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THE MADISONIAN. C - _ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1871. T ERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year in adv,tlate& Six Months Three Months 4 $5 0§ 2 5 1 5 ADVERTISING RATES. THE ADISONIAN, as an advertising seOluni, is eaual to any paper in Montana. II V - ./1 ' • Z. 41. t ,ta• so' ro• •:42 Pich ... $3 $5 $7 . $s $10 $15 $20A25 2 Inches 5 9 10 12 20 MI 40 3 Inches 7 9 11 12 15 05 37 55 4 Inches 8 11 12 14 17 30 45 70 6 Inches 10 12 15 18 24 38 65 90 et Inches Is 24 30 34 40 55 90 140 I5 Inches 1 30 40 50 5.5 65 75 150 250 The above scale of prices Is for ordinary sin - le -column, display advertising. Solitl and 4bular advertisements will be charged at the •aeh rate ior space occupied. LOCAL NOTICES, Fifteen cents per line f , o. first. and ten cents L ptr line fur each at lf lit ional insertion. CARDS, One-half inch, $2 for one insertion ; $3 for two insertions; $e per quarter; $16 per year. Ty' The foregoing schedule of prices will be strictly adhered to. All advertisements counted in Nonpareil raeasure. 0 13 rt I I - INT Gr Of every description, executed in the best and neatest etyle. and on reasonable terms. NEWSPAPER DECISIONS. 1. Any one who takes a paper regularly from the Postotlice-whether directed to his name or another's, or whether he has subscribed or not responsible for the payment. 2. If a person orders his paper discontinued. I he must keiy all arrearages, or the publisher inav continue to send it until payment is made, and collitect 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 Pestotlice, or removing and leaving them _un- called for, is prima facia evidence of intention- al fraud. PROFESSIONAL. G. F. COWAN. tone) anti OltilSelOr at Lill - . Radersberg. Montana Terri t ora . HENRY F. WILLIAMS, Atly & Counselor at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, . MONTANA. OFFICE o‘er the Post Officer. J. E. CALLAWAY, Attorney and Conn- selor at T_Aa,w. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE, adjoining the °nice of the Secre- ar of the Territory Z. W. TOOLE. J. K . TooLif.. TOOLE & TOOLE. Attorneys at Law. HELENA, MONTANA. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. JOHN T. SitoBER. T. J. LOWERY. SHOBER St. LOWERY, Attorneys and coun- selors at HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all the courts of M o ntana. SAMUEL WORD. Attw-liki. - ILA 1_4a,w- VIRGINIA CITY. M. T. JAMES G. SPR ATT, ..Xttorney and Conn- selor at 1_,aw. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. \V ill practice in all the Courts of 31,oitana. R. W. HI .. Attorney at 'Law, GALLATIN 4 ITY. M. T. W. F. SANDERS, Attorney and Conn- selor at TAnw. HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all Courts of Record in Montana. C. W. TURNER, I: , VIRGINIA CITY , M. T. OFFICE: Adjoining Colonel Callaway's. WM. F. KIRKWOOD, Attorney at Law, VIRGINIA CITY. Can be found at Judge Spratt's oflice or Pro- bate Court Rooms. %% ill practice in all the Courts of the Territory. GEORGE CALLAWAY, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M NTANA. OFFICE, at the Law Office of J. E. Calla- way , Eee., until further notice. 1. C. SMITH, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. Office at the Old Le Beau Stand, Wallace Street where he can be found night or day E. T. YAGER. M. D.. Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. Will practice in all branches. Office one door above the City Drug Store. H. Es. BARKLEY. M. D. Physician & Surgeon. RADERSBURG, M. T. 1 AS had twenty-one years' experience in in his profession -four years of that time : . ..ceon in the Confederate army. lie is pre - to perform all kinds of surgery. 1N FEMALE COMPLAINTS, his expe- r l i e e i n r e i tt • o i r s y nut surpassed by anY PhYsician in the TO THOSE WHO HAVE VENEREAL wOMPLA I Ni TS. -Gonorrhea, if called upon within tiye days after the lirst appearance, he win cure in seventy-two hours. In Syphilis, lie will cure iu five days. . 1 Iis treatment is different freen any physi- man in this Territory . He ts prepared for gel iasing Extracting and Filling Teeth. DR. C. S. ELLIS ( -.'rr\-^teheel's store at Silver Star, Moutana,c4n 1 . 't feline at all times, day and night, at said s'\\rt . , When net ab:. , ..e.nt on professional busi- taste 1-:estf H AVING taken an iutcrest in the Drug Department of A 0 . B. WHITFORD, M. D., 144 78141azt and Surscoll, D EER LODGE ‘1ONTAICA. VOL. 1. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1874. k) gr rt THE PASSING BELL. In times of old, when a summons Caine to a soul from God, And Death, like a ghostly presence, The sick man's chamber trod - Just wheu the last breath fluttered Over the lips of clay, The bell in the old church tower Bade all men pause and pray, For a human soul was passing From earthly things away. I can fancy the mowers mowing Among the tall, green grass, And hear them singing blithely As the busy hours pass. And then -the song they are singing Stops short at the solemn toll 01 the bell, as it rings from the tower ere. eesit oe a pazciug b01.11. I can see two loyees standing Alone at the garden gate, Forgetful of death and sorrow , As the summer night grows late, Suddenly out in the silence Rings the voice of the passing bell, And they pray that for him who is dying The future may all be well. What a weird and solemn warning Of the common fate of all Must have been the bell's deep tolling, As it broke on the reveler's hall! To homes of mirth and mourning - Or prince or peasant poor - Like the voice of God repeating That Death was at each man's door. I like the old-time custom, It would seem, when I heard it toll, That all the world was praying For the peace of the passing soul. -E. E. Itexford. MOURNER A LA MODE. I saw her last night at a party The elegant party at Mead's, And looking remarkably hearty For a widow so young in her weeds, Yet I knew she was suffering sorrow Too deep for the tongue to express, Or why had she chosen to borrow So much from the language of dress? Her shawl was as sable as night; Her gloves were as dark as her shawl; And her jewels -that 'lashed in the light - Were black as a funeral pall; Her robe had the hue of the rest (How ni:tely it fitted her shape!) And the grief that was heaving her breast Boiled over in billows of crape! What tears of vicarious woe, That else might have sullied her face, Were kindly permitted to flow In ripples of ebony lace! While even her fan, in its play, Had quite s lugunrioas And seemed to he waving away The ghost of the angel of hope! Yet rich as the robes of a queen 1Vae the emnbre apparel she wore, I'm certain I never had seen Such a sumptuous sorrow before; And I cauldn't help thinking the beauty, In mourning the loved and the lost, Was doing her conjugal duty Altogether regardless of cost! One surely would say a devotion Performed at so vas an expense Betrayed an excess of emotion That really was something immense; And yet as I viewed, at my leisure These tokens of tender regard, I thought, it isacmce without measure - The sorrow that gaes by the yard! SOWING AND REAPING. We live by thought, and by the men who spake The darknes into light; Who bid the spirit's morning break Forth from the womb of night; And in that great deliverance Revealed a new world at a glance. Yet oft that living thought is born of death, Arid the stern land lies - No springs invisible beneath, No rain -clouds in the skies; The martyr's blood, and tears, and toil Alone may irrigate the soil. The crimson fountain bubbles in deep gloom. The funeral pyre's aglow, And all around the yawning tomb The harvest 'gins to grow, Lo! for the sturdy reapers come, To shout the welcome Harvest home. The sickle sheathed, the crop gathered in And garnered in the brain; Not all the kings who victories win May root it out again; Nor check the spread, through years unknown, Of future harvests to be sown. -All The Year Round. • BEFORE THE RAIN. We knew it would rain, for all the morn A spirit of slender ropes of mist Was lowering the golden buckets down Into the vapory amethyst Of marshes, and swamps, and dismal fens, Scorching the dew hat lay in the flowers, Dipping the jewels out of the sea, To sprinkle them over the huel in showere. We knew it would rain, forthe poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain Shrunk in the wind -and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain! -Thomas Bailey Aldrich. CONTENTMENT. \Man wants but little here below.\ Little? I ask. My wants are few; I only wish a hut of stone (A very plain brown stone will do), That I may call my own; And close at hand is such a one, In yonder street that fronts the sun. • • • a • • • • I care not much for gold or land: Give me a mortgage here and there, Some good bank stock, some note of hand Or triffling railroad share. I only ask that fortune send A little more than I shall spend. Honors are silly toys, I know, And titles are but empty namee, I would, perhaps, be Plenum, But only near St. Jarws • I'm very sure I should not care To till our gubernator's chair. • • • • a • • I would not have the horse I drive So fast that folks must stop and stare: An easy gate -two forty -five - Suits me: I do not care: Perhaps for just a single spurt, Some seconds less would do no hurt. Of pictures I should like to own Titians and Raptuels three or four - I love so much their style and tone -- One Turner and no more; (A landscape, foreground golden dirt, The sunshine painted with a squirt.) • • • • • * • • Thus humble let me live and die, Nor long for Midas' golden touch; If Heaven m)re generous gifts deny, I shall nut 11i133 them mach -- T gr,k:etul for gm blessing :eat Of simple taste sad taint* conteut? • • BREACH OF PROMISE -A SON OF ESCUL A PI US IN TROUBLE -A LANCASTER LADY SUES FOR $25, 000. (From the Pittsburg Gazette.] Some time in the month of June last, Mr. T. Walter Day, counsel for Miss Ella J. Baer, a resident of Lancaster, tiled in the Prothonotary's office in this county the papers in a breach of promise case against Dr. John A. Barr, a young phy- sician ot wealth in Westmoreland - Coun- ty. After the suit had been entered a eapias was issued and placed in the hands of the Sheriff, but he tailed to find the de- fendant in this county. The case was finally transferred to Greensburg, the county in which the deteudant lives, and he was arrested and released on $5.000 bail thr his appearance at Court. The plaintiff alleges that the parties were en- gaged at the city of Lancaster, February 18T3. and that afterward the 19th day May, 1874, was fixed as the day of the marriage. She made preparation tor that event, goine• to a great expense, only to be disappointed by the Doctor, who broke off the engagement because he had entered his affections on another lady. The plai ti Wel:thus that by the violation of this marital contract she has suffered damage to the amount of $25,000. She has retained as her counsel quite an ar- ray of legal talent, including '1'. Walter Day and Messrs. %Vier & Gibson, of this city, and James M. Carpenter, of Green - burg. It is said the plaintiff has in her possession about sixty letters referring to the engagement, which will be produced at the trial. The high standing of the parties, the amount ot damages claimed and peculiar circumstances in the case will attach no little interest to it when it conies to trial. COLORADO DEMOCRATIC. The latest mails from Colorado bring a detailed confirmation of the telegraphic election reports from that Territory, and from the accompanying comments both Democrats and Republicans seem well pleased with the result. The Colorado Democrat sends greeting to the party all over the Union, and says: \We were poor, we were unorganized; but we dar- ed to do right. We have braved Grant and his carpet -bag outfit, and with the assistance of our true men and the intelli- gent portion of the Republican party we have triumphed.\ The Deliver News, a Republican jou', al, puts Patterson's probable majority at 1000 votes. awl adds: \The appointment of McCook has borne its natural fruits in the election ofa Dem- ocrat to Congress. Mr. Patterson's elec- tion is a protest of the people against Grant, McCook and the carpet-baowers,\ and it warns the Governor that if rumors of certain acts meditated on his part in his desperation are correct, \he Nvill handle a flame of popular excitement and indignation which even Federal bay- onets Nvill not subdue and which will not be extinguished until it consumes the last vestige of carpet-baggism upon the -oil of Colorado.\ Thus ends Republi- canism in that Territory, terminated by its own suicidal hand, and now the people wait, secure in their new faith, until they can take their place among the Demo- cratic States of the Union. LONDON GOSSIP. [Correspondence of the New York Graphic. ] Long experience has shown me that Americans who come to London, awl many Americans who do not, care more for the antiquities of London than the Londoners do themselves. So it will be good news that Temple Bar is not to be taken down nor suffered to fall down. It has been propped up by an ugly but strong frame -work placed under it, and when a new foundation is built ter it on the north side it will be as strong as ever and able to last fOr another two hundred years. I am that the ancient mon- ument is to be preserved. We can al- ways have new things. but when an old thing is once gone it is gone forever. Her .Eztjesty the Queen not long ago sent a package containing a valuable lot of jewelry thro T rh the post to the Prin- cess Alice of Hesse. The Queen is a fru- gal woman. and did not like to pay the registration fee upon the package; con- sequently, it went unregistered, and it was lost or stolen. There is much grumbling, by the way, about the chur- lessness which the Queen has shown by refusing to entertain in any way the Em- press of Austria and the other royal per- sonages who are now and have been for some time sojourning in the the Isle of Wight. She has not even asked one o them to breakfast, much less to dinner. GENERAL AND SOLDIER. The Paris correspon dent of the Lon- don News writes: \At the correctional tribunal of Rouen, Gen. Lebrun, holding a command in that town, appeared the other day as a prosecutor against a dis- charged soldier, named Lebretre, for using abusive language to him. The General deposed that on the afternoon of Aug. 2, he went in his carriage to make a call upon the archbishop. He was in uniform, and as he drew near to the arch - episcopal palace he heard repeated vo- ciferations, which he thought at first pro- ceeded form some drunken people quar- reling. But as he alighted he turned around mechanically, and saw the de- fendant hooting him, and with menacing gestures pointing him out to a group of people. He heard him say, \Oh! look at that one who is high up and condemns us poor fellows to (lie of hunger.\ The General rushed at him and called him a cowardly and miserable slanderer. The man after hesitating a moment as if he meant to strike him, rushed round and ran away, and he ran after him. Ile was arrested by sonie soldiers and others, who stopped him. The General then said: \Why do you insult me, wretch that your are?\ The man replied. \It is vou who insult me. and you have the best of it, for you are armed and I am not.\ Then he continued: \You do a pretty piece of work; you back up peo- ple who betrayed France and sold her provinces. They were not proud then; oh, no; they crouched before the enemy. And now your journals will say to -mor- row that an individual of the worst sort has insulted a man who wears epaulet- tes.\ Lepetre pleaded drunkenness, but this was denied by the Gr.dieral aud other witnesses; and he was sentenced to 13 tnonths' imprigOnment and a gne of 100 francs. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. The English railway companies in 1873 killed 40 passengers, who met their death \by causes over which they had no con- trol.\ As they carried 455,272,000 peo- ple, this per centage ofslaughter is small. The employes of the companies came oft less happily, as one out of every 323 of them was killed. There were 247 acci- dents during the year investigated by the Board of Trade -which is nearly two ac- cidents to every three days. More than one-half the accidents were collisions; and out of the whole 247 there were only live that resulted from unavoidable caus- es. The four roads on which the great- est number of accidents occurred were the London and North Western, I•Ttn-th Eastern, Caledonian, and Lancashire. A correspondent of the New York Times says that the Central Vermont Railroad is making the Ogdensburg lease pay, through the success of its scheme of bringing grain from Chicago to Ogdens- burg in barges. The Northern Trans- portation Company, whose boats alsc leased to the Central Vermont, has never before succeeded very well on account of the want of capacity of its steamers. which had to be small enough to pass through the canal. It is found, however, that one of these propellers can take along two barges, carrying altogether 50,000 bushels of wheat, without much extra expense. It is encouraging to learn that the northern line is successful at one point. It has always seemed self- evident to us, that Ogdensburg was the lake port for an exclusively Boston line. There is something new in railroad brakes. The London Times describes one used in Bavaria which has impartant qualities. The engine driver and the guards are provided with a bell rope, which, on being pulled, \applies the brakes to the engine and tender and front and rear vans and carriages, stopping the train in about eighteen or twenty seconds, without any unpleasant jerk, I and even without the driver shuttine• off steam,\ This system is the invention of Herr Heberlein, a man who has risen from the ranks of au engine -driver to that of one of the locomotive superintendents of the Bavarian railways. EUROPEAN EVENTS FOR THE NEXT TWENTY YEARS FORETOLD BY A MONK. A German paper publishes the follow- ing: \The prophecies of the Monk Tran- quil %Volt:gang-died at Munich, 1873. 1874. Strengthening the Spanish Re- public. Disszitisaction iu France. Gen- eral armaments in Italy. A new chief of Government in France. Death of Plus IX. 1875. 1Var between Italy and France. The Italian army besiege Paris. Defeat of the French army. Italian occupation of Algiers. National plebiscittun in Cor- sica, Nice, aud Savoy. Iuundation of Austria. 1876. Paris surrenders in March. Ratification of Peace in Corsica, Nice, and Savoy, and Corsica. incorporated with Italy. Revolution in Spain and fall of the Government. The pestilence in Russia. Prince Fritz German Emperor. Revolution in England. 1877. Commuuisin and famine in France and Spain. European Congress in Rome. The new Pope reconciled %vial Italy. General mamma in Eu- rope. France divided into four States. Inundations and hurricanes in Italy. Great cold in Germany. 1878. A new European Congress in Berlin. Death of Queen Victoria. New Government in Spain. The Christians in Turkey are free. Dis-atisfaction in Por- tugal, Poland, and lItingary. Cholera in France. Discovery of a remedy for cholera in Bavaria. 1879. Great storms in England. Uni- versal peace. General disarrangements. Great discoveries at sea. The Pope re_ forms the Church, and suspends the or- der of the Jesuits. 1880 to 1890. Peace. The Pope bles- ses all nations.\ low-•-••■•• HUMORS OF DUELING. St. Bettye once fought a duel. It be- gan to rain slightly after he had taken his position, whereupon he coolly held his umbrella over his head with his left hand while holding his pistol in his right. The expostulations of his witnesses had no effect upon him. \It is all very well to be killed,\ said the famous essayist, \but I object to catching cold in my head.\ There is a droll story about Perpignan, a literary Bohemian, having an eneounter with Charles Maurice at five paces. The former having fired, and having contrived to miss, the other, tak- ing deliberate aim, said to his antago- nist: \Well now, before I send you in- to the other world, tell me what you are thinking of?\ \I'm thinking that if I were in your place I would not fire.\ said Perpignan; and he owed his life to his presence of mind. There is a much quoted anecdote of an encounter be- tween a dramatic author and his critic, the latter being a first-rate shot. After the author had tired awl missed, the journalist aimed accurately at his adver- sary's hat, and pierced it with the ut- most precision; whereupon the dramat- ist flew into a violent passion, protested that it was untiiir. and exclaimed: \If you had told me what you were troing to do, I would have put on an old hat.\ cotnli ;i ntary institutions is th9 fact stated that \troops at the bidding of United States Marshal - who is the Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee of Louisiana - have been authorized to be called out,\ at the coining elections. Thus to the hands of the Marshal, an interested party, is eon - tided the military and despotic power of either preventing the election at all or con- ducting it in his interest by military vio- lence. Maine p:•ides it+.11 upon two apple - trees over twu hanlre:1 y::, , ars old, both of which still bear fruit. BEAUT OF ENGLISH SHOP -GIRLS. .The handsomest women in England are the shop -girls. It is difficult to tell why it is so, but it is true, nevertheless. that the most popular restaurants have the _ most beeutiful female employees. The Criterion, for instance, which is a new and splendid establishment, just completed within the past six months, has two or three dozen employed, and the man who selected them must have had the eye of a painter and the heart of a poet. He could have hardly improved upon his selection had he searched the world. Ail types of beauty are represent- ed. There is the robust and well-round- ed blonde of England, and the languid but rotund brunette of the East, with Wanton tresses glistening in lymphatic loveliness, and dark, oriental eyes rising thnifilv through a profusion of silky lash- es. 'Ese ?.stablisliment is a favorite resort for Americans, and its dinners are the best to be had in London, thouot he who enjoys them has to pay roundly for the luxury. Indeed, it is a mistaken idea that everything in London is cheap. The un- fortunate individual who comes over with that idea is doomed to disappoint- ment. Whether it is because of the ex- travagance of so many rich fools who conic here to spend money, or because of the higher wages paid employees ot late years, I know not ; but this I know, that the cost of being a g,entleman in London is almost as great as the cost of being a gentleman in Louisvil le, though what you get is better, it matters not in what commodity you invest, -London Corr. Louieville Courier -Journal. 1111m4-41-e•a1 A REFORMED THIEF. A good many years f.tgo one of the most notorious thieves in the United States had a confidential conversation '.vith a gentleman who is now one of the mast efficient detectives, and expressed a strong desire to reform. \Why do you wish to live so much on the square?\ asked the gentleman. \Because re- plied the thief, \I have a wife and chil- dren to whom I am very much attached ; they have no idea of the mode in which I am living; the children are growing up, and are beginning to wonder why I leave home so often, and what I do, and if I ain ever to reform now is the tone.\ I he gentleman warmly approved the idea, and to further it loaned the man several hundred dollars with which to begin an honest business. The reform man at once broke off all his old associates, lived a perfectly honest life, would have no dishonest persons call on him, devoted himself for years closely to business, raised his family respectably, did a great many acts of unostentatious. charity, and died not long since esteemed by all who knew him. His children are doing well, and highly respectable. The money ad- vanced was long since paid. and the offi- cer certainly has reason to feel staisfac- Hon at the result of helping a man to re- form his life.„ 2se--11---efte• A SMART BOY. There is now -a days a good deal of com- plaint about the want of obedience to parental authority on the part of the ris- ing generation, especially on the part of the boys. We heard of a case the other day_which proves that there are noble exceptions to the average boy of the period.\ A young son of one of the principal examiners in the Patent Office at Washington went to pass his school vacation at an uncle's in Kentucky, near the Ohio river. There was but one re- striction on the scope of the boy's amuse- ment. Horses, dogs, rifles, shot-guna, etc., were freely allowed as companions of his amusement; but as his cousins were as fond of the water as so many ducks, he was requested to shun the boat which the couams . were wont to use in their aquatic excursions. He promised faithfully, like the iintiful lad he is, and departed rejoicing. A recent letter to his father graphivally describes various excursions and the \good times\ he had enjoyed, among, the very last one in which the cousins had desired to visit the Ohio shore. \They went over in the boat,\ writes the boy. \but I remem- bered your wishes in that respect, and so I swain the river :\ It is undersiood that the next mail announced to the young- ster that the embargo upon the boat had been removed. SARATOGA STORIES. Yesterday Mr. de Smith brought up some ladies from the Clarendon to at- tend the concert. \Now you must expect to meet some villagers, but don't be afraid, you won't have to speak to them,\ said Mr. Smith, as he walked out on the balcony. \Yes. there they are,\ whispered Miss Knicker- bocker, looking contemptuously down at a lady and two daughters ; -what com- mon looking people they are, too! Dear me! what are these creatures permitted to come in here and mix with the guests for?\ \B -b -because, Miss linickerbocker- aw, all! do yoa mean those three ladies sitting right over there?\ pointing them out. to be sure. \Yes those common -looking things by the middle windows, Mr. de Smith. \Yes ahem! t -t -that's my w -w - wile and two d-d-datightera,\ Stain- mered the suffering Mr. de Smith.\ The elevator -boy says the Clarendon ladies found another escort home. Number two : They tell a story of a high-stepping, \swell\ member of the Knickerbocker Club who ovts home from Morrissey's about 2 o'clock every morning. Last night he walked up to the elevator -boy with one hand in his pocket and the oth- er holding an English umbrella, and asked ; gone to bed yet?\ “Aw, I say. boy, have all the idiots - Why-did you begin to feel lone- some?\ asked the bo3 .-Saratoga Letter. Gov. Ingersoll has appointed the Hon. Hon. Sperry, of New Haven, and the . 0c Ge ent e asioners, under the new law. M. Landers, of New Britain Both gentlemen ark well qualified. and, th ry e t r tu ( 4 4ti e ; e006 :1 tvi4 n et be c rn stlat eraell . y satisfactiO• • SCHOOL DISEASES. It is a serious question whether we are not getting what is called education at too exorbitant a price, when the health and usefulness of eyes are impaired or sacrificed. And the mischief that is done to eyes in schools and colleges may safe- ly be taken as an indication of the (Ian* age that is inflicted upon other parts of the body. Objectors may, perhaps, say the appalling statistics obtained by the foreign observers could not be gathered in American schools or colleges. I be- lieve that they might, and I found my be- lief upon twenty years' work among just the classes of subjects tabulated by Cohn and the other continental observ- ers. I believe that our systein of educa- tion, it, indeed, we may be said to have a system, is one of the most damaging in its effects upon the growing bodies of scholars of any in the world. Then let any one familiar with hygiene take the pains, as I have, to inquire carefully into the physical effects of the curricula of our leading schools and colleges, and he will be compelled to confess that there is the greatest cause for reform. The at- tention which is paid to gymnastic exer- cises and other methods of physical cul- ture does not correct the evils. It often happens that those who really need phys- ical exercises most do not get it, or that the exercise is excessive, and does harm to those who engage in it. What we need in our school and college curricula is a diminution of the hours of labor. The working hours too often extended front 8 to 9 in the morning to 10 or 11 at night. The straiii thus put upon grow- ing bodies is too great. Some method should be devised by which tnuelt that now involves a presistent te4e of the eyes in confined and unnatural postures of the body could be accomplished through the use of models or photographs; or the blackboard. Much that is now attempt- ed to be taught by badly -printed books might be taught orally or by some form of object lessons. Even if such radical change could not be accomplished, much might be done toward lessening the evil effects of our present method by short- ening the hours devoted to studs; by cote recting defects in the architecture of class :tad study rooms, by improving the ventilation, heating and lighting ot' school houses, and by diffasing informa- tion ainonz the parents of scholars, so that there may be less in the home life that is prejudicial to health. And just lucre we touch the very fountain of the evil. Our shools cannot be much, if any, above the intelligence of their patrons. do not blame the teacher:3 for the evils in our system of education. I blame boards of trustees and other school and college boards for not applying the prin- ciples that have already been worked out by scientific men. If architects and boards of managers of schools and col- leges would apply in the construction and conduct of their institutions oflearn- ing even a tew of the principles that san- itarian.: all agree upon, we would at once see a reduction hi those forms of disease which are traceable to their pres- ent neglect. -C. R. Agnew, M. D., in Sanitarian for September. It is quite evident that Gen. Butler is virtnally done with his past associates and is at present seeking new political affiliations. Recent changes in the Cabi- net show that he has lost his temporary oTip on the President. In return for hav- in w been made conscious of it he denounc- es the veto, and spurns the meas - ure which was afterwards signed. He very distinctly makes the President responsi- ble for the prolongation of the busineaa troubles of the conntry. But with per- elearmbss does he demonstrate that it k his own trirty. the Republiean partv Congress. that was tlie orhrinal and only ad voeate of repel is tion. Ho shows it to beve been tlie ruling sentiment among those who, while they lived. were regerd- ed as Republiean leaders. This is answer enono - li for Democrats to make to the repudiation chargea aetl slims ot Republi- can journals. Gen. Betler admits that political power in this country has miss- ed beyond the ileolv-mi e ,..% and toefeig that New Enoland shall henceforth keep her position by force of statesn - eviship. It is pogAble that with more of that qual- ity since a civil conflict opened the for- mer share ot influence might have been uninterruptedly retained. In tUrtli fr the apolieation mien himselt. however, Qiieh an anneal coniea eltogether ten late. His oolitical health has zone with his physical. While defending himself for his conduct on party grounds against his own nartv. stio7rests ineongrifity for which a change of position tarty even now be nreparime But ant , suc h c i l antro hex -it -able sat s ne r th e fi na l termination of his htwline• and too otten turbulent public career. 111•3.-41--• 1 111 The newa cOmpS HOW that there is - talk of running old Ben. Wade as an Inde- pendent candidate against Garfield. in the Nineteenth Ohio Distriet. Gerfielil almost 11,000 mejority in 1872. but. in view of the change going on in Ohio, people woold not be very greatly sur- prised if he shwa] come out at the small end of the horn in ease a good man can he induced to stand against him inde- pendently. Garfield has done some very good work in the course of his twelve years of Congressional service, but there are at least three blots on his reputation which it is next to impossible for him to erase. gm--•--Nse Mr. Pendleton's position in political af- fairs is unmistakable. With the tongue of a poet and a statesman he paints the ap- palling results of the contraction of our ear- reney since the war. Just as every thing NO. 47. NEWS ITEMS. po T p i t i t e iat l l o st n c o e f ns 3 1 0 1 2 s , o 23 f o l . reland showed a dog Gerritt Smith has contributed $1.0C,0 to the Howard University for the education of the colored race. tt I 5 t i e 0 . 0 It is reported that Amherst College wili g li e st t o f n ro e t ,000 to &;300,000 from the Wil- The substantial new building for the Bid- pancy Jan uary 1st. timore City College is to be ready for occu- lt takes 373,959 cars and 11.939 locomotive engines to run the railroads in the United States and Canada. A justice of the peace in Franklin Coun- ty, 0., has become a raving maniac on the subject of spiritualism. A Londoner who sued a woman for breach of pro ,S ise obtained the enorniollS SUM of ball a cent damages. The Detroit. Mich.. City Council have voted e1,000,000 for the improvement of the water -works of the city. A 10 -year -old boy in Fulton County. N. Y., committed suicide because he was com- manded to do disagreeable work. A Danville, Pa., man who singed his eat as a means of driving away the witches was fined $14 50 for his experiment. The Springlield Republican inclines to Senator Thurman's opinion that the choice of President, two years hence, is likely to tro into the House. 'THE MADISONIAI\T, A block of buildings in course of erec- tion in Boston is being built of red or rose granite from Maine. The granite hitherto used in Boston is gray. In 1844, the receipts of the statre lines and the hotels in the White Mountains were only $15,000, whilst during last year they were about $1,500,000. The project of a bridge over the Niagara at Grand Island is being seriously pushed; a large amount of capital has been subscrib- ed, and the survey is in prOgress. A man who ran away from his home in Rome,. New York, 30 years ago, when lw was 12 years old, has recently been heard from for the first time in New Zealand. The Kindergarten system in the St. Louis schools has been so succestul that 6liperin- tendent Harris recommends the establish- ment of at least two additional schools. West Tennessee is to have an insane asy- lum. When it is remembered that Gihon Co. is in West Tennessee. the need for a a penitentiary is more striking. Babbage, the runaway Dubuque banker, living in Brussels. With his family he oc- cupies plain apartments on a third lloor,and his surroundings indicate a necessity for plain living. A New York drummer, just returned from Nebraska,says the grasshoppers d id n't trouble him any, except one day when the hotel waiter brought him a slice of \grass- hopper pie.\ Cincinnati and Chicago pork -packers have come to an agreement. fixing upon one hundred and ninety pounds as the quantity of pork to the barrel. The Cincinnatiaus ‘vanted six pounds more. Louisiana negroes are moving to TeKa , ; in consequence of the danger from white leagues of their own State. The New Or- leans Picayune is alarmed at the `ion and fears that parts of the State will run to waste for want of labor. The Le Vert Hospital, of Mobile, has late- ly been sold for taxes. Half of this hand- some property was the possession of Mme. 0. W. Le Vert, her husband, I)r. Henry Le Vert, having been the originator and found- er of the institution. The Nebraska State Board of Agriculture has distributed sixteen farms as premiums for the best essays on the natural advant- ages and resources of Nebraska. There were sixty-four contestants. one of whom won two farms. An editor won the best farm, valued at Ste per acre. .44 FRENCH MEIC1NO SHEEP. While the merino sheep produees the finest wool in the world, and are per- haps, the utmost profita4le wool -bearing sheep fin- wool :11011e, their small size and poor mutton qualities have always been against them as farm stock, where mut- ton, as \Veil as wool is an object to the breeder. On large ranges, long distan- ces from market, the smalt Spanish meri- no will always be held as the most valu- able, undoubtedly. It aas often been said that it a fine, iarge mutton sheep could be produced from the merino without deterif waling the tine wool qualities, it w - ould be a valuable acquisition. This very thing has been accomplished, and Calitbrnia can lay claim to the linal tri- umph; fOr the late it )bert Balcow, of Centerville, Alameda eounty, succeeded in bringing to a high degree ot perfec- tion the French merino, So that now his sons have a large flIck of the finest large. fine -wool sheep in the world. For large, shapely carcasses these sheep will com- pare with Cotswolds, awl for excellent wool Nvitli the Spanish merinos. It has taken many years ot careful selection and particular breelher to accomplish this.but ite-t what English breeders have tailed to do has been accomplished. While visit- ! ing the Bay District Fair we noticed over twenty head of this flock on exhibition. We learn front a gentleman residing at Centerville that these sheep are apprecia- ted by breeders, and over $20,000 worth have been sold this season, to improve other herds.-Calilornia Agriculturist. Bonny Kate advertises in the Atchison Champion, for her husband, who is plainly not a Petruehio : -Lost, strayed or stolen ! Au individual m - hotn I, in an urgent moment of loneliness, wa s thoughtless enough to adopt as mv hue - contracts, and contracts at the approach of band! He is a good looking and fee*hie winter, as the leaves fall and the flowers die. individual, not knowing enough, hewev- and death covers the earth, thns noiselessly er, to come in when it rains, unless some good looking girl ofli_:rs him the shelter of her umbrella, Answers to the name of Jim. Was last seen in the company of Julia Harris, w.ilkin2. with his arm around her waist, looking more like a fool, if possible. than ever. Aoyha.Iss who will catch the poor felloa - and Isring him baek, so that I can chastise hhu for running away, wall be invited to stay to substance, and of this 62.5 per cent. is starch. i-;etia less pants---Tirlie that shrink upon washing. and insiduously the contraction of all means of doing business compress and freeze in- dustry. We raise annually in the United States nearly 153.000.W3 bucihels of potatoes, rep- resenting a money value of about $140.000,- 4 00 to the consumers. As an article of food it has a greater value to us than any other that we call root crop. Twenty-five per cent. of the weizht of the potato is solid dry tea by Kate E. sant`n\ 00.4:HP The edi.u, tknl pig plays cards, and hi e rune is tpk-er. --Is- - ru ELISIITD LVT.BY Sart - MOAT -A I - - Virginia City i itiontana. P_ THOMAS DEYARMON, Editor and Proprietor. Papers ordered to any addryna _ern he changed to another address atthe-7 option of the suesc c ihe c . Remittance by draft, cheek. M On order or regitered letter may he scut at our risk. THE MADISONIAN is devoted to the advocacy of the prisciple, of thr Deraocratm parte and to general and local news. COULDS 1' WAIT. A few nighta ago, an hour atter mid- night. Justice Potter was awakened Ly some one pounding on his door. Ile arose and asked what whs wanted, and a voice replied that he nmst go ov(r to Malcomb street am! marry a coup'.e. \Go home, mister, this is no lieu: :o marry any one.\ he replied. \But I can't wait,\ the man, his voice betraying - great anxiety. -But you'll have to.\ \Oh : come HOW. Judge,\ coaxed the man, want to make a dead sure thing of it. I've been eonriing amid courting, and she's.; hung oft and hung off, but I've tinnily got her to say 'yes: and there's no knowing how long the lien last. Git up and make tracks right away for she's worth two cows and a horae and wag- on !\ Ilis Honor couldn't resist the appeal, and the marriage was solemnized at two o'clock hi the morning. -Detroit Free Press. ,rea • A MEDIC 11. :MONK LT. All previous narratives of intellig - ent proceedings on the part of animals are thrown into the shade by the following account of a medical monkey, des , .ribed by the Oriental correspondent of a Lon- don journal : Ile one day saw a monkey holdiug a snake by the throat. and rub- bing iv head in the dirt ; but, as the groundiwas moist and damp, the snake was not readily killed by this mode of punishment. Every 110W HMI then the monkey would look most knowingly hi the face of the reptile to see it' it dead; and in the course of one of these investi- gations the monkey received a severe bite. This angered him and he speedily dispatched the snake, but its coils had hardly relaxed before the monkey reeled and fell prostrate and apparently in all the agonies of death by poison. this time an aged looking monkey arrived at the scene, and after examining the bodies of the snake and ita victim. he immediate- ly started air some neighboriug bushes, where he collected some leaves of the plant known as the red cherchita. These he rapidly and skillfully wrapped into a sort ola pill. which he administered to his enake-bitten companion, who speedi- ly revived and walked oil with his phy- sician. The story is declared to come from trustworthy sources. enea--0--eate•-- A NOVEL WEDDING NIGHT. Out in tho town ot Harrison. Calumet County, Wisconsin. awl about eleven miles trom llenasha, a Iveibling occurred but a few weeks ago, the particulars or we have just been told. :Se! daughter of a prominent farmer WaS uni- ted in the holy bowls to a -knight of the plow and drill,\ whose experience hi the affairs ot :ife had been sttilleiently varied to post hint on the \tricks of trede,\ end tinder all circumstances enahle him to give -tit for tat.\ Previous to the happy event. :irrangenients were all made for a NVe!1'.!1:r tOtIr of several days' duration. In due time the ceremony was pesiormed, and at a proper period the bride was con - d easel to her ci: aeber and stowed away in the eontemplated neptial conch. 'rile happy husband soon followed, and tier- ing reached the door of the chember which contained his bride. rapped gently, hnt listened in vaia for the anticipated weleome. Ile 1:110eked 11: 4 ;aill. more nerv- ously than before, lout still no answer NV:IS heard. He gently raised the latch ; the door was loeked. Ile called to to the little mischief within, but she answered him not, and he %vas linAly compelled to seek other quarters. How he pased the ni!rlit is not recorded. At an early hour in the morning- the carriage which had been engaged for the wedding tour was driven to the door, and our hero stole (rentiv down stairs, entered Ow carria , re bade the driver apply the lash, and was sO0ii out of sight. He did not return un- til after the lapse of ten days, during which time lie visited evory place eon- templated previous to his maniagc. his return he found his Avifc's bedroom! yes, he did. SAVAGE ATTACK. A savage case ofattempted murder. ac- companied by curious eircimistanees just come before the of the Gard, France. Last year Francois Barel. rgeil 2G, married a young* woman twined Marie Peyriere. The coupl:t \vent to live ‘vith the parents of the husband. For the first few months the landly got on well enough together, but difIreiwes &rose between the old and young people abaut money matters, and the hush:mei took the part of his father against his own wife. Things getting worse, Bare!. Sr., determined to . put an (aid to his daughter-in-law. He waited for her one evening' as waS ascending the staircase. and struck heron the head with a cudgel. The woman fell t , the bottom insensible. The brute the!' dragged her into a room on the ground floor, where her husband and mother-ina law were seated at a table. Recovering a little, she appealed to her hueband, but he Pushed her into his father's arms, and the ruffian then tried to strangle her with a rope, and would bave succeeded had not his' victim prWeeted her neck with her hands. The mother-in-law slow felt a little remoree, and cried out : \Beat her, if you like, but don't kill her I\ int i o ll a v ri f ( 1 1 1g s oo r i l ot l iT x a t tanCi g e -2. k e eC i l door. The young wennin :low pretended t o be deail. and, on returning to the charge, the two men rolled her about ta assure themselves that no spark of Ike was left. humping her head on the atoaea several times. They afterward washed the blood off her faee and bends, mid having concerted together, eened in the neighbors. to whom the father-in-law stated she had kiiled herself . by tailing down staira. Being now left :dime, she. managed to en:w1 up to the window awl escape by the back garden. - The . ,jnry, notwithstanding these brntal fac:s, added -extenuating- eiremastaina-s\ to tie verdict, and the bean.iful eotiCe worn sentenced -the father ssi six yeara' aims. and the son to two years' imprisoi - ment. The mother vras
