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Vow ••••- 11.1.4”1.11.1111111111164 Mae ealte• VOW .,•mgmaawww\\ 6 \' £HEMADISONIAN. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 31, IS71. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION , One TOAr in advance $5 SjMorths 2 5 4 4 Three Montb.• 1 5 ADVERTISING RATES. THE MADISONIAN, as an advertising I nedium, i qual t any paper in Montana. 1 -E • -4 .4 44 • 44 .4 N-4.; i;.`• in 1.'4 - 11 015 •••• 42Z Inch ... $31 $51 $71 $841V$151$201$25 2 Inches 1 51 8' 9 10 12 , 20: 30! 40 3 Inches 1 71 9 11 12- 15' 25: 371 55 4 Inches 1 8; 11 12 11. 17 30 45' 70 6 Inches ,: 10i 12 Is, Is. 24 38 651 90 13 Inches .; 18! 2-4 ! 30! 31i 40 55 90; 140 t5 Inches 1 to; 40 501 551 65 75 150: 250 The above scale of prices is for ordinarv sin- '-eo1unin. display advertising. Solid stet adeertisements will be charged at the Lich rate .or space occupied. LOCAL NOTICES, Fifteen cents per line for ffrst, and t en or line for each additional insert:: n. CARDS, c ' One-half inch, $2 t„,- one insertion ; $3 for per quarter; $16 per year. . oing schedule of prices will .. adhered to. enient.s counted in Nonpareil Mt) Pit itNalliwNitk.. Of every descrintion ex..-Trcd in the be=_- as.1 style. and on ;erms. NEWSPAPER DECIS zONS. I. :iny one who takes a paper reg-thariy the Postothee-whether directed to his name ,r another's, or whether he has subscribed or not -is responsible for the payment. 2. If a person orders his paper diacontinued, he must pay all arrearages, or the publisher n:a y continue to send it until payment is made, and colliwt the whole amount, whether the pa- per is taken from the office or not. 3. I he courts have decided that refusing to take the newspapers or periodicals from the postonice, or removing and leaving them un- called for, is prima facia evidence of intention - :11 fraud. _ PROFESSIONAL. G. F. COWAN. allti counelor at Law. Hailers:beret. Montana Territory. HENRY F. WILLI IMS, Att'y & Counselor at Law, VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE over the Post Officer. 1. E. CALLAWAY, Attorney and Conn.- selov at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE. adjoining the office of the Secre- ran of the Territory E. W. TOOLE. .1. N. TOOLE. TOOLE & TOOLE. Attorneys :at Law. HELENA, MONTANA. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. mous T. s1101.F.It. T. J. LOWERY. SHOBER & LOWERY, Attorneys and coun- selors at Law. HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. S A U E L WORD. Atttwney at Law. VIRGINIA CITY. M. T. JAMES G. SPRATT, Attorney and Coun- selor at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. W ill practice in all the Courts of Montana. B. W H L. Attorney at Law, GALLATIN CITY - . M. T. W. F. SA FIBERS and Coun - selor at Law. HELENA, M. T. practice in all Cours of Record in Montana. C. W. TURNER, =A 1 VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. OFFICE: Adjoini»g Colonel Callaw:* s. WM. F. K I R KW000, Aittorney at Law, vaRGINIA CITY. Can be found at Judge Spratt's °aim or Pro- bate Court Rooms. Will practice in all the Courts of the Territorv. GEORGE CALLAWAY. M. D. Physician anti Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M NTANA. OFFICE, at the Law Office of J. E. Calla- way, Esq.. until further notice. I. C. SMITH, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. ottice at the Old Le IV Stand, Wallace -tree t where he can be foh 1. night or de y 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. . !3. BARKLEY, M. D. Physician & Surgeon. RADERSBITRG, M. T. hisin I1 -'Shad p r t ( NY ) r e t o e f I. years' et, experience . o.th ttime a ,urgeon in the Confederate army. Ile is pre- pared to perform 7:11 kinds of surgery. IN FE:KALE COMPLAINTS, his expe- rience is not surpassed by any physician in the Territory. TO THOSE WHO HAVE VENEREAL COMPLA I N TS.-Gouorrhea, it called upon Within live days after the first appearance, he will cure in seveetv-two hours. In Syphilis, he ;vitt cure la e - day s His treatment is different frron any physi- cian in this Territory. Ile is prepared eas. cleansin tracting *.and Filling Teeth. 03. C. S. ELLIS AVING taken an interest in aL I the Drug Department of A Clirmichael's .,tore at Silver Star, Montana,can be found at an times, day and night, at said store, when not absent on professional busi- IleS6. 0. B. WHITFORD, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, ..................f. )N VOL. 1. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1874. THE BAR -TENDER'S STORY. When! knowed him first there was suthIn'-- A sort of general air - That was very narticnInr And debonair. • I'm a V di.\ -xpression is Frenchy, rq\.er eigh daddy, perhaps; ac2ounts that I have the acquaintance Of several quality chaps. But he got to increasin' his doses, And took 'em more often, he did; And it growed on him faster and faster Till inter a bummer he slid. I was grieved to observe this feller A show in' himself down the grade, And I lectured him onto it sometimes At the risk of its sp'lin' the trade. At last he ;rat thunderin' seedy And Le 1••st his respect for himself, And all his iiitzti notions of honor NVas bundled away on the shelf. Bat at time he was dreadfully tremorseful Whene% e- he'd stop ea- to think, Arid he' , .i we •r to let' !rm himself frequent, And end by tskin' it drink. What saved the young feller? A woman! She done it in the singlerist sway: He come into the bar -room one evenin', (He hadn't been drinkin' that day), And sot himself down on a table With a terrible sorrowful face, And sot there a grounin' repeated, And callin' himself a gone case. He was thinkin' and thinkin' and thinkin', And cussin' himself for his fate, And ended his thinkin' as usual By orderin' a Bourbon straight. He was holding the glass in his fingers, When into the place from the street There came a young gal like a spirit, With a face that was powerful sweet. And she glided right up to the table And took the glass gently away, And she says to him, \George it is over; I'm only a woman tod-ay! I rejected you once In my anger, But I come to you lowly and meek, For I can't live without you, my darling, I thought I was strong, but I'm weak. \You are bound in a terrible bondage, And I come, love, to share it with you; Is there shame in the deed! I can bear it, For at last to my love I am true, I have turned from the home of my childhood And come to lover and friend, Leaving comfort, contentment, and honor, And l'll stay to the terrible end. \Is there hunger and want in the future? I will share them with you and not shrinl! And together we'll join in the plessares, The woes and the dangers of drink.\ Then she raised up the glass firm and steady, But her face was as pale as the dead - \Here's to wine and the joy of carousals, The songs and the laughter,\ she said. Then he riz up, his face like a tempest, And took the glass out of her hand, And slung it away, seem and savage - And I tell you his manner was grand! And he says, \I have done with it, Nellie, And I'll turn from the way I have trod, And I'll live to be worthy of you, dear, So help me, a merciful God! \You have saved me, my love and my darling, On a noble and womanly plan; Go back to your home till I seek you Iu the garb and the strength of a man!\ • • • • a • a a I seen that same feller last Monday, Lookin' nubby and handsome and game; He was wheeliu' a vehicle, gen 'lemen, And a baby was into the same. as.* LIST.:al • 1 • • • • . c OTT SPOFFORD. f:: - .1\it :he Atlantic for October. • :70.ite baud flashes on the strings, :Sweeping a swift and silver chord, And wild and strong the great harp rings Its throng of throbbing tones abroad; Music and moonlight make a bloom Throughout the rich and somber room. Oh sweet the long and shivering swells, And sweeter still the lingering flow, Delicious as the remembered bells Dying in distance long ago, When evening winds from Heaven were blown, And the heart yearned for things unknown! Across the leafy window place Peace s7eals the stainless sapphee deep; One sentry star on outer space His q ueectiless lame lifts, half asleep; Peace br , a - ais where falling waters flow, Peace where the heavy roses blow. Awl on the windle,s atm.:sphere Wait all the fragrauce of June; The .,tirunier night is hushed to hear The passion of the ancient tune; Then why these sudden tears that start; And why this pierced and aching heart? Ah, listen! We and all our pain Are mortal, and divine the song! Idly our topmost height we gain - It spurns the hight, and far along Seeks in the heaven its splendid mark, And we fall backward on the dark! THE FATTED CALF. From Scribner's for October. Said Jack to Tom, one summer day, \Your getting in a baddish way. Your breath is short, your breast is Bat; You used to weigh a dozen stone' And now you're only skin and bone, Why, you're as lean as I am fat. \Come out with me, my farm is near; I know you'll like our country cheep:, My fruit is ripe, my eggs are new; I've claret, too, your favorite brand; Come out, now, come; say 'Yes,' off -hand; I'll kill the fatted calf for you.\ \That last remark of yours, dear Jack, Though meant in kindness, holds me back,\ \I don't see why, though,\ Tom replied.. \The fatted calf -to take its life - Think of your children and wife, And you committing suicide!\ MY \CASTLE IN SPAIN.\ Close by the Rock of Despair, Heavily dripping in the rain - A wreck of my patience and care - Rises my \Castle in Spain.\ Lo! I had built on the shore, Expecting my fabric to stand; Stealthily Is - aveward it bore, Moovecl on the treacherous sand. Conquered, and battered, and worn, Over the sad moaning sea, Ruined it stands, and forlorn, Nothing but rocks left for me! Wilt thou, when novelty pails, E'en as my weak shelter fain Leave me, without its cold walls, Lord of my \Castle in Spain?\ Sing a song a sixpence, a pocket full of reeks, Four and twenty white folks mount a car in flocks; When the car has started, a dozen more get in, Isn't this a pretty mess -isn't it a sin? The \punch\ man's on his feet, a -taking up the fares; The driver, with an eye to \biz\ importun- ately stares; Fat woman starteth up -out the car she goes, When down comes a heavy foot, and treads upon yottr toes. CHILD LIFE IN SHAUERDOM. Children that are placed with the Sha- kers at Lebanon are indentured to Benja- min Gates, or some eu:liority until they \become of age,\ he agreeing in the papers to provide them food, clothing, etc. They are then placed in the \child- ren's order,\ under charge of a sister designated to care for them, and she commences at once to instill into their minds the glories of the creed. In their management never a blow is struck. Re- fractory ones are punished by being laid fiat on the floor, face down. When they have been kept thus prostrate for a length of time, they are taken up and \ talked to,\ the enormity of their offenses point- ed out, and are exhorted to behave bet- ter in the future. Those from eight to a dozen years of age \ go to confession\ every Saturday, and \own up,\ (or are supposed to) to the little sins of the week that have escaped the notice of their . guardians. And as they receive special approval after an apparently very full confession, they early learn to conjure up quite enormous stories, knowing that they - gull \ their confessors into a deep- er beliet in their penitence. \ Now don't YOU feel better after confessing all that?\ asks the ancient virgin who has heard the story. \ Yea, Yea,\ says the little miss, and tipping a wink to her compan- ions she walks out as sedately as a spin- ster of seventy. Another method of punishment is to put the youngster into a sack, tying it tightly around the neck. Should the child refuse to get into the bag it is drawn over the refractory one, and then, head, feet, and all are envelop- ed, he or she is left to repent of the of- fensive disobedience. The children are sent to school four months each year -the boys in the win- ter and the girls in the summer. Co-ed- ucation hasn't the slightest support here. The girls and boys must not converse to- gether. If they happen to meet, and if a roguish youngster is bold enough to break silence with some pretty maiden, the maiden must be deaf and dumb to him. \Isn't there some boy here that you're just a little fonder of than the oth- ers?\ is a standing question in the C311- fessional. The reply is always \Nay and the blind goodies believe it! -Pitts- field Eagle. •111•••-411-. 0111 . 4----- A CAREFUL COUNTRY GIRL. A Cincinnati paper says: A blooming country damsel, dressed in the height of fashion, came tripping along with her beau and, while crossing a street, turned suddenly around to look at a passing ob- ject, just as the tip of her dainty shoe rested on the curbstone of the gutter. As she threw the weight of her body on the insufficient foothold, her toe slipped and plump into the dirt went her little foot, and splash over her stockings and gar- ments went the mud. Her gallant speed- ily helped her on to the sidewalk, where she presented it pitiable appearance, and then endeavored to free her sudden ac- quisition of soil with his handkerchief. \It's no use, Charley,\ sobbed the rural beauty, \it won't conic off clean; and -and -my st-sto-stockings are ru- ined.\ \Never mind the stockings,\ consol- ingly responded her swain ; I can buy you a new pair.\ \ Buy me a new pair; where would I put them on?\ said she. \Why. we can go to the hotel, for that matter,\ replied Charles. 6 ' Never !\ almost screamed the fright- ened girl; • I'd soon , r jump into the r:ver than . o - o to a hotel with a man that 1 am not !harried to.\ Charley seemed conscience-stricken as the enormity of his proposition flashed upon his mind, and when last we saw the pair -they were in quest of a pair of clean hose and a proper place to put them on. so--ae-sis • A Washington evening paper by the authority of the Postmaster General pub- lishes the following: The Postmaster General has not issued any order debarring attorneys or claim agents from practising before the post office department. He has, however, given verbal instructions to the hi ads of bureaus to the effect that when it claim is presented by an attorney or claimn agent for the party directly interested it shall be referred to him to decide. wheth- er or not an attorney is necessary in the adjustment of the case. If, in his opin- ion, the matter can be speedily and satis- factorily arranged without the interven- tion of an attorney, he will direct that the latter be not recognized, but that the business be transaeted with the interested parties direct, if, on investigation. he finds that the agency of an attorney would expedite the business and be ad- vantageous to the claimant and n:t detri- mental to the interests of the govern- ment, he will permit such agent or attor- ney to act. While it is not his intention to exclude such attorneys as are practis- ing a legitimate business befbre the de- partment, he is determined not to toler- ate the intervention of a third party when such intervention is, in his opinion, whol- ly unnecessary. The late Bishop Whitehouse of Illi- nois, left an estate worth $400,000. It consists of real estate in Chicago worth $30,000, a library and pictures worth $10.000, other personal property $10,000. and lands in West Virginia $350,000. lie gave it all to his children. Henry B. Whitehouse. Edward N. Whitehouse, William F. Whitehouse. Frederick C. Whitehouse, Louisa Whitehouse, Frances Meredith Whitehouse, and Barriet Bruen Whitehouse, share and share alike. His sons, Henry. Edward, and WiHiam, are the executors of the will, and his 1-roth- er, Mr. Edward Whitehouse, of New York City, is the guardian of the two minor children, Frances and Harriet. E. N. Whitehouse, being a paymaster ill the navy and necessarily absent from Chicago, has declined to act as an executor. FIGHT WITH A GRIZZLY. About five weeks ago James O'Connor, says the Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise, a sometime resident of San Bernardino, California,had a desperate and nearly (to him) fatal fight with a grizzly bear in the San Jacinto Mountains. It seems that while hunting he encountered a monster grizzly, which startled at his near ap- proach, attacked him. O'Connor shot at and hit his bearship, but not fatally, for the bear, more ferocious than at first, rushed on him and striking him in the ribs -several of which he broke -knock- ed him down and seized his arm, which he crushed fearfully. At this juncture O'Connor's dog, a little white half -bred bulldogeappeared on the scene, and catch- ing the bear by the hind leg hung on with true bulldog pertinacity. The bt a let go of O'Connor to attend to the dog, when O'Connor. though bruised and bleeding, poured another shot into the monster, but tailed, as before, to strike him vitally. The bear now turned from the dog to the man, knocking the latter down and lacerating his scalp fearfully. With one blow of his paw he all but scalped tile gallant mountaineer, besides tearing him tearfully - about the shoulders and smashing his left arm into a shape- less mass. O'Connor now knowing his knife to be his last chance, drew it and with last failing strength plunged it into the bear's body, which thereupon took BEARDED WOMEN AT COURT. Bearded woman are singular curiosi- ties, no doubt, though, if very much bearded, scarcely attractive objects. Two of these eccentricities of humanity are at present in Constantinople, aftbrding a lively topic of conversation in Turkish circles, and were presented at the palace of Dolmabaglitche to the Sultan, who had expressed a wish to see them. They came to the capital, in fact, w:ta their . tither and brother from Bassorah, on the Persian Gulf, where they were born, for the express purpose of presenting a peti- tion to his majesty, craving that sonic provon might be made for them. In other countries they would exhibit them- selves, and thus make money; but this, of course, Mussultnan women cannot do in Turkey. They are sisters, named Leila and Nathara, the elder being twenty- four and the younger twenty years of age, ar.d eae has been strangely provid- ed by nature with a full silky beard of considerable length. Otherwise they are short in stature, with swarthy complex- ions and small hands and feet, and are umnarried. The bearded sisters speak the Turkish and Kurdish tongues, and are for the present lodged in a house in Stamboul at the expense of the govern- ment by the minister of police. A TERRIBLE STORY OF VILLAINY. A very aggravated and disgusting case of human depravity came to light yester- day, says the Chicago Inter -Ocean of Oct. 3. Mrs. Mary Oleson, a widow, residing at No. 34 Hunt street, came to the Madi- son Street Station, and related a story which secured her the sympathy and ac- tive co-operation of those in attendance, for the purpose of bringing to justice the gross ;offender. Until about a year ago Mrs. Oleson lived on Kinzie street, and among her neighbors was one John Col - is, a man 60 years of age, who knew her two little daughters, Mary and Caroline, aged 9 and 11 respectively. Soon after the family removed from Kenzie street Collins went to live with his son at No. 483 West Erie street. A few days ago Collins met little Caroline, the older daughter, on the street, and asked her to go home with him. She declined to go without tier mother's consent, so he ac- companied her home, and told Mrs. Ole- son that he wanted the girl to go and as- sist in taking care of his daughter-in- law's infant child. Being a poor woman, compelled to support her family by her own exertions, she freely consented, and the girl went. During her stay in the house it is alleged that this aged sinner outraged her person several times. Not satisfied with this, he subsequently entic- ed the younger daughter (Mary) to the house, and attempted similar villainy, but the girl's screams brought to her res- cue the daughter-in-law of Collins. Both the girls are now ill, and the mother is almost distracted with grief. Justice Scully, on hearing the case, promptly is- sued a warrant, and Collins is now a pris- oner at the Union Street Station. TOOTH.fiCHE. The researches made by Dr. Sillin, one of the most experienced of European den- tists, have led to the opinion that com- mon or acute toothache proceeds from causes but little considered or understood. In the center of every tooth, he says there is a cavity corresponding in shape to the tooth itself, and into this cavity passes through a minute aperture at the end of each root, a branch of a nerve, an artery, and a vein; and when, either by mechan- ical injury or decay, this cavity becomes exposed to the air's action, the blood i thickens or coagulates to an extent be- yond the capacity of the vein to remove in the natural way; inflammation ensues, and pain commences, at first slightly; more blood is pumped in at every pulse of the heart, through the branch of the artery, and, the hard material of which the tooth is formed being unyielding, a pressure is set up on the walls of the cav- ity and its contents, including the nerve. This pressure is increased at every pulse with great precision, causing intense and hourly increasing pain -commonly known as acute toothache. Another very general but less painful kind is that arising from inflammation of the root and socket. A man having a bill against a distant merchant sent a letter of inquiry to a eanker in that locality. The reply was: \He is dead; but he pays now as well as he ever did.\ BOSSING THE CAGE -FIGHT BE- TWEEN A TIGER AND A GRIZZLY. On one occasion, Lent was a part own- er of a traveling circus and menagerie. One day he met a man out West who had a grizzly bear for sale. As the ani- mal was a splendid specimen of a young grizzly. Lent purchased him, and after lie got him, he found himself in the posi- tion of the man who drew the elephant. There was but one cage in the menage- rie that could contain the bear, and that already had an occupant Bengal tiger. Lent told one of his partners that he was going to quarter the grizzly with the tiger. \The devil you are!\ was the answer. \Why that tiger will make a square meal of him before you can wink.\ - All right. If he does, I'm satisfied,\ saysLent. \Yon look after your tiger, and I'll take care of my hear.\ Tie grizzly was accordingly lilted into the isesse, the tiger having been previous- ly driven to the opposite corner by the application of hot irons. Then all the employees of the circus gathered to wit- ness the fight. The animals sighted each other at the same instant, but while the tiger's eyes blazed with fury, and his tail lashed the bars in his excitement, the grizzly simply nodded in a sleepy man- ner, as if in recognition ot the other beast, and crouched against the bars, wait - Leg developments. They remained as far apart as the cage would permit at least five minutes; but ev- ery moment the rage of the tiger seemed to increase while the bear seemed to be sinking into a slumber. At last the tiger began to growl and slide toward the bear, moving from side to side of the cage as he did so. The growling aroused the bear to life, and he had just time to measure his edemy, when, with the ra- pidity of lightning the tiger sprang for- ward and alighted On his head and back. For a moment there was a terrible howl- ing from both animals, as they rolled over and over in the cage, and they sep- arated for an instant, the bear seeming to have shaken off his antagonist. During this brief cessation of hostilities it was seen that the bear had got decidedly the worst of the combat, as he was bleeding freely front several gaping wounds. The backer of the tiger was delighted, and wanted Lent to consent to having a stop put to the fight. \No\ answered he. \Let them fight, and I'll bet on the bear.\ So at it they went again, and there was terrible fighting for several minutes. It finally ended in the tiger giving several mourrftd howls, and, when they were separated, he slunk away to his corner as meek and submissive - looking as an animal could be. After that day the bear bossed that cage, and if the tiger became unruly he received a blow from the grizzly's paw that set him to thinking over past events at once. UNITED STATES WINES. The manufacture of wine has become an industry of considerable importance in the United States. In 1870 the pro- duction amounted to 12,450,000 gallons. Of this California yielded 7,000,000; New York, 2,225,000, Illinois, 2,200,000. At the Exposition in Vienna, the United States stood ninth in the list of exhibit- ors. The four leading countries in the catalogue were Austria with 1872 kinds of wine; Hungary, 1574 kinds; Spain, 1200 kinds; France 920 kinds. The Unit- ed States displayed 82 specimens, sent by seventeen manufacturers; and received two medals of progress, four medals of science, and three diplomas. The report of Dr. Adolph Ott, member of the Swiss commission, says that the United States \sent ordinary and sparkling Catawba, Delaware wine, and champaigne, sweet and dry.\ The last named received In uch commendation, and was declared to be equal to the best Spanish and Port- uguese dry wines. The sparkling wines were also very mucli approved. It is well known that the European vine, vi- tis vinitera, does not flourish in America on account of the severe changes of tem- perature, and even the bastards obtained by hybridization are worthless for the production of wine. On the other hand, North America possesses more than 80 native varieties, mostly of the vitis labrus- ca, of which, however, a small number are cultivated. Mr. Frederick Hecker, who has experimented with fifty-seven va- rieties, has settled upon fourteen. The American varieties of vine flourished ex- ceedingly well, never freeze, and are al- most indistructable. For instance, the Catawba, the blue Isabella, and Madeira. are known in Europe. Some kinds bear enormous grapes, as the Concord. North Carolina, and other, which accord- ing to Hecker are very well suited to the Rhine climate. Upon the character of the American wines Mr. Ott remarks: \The odor and taste of nearly all the la- brusea varieties is similar to that of Mus- catelle, and varies between s , anilla and strawberry. The aroma, which is difter- ent from the flavor of European wines, is generally weak, and diminishes with the age of the wine. Still the wine ob- tained from the blue Isabella (Cape Grape) is distinguished by a superior bouquet, which fills the surrounding air with a spicy essence; for which reason this grape is well fitted for admixture with less aromatic grapes.\ Never let your children strike Each other. The habit of giving blows grows upon ahoy, and if personal violence be his only way of showing his anger, the time may come when an unlucky blow will make him a homicide. or even a murderer. Many a victim of the gallows has looked back to the time when he might have been taught not to lift his hand against his brother, but was not, and traces the connection between his shameful death and his mother's neglect to inculcate in him one of the chief les- sons ef Chf istianity. ple-11--eat Jackson comity, Fla., has a rooster that turns a stunersault when it crows. POPULATION ti•I' JAPAN. The total population of Japan is 33, 110,825. Of these 6,056,308 are under fourteen years of age, which is e smaller proportion than prevails in this country; although, on the other hand, the propor- tion of the aged shows a greater longevi- ty in Japan. The population of Japan is divided into princes, nobles, higher and lower geades of armed classes, priests and Shinto officials, and common people. The nobility and gentry aggregate about 2,000,000, and the priestly class about 300,000. The commonality, about 30,- 800,000 strong, are notoriously thrifty, 10,000,000 persons being set down as having occupations in Japan, against 12,500,000 in the United States. 01 the population,14,870,423 are agricul- turists; the artisans number 7G1,416; and the \merchants (tradesmen), 1,309,191. Proofs or the prosperity of the people are found in the fact that they have 7,107,841 houses to live in, a greater pro- portion than in the United States, which have been considered peculiarly favored In this respect among the nations of the West. •sp-s-mai THE DISEASE OF THE DAY' A correspondent of the Boston Jour- nal writes: \Paralysis is becoming a prime disease. It is not confined to the fleshy, the plethoric, nor to the aged. The fast life of our business young men tells on them. It is a very common thing to see men of thirty and thirty-five bald headed, feeble -gaited, and walking about with canes, their underpinning knocked out with other signs of prema ture age. These signs of early weakness develop in paralysis. Sudden deaths from this cause are very common. Sev- eral have occurred in railroad trains; the vibration seeming to predispose persons to the disease. Not long since a gentle- man died in one of our churches. He was interested in a case ofdiscipline. He made a report to the church on the case, sat down, laid his head on the back of the seat and instantly expired. In an- other case, a man not accustomed to pub- lic speaking arose to relate his religious experience. He was so excited that he could scarcely speak. In the midst of his remarks he was seized with paralysis, and carried to his home. Our young men Nwill have to tone down their style of living if they amount to anything.\ sen-e--mcn CRIMINATION OF ANIMALS. The recent condemnation of a bull to the gallows for the crime of murder is by no means a singular example of the excentricities of ancient legislation -- at least hi France. For instance, on the 4th of June, 1094, a pig was hanged from a gibbet near Laon for devouring the babe of one Jellan Lenfant. a cow -herd. Again, on the 10th of January, 1457, a sow and her six sucklings were charged with murder and homicide on the person Of one JCilan Marlin, of Savigny, when the former was found guilty, and sen- tenced to be hanged by the hind feet from the branch of a tree. As for t . te piglings in default ofany positive proof that they had assisted in mane - ling the deceased, although covered with blood, they were restored to their OWl1C1*, on condition that he should give bail for their appearance should further evidence be forthcoming to prove their complici- ty hi the mother's crime. That individu- al, however, declined to become in any way answerable for the conduct of such ill-bred animals, which were thereupon declared forfeited -not to the parents of the murdered child, but to the noble dam- sel, Katerino de Bernault, a Lady of Sa- vigny. Yet again, on the 2d of March, 1552, the Chapter of Chartres, after due investigation of the circumstances, semi - tended a pig, that had killed a girl, to be hanged front a gallows erected Oil the very epot polluted by the bloody deed. Even so late as the year 1612, a pig was convicted of having worried to death and partially devoured a child, fourteen to fifteen months old, the son a mason re- siding at Molinchart, also within the ju- risdiction of Laon. Animals were liable to spiritual coisures as Nvell as to penal sentences. In 1120 WC find the Bishop of Laon excomnumicating a swarm of caterpillars in the same terms with which the Council of Rheims had em- ployed, in the preceding year, in de- nouncing priests who indulged in the sin of matrimony. Still later, in 1516, the Courts of Troyes, complying with the prayers of the inhabitants of Ville- noxe, admonished the cateri illars by which that district was then infested to take themselves off within six days, on pain of i being eeclared \accursed and ex- communicated.\ ass-as-ae. LITERATURE AND PEANUTS. The Hartford Courant remarks: \There is still a popular belief that it is less ex- travagant to spend ten dollars for dinner than cue dollar for a book. A festive person out on a holiday will spend twen- ty-five cents for a quart of peanuts, which he does not need, and which lie eats in an hour or two (to his inward damage), who would never think of buying for the same money some cheap edition of a standard book, which would furnish him solid enjoyment for several days, and add materially to the value of his life. Stich a reluctance is there to buy books that a whole neighborhood, eager. perhaps to read a new work by a popular author (hungry for it), will wait for months to borrow it, rather than spend half a dol- lar to own it and satisfy the intellectual appetite at once. \Every day in every city people spend five and ten dollars for the elaborate lunches width they do not need, when the money would buy some fine edition of a work that would entertain them for a month or two and enrich their minds forever. They are prodigal about eating and drinking. spending liberally for dys- pepsia, but trust to chance and loans for what the mind wants. The sample room is more attractive to them than the news -room, and they pass by the book store for the restaurant. NO• )1 A QUAKER PRINTER'S PROVERBS. Never send thou an article for publica- floe without thy name, for thy name often secures publication to worthless ar- ticles. Thou shouldst not wrap at the door of a printing office, for lie wito answereth the rap sneereih in his sleeve and los- eth time. Neither do thou loaf about, ask ques- tions. nor knock down type, or the boys will love thee as they do the shade trees -when thou leavest. Thou shottldst never teat i tie copy on the printer's case or the sharp and hook- ed container thereof, or he may knock thee down. Never inquire thou ot an editor for news, for behold it is his business to give it to thee at the appointed time without asking. It is not right that thou shouldst ask him who is the author of an article. for it is his duty to keep auch til mese unto himself. IN'hen thou dost cutter an office, take heed unto thyself that thou dost not look at what may be lying open and concern all thee not, for that is not meek in the sight of good breeding. Neither examine thou the proof -sheet for it is not ready to meet thine eye, thou mayest understand. Prefer thine own town pai,er to any other and subscribe for it immediately. Pay for it in advance and. it shall be well with thee and thine*. THE CINCINNATI HORROR. The Clneinnati Enquirer lees the fhllow- ing concerning the murder of the child by her mother. and the latter's attempt at suicide, in that city: \Charles L. Perkins is well mei laverably known in the busi- ness community, and is a brother of Judge Perkins, of Covington, where he has resided for the last few years with his wife and child, a girl who would have been three years old next Decem- ber 10th, and whose delicate beauty and lovely nature were such that in her new home she had already become the pet in the entire neighborhood. Mrs. Perkins. a woman tweety-eight years of age of handsome form and face expressing great character, was born in Weston. Mo., and met and married her husband in Saville, 0., early in 1870. Iler maid- en name was Julia Snell. There is an- other person mixed up in the sad affair, a Mr. J. Claire, a saddle -tree manufacturer of Bethel, Ohio. Ile has resided with Mr. Perkins on his business visits to town, made once a week, and has been considered and treated as one of the fam- ily. For some reason, when Mr. Per- kins went home on Tuesday night, at about half -past ten o'clock, it NV:1.6 to at once seek his wife's bed room and up- braid liter for having done something wrong. What it was that caused his an- ger has not transpired, but Mr. Claire was connected with it in some way, and eventually became a party to the quarrel, which was carried on all night. I Milne - it, at about four o'clock, Mrs. Perkins once seized a razor and attempted to kill the little girl, but was prevented by Claire who called the husband, at the moment out, to his aid. At 6 o'clock, worn out with excitement, Mr. Perkins left the house, with the the understanding, \O dell seemed satisfactory to all parties,. that he would at 11 o'clock send a carriage to take his wife to the depot, she to go on a visit to her friends. and promising not to attempt thrther violence on herself or child. Claire also left the house soon after. Mrs. Perkins immediately upon the departure of the men, ordered her servant to lock up the house, and (lieu dismissed her. She had previously dress- ed little Clara in her best, combed her auburn hair and tied it with a bonny blue ribbon, and fitted her out generally as it for her trip to her grandma's. With her she now ascended to her bed -room, the second -story front, and entering locked the door. She closed all the windows and shutters, drank the contents of two bottles of paregoric which were on the mantle, turned on all the gas, without lighting it -having from appearances previously made an attempt to break the brackets off -and :trilled herself' for the terrible work by breaking the glass that covered the little ivory clock and grasp ing in her right hand one of the cruelly sharp fragments. She then knelt down near the washstand, and called little Clara to her in the dark, deliberately proceeded to cut the child's throat. She tells us that the child prayed, and that amid the gurgling rush of the arte- rial blood, several times came the ap- peal: \Mamma! oh, mamma!\ Holding the Llyhl!r Child to her breast with one hand, she jagged it great. ugly cut, go- ing clear to the wind -pipe and crossing. the neck for four inches into her own throat. Then she took her baby in her arms amid lay down to die, her resting - place being at this time marked by great, hideous blood -stains. She lay there two hours she thinks, and then finding - that she was growing weak shivered with the chill to her bed.\ It was believed at last accounts, that the wretched woman would recover. She has been held for murder. Sicily is still in an unsettled and disor- deHy state. Lite and property are not Safe. owing to the great power of the or- estnization of assassins and robbers known as the Mafia. This society, while being larn-'y made up of time most de- graded classes, has 24.140 among its mem- bers some of the better people. The heavy taxation and the dearness of pro- visions have caused many to join in to procure money. An Englishman living in Palermo has recently received many letters, menecing him and his family with death if they should go to their country house under Monte Pellegrino. a short distance only -within a walk. The let tem s were adorned with 1 he usual decorations -cross hones and skull -and the menace was conditional on the refus- al of a certain sam of money to be depos- ited at a place named. The letters were regnImirly gived to the police, and the visits to the country house, if not discon- tinued, were repeated at longer inter- vals. Virginia City, THE MADISONIAN PUBLISH/ 1 :D ILVElst* NATURE , AY -Al'- - ▪ - Itientani , THOMAS DEYARMON, Editor and Proprietor. Papers ordered to any address cart be caw:um-Red 14 another nddress tet4tae option of the subscriber. Remittance by draft. check. 11111011e4V order or registered letter us y be sent at our risk. THE MADISONIAN is devoted to the advocacy of the principles of the D e ntocrottfes part v and to general and local news. — SELECTIONS. Ile that diggeth a pit shall fail into it. them. integrity A living dog is better than dead lion: n g - rity of the upright shall guide Better hear the rebuke of a Mena than hme song of fouls. After ever' greet war there has always been a great revival ofreligioes Laps anl slants -drunk at night a heads ache in the morning. Ile was his father's son. tender' &lid be- loved in the sight of his mother. It thou be suret y for thy friend thou must strike hands whim a stranger. Despise not chastening -that which le crooked can not be made straight. Teke no heed unto all the words that aro spoken, lest thou Insar thy servant curse t itese• The race is not to the swift, nor the battle' to the strong -a sttre thing is often beaten. A serpent will bite without enchantment; but the slanderer will turn again and sting you. A good name is better fleet a fat offies. and the day of defeat is bettsr than the day of election. Dreams come from a multitude of bus - 'less, and a politician is known by his nuns titude of promisee. Marvel not if thou seest a violent pervert. ing of truth; but remember that the Vote of the majority will tell. Do not shoot off thy mouth, for, like the recoil of light artillery, thy words may come back and trout de thee. Wee onto him that bm lowe when he tons neth for office, for he bath no One to help' him put up jobs on the voters. A feast is made for laughter, and wine leaked' the heart merry, but money make* tile mare go. There is no fenSembranee of foraief things, neither shall thete he to those Wild vote our ticket and support the right: When times are dull. and lawyers and justices are out of meat. look out tor arre , as tor then horse thieves do abound. and it shall be remembered that man gave Ilia thirsty brother a drink in the Indian coon . - try. Tam DOG- ik BOY'S et i10011. COM- rosmoN. A dog is a -1-legged quadrooped or ow eat) speshoes. Its fore leges are ill front and its rear legs are behind. I suppm Ise most all blamed fools know this, but Aunt Betsey says in ritin of a composish- un I must be careful to get in all &talk, and I reckon all the legs must go in tod: Each dog has one tail of dill'erent sizes, unless it has been cut oph by some nets lishus person for fun. The tail is on the (aid next to the hind leges. Butcher's dogs don't generally have but mu short tail. 1 suppose this is for you not to tie! tin pans to. It I had a dog 1 would not eut his tail oph. unless I WaS :L butcher, and then 1 woodn't keep any dog sopt a 1)1111 purp, Nvhich I could swap even for a small call. I once had a iww Carnet - ling dog that I traded a sled for, but he took mad amid died I .-fore he bit anybody which gave me much g lief. I used to go in swimming, on tialldays Wlitql I kid that d(T - , eawie they would save folks front drowning, but now I am sheered to fro. T rs he rat teare are a useful dog, and t e ;an be trained to tear as ninny rats as you can sick em on, if you get ont trained right, butt if you don't they are as feared of cm a:I aiim, which is Wilssvni suali tt s ; CO:Ich 110:,:* is purty as a giel hil :t striped saris. and I s-losi dad to get one. : a ul e s h a :I d iu ‘ i V 1 1 9 \ 111 1 11', 1 11 11 1 1 ( )1;11 V: \ i ‘ - 11 : ; I t i t Ae to liew: 1 ::: with tour (IOU% 'WOW. A house -dog - is useful to have where burglers : r about. One good house -dog aint no pet - ter than two ficests only in dang,erou4 places like you read about. The sheii- pard is the most account:0/4,st dog with sheep. mat 1 expect Mary had one to take care of the little lamb. I leel rather have a dog than a lamb, or both, but girls aint got no sense. I know more a'sout dogs than I let on, hut Auld Betsy says don't tell all you i tk i ie N i\v oN . asa-ae--ma The population of Santo Fe consista of about 7,000 Mexicans amid about 300 A inericans, including - the government officers. By the term Asnericati the New Mexicans mean people of all nationali- ties except Mexiean. A German who ar- rives hi Santa Fe. direct from - Fader- land,\ is as much an American to the Mexican :us the deacendaet of a Mayflow- er pilgrim. The Mexicans have among themselves two classes, tin' aristocracy and the common people. and caste reigns here as much as in any other part of the world. The higher classes pride them- selves much upon the purity of their ( tilian blood. a mel look upon the conm elan People as the joint progery of Spaniards and Indians. While the utmost good feeling prevails between the two orders, there is little or no social intercourse be- tween them. The higher elasaes are edu- cated and relined, the lowers ignorant and degraded. The system of \peonage\ has left its mark, and those who were \peons\ are atilt subservient to their tormer ministers. allo•-•••••116 Somebody lets revived the old story told by James Bridger, who is. next to lift Car- son, the pioneer trapper of all that section et* country. One of his favorite stories wee that in the year 1820 he was wintering in Salt Lake Valley. when it commeneed to snaw, Rnd continusd seventy consecutive days, till a depth of seventy feet was ob- tained. The country at that time abounded 111 buffalo and other large game,all whisk perished in the snow. The lakes and jeers the following spring were so full of meat presemved in good condition in the cold, that he was able to stow up a large stock ot meat for the next Winter's supply, using no brine of Salt Lake for the purpose. Ile concluded his tide by declaring that since that storm no buffalo had ever been seen west of the Rocky Mountains. lie was also tend of declaring that 'Brider's Butte.\ a table mountain uatrvil after him, kali \steered around\ to the north since lie tiest saw it, and that be had told General John- son SO, Who. after eOttfIlliting his text -books aeknoeledged that he was right.
