigger, but unfortunately the cap snapped. The fellow ran to the house and secreted himself under it, remaining there until having received a promise from Jerome that he would not execute summary vengeance on him, he crawled out. Jerome started tor Chico with his prisoner and delivered him to the author- ities—a very unnecessary proceeding, we think. as he might as well hare saved the cost of his trial and finial imprison- ment at the expense of the State. Judge Hoole immediately bound him over to await the action of the next grand jury. Unless the man is insane, it is one of the most dastardly attempts of the kind that has come under our notice.—Butte (Cal.) Record. \OLD SUBSIDY \ POMEROV. The Hon. S. C. Pomeroy, usually call- ed \ Ohl Subsidy \ for short, is again be- fore the courts in Topeka, Kansas, on a charge of bribery and corruption. Pome- roy is one of the most oily of that class of Christian statesmen who find repre- sentatives in such men as the coilapsed Colfax and the pious Harlan, and - who have exerted so powerfid an influence in bringing the Republican party to its present degraded condition. He is a politician who understands as Harlan himself how to make officeholding prof- itable. But, as everybody knows, with all his cunning and pious pretentious, he was caught in the very act of bribery when he last ran for Senator, and' hence the prosecution which has been hanging fire so long. The pretense that the mon- ey paid to State Senator York for his vote was merely given to him in trust tor an- other person, who was to use. in establish- ing a national bank, it is understood has been abandoned, and it is difficult to im- agine what defence he can set up in its stead. Pomeroy's main efforts since his indictment seem to have been directed to the end of staving off his trial from term to term ill the hope that the office of district attorney would fall into the hands of one of his friends who would put an end to the matter. Either he or his friends have also been active in threatening all sorts of exposure in case the proceedings against him were not stopped, and as the politics and politicians of Kansas have long been noted for their corruption, it may be that these threats have had some influence in delaying his prosecution. If a fair and full trial should ever be had we fear the result would be very discour- aging to those public men who use hypo- critical professions of piety to eloal: their offences. MODERN 11 cAuric RULES. The rules of health, published in a medical journal. are here reproduced with additions: Never go in the sun ; it heats the blood.\ Starve sooner than disobey this rule. It's healthier to die of starvation than sunstroke. \Clothes prevent the escape of heat THE WONDERFUL PROGENY OF ROBERT BONNERS' STALLION EDWARD EVERETT. Judge Fullerton was raised in Orange county, New York, and was known as the Bull colt sired by Mr. Robert Bon- ner's famous stallion Edwards. Fuller- ton was uuknown until he reached his fifth year. Then he gave proof of re- markable speed, and was purchased by Judge Fullerton's mother for $3,000 and handed over to Mr. Trimble, who in turn transferred him to the care of Dan Mace. His first great performance was in the race at Buffhlo three years ago, in which he beat the well-known trotter Jas. H. Burke, who dropped dead in the harness the following year at Buffalo. Although Fullerton lost the first two heats, he WW2 the three remaining heats anti race, mak- ing a record of 2:26. At Beacon Park, Boston, Fullerton made his fastest rec- ord, shutting out Sensation. Camors, who was in the same race, saved his dis- tance in 2:19 14. Commodore Vanderbilt's Mountain Boy was a bay gelding, fifteen hands high. He was foaled in 1860, sired by Edward Everett, his darn being by Grid- ley's Roebuck, a son of Blackbird. He was bred in Orange county, and was called the Bingham colt. When live years old he won a trot over a heavy half -mile track in 2;39. Soon afterward commodore Vanderbuilt purchased him of James Young of Newburgh, Through Wm. Trimble, tor $10,000. His sire, Ed- ward Everett (late Major Winfield), is a bay horse, foaled in 1855, got by Rys- dyk's Hambletonian, dam by imported Nlargrave, granddam by Trumpeter. Ed- ward Everett was bred by A. Lilburn of Orange county, who sold him in 1869 to Mr. tonner. Everett is the sire of Joe Elliott, who trotted a mile in 2:15 1-2; Mountain Boy trotted a half mile in 1:06, and had a record of 2:20 1-2. 1 from the body ; wear only a loose shirt and drawers.\ This you will tind a con- venient costume to receive lady (liners in. Only lady book -agents wili call a second thne. \ Work heats the system. Do nothing.\ Obey this rule at all hazzards., if you have to beg for a living. \ Let all the exercise you take be on horseback or in a carriage.\ This rule will work best when you are acquainted with a livery stable keeper. When you find one let us know. We will publish the remainder of these invalijable rules in the Winter. They will be appreciated best_in Arctic weath- er) aaissiessail THE FASTEST RAILRO iD Tit (IN IN AMEBIC The Newspaper train on the Pennsyl- vania Railroad now carries a passenger coach. It starts front Jersey City at 4:10 a. m., and arrives at West Philadelphia at 6:57. The section from New Bruns- wick and Trenton is run at the rate of a mile a minute. The train has been in op- eration a year, and has met with but one accident, when it struck a carriage kill- ing two persons. When the train was first put on it was manned by an engi- neer, fireman. and two men to handle the papera. They were volunteers, and signed a paper releasing the cotnpany from all responsibility in case ofaccideht. Upon no pretense or plea was any person allowed to ride. The company, finding that the train was as safe as any other, and that the additional ear would add to its safety by giving more ballast to the locomotive, have added a passenger car thereto, and opened the line to the public.. •ities-te-etsa DANIEL WEBSTER OUTDONE. A laWyCr :1111v. attlitql was oetending a handsome young woman accused of stealing from a large, unoccupied build- ing in the night-thne, and thus he spoke in conelusion: \Gentleman of the jury, I am done. Ira When I gazed with el ptured eyes on the matchless beauty of t his peerless vir- gin e on whose resplendent charms suepi- cion never dared to breathe; when I be- hold her radiant in the glorious bloom of lustrous loveliness which angelic sweet- ness might envy but could not eclipse; before which the stars on the brow of the night grows pale, and diamonds of Brazil are dim, and then reflect npon the utter madness and folly of supposing that so much beauty would expose 'itself to the terrors of an empty huilding in the cold damp dead of night, when innocence like hers is hiding itself among the snowy pillows of repose, gentlemen of the jury, my feelings are too overpower- ing for expression, and I throw her into your arms for protection against this foul charge which the outrageous malice of a disappointed scoundrel hae invented to blast the lair name of this lovely maiden. Whose smile shall be the reward of the verdict which I know you will give her!\ The jury convicted her without leaving their seats. THE CENTENNIAL. THE MADISONIAN, PUBLISHED EVERY SA1'1'141).41' —AT— Virginia City, Montana. THOMAS DEYARMON. Editor and Proprietor. Papers ordered to any address CH II t.e changed to another address at the option of the sucscriber. Remittance by draft. check, MOI1V Y order or rexistered letter Ilk ti l j be sent at our risk. THE MAD1SONIAN is devoted to the advocacy of the principles of the DelnOcratic partv anti to general anti local new,. A writer in Nature sayas \It the brains of different individuals are com- pared to running streams, in which the waters exhibit different degrees of clean- ness, as brains give evidences of differ- ences ()Venality. their thoughts may be compared to the reflections of surround- ing objects on the surfaces of the streams, different in intensity according to the clearness of the water or the quantity of the brain cells. Upon this analogy it Is evident that the relative intensity of dif- ferent reflections is not dependent at all on the stream itself, but on the illumi- nating power of the objects reflected; in like manner we cannot conceive that the amount of nerve tissue disintegrated by the greatest minds at the time that they are evolving their mightiest thoughts is in excess of that which is wasted during the same time by the most commonplace member ofevery community. Thought t i o a i i s i nt: 4 a x t t e e l r y n e a l o n i n n e i c p t r ed e ss a i t n h s he t )3 re , e t ? , e - healthy human brain as reflections from water are with the illumieation of the surrounding objects; they are involunta- ry when cause for their development is present.\ FATE OF MODEST MEN. The world generally takes men at their own apparent estimate of themselves. Hence, modest men never attain the same consideration which bustling,, for- ward men do. It has not time or pa- tience to inquire rigidly, and it is partly imposed upon and carried away by the man who vigorously claims its regards. The world, also. never has two leading ideas about any man. There is always a remarkable unity in its conception ot the characters of individuals. If an histori- cal person has been cruel and nothing else, although he may have had many • good qualities, all not equally conspicu- ous. If a literary man is industrious in a remarkable degree, the world speaks of him as only industrious, though he may be also very ingenions.—Chambera' Journal. The managers of the Philadelphia Cen- tennial Exposition have determined to make renewed efforts to raise the money, amounting to several millions of dollars, which it will be necessary for them to have in order to carry out their plans. Gov. Bigler has been appointed priecipal financial agent, and is now in New Eng- land endeavoring to procure subscrip- tions to the stock, which will be issued in shares of ten dollars each, drawing inter- est at the rate oi six per cent., though of course neither principal nor interest can be paid unless the enterprise proves re- munerative. We fear that G-ov. Bigler will find it a great stumbling block in his way that people apprehend that an- other raid a ill be made on Congress next winter for a subsidy. Public sentimeht is strongly opposed to the echeme for ap- propriating money tor this purpose from the national Treasury, especially as the htjudicious persons who have had con- trol of the matter have disgusted every- body by the underhanded measures they adopted to secure their ends. Why do not the managers of the exhibition let the public know precisely what their intentions are in this regard? Some of those assuming to have authority say one thing and some another. There has been a great deal of bungling manage- ment in this business, but nothing could be more stupid, if the Centennial people expect to raise the necessary capital by voluntary subseription, than to allow the hnpression to remain that the country may be taxed to pay the expense of the affair. 1000.4.+111114.. --- -How do you like the character of St. Paul?\ asked a parson a his landlady, one day, bearing a conversation about the old Saints and the Apostles. \All!\ replied the landlady he was a good, clev- er old soul, I know, tor he once said, you know that we must eat what is set before us, and ask no questions for conscience's sake. I always thought should like him foe a boarder.\ Mr. Jay Cooke says that in January, 1871, he was worth about $3.127,606.69. In 1861, at the formation of the first tirm, he considered himself worth $15,000; his protits from different firms of Jay Cooke et Co., front 1861 to 1871, were:—Phila- delphia, $971,131.61; Washington, $460,- 000; New York, $301,050; family expen- ses from January 1, 1861, to January 1, 1871. eStitnated at $15,000 per annum; family expenses from January 1, 1867, to January 1, 1871, estimated at $50,000 per al11111111; charities and donations prior to January 1, 1871, estimat ed at $250,000; ex- penses of flintily and living and keeping up Ogontz and Gibraltar, from January 1, 1871. to September 1, 1873, estimated at $95,905.17; individual charities and do- nation during the years 1871, 1872, and 1873, estimated at $30,000. We al the close of thc w -------fk rehend :r at . ; present term there will be the largest and worst lot of damaged brothers-in-law offered for sale the world has ever known. not even excepting that little family auction consequent upon the defeat of the Little Corporal at Waterloo. Is it not about time that the people were eon- S ( il l i l t . r p g r rit the succession?—thilena A NEW AFRICAN EXPEDITION. The London. Daily Telegraph an- nounces that the proprietors of that pa- per have united with Janies Gordon Ben- nett in organizing an expedition of Afri- can diacOvery, under the command of Henry 31. Snanley. The purpose of the en- terpriae ia to complete the work lett un- finished 'by the lamented death of Dr. Livingstone; to solve, if possible, the re- maining problems of the geography of Central. Afilea; and to investigate and report upon the haunts of the slave - traders. For this diflieult and danger- ous journey Mr. Stanley has displayed fitness of a peculiar kind, and we cannot but teel a pride in the selection of one ot our Countrymen, and a member of °lir calling, for so honorable a task. -Ile will represent,\ says the Telegraph, \the two nations whose common inter- est in the regeneration of Africa was so well illustrated when the lost English ex- plorer was re -discovered by the energet- ic American eorresi?ondent. in that mem- orable journey Mr. Stanley displayed the best qualities of an African traveler; and with no inconsiderable resources at his disposal to reinforee his own com- plete acquaintance with the condition of African travel, it may be hoped that very important results will accrue from this undertaking to the advantage of science, humanitY, and civilization.\ Mr. Bennett has no doubt entered upon this work with all the lavish liberality in the promotion of darker and adventurous deeds, and the keen tresire for the laurels of his profession which have long been admired in him. The exceptional jour- nalism which not content in recording history, must needs make it, has seldom been more signally illustrated than in this new African adventure, and its suc- cess will be applauded by none more warmly than by Mr. Bennett's rivals in business.—N. Ir. Tribune. Olive Logan writes to Harper's Week- ly some interesting gossip about the E x - Empress Eugenie and her coraet-maker, Madame Gringoire. Under the influ- ence of the Imperial patronage the cus- tom of Gringoire became fabulous in ex- tent. Forty dollars per pair Was the price paid by Eugenie, amid Gringoire would make none for any body under twenty dollars. Summoned ta Londou about six months ago to attend \ IL H.\ the Princess of Wales, Gringoire found that her own body was more in need of attendance than that of her noble customer, and in foggy Londoa Grin- goire bade adieu to a . world of \ false, vain show\ in feminine outline as well aa all other things. From Gringoire'a former employes we learn that the Mar- choinese of Hai:tinge is held by them to possess a beautiful figure, \ only eigh- teen inches around the waiat, such a bust and such sloping shoulders.\ The Ex - Empress measures twenty-seven inches around the waist, but her bust is so very large that her waist looks very 6t11:11I, and always wears contil corsets ; never silk nor satin. Gringoire made special night -corsets for her, made of little tiny bones not thicker than a pin, and with straps and buckles in front, instead of busks. This was to preserve her figure, as she constantly feared losing her shape. The Empress' corsets were washed hi well aa made by Gringoire at a cost of $4 per pair. She has never had a new pair since she left the throne. Madame Grin- goire went and called on her once at Chiselhurst, and found her dressed in a plain merino dress, with linen collar and culla. She told Madame G that she was very poor.
