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All advertisements counted in Nonpareil measure. aC)13 Of every desertinhai, ex'ecuted in th< best and neatest style. and on reasonable terms. NEWSPAPER DECISIONS. 1 . Any one who takes a paper reguyirly from the Pos dice—w he ther directed to his name or another's, or whether he has subscribed or not —is responsible for the payment. 2. If a person orders his paper discontinued, he must pay all arrearages, or the publisher may continue to send it until payment is made, and collket 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- call e d for, is prima facia evidence of intention- al fraud. PROFESSIONAL. G. F. COWAN, Ittorno and Counselor at Law. Radersherg, Montana Territory. HENRY F. WILLIAMS, Att'y & Counselor at Law, 1 72.GINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE over the Post Officer. J. E. CALLAWAY, Attorney and Coun- selor at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE, adjoining the office of the Secre- tary of the Territory • v:. W . TOOLE . . . TOOLE. TOOLE & TOOLE. A.ttorneys at 1_41.1w. HELENA, MONTANA. Will practice in the Courts of Montana. JOHN T. SHOBER. T. J. LOWERY. SHOBER & LOWERY, Attorneys and e<) selors at HELENA, M. T. Will practice in the Courts of Montana. SAMUEL WORD, 4.1.. - ttorney at I__Aaw. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. JAMES G. SPR ATT, Attorney and Coun- selor at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. W practice in all the Courts of Montana. R. W. . ALT t vriey at Law, t. CITY, M. T. W. F. SANDERS, Attm-ney and C_:'01.1n- rst-1(>1- at I_Aaw. HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all Courts of Record in Montana. C . W . TURNER, 1_4 _A_ NV A:\ 1Z, , 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. Will practice in all the s_'ozirts of the Territory. GEORGE CALLAWAY. M. D. Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M NTAN A. 0 Frit E, at the Law Office of .1 . E. ( aila- way , Esq., until further notice. I. C. SMITH, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. Office at the Old Le Beau Stand, Wallace Street, where he cam be found night or day E. T. YAGER, 11 D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. Will practice in all n. - anehes. ()nice one door above tne Druz Store. is. BARKLEY, M. D. Physician Si. Surgeon. RADERSBURG, M. T. F AS had twenty-one years' experience in in his profession—four years of that time a surgeon in the Cimfederate army. He is pre- pared to perform all kinds of surgery. IN FEMALE COMPLAINTS, his expe- rience is not surpassed by any physician in tile Territory. TO THOSE WHO HAVE YEN EUEAL i 'l )11 PLAIN TS.—Gonorrhea, if called upon etei Jive days after the tirst appearance, he will cure in seventy-two hours. In Syphilis, he will cure in tive - days• His tri-itment is different frem any physi- C an in this Territory. Ile is premred fcr Cleansing Ext rave lug 1 ,:t ad Mang Teeth Di. C. S. ELLIS TI AIVING taken an interest in the Drug Department of A. e_,o - michael's store at Silver Star, Montana,can f , ,und at all times, day sesi. and night, at said when uot absent on professional busi- 1-28tf O. B. WHITFORD, M. D., Physician. and Surgeon, 1)EF:ft LODGI7.: MONTANA. VOL. 1. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1874. 'POETRY. OUT II% TIM RAIN. BY DORA SHAW. Oh, I loved him long, and I loved him well; Now I burn with the hate of a fiend in hell, And curse the day in his arms I fell, Not dreaming then Of pain. Not dreaming then what the years would bring; For my soul was as white as an angel's wing. Now here I am wandering, a love -lost thing, Out in the sobbing rain. I was no city maid, with eyes Burned black with passion, filled with lies. No, mine were as blue as the bluest skies, And spoke, oh! wondrous plain, The innocent thoughts I gathering hold, Like spotless lambs, in my bosom's fold: Oh! sob then, sobbing rain. Aye, the thief grew bold, and my peace is gone; Like a God -cursed thing, I keep wandering on, Nor heed the black storm as it breaks upon My wenry, weary brain. I but clasp my hands o'er my aching breast And shriek out a prayer for the grave and rest. The winds laugh aloud down the darkling rest, At the sobs of the sobbing rain. Oh, alas! for my home on the distant moor; Alas! the old eyes that watch by the door— That watch for a pale face they'll see nu more! Heart, cease! oh, cease this pain. Alas! for the flower that bloomed on the heath, The frost, like a lover, kisses to death; Would I were a flower to fall 'neath its breath. Oh! sob then, sobbing rain. I passed to -night by his castle old, One that he bought, when his heart he sold; In his arms his bride I saw him fold Close by the window pain: But her white face dropped 'neath his glowing eye Like a northern flower uuder a tropic sky; A withering bud 'neath his blasting sigh— Oh! sob, thou sobbing rain! 1Ier white arms were veiled with laces rare, While mine are thin, and blue, and bare To the keen knife of the midnight air, My fingers ache with pain While her's with jewels are e'en weighed down Jewels fit to flash in an emperor's crown, While in hunger I die, and in tears I drown Here in the sobbing rain. Aye, his bride is she! What then am I! That the world with its scorn should pass me by With its jeering lip and its mocking eye? I loved, alas—in vain— And yet, though no saintly prayers were said, No bride's veil hid my love -bowed head, A God looked down and we were wed, Oh! sob, thou sobbing rain. See the lightning's flash and the low hung sky Like a bold, bad thought in a villain's eye! What a night for death! Oh that I could die And so end all this pain. My feet are so weary, my feet are so sore, Would they bear me I wonder as far as the moor Would they take me in, that watch by the door Out of the sobbing rain? What darkness is this that veileth mine eyes? Oh! it is my tears—or the mist inthe aides? But then my heart—and my breath how it Hies, And yet I feel no pain. See starry lights gleam by that open door, Yet 'tis not the one on the distant moor— And strange voices call me I ne'er heard before out of the sobbing rain. BEGINNING AGAIN. When sometimes our feet grow weary On the rugged hills of life, The path stretching long and dreary With trial and labor rife, We pause on the upward journey, Glancing backward o'er valley and glen, And sigh with an infinite longing, To return and \begin again.\ Far behind in the dew of morning, With all its freshness and light, • And before us doubts and shadows, And the chill and gloom of night ; And we think of the sunny places We passed so carelessly then, And we sigh, 0 Father, permit us To return and \begin again.\ We think of the many dear ones Whose lives touched ours at times, Whose loving thoughts and pleasant smiles, Float back like vesper chimes, And sadly rememher hurdens We might have lightened then— Ah, gladly would we ease them, Could we only \begin again.\ And yet how vain the asking ! Life's duties press all of us on, And who would shrink from the burden, Or sigh for the sunshine that's gone? And it may be not far on before us Wait places fairer than them ; Our paths may yet lead by still waters, Though we may not \begin again.\ Yet upward and onward forever, Be our paths on the hills of life, But ere long a radiant dawning, W gloryfy life and strife. And our Father's hand will lead us Tenderly upward then : In the joy and peace of the better world He'll let us \begin again.\ THE NATURE OF COMETS. M. Bathelemy, the French scientist, re- cently communicated to the Paris Acad- emy of Sciences some experiments of his concerning the vibrations and undula- tions of liquids when they strike against a motionless spherical body, or, which comes to the same, of liquids in a state of rest encountered by a sphere in motion. The ripple occasion by such action as- sumes the shape of concentrated arcs on one side and longitudinal curves on the oppoeite one, exemplified by a diagram which represents the phenomenon as seen in a tub strongly illuminated by the sun; the sphere being composed either of whiting or Prussian blue, the particles of which. carried off by the water. arrange themselves so as to form the figures above described. So far we have no ob- jection to make. says Galinani's Messen- ger; but the writer goes on to say that the spectroscopic observations of Cog- gia's comet prove that its tail is formed of strata of solid particles, which, owing to the resisting medium in which comets move, must aesume a similar arrange- ment. Here weteg to remind M. Bar- titelemy, for the honor of the Messenger, that as early as the appearance of Dona - ti's comet e Welt he mentions as present- ing broad parallel bands, the -reeistmg medium\ was opposed in these columns, and was soon atter abandoned by astron- omers; and at the same time this paper refused to admit the truth, or even the plaueibility of the late M. Babinet's as- sertion that comets were \visible noth- ings\ on the ground, first, that \visible nothings\ could not move according to the laws of universal gravitation, as comets did; and that secondly, it sters were seen across the tails of comets with- out any refraction, that circumstance. far from being an argament in favos of their extreme tenuity, clearly proved that they must be composed of solid particles, through the interslices of which the stars were visible unretracted. Spec- troseopy, we are happy to find, has now confirmed the view entertained by Galig- eeni's Messenger 25 years ago.—N. Y. Times. NOTES—SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. A piece of armor plating, fourteen inch- es in thick' ess, and representing the side armor of a new sea -going monitor now building for the British navy, has been tested with great satisfactory results at Portsmouth, Eng. The plate was treat- ed in the usual manner during such tri- als, being bolted on to the face of an im- mensely strong athwartship timber tar - (set and tired at with a Palliser -chilled shot from a seven-inch muzzle -loading rifle gun with thirty pounds of pebble powder, thirty feet being the distance be- tween the plate and the muzzle of the gun. Five overlapping shot were plant- ed in the form of a square, extending over four superficial feet. The greatest penetration was nine inches. The observations made by Prole. Zoll- ner and Vogel have led them to the con- clusion that the sun revolves on its axis at the rate of six hundred and sixty miles per hour. In regard to trade winds in the sun, which some have conjectured, M. Secchi expresses great doubt as to the existence of any thing of the kind; he thinks that, between the trade winds of the earth and the tendency of dominant currents in the sue to pass from the equa- tor to the poles, there is a great differ- ence. The belief also appears to be gain- ing among scientific men, especially in England, that the spots on the sun are, in reality, produced by volcanic action which is for the time intensified by the proximity ot some planet. A wind turbine, or horizontal wind wheel, moving about a vertical axis, has been for some time in operation near Mesa, Germany. It has a diameter of seventeen feet, a height of 10.2 feet, six curved paddles, and eight movable guide curves, and makes ten revolutions per minute, even while running a saw, cut ting a plank over three inches thick. It would probably make twenty revolutions without work, and with a good wind would furnish about six -horse power. Similar attempts, it is stated, have previ- ously been made in this way, but careful experiments, it is believed, are yet neces- sary to determine whether the arrange- ment really possesses any advantage, practically considered, over the best con- structed vertical wheels. Experiments show that the crumbling away of stones in buildings usually oc- curs in the greatest degree at places to which, by the joint agency of moisture and evaporation, nitrates and other salts are brought and left to crystallize. It is also ascertained that the solidification of crystalline matter in porous stones usu- ally produces a disintegration, owing to the tendency of growing crystals ,to in- crease in size, even where to do so they must push out of their way the porous walls of the cavities in which they are contained, and even though it be from these walls that they receive the materi- als for their increase. The proposed method of tin -foil orna- mentation—for the imitation of wood and marble, and applicable to wall decora- tion, woodwork, and house furniture— which was at first received with consider- able incredulity by artisans, appears, on examination, among which is the novel one of being put upon damp walls, and admitting the decoration of the surface at the same time. Besides this, it is found to offer peculiar facilities for decoration in places where it is difficult to obtain skilled labor, and the ease and skill with which it can be used constitute another point in its favor. For halls and staircases it is thought the material will be tar more effective and serviceable than paper - hangings as now used. From the ex- treme thinness of the article, it is capable of enveloping the most delicate of mold- ings; and the surface being varnished, and then placed in a hot chamber and subjected to a heat of one hundred and twenty degrees Fah., it is considered per- manent and durable. The material is produced in rolls two and three feet wide and eiehteen feet long. An improved button -holder, which must meet, it would seem, an extensive want among the manufactures of almost every kind of garment, consists of two plates of metal which are forked at one end, the space between the prongs being V shaped. One of these plates has grooves on the inner edges of the prongs, which grooves receive the buttons. The cloth passes in between the two .plates, and is pressed upon the buttons by the prongs of the black plate as the two plates are pressed together or toward each other, when the holder is in use, by the fingers of the operator. The button is then attached with a needle and thread in the usual manner. Thus the fingers are not exposed to the needle. and the sewing on it performed with greater ease. There is in Italy a society of spectro- scopists who have, in the interests ofastro- nomical science, adopted the plan of fol- lowing and depicting from mittme to minute the greatest hydrogen eruptions. in order to study them in all their phas- es; to draw day by day, the innumerable details ot the photosphere, and arrange them on a strip ot paper; to represent the daily changes, great and small, of its disc; to make each day a detailed analysis of the chromosphere. classing systemati- cally the chemical elements projected or thrown out by the eruptions; else) to depict the loculee and spots of the solar disk, and study their relations with each other; to make frequent measures of the diameter ot the sun, and to watch for traces of the auroras on the horizon whenever a great protuberane.e appears on the sun, and to determine whether the magnetic perturbations and auroras are under the immediate control of solar eruptions. The unusual mildness of the weather in France, during the past winter, is a phenomenon which has excited much in- terest among meteorologists. Among others. M. Taste! has investigated the mat- ter, and thinks that Ite has found a great atmospheric current crossing the coun- try. which bears about the same relation to the atmosphere as the Gulf Stream does to the ocean. This current, he says, becomes displaced in longitude. and. ac- cording as a given region is in the center or on the bordere of the mrial flood, the winter is calm and mild, or characterized by cold ani storms. FOREIGN NOTES. The eruption of Mount Etna still con- tinues. Four hundred Mormons sailed from London recently. Nearly 200 newspapers have failed in Germany since the beginning of the year. The Spanish Embassadors to European Courts have presented their credentials. An explosion occurred in a Belgian coal mine lately, and but few ot the miners can be saved. The trial of Colonel Villette and other alleged accompieces Bazaine's escape will begin on tee 14th hist. The Empress ot Austria is said to be the handsomest Princess, and one of the handsomest women of Europe. Two English ladies were suspected of complicity in Bazaine's escape, and the gendarmes have since ingeniously insult- ed every Englieli lady iteFrauce. The Marquis ot Ripon has resigned the position of Grand Master of the order of Free Masons of England, and wilZ be succeeded ad interim by the Prinee of Wales. The English pilgrims arrived at Pon- tigny last week. The party numbers 313, and includes Archbishop Manning, Earl of Gainsborough and other mem- bers of the nobility. England needs missionaries. The fol- lowing advertisement appears in a Jap- anese newspapers: \For sale, a very fine idol with six arms. Itis fifteen feet high l a zi n n d (t vIcas cut in bronze at Sheffield, Eng- At Kew Gardens, near London, there is an American century plant in bloesom. If, now, it had only waited till '73 and then been sent to Philadelphia! It was, in part, to em bellish Kew that the stamp tax was laid, and this blossoming comes at least Kewiously near to the centennial of the result. Queer, sleepy old fellows, our British cousins. Just now they are horrified in the town of Sunderland at a discovery made by the health officer, that the butchers put a pipe under the skin of the fresh meat and \blow the foul air from their own lungs into the cellular tissue to give an appearance of plumpness.\ \Your Honor,\ said a prisoner to a Paris judge, \my lawyer is not here, and I request a delay of the case for eight days.\ \But said the judge, \you were caught in the act of theft, what can any lawyer say for you ?\ ‘bThat is just what I should like to hear,\ said the prisoner, and the Court, laughed, but sentenced hint to a year. A certain English cable manufacturer is out with a statement that the present form of telegraph cable is certain to de- cay sooner or later, most likely within an average of seven years, owing to the light wires with which the core is wrap- ped. Ms idea of a cable is a lighter wire covered with tarred manilla hemp. The velocipede is said to have become very popular in Paris. A company has been formed to place a large number of velocipedes on the streets for the use of messengers traveling to all parts of the city. Some of the Parisian journals, it is stated, are also employing the vehicle for obtaining meek reports. Alexander Dumas was invited to the literarv dinner recently given by the Lord Mayor of London, and replied as follows : \Mv Lord, I thank you for having thought of me ; but you should understand that I cannot go to dine in a country which authorizes the literature of M. Verinersch and forbids mine.\ Ver- mersch was one of the worst of the liter- ary Bohemians who wrote up the Com- mune and is now a fugitive in London. How much can a. woman be married and yet remain single? Mrs. Boyce en- tered into matrimonial relations with a gentleman sufficiently to give hint au- thority to protect her from her relatives. But as she is entitled to an income only while she is a widow, she must satisfy the Bank of England that she is not a married woman, or lose her money. And her efforts are now directed to con- vince the bank that matrimony and sin- gle blessedness are not inconsistent. , According to the statement of a corres- pondent, the difficulty between Turkey and Egypt grows out of a desire on the part of the latter country to acquire the islands of Crete, Rhodes and Cyprus. Egypt wants to become a maritime pow- er, and the islands aftbrd harbors and much timber tor suitable ship -building. Turkey, on the other hand, opposes the division ot Egypt, because she is anxious to retain her naval supremacy. and be- cause she has no wish for her already danger__ ...........a ous neighbor to acquire territory at her expense. A CITY THAT GREW FAST AND DIED 4t CH' EY. A correspondent of a Boston paper, says :----It is not only individuals who have suddenly increased in prosperity and as suddenly gone down in nothing- nese ; there are cities of which the sante can be said. Such a one is Pithole City, Pa. Within one month from the comple- tion of the first house that city had a tele- owners graph office and a hotel, costing the $80,000. In one month more there was a daily paper established. and in the next a theatre ; in another month another theatre, and then all academy of music. In six months from that there was seventy-four hotels and boarding houses ; in the seventh month the city had reached its prosperity. It then had about 15,000 inhabitants, elaborate water works. a city hall and an expensive city government. . Then occurred the com- pletion of labor-saving enterprise, the so- called Miller Farm pipe line, by which the petrolemn was sent off independent of the laboring population, at once 4,000 persons were thrown out of employ- ment, while 2.900 houses became useless. This was the death -blow to Pithole. At once the hotels, tile theteres and the tele- graph offices were closed, and the daily paper gave up the ghost. whilst almost every one packed up his trunk and moved out. Only nine families, remain out of a populati en of 15,000 souls while the railroad from Pithole and Oleopolis rims only one train a day consisting of a locomotive and a single car, which us- ually is empty ; but the company is obliered to keep running. otherwise the charter for the road is lost. They still hope againet hope for better tittles for that unfortunate city, which, iu only seven monthe, was born got sick and died. Undoubtedly this is a case unparallelled in history, modern or ancient. Neither Essypt nor Greece can give examples of such rapid changes. A ranter is s VA that Secre- h3 e.--e-ssa ing arot tarv Bristow is to resign and Hugh Mc- Culloch be appointed in hie place. It is nonsense. When the famous issue ot veracity was raised between Andrew Johnson and Gen. Grant, Mr. McCulloch was one of those members of the Cabinet who e - ave a square certificate that John- son told the truth and Grant the other thine - . That fact settles all doubt as to his appointment under the present Ad- ministration. The President may be afraid of Bristow, but McCulloch he abominates. According to the Galveston News the climate of Texas is particularly adapted • to the cultivation of almonds. NO. 46. DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVEN- TIONS. The Michigan Democratic State Con- vention met at Kalamazoe, on September 10th. E. H. Thompson was chosen Pres- ident. Resolutions were adopted ar- raigning the Republican party tor extrav- agance. corruption and usurpation, and demanding a radical change; requesting the punishment of official dishonesty; the repeal of the salary grab and press gag law; reservation of public lands for Union soldiers and sailors and actual settlers; demand the repeal of the Legal Tender Act, to take effect not later than July 4th, 1876; a specie basis and free banks with a secured currency act, tariff for revenue only: The payment of all forms of the National debt in coin or its equivalent when due, and equal and just distribu- tion of taxes aud imports required to eal.se the needed revenue. Resolutions were also passed to demand in the man- agement of State affairs honesty and economy in expenditure, prudence in taxation; censure the present state of ad- ministration for lack of both, and for their general management of financial affairs and their refusal to allow the rep- resentatives of the people to examine the books and accounts of the State; favor the Constitutional amendment giving the Legislature power to regulate the liquor traffic; declare the right of the State to regulate corporations created by it, but assert that railroad and industrial inter- ests of the State are identical, and should be reciprocal, and that the people have the right to such legislation as will se- cure reasonable, uniform rates of freight. The following nominations were made: for Governor, Henry Chamberlain; Lieu- tenant Governor, Frank Hall; Secretary of State, George H. House; State Treas- urer, Joseph M. Sterling; Commissioner ot State Land Office, General John H. Graus; Attorney -General, Chauncey W. Green; Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion, Martin V. Montgomery; Member of the State board of Education, Duane Doty. The Nebraska Democratic State Con- vention met at Lincoln on the 10th, and was the largest ever held in that State. Nearly every county was represented. The following nominations were made: for Congress, Col. J. W. Savage; Gov. of State, A. T. Uxbury; Secretary of State, J. A. Thirley; Treasurer, R. Jordan. Res- olutions were passed to declare, first for gold and silver as the basis of currency and the resumption of specie payment as soon as possible without disaster to the business interests of the conntry, and pay- ment of the National debt in coin; second, individual liberty; opposition to all sump- tuary laws; free commerce; tariff for rev- enue only; asird, restriction of State and National Government to legitimate polit- ical power; fourth, declares the right anti duty of the State to protect citizens from extertion and tutiust discrimination by chartered monopolies; fifth, that we ap- preciate the benefits and influence of railroads in developing the resources ot the country, and favor liberal legislation in that direction, but only on the basis of taxation equitable to both citizens and corporations. muss KISSING IN CHURCH. A Columbia clergyman, who, while preaching a sermou on Sunday evening perceived a man and woman under the gallery in the act of kissing each other behind a hymn book, did not lose his temper, No ! he remained calm. He beemed mildly at the offenders over his spectacles, and when the young man kissed her the fifteenth time, he merely broke his sermon short off in the middle of -thirdly,\ and offered a fervent prayer in behalf of \the young man in the pink neck -tie and the maiden in the blue bon- net and gray shawl, who were profaring the sanctuary by kissing one another in pew 73.\ And the coneregation said \Amen.\ Then the woman pulled her veil down, and the young man sat there and swore softly to himself. He does not go to church as much now as he did. John Sherman is in no respect a Sena- tor representing the State of Ohio. He is from Ohio, and that is all. He repre- sents the two thousand National Banks of the country. He represents the stock- jobbers and the bond -holding aristocracy. He represents the gold gamblers of Wall street. He represents the iron-moReer of Pennsylvania and the New England lord of the loom. He is nothing more nor less than a retained attorney of the moneyed and privileged classes. For any thing that is special, unequal, de- signed to favor a few at the expense ot the many, we can count upon John Sher - man's vote and support. The two mill- ion and three-quarters of people who re- side in Ohio have every reason to consid- er him as their worst enemy. He is con- stantly using his position to load them with impositions that do not belong to them for the advantage of an Eastern monetary noblesse. It was a pretty, bright little girl of four and a half years who played with a light- ed candle near a can of coal -oil, in Sum- ner county, Tenn.. last Saturday week. and her funeral took place the following Monday. Of course you can't deny a child a lighted candle and a can of coal - oil to play with when it threatens to cry for them ; but you ought to send thr the doctor and the tire-enginee, and stand around with a parcel of blankets to throw over the child as soon as the explosion takes place. Some good comes out ot Vermont. The father of the \press gag -law\ feeble- minded, white-haired Poland—he of the shad -belly coat and ancient fob-chain—is certainly defeated for Congress in the Second district. His successor is Hon. D. C. Dennison. an independent Repub- lican. A warning to whitewashers and press-fetterers. A Texas man knows idles -el! well. He sat down on a hot branding iron. HOME. That \there is no place like home\ are the truest words ever uttered by a human being. Home! Is there any word in the Eng- lish language so fraught with pleasant memories and so associated with all with- in us that is good and noble? What an atmosphere of quiet and con- tent is encircled within those four walls, and after battling with the great world, torn and bleeding after the conflict, how eagerly we seek the shelter of the paren- tal tree. If mothers did but know that this home influence makes us proportionately bad or good, as the influence is baneful or beneficial, and that we carry the impress of our earliest years to the grave, how earnestly would they strive to make an earthly paradise. All our burdens of sorrow and pain are dropped at the threshold, and we enjoy for a few fleeting moments freedom front all worldly cares. We start out in the world strong to do or dare, followed by loving prayers, and know that there are a few true hearts which will be with us always whatever course we may pursue, whether it be a career of shame and disgrace or glory and triumph. We have a shrine in some corner of our hearts which, though often hidden from sight by a thick covering of scepti- cism and worldly wisdom—the little flame of home on its altar—diffuses a warmth whose beneficial effects are felt in many an act of loving kindness. The proud, cold-hearted man often re- members some period ofliis life when he was a happy, romping boy, whose eeca- pedes were \many a time and oft\ excus- ed with a mild admonition to do better in the future, and whose childish sorrows ever obtained ready sympthy at home, no matter how ill -deserving lie may have been. Memory brings back to him. the love anti tenderness which never varied. Each noble dream And hope and feeling which had slept From boyhood's hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept—he wept!\ and with the tear -drops dimming his sight he goes out into the world and per- forms some noble deed, while all the world woaders, saying: \Surely this can- not be true, for we thought his heart a stone?\ Ali me! did they once imagine he was influenced by early recollections? Oh! let us in whose power it lies (and we all have the power) endeavor to make home the dearest spot on earth. When we go there leave all cross feelings and hasty words outside, and go in with a loving, tender smile, for it we did but know the power of every little pleasant word and the influence it would exert over some one in the future, I think we wotdd never allow an impatient word to THE GAG -LAW. For the last few years several members of Congress, taking their cue fl om Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, have taken great pains to deride the influence of the press, to sneer at members ot the journalistic profession, and to even attempt the re- striction of the libertes of the press by le- gal enactments. One of the most proini- nent ot these law -makers has been the Hon. Luke I'. Poland, of Vermont. At tlee, last session of Congress he reported a bill which gives a local court of Wash- ington power to try suits for libel no matter where the libel was committed. Of course the press regarded this law as a threat of intimidation, and an intima- tion that no matter of what sins members of Congress might be guilty, they were to be sacred from the as=aults of the _press. A short time ago Mr. Poland re- ceived a Republican nomination thr Con- gress, and he then informed the conven- tion which nominated him that the news- papers were liars, that his bill didn't mean anything like that which the pa- pers said it meant, and that he was a much -maligned individual. While he was speaking, a newspaper correspon- dent had an action brought against hint under the very law which Mr. Poland said could not be tortured to mean what the press said it did. Now one of the original planks of the Republican party emphatically declared in thvor of \ free speech and a free press.\ If Mr. Poland had forgotten this fact, his constituents remembered it, and when election day came about two-thirds of them voted for a \stump\ candidate, Mr. Dennison, and Poland is the worst defeated man who ever ran on a Republican nomination in Vermont. This should bc a lesson to aspiring politicians that it is not overwise to kick down the ladder by which they climbed to place—that it is not wise to become the enemy of those who made them known to the public, and who in many instances make statesmen out of small material. It cannot be denied that the press has its faults. It is often too rabid in its views, too personal in statement, and too hasty in giving rumors as facts ; but with all its faults it is the shield of public rights, the scourge of dishonesty in high places and the defender of down -trodden inno- cence. When a politieian girds at it, he assails a power greater than that of any one individual. The pu'dic man who makes an enemy of the press need have but little hope of attaining or retaining power in this country. A squabble with a paper or papers amounts to little more than any other quarrel, but when an in- sidious attempt is made to abridge the liberty of thb press, the man making it is doomed, for then the press treat him pass our lips. without regard to party affiliations, or to The power and lasting impressions of I our early home -life are demonstrated to personal friendship. They treat him as us every day. - We hear the roar and thunder of war, we see men committing what we style legal murder, and we think surely these blood -thirsty men could never have been pure and innocent children, they surely never made one in a sweet home -circle, never have knelt at a mother's knee with elapsed hands, hushed and awed voices, breathing their evening prayer. It does seem strange, but when they have been stormed at with shot and shell and lie bleeding slowly their lives away, olten to those angels of the battle field \Whispered low the dyirg soldier, Kissed their hands and faintly smiled— Was that pitying face his mother's? Did she watch beside her child?\ And so the life -tide ebbing out so fast bears with its last drop the consecrated name. noe-11-eall AN OLD MAID WILDLY FOKEED. A Pheenixville maid, quite old. becom- ino; anxious about her matrimonial chan- ces, recently concocted a plan to deceive a young fellow as to her age. This was the way she tried it: The old family Bible contained a faithful record ot all births, marriages, and deaths. This vol- ume the maiden took to her chamber, and, selecting the birth -page, she manag- ed by dint of scratching and writing to change the date ot her birth to a period eleven years later than what it had legiti- mately been recorded. Then the Bible was placed on the sitting -room table in a conepicuous manner. That evening along came the lover. He soon beg - an to finger with the Bible pages, and finally reached the birth record, where and when he discovered, to his surprise, that his Angelina, was just one year younger than he. Ile thought it strange, as she appeared older. Ile kept his mouth shut, and continued to fumble over the pages. Next he beoain reading the death list, and made the very astonishing discovery that the radiant maiden, according to the Bible, had actually been born ten years after the decease of her father. Time young man quietly arose and bid Ang,e- lina good-bye, and now swears that -eter- nal vigilance is indeed the price of liber- ty.\—Pottsville Miner's Journal. A Paris letter says that foreign travel- lers, easily recognized by their tourist hats and costumes, seem to have taken possession 01 the town. The boulevards are crowded with them. The fresh and pretty English girls with their rosy cheeks and aristocratic air, their inde- pendence and powers of endurance, their romsh but rich costumes and thick -soled walkin7 boots, are just now the most common topics of conversation in French circles. To see paterfamilias, fat, well- fed, well -dressed, rubicund aud jolly, conducting a bevy of beautiful, rosy- cheeked young girls about the city, is a sisrlit which stirs the French to enthusi- asm. And. indeed, these young English girls are very beautiful. it is said that there is no real beauty without health and strength, and at the present time one is quite ready to accept the sentiment with very little reservation. After a tour throTIti Switzerland and up the Rhine, these youn,? . .. ladies conic through Paris looking the very picture of health. Cicero, who NA 00 years before Christ wrote: \I this world as a place where nature never intended ibr my permanent abode; and 1 look upon my departure from it not as being driven from my habitation, but simply as le,av- ing an inn.\ se e-se-ese The Louisville Ledger has been puzzled for a long time to know why the women of Massachusetts make more noise than their sisters in other States. Archbishop Whately once propounded a similar co- nundrum: \Why do white sheap eat more than black ones?\ and answered it with the ineviteble teply;\ Because there are more of them.\ an enemy of their guild and a foe of pub- lic liberty. Perhaps Mr. Poland does not despise the press of the United States now, though he may hate it more hearti- ly than ever. Even the glory of a blue clawhaminer coat, decorated with brass buttons, won't console him for the loss of his seat in Congress, his salary grab, and his interest in Credit Mobilier. INFLUENCE OF THE STOCK SALES. The evidence given by recent success- ful sales of Short -horns. of the course of improvement in general stock breeding, is most encouraghig. Seventy-seven members of the Glen Flora herd have scattered attunes breeders in eight States and Canada, at a cost of nearly $55,009, and an average of $710 for each animal. At the sale of the Loydale herd 79 ani- mals realized over $127,000, with the high general average of over $1,900. The re- sult of the sale of the herd of General Meredith, of Cambridge, Indiana, made up of animals not belonging to hio - hly fasiliOnable tatnilies, proved that a good worki ng herd possesses a. certain market value for its essential merits of blood and bone, with nothing taken to account for style or tancy. Fifty-three animals were disposed of:here for over $24,000 a gener- al average of more than 8450. The grand total of the three sales was $205,815, and the average of 209 animals was $954.76. The fact that these 209 animals have gone from the hands of three breeders into those of a large number in no less than 17 States, leaving Canada and England out of the question, is of noticeable sig- nificance. In their new spheres of fulness, whatever of excellence these choice animals possess will be added to a hundred herds, and will influenee tor good the stock of the whole country in the course of a few years. And as their decendants shall be scattered throacrh the valleys ofour eastern rivers, and the broad pleins of the great West, each increment of value will make up in the whole a vast stun in proportion to which that expend- ed at these sales will be a mere trifle. It is in that power to raise the standard of our common stock to treble its present value, that the intrinsic worth of these fine cattle Is found.—N. Y. Paper. The Liberal Religious Society. recent- ly formed in Brookline, is meeting with gratieving euccess, and already feels the assurance of a permanent foundation and continuance. The services, largely at- teneed from the first, excite undiminish- ed interest. The diecourses have betel intelligently varied and eloquent, the list of divines who have officiated comprising sonic of the most eminent names in the clergy. The Society's present condition aud its prospects for the future are en- couraging in every respect; indeed, they far exceed the sanguine expectations of the promoters of a series of Sabbath meetings, whose tendency, designed to be immediately beneficial, eannot fail to enlarge their healthful and improving infitienc,e. Teaher—\Peter you are such a bad boy that you are not fit to sit in the com- pany ofgood boys on the bench. Come up here and sit by me, sir.\ THE M ADISONIAN, —IS -- PUBLISHED r VERI SATURDAY —AT— Virginia City, - Montana. THOMA.S DEYARMON, Editor and Proprietor. Papers ordered to any address esti be changed to another address atthe option of the suesscriber. Remittance by draft. check. moue,' order or registered letter may be !gest at our risk. TIRE MADISONIAN is devoted to ttw advocacy of the principles of the Democrat.* party and to general and local news. WOMAN'S RIGHTS. The following are the opening, senten- ces of an address on this subject by3irs. Skinner : Miss President, feller Mifflin in, and male trash generally—I am here to -day for the purpose of discussing woman's i t - i i m g eh i t n s, ei re l. cussing her wrongs and 4' assi ng I believe the sexeS were created per- fectly equal. with the wollien a, little more equal than the men. I also believe that the world would t day be happier if man had never existed. As a success man is a failure, and I bless my stars my mother was a woman (Applause.) I not only maintain their principles but maintain a shiftless husband besides. They say man wascreated first. Well, 'spose he was. A'nt experiments alwaye thilures ? If I was a betting man, I would bet $250 they are. The only decent thing about him was a rib, and that went to make something better. [Applause.] And then they throw in our faces about taking an apple. I'll bet five dol- lars that Adain booeted her up the tree and only .gave her the core. And what did he do when he was found out ? True to his masculine instincts, he sneaked behind Eve's Grecian bend an said: \Twan't me ; 'twas her,\ and wom- an has had to father everything aud mother it too. What we wan't is the ballot, and the ballot we're bound to I lave. if we have to let down our back hair mid swim in a sea of gore. [Sensation.] rif-ELAND wt)31)::i. A writer in the Condi il el agazine says, \In one regard the women of Iceland have obtained completer equality than their sisters In continental Europe. They receive exactly the same education as the men do. There are no schools in the is- land, naturally, as finnilies live mostly a dozen miles apart, and instruction is therefore given by the father to his sons snd daughters alike and together, the priest—where there is a priest—some- times adding a little Latin or Danish . Thus the girl learns all her parents can teach her, and is as good an arithmeti- cian, and as familiar with the Sagas, as her brother. Accomplishments, ot course are pretty well out of the question ; paint- ing, not only from the difficulty of pro- curiug materials, but because there is really nothing to rent ; dancing, because you can seldom gather a sufficiently large party, and have no rooms big enough ; instrumental music, on account of the hnpossibility of transporting a piztno over rocks and bogs on the back of a pony. Nevertheless, we found in a remote house (a. good wooden house, by the way) upon the eoast, where we were hospitably en- tertained for a day and night, not only a piano. but several young ladies who could play excellently on it and a guitar, accompanying themselves to songs ill four or five ianguares—the Sweedish, as we thought, the prettiest of all. They lived in the most desolate spot imagina- ble—the sea roaring in front on a long strand ; inland, a plain or dreary bog, and behind it, miles away, grim, shape- less mountains. They had no neighbors within ten or fifteen miles, and told us they were often without a visitor for months together. But they were as bright and cheerful as possible, anti though they did not respond to the sug- gestion ofa dance, they sang and played to two of us all the evening long in the tiny drawing room while the storm howled without, and their worthy father (who was a sort of general merchant for that part of the island) and the lord lieu- tenant of the county, who had dropped in from his house, thirty or forty miles oft; brewed noble bowls of punch, mei held forth to our third comrade in a strange mixture of tongues upon the re- sources of Iceland.\ nee-e-esc HINTS ON CHURNING. During the process of churning. a cer- tain indemnity of temperature must be observed or the butter will be soft and spongy, instead of being tirm and com- pact. The agitation, also of the eream should be regular—neither too quick nor too slow. If the ao-itat ion is too quick the butter will make and unmake itself before the downer is aware of' it, as too rapid mot:on induces fermentation, which when it has reached a. certain point, is en- tirely destructive of anything like the possibility ot making even moderately good or well tasting butter. If, on the other hand, the motion be too slow, the agitators in the churn fail to produce the desired separation of the component parts ot the cream, and the consequence ie that after a good deal of time speet in lazy action, the chureer is just as far from his butter as he was at the beginning of his labors. The hest wmperature for the cream in churning - from 50 deg. to 60 deg. Morton claims credit for the Republi- can party becauee \all that is known of Republican corruption has been revealed by its own diligent examination and self - exposure.\ When Republican thieves hand back the money they have stolen and resign the offices they disgrace it will be time enough to claim credit for repentance. To stand up and boast of the sores of the body politic and make a merit of their tilizCON vry is a new depart- ment in politics. The truth ie that cor- ruption has in every instance been drag- ged to light against the pretest of the Republican party and the resistance of the administration. Morton's claim is as false in fact as it is shameless in concep- tion. They have a six -year old boy at rirri: man, N. H.. who wei!rhs 14 4 3 pounds. The following are his (limension.:z ;- Around the chest, 45 inches; thigh, 28 inches; ankle, 15 invites ; wrist, 10 - inch- es; arm at shoulder, 17 inches ; length of' leg. 17 inehes ; heiehe 47 1-2 inches. We should call him ae-hig'' boy.-
