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THE MADISONIAN. _ SATURDAY. NOV. 28. 184. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year in advamee` Six Month3 Three Months 66 R8 .150 ADVERPSING RATES. THE MADISONIAN, as an advertising tics nun, is equal to any paper in Montana. 11 i I „;_•:: „Id • _ 4 tiO an 22 31:2 WO .4 .4 .4 .4 .4 .4 * V lo * I) \....) 3) ZO 1 .... L.... .... l_to. h ' ' ,... ,... ... ,...... ... - ,,,.,, ..,.., ..,.. . _ ,... .... Inch ..... $3 $5 . $71 $8410 2 Indica 5 8 9 t 10 12 3 Inches 7 9 11 12 15 4 Ine hes 8 11 12 14 17 6 Inches 10 12 15 18 24 /:: Inches 18 21 30' 34 40 2.5 Inchea 10 40 501 55 65 $15 $20 $::5 20 30 40 25 37 55 30 45 70 :kt 65 90 55 90 140 75 150 250 The above scale of prices is for ordinary sin- gle -column, display advertising. So1il and tabular adKertisements will be charged at the Well rate iftr space occupied. LOCAL NOTICES, Fifteen cents per line for ffrst, and ten cents ato; line for each additional insertion. CARDS, One-half inch, $2 for one insertion; $3 for two insertions; $8 per quarter; $16 per year. The foregoing schedule of prices will ,trietiv adhered to. All advertisements counted in Nonpareil Mea.,ure. j0l3 Of every description, executed in the best and neatest style. and on reasonable terms. \NEWSPAPER DECISIONS. 1. Any one who takes a paper regularly from the Poslidlice—whether directed to his name or smatter's, or whether he has subscribed or not —i s responsible for the payment. 2. If a person orders his paper diGcontinued. he must pay all arrearages, or the publisher . may continue to send it until payment is made, awl est lc -et the whole amount, whether the pa- per is taken from the office or not. a. The courts have decided that refusing to take the newspapers or periodicals from the Postothee, or removing and leaving them un- called for, is prima facia evidence of intention- al fraud. PROFESSIONAL. G. F. COWAN. Attorney and Coun-efor at Law. Iladersberg, Montana Territory. HENRY F. WILLIAMS, Att'y & Counselor at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE over the Poet Officer. I. E. CALLAWAY, Attorney and Coun- selor at I_Jaw. VIRGIN A CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE, adjoining the office of the Secre- tary of the Territory KW. TOOT -E. J. K. TOOLE. TOOLE & TOOLE. .Attc)i-neys at J4av. HELENA, MONTANA. Win practice in all the ('qiurts of Montana. ZORN T. SlicittER. T. .1. LOWERY. SHOBER & LOWERY, Attorneys :I rid coun- selors at Jaw. HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. SAMUEL WORD, Attorney at Law. VIRGINIA CITY. M. T. JAMES G. SPR ATT, A:am - I - key and Coun- selor at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. R. W. HILL. Attorney at L.aw, GALLATIN CITY, M. T. W. F. SANDERS Atiormey and (20nn- selov at Law. HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all Courts of Record in Montana. C. W. TURNER, VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. OFFICE: Adjoining Colonel Callaway's. WM. F. ICI R KWOOD, Attorney at Law, VIRGINIA CITY. Can be found at Judge Spratt's office or Pro- bate Court Rooms. Will practice in all the Courts of the Territory. tiEORGE CALLAWAY, M. D. Physician and 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. Office at the Old Le Beau stand, NVallace ntreet where he can be fotffful 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. 'THE MADMONIAN VOL. 2. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1874. DROWNED. [The London World offers every month a prize of ten guineas worth of books for the best poem on a given subject. We give its prize poem for October:] The flashing light -house beacon pales before The ruddy harvest moon's intenser ray, That bathes and changes into sparkling ore, Its stones of granite gray. Round the tall brigs the greedy ripple laps, As with the ebbing tide they softly swing; A shore -belated sea -bird slowly flaps His strong -plumed dusky wing. The pier -lights, imaged on the waters, melt To silver pillars, such as visions show Of palaces where fabled Caliphs dwelt In legends long ago. A single boat steals down the moonlit track, Through the still night its oar -strokes echo far; Fringed with cleft light, the outline Sharply black Heaves on the harbor bar. What strange freight fills it? Yonder heavy sail Covers some form of blurr'd and shapeless dread; Rude is the pall, but fitted well to veil The ocean's outcast dead. His name, his story? Vain it were to guess, But short to sum: a waif, a mystery; Death's mocking gloss upon life's loveliness; . A secret of theses. H. 13. BARKLEY, M. D. Physician & Surgeon. RADERSBURG, M. T. H AS had twenty-one years' experience in in his profession—four years of that time sur e ,eon in the Confederate army. He is pre- pared to perform aill kinds of surgery. IN FEMALE COMPLAINTS, his expe- rience is not surpassed by any physician in the Territory. TO THOSE WHO HAVE VENEREAL COM PLA I N TS.—Gonorrhea , if called upon within five days after the first appearance, he will cure in seventy-two hours. In Syphilis, ne will cure in live days. His treatment is different from any physi- cian in this Territory. He Is prepared. for. C leaning Extracting and Filling Teeth. • DR, C. S. ELLIS. I:I: JUNG taken an interest in the Drug Department of A Carmichael' s store at Silver Star, Montana,can be found at all tunes, day and night, at said NJ tore, when not absent on professional busi- nesi. 1-28tf 0. B. WHITFORD, M. D., Physician anti Surgeon, • asoNTA,Na LODUE... THE TWO PARTINGS. We parted once before, you wept When I rose up to go, you did; You prayed for me before you slept, You little love, you know you did. But now no grief is on that brow, Which you said throbbed so, you did; You loved me better then than now, You cruel thing, you know you did. Do you remember what the sea I took you out to show you, did? You made a pretty simile— You false of tongue, you know you did. You sighed \that life were like its cre3ta When summer breezes blow,\ you did, \To catch love's light before it rests;\ You cold,cold heart, you know you did. What have I done? You smile no more On me, as mouths ago you did! You deem my homage now a bore— You liked it then—you know you did. You sigh'd,how blessed were life with one Who'd love me truly! oh, you did! You thought I was an elder sou; You utter flirt! you know you did. TWO BABIES. BY FANNY BARLOW. From the Galaxy for November. Little winsome baby Fay Like a snow-white rosebud lay In her mother's arms all day. Alice. dancing- up and down— Rosy, saucy, dimpling, brown— Breaks her playthings, tears her gown. 0 the eyes of little Fay! Solemn, sweet, and dream-like they, Telling mysteries alway. Alice's eyes are wildly bright, Full of frank and fearless light. Scarcely will they close at night. Fay so grently shows her love, Cooing, nestling like a dove, She your very heart would move. Alice with a tightened strain Hugs with tiny might and main— Kisses, laughs—and hugs again. Witching each in her own way, Alice and the little Fay One so gentle—one se Heavenly Father, give the 7 e flowers Summer days and rainbow showers. Let the clouds and storms be ours. 2•41-* A PETITION TO TIME. Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently—as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream! Humble voyagers are we, Husband, wife, and children three-- (One is lost --an angel fled To the azure, overhead!) Touch us gently, Time! We've not proud or soaring wings: Our ambition, our content, Lies in simple things, Thimble voyagers are we, O'er Life's dim, unsounded sea, Seeking only some calm clime:— Touch us gently, gently, Time! —Barry Cornwall. WITII HER. With her I've wandered oft, Breathing the fragrance soft Which gently steals aloft At morn. With her I' ve sought the shade By gentle foliage made In some sweet fairy glade At noon. W ith her in bliss complete, On sonic old arbor -seat, I've watched the shadows meet At eve. With her I stood and wept When 1 - rom my gaze she crept. And like an angel slept At night. With her in sweetest thought, Though now no longer sought, I'll linger as she taught For aye. MODERN DIPLOMACY. NO. 3. A NEW MOTOR PROMISED. It is well known to professional inen that by applying heat to water or other fluid a pressure may be developed by the expansion of the mass, and this without the production of steam. It is not un- common to test steam boilers in this way, any desired pressure being obtained by simply filling the boiler to the safety valve and making a tire in the furnaces. Sir Ferdinand Tommasi recently exhib- ited before a body of English engineers an instrument designed to give a practi- cal illustration of this force. It is simply an iron tube, three feet long and about three -eighths of an inch in diameter. This tube was fitted at one end with a screw cap having an opening the size of the interior bore of the tube, and wholly closed at the other end. A leaden disc, a quarter °fan inch in diameter, was placed between the screw cap and the end of the tube, and the same filled with oil. Upon lighting a series of gas jets beneath the tube, the disc of lead was immediate- ly forced out by the expansion of the fluid. It is proposed to utilize the force thus shown to exist in the production of power, and the inventor intends to adopt a fluid, such as oil or glycerine, which does not produce steam by being heated. He also urges that as these liquids devel- op great power iii a small space in the manner described, they may be usefully applied to heavy machines usually driven by separate engines, such as presses, shears and punches. By a further modi- fication of the same principle Signor Tommasi produces a reciprocating mo- tion, which he states can be converted into a rotary one, as in the common en- gine. The heat is applied to the oil by hot water, and as rapidly abstracted by means of cold water or other refrigera- tion, thus producing a rising and 'idling motion of the column of oil. The inven- tion was shown practically applied to a riveting machine, a press and a punch; and it is stated that an engine is being constructed to drive street cars on the same principle. The force exists as the inventor claims, but whether it can be developed practically and controlled read- ily is a matter open to question. PAST AND PRESENT. There is something very mournful though, in meeting with old friends after the lapse of years. Life has drifted you so far apart, you have so little now in common, you who once made but one existence in a manlier, and to whom ev- erything that befell the one was the nat- ural property of the other! Now, inter- ests, history, affections, associations, hope.s, are all different. Children have come whom you do not know; and hus- bands and wives strange to you, and therefore doubtful, have molded and in- fluenced the nature which once was in entire harmony with your own, like the concluding notes of a chord or the shad- ow thrown by the substance. You feel exiled, isolated. 'f or know the old voice, the dear old trick of the hand, the face, the manner of speech; but all this is only the husk—the core is no longer the same as before, and it has gone from you. There is nothing so difficult as to take up again the lapsed threads of an old friend- ship, nothing so hard as to reconcile the memories of the past with the changed conditions of the present. Almost is it better to let those memories lie undis- turbed in the golden halo that surrounds them than have them 60 rudely displaced, so cruelly destroyed. And yet how eager we all are to meet our old friends again! We do not see the changes which time has made in ourselves, and we ignore them as an expectation in our friends. Only when we are brought face to thee with them do we realize where we also must stand, and how heavy the hand which use has made apparently so light. But strangest thing of all is the mainten- ance of the identity, no matter how im- mense the change; and how the former sylph is really and truly the present burly matron, the humble borrower of half- crown. Croesus scattering sovereigns broadcast, and the ardent lover of the early days, the husband of a strange wo- man, and the father of a numerous fami- ly. This, however, begins a subject too deep and for such a superficial little essay as this, a disquisition on the Ego not com- ing in quite harmoniously with what is meant to raise a laugh with the many, it' also for a few it has a somewhat deeper meaning.—The Golden Age. ama-so-acts PROFLIGACY AND ITS RESULTS. Everybody knows the circumstances of the Beneditti treaty. How many (asks the Berlin correspondent of the London Daily News) know the the means by which Prince Bismarck obtained the precious document? Benedetti had long been liar- rassing Bismarck with complaints that something, was due to France for Sadowa, and suggesting treaties of various sorts until, finally, Bismarck asked him to make a draft of a convention which would heal the wounded pride of the French. He drew up his treaty. carried it to the Foreign (N- ike, and laid it unsuspectingly before the Minister. Bismarck began to read it, when he was suddenly called out by a sub- ordinate, and excused himself a moment from his guest, taking the paper with him; but when he returned he did not bring it. In the interval he had put it under kali and key, and flatly refused to give it back to Benedetti. There have been different theories of the origin of the treaty, but this is the semi-official Prussian version of its capture; and as such the friends of Prince Bismarck have always seemed proud to accept it. This is how papers were obtained in 186S. Ex -Congressman Willlartl, of Vermont, proposes to return to journalism. WAR BETWEEN CHINA AND JAPAN Should the much -talked -3f war be- tween China and Japan ever occur with- in the life of the present generation, it cannot be looked upon as a hasty out- burst of passion. It is rather ludicrous to witness the attitude of the two Pow- ers, inaccessible to one another, and each distrusting its ability to cope with the other. Japan has a little the best of mat- ters at present. It has one old worn-out frigate, formerly belonging to the Amer- ican navy, with about 2 incites of iron on her sides, while her finances anti army are in excellent condition. China has ninety Galling guns and several rebell- ions on band, which, like chronic boils upon the person of a prize-fighter, de- tract somewhat from the excellence of his condition. She has an inexhaustible supply of men to draw upon, but they are of no earthly use whatever hi the field. Compared with the well -drilled warriors of Japan they would be value- less. They are not in any conditiou to do one another any great amount of harm, which .according to the correspond- ent of the San Francisco Alta, is rather to be regretted. In case of war, the victor will become so inflated with vanity that foreigners will suffer. Hence, if the two Powers must come to the scratch, it is to their interest to see that neither gains an undue advantage. FIGHTING A SHARK—THE MAN GETS THE BEST OF IT. Fatal as the white shark is to the un- armed, those who carry weapons of de- fence very frequently cope with and mas- ter him; even women , undaunted by their teeth, have been known to stab and destroy them in their bath. One day a little boy about eight years old happened to be washed from a catamaran which was managed by his father, who was thus early initiating him into the hard- ships of tile mode of life which he intend- ed him to pursue; and before he could be rescued from the turbulent water, a shark drew him under, and he was seen no more. The father lost not a moment, but calmly rose, and placing between his teeth a large knife which he carried sheathed in his Summer -band, plunged beneath the lashing waves. He disap- peared for some thne, hut after awhile was occasionally :Seen to rise, and then dive under the billows, as ifactnally en- gaged with his formidable foe. After awhile the white foam was vissably ting- ed with blood, which was viewed with a sensation of horror by those who could only surmise what was going on under the water. The man was again seen to rise and disappear, so that the work of death was evidently not yet complete. Atter sonic further time had elapsed, to the astonishment Or all who were assem- A terrible tragedy, which, however, might have been worse, uccurrea recent- ly at Constantinople. A young man be- longirg to a good family in France had, it seems, fallen a victim to the attractions of a cafe-chantant sings e at Marseilles. who led him into heavy expenses, and brought him into trouble with his family. The char tense lately obtained an engage- ment to perform in one of the principal cafes-chantants ill Peru, and was accom- panied to Constantinople by her admirer. Dissipation and gambling, however, soon exhausted his resources, and strange to say, while los!ng his money, he some- how lost the affection of the chanteuse. This last misfortune sa affected the poor young man that a few days ago he pro- ceeded to the lodgings of the lady in the Rue de Pologne, and after upbraiding her with her conduct, discharged one bar- rel of a revolver at her and another at himself. The chanteuse, who is fond of animals, was, fortunately for herself, en- gaged during her lover's recriminations in combing a Favorite spaniel, and the bullet intended for her lodged in the dog's spine, and put an end to the ill-fated creature's career. As regards the other &lot, the young man was rather more suc- cessful, for he managed to wound him- self, though not seriously. The scene when the police arrived was most distress- ing. The chanteuse was in a fainting fit on the sofa, the clog dead by her side. and the young man lay in a swoon on the floor. He was conveyed at once to the police office at Galata-Serai, whence he was af- terward transferred to the French con- sular prison to await further proceedings. DA1rGER OF WAR IN EUROPE. On tie Continent the sky is dark and loweritg-, and it is impossible not to feel Oat a storm is brewing, yet no one can tel in which direction to look for the first flash. There are no distinct quarrels ready for fighting about, but the relations of several important States ex- hibitet. just the sort of feverish irritation whichmay at any moment precipitate a collision. It may be assumed that France and Germany are bound to fight some day; but France, though busy with mili- tary preparations of which every traveler through the country brings over start- ling accounts, is not yet ready for war; and on the other hand, it is difficult to see what more it can be possible for the Genntus to get out of another.- conquest. There can be no doubt, however, that Gertsany is just now in a rather explosive CO. fition. The people are groaning bit- terly under the strain to which they have beeo subjected, and which has still to be continued in order to maintain the enor- mous armament which is deemed neces- !ACC' ort t /IV 1./eZtt.li — rwzrz - ocs 11 adorable crowd had now collected—the body of a huge shark was seen for a few moments above the white spray, which it complete- ly crimsoned, and then disappeared. An instant after, the man rose above time surf and made for the shore. He seemed nearly exhausted, but had not a single mark on his body, which bore no evi- dence whatever of the perilous conflict in which he had been so recently engag- ed. He had scarcely landed when an hn- mense shark was cast upon the beach by the billows. It was quite dead, and was immediately dragged by the assembled natives beyond the reach of the surf. As soon as the shark was drawn to a place of security it was opened, when the head and limbs of the boy were taken from his stomach. The boy was completely dismembered, and the head severed from It, but none of the parts were mutilated. —Cassell's Popular Natural History. ams-ss--ass • - REMARKABLE IF TRUE. The following \incident of the famine,\ reported by the Collector of Monghyr, is, says the Times of India, certainly re- markable: \A woman of the - fishing caste\ writes, Me. Lockwood, \was sitting by the side of the Ganges, sonic 108 miles from here, in the Patna District, about daylight of the 16th of August. Sudden- ly the bank on which she was sitting gave way, and she fell into the water, drag- ging with her a large bundle of castor- oil sticks which she was carrying at the time. She managed to support herself on these sticks, which formA a kind of life -buoy and she was carried down by the current, which is now running at a great pace. As each village or boat was passed she shouted to the villagers to help her, but no one came to her relief. In this way she was carried nearly 100 miles, and fortunately for her, when she had been twenty-four hours in the water, she pass- ed by Monghyr, and was rescued by Col. Murray, who, seeing her floating by, sent his private boat and rescued her. The woman did not appear much the worse for her prolonged stay in the water, but naturally was much impress- ed by the fact of her being rescued by a. European, when so many of her own caste had declined to help her. She was provided with a railway ticket to Patna, together with food and clothing from the relief funds.\ VOTERS IN GERMANY. sary as &check upon repriRds by France. YOU have meth money, but you have TAKING UP A COLLECTION. How the Colored Folks Manage It. At this this moment Germany is probably the strangest - power in Europe, but the ques- tion is hiklongs can it maintain itself in . tide position? It is at the highest point now, hut the cost of this supremacy is fearfully exhausting. Every year the country becomes less capable °fenduring the drains upon it in men and money, ant( every year, while Germany is thus at the best, only barely holding its ground, other powers are growing rapid- ly in strength and confidence. Hence the idea which is supposed to have taken pos- session of Bismarck, that the policy of Germany should be to strike while it is at the top of its strength. and while other countries are - weaker, anti this to obtain an opportunity of lessening its military expenses by paralyzing its chief oppo- nents which it still has power to do so. It must be remembered that it is not merely France by itself that the Germans have to reckon with in the future, but also the Papacy and Czar—two very lormhla- ble opponents, who would each be pret- ty sure to do all in their power to help France against the power which has al- ready defied the one, and is suspected of a similar intention in regard to the other. The European situation, therefore comes, pretty much to this—that Germany, des- pairing of becoming any stronger, and more than doubting- its ability t main- tain its strength at its present standard, would be glad of an opportunity of try- ing to cripple its antagonists at once ill such a way as to secure for itself some amount of ease and peace for a good while to come. Whether this opportuni- ty will be found nobody can say; but there can at least be little doubt that Germany is bent on creating au . opportu- nity it it can, and that it will avail itself of any that °Mrs. It is no wonder, then, that with such a state of things on the Continent, there should be doubt and perturbation in the financial world. Almost anything may happen before spring.—London Corr. N. Y. Times. The Rev. Brother Johnson is quite a noted Methodist preacher of the Colored Church in Texas. A short time since there was a Union religious revival in Chambers county among the colored population, and at a meeting at Double Bayou, Brother Rivers said he thought it his duty to remind the congregation that the servant was worthy of his hire, and though he was a member of the Baptist Church, he felt it his duty to say to his friends that Brother Johnson had worked hard in the good cause, and though he belonged to another church, the brothers should give according to their means to- ward the support of the reverend broth- er. He then took his seat. Brother Johnson rose and said: - I feels highly complicated at the remarks of the dear brother, and will say to you all, sisters and brothers and brothers and sisters, I bless the Lord that I works in his field; yet, dis mortal body must have things of this world to live on. I know none of The whole number of Parliamentary electors in the German Empire is 8,500- 000, but of these only 5,250,000 went to the polls at the last election. The Bis- marck party is known as the party of National -Liberals, but out of the 5,250,000 men who voted, only 1,600,000 supported National -Liberal condidates. Next to them come the Catholic voters, the mem- bers of the Centre party, and these at the last election polled 1,550,000 votes, or within 50,000 of the numbers of the Bis- marckians. The Progressists polled 480,- 000 votes; the Conservatives (who on many questions are as one with the Cath- olLbs), amounted to 695,000; the Socialists and extreme Democrats numbered 370,- 000; the \German -Imperialists\ and the \Liberal -Imperialists\ togetner polled 400,000; and the Partioulartsts snd Na- tionalists—Poles, Danes, Alsatians and Lorrainers—had 490,000. Some of these are also Catholics. •-lago•-•—••■11 THE LAST or ILLS RACE. ters, turnips and things of dis kind dat will help Brother Otnson's mortal body, and if you will just speak right out and say what each one can give, Brother Riv- ers will write it down, so Brotivn- John- son will know just what to come atter and how big a cart to bring along.\ The collection was made up by some giving corn, some potatoes, some turnips, and all calling out from their seats what they would give. Brother Johnson seemed pleased at the amount given, as far as it went. He rose and thanked them, and said: \Now brothers and sisters, you have given liberally with the tongue, but don't think it is going to end there, for I is coming down here wid a big ox -wagon, and going aroundto each one of you wid this paper in my hand, and will expect you to come out and help brother John- son to put these two bushels, and these three bushels, and these live bushels, and these seven bushels, and all these bushels into dat ox -wagon, and there will still be room for more, as I is going to bring a big wagon. Now, can't I hear some one say dey will give brother Johnson a hog, or some little pigs, if' dey can't spare a hog.\ This caused quite a discussion among them who should bring the hog. At last one brother said: \Brother John- son, Pse got some hogs down in de marsh, but l'se got no time to get dem up, but if you can go down dare and catch one, and put hint in your cart, you can have I im.\ Brother Johnson said: \Dat is all right, brother; dat is sufficient. Just let Brother Johnson see dem hogs, and he gets de biggest one out of dat gang into 1415 ox -wagon before you can say Jack Robinson. We will close dis business part of de meeting and go to praying.\ An Indian had been picked up drunk, and thought it was proposed to let hint go over the river, it was desirable to have him understand that no Indian has aliy more right than a white man. \Child of the whispering forests -son of the grassy plains—it grieves my spirit to see you here,\ Said his Honor. \Only a few more moons will come and go be- fore yon will be gathered to the happy hunting grounds of your brothers gone before. You are an aged tree; time has shorn you of your strength. You can no longer chase the wild condurango mid follow the roebuck. The buffalo grazes in front of your lodge, and your ts - In is not strong enough to draw the haw. The rumbling thunder and the sharp lightning make you afraid. Once you could not count the camp -tires of your tribe, so many did they number; now there is nothing left of your tribe but yourself, two old army blankets and a shot gun with the lock out of repair. .‘..2on of the forest why is this thing thus, lind what do you mean by coming into fly trapping grounds and gettitig drunk?\ \The white chief has spoken many wise words\ replied the Indian in mists- ared tone, resting one foot on the edge at a spittoon. \My race has thllen like :he leaves—been washed away as water washes out the marks of chalk. I stand alone. My camp -tire has gone out, - and my lodge is cold and has no mat. Kaw- nee-kekick has tears in his eyes when he looks to the West, and no longer sees the smoke of many camp -tires. Our great chieftain have fallen, our warriors are Just, and the wolf utters his lonesome howl on the spot where stood our big village. I am sad.\ \The red man may go,\ said his Honor. -I cannot give you back your dead; I can not cover the hills and meadows with forest again; the wild fox and deer have sought the deeper glens; anti no power can awaken the warriors whose whoops rang from hill to river. Go back to your lodge; beware of fire-wziter; keep in nisslits; vote early and often, and be vir- tuous and you'll be happy.\—Detroit Free Press. 111110.-0--.•111• 6 THE NEW SWISS PENAL CODE. Capital punishment has been totally abolished in Switzerland. The new pen- al code of that republic may be briefly summarized: Homicide, committed vol- untarily, is to be qualified as murder, and punished with from ten to twenty years of solitary confinement. Premeditated murder (-with malice prepense\) is to be classed as assassinations, punished with solitary confinement for lite. Murder by poisoning, also with the same punish- ment, whether death is occasioned at once or by slow poison, If death does not re- sult from the administration of poison, the punishment is to be from ten to twen- ty years' solitary coutlement. For in- fanticide, the punishment is solitary con- finement for not less nor more than five years.—Pliiladelphia Press. WAGES IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES. THE WOMAN WHO TALKS. She was a large -sized woman with a mole under her left organ of sight. Her eyes were small and squinty. Her nose was sharp and peaked, exactly like a three -sided file. She entered a Linn street ear just above Betts street. A poor, pale,.puily little body of a woman was with her. As she entered she was tell- ing the puny woman a horrible tale, in which ghosts and blood and midnight screams and murdered infants and dag- gers reeking with Iminsu gore and that sort of thing predominated. It sounded very much like one ot Ned Buntline's novels maliciously annotated. She would let loose upon a page or two ot the ro- mance and never stop until she was out of breath, which occurred about three times to every three squares. Her breast would sink in as she got deep down into a passage; and when her voice had died away to a taint whisper her breast bone and spinal column would be in juxtaposi- tion. Then she would stop long enough to take a new supply of air, and away she went again. We left her at Fourth and Walnut, and she was still at it. 1Ier young companion was evidently weak- ening; we noticed she gradually grew paler, and was using a fan as we left the car. By this time the irrepressible big woman had talked an actual distance Of twenty-two squares. during which time he drew about fifteen breaths, by actual computation. Our eyes began to swim. and we became dizzy watching the vibra- tions of her lips. For what we know she is talking yet. If the little woman didn't soon afterwards make her escape, her folks will by this time have seen what a lovely corpse she makes.—Cincinnati Enquirer. —IS— PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY —AT— Virginia City, - Montana. THOMAS DEYARMON, Editor and Proprietor. Papers ordered to any address can be changed to another address alike option of the subscriber. Remittance by draft. cheek, money order or registered letter may be sent at our risk. THE MADISONIAN is devnted to the advocacy of the principles of the Democratic) party and to general and local news. So far, during the present year, the sta- tistics show that emigration to this count - try has fallen ell nearly 40 per cent, as compared with previous years, and, in- deed, a large number of emigrants have actually returned home, being unable to find employment. This being the ,ttse, and as a reduction in the price of labor is now being discuasesLthe following tables, collected by the National Bureau of Sta- tistics, and by the Massachusetts Labor Bureau, have an important bearing on the question. These figures were made for the year 1873, and are reduced to our currency: If we take an ordinary farm laborer in Massachusetts, we lind that his weekly wages are $5, with board—which is tm- doubtedly equivalent to $10. The high- est wages in England, paid in Lincoln- shire are $S 17, without hoard; in Kent, $6 Si; in Devonshire and Cornwall, $4 08; in Ireland, $4 91.without board;in France the highest weekly wages are $2 96, with board; in Prussia, $2 85; in Denmark, $1 43; ill Italy, $3 89—all with board. If we now take the trades, the differ- ence is even more remarkable. We fluid that a blacksmith in Massachusetts re- ceives $18 50 per week; in England, $7 90; in Scotland. $7 62; in Germany, $6 75; in Prussia, $7 29; in France, $6 01. In the book -binding business, the wages are equally reneu-kable in Massachusetts as compared with England. A good fin- isher gets $26 in Massachusetts, and $10 89 in England: a forwarder earns $18 here, against $9 80 in the old country; a female folder is paid $9 in Massachusetts, and $3 81 in England. Again, in the great trade of Massachusetts in boots and shoes, a first-class upper -cutter will earn $18, while the European is psid $7 08; the female machine hand is paid $10, and $2 70111 Scotland; and a mender of shoes earns $15 here, against $6 53 in England, $6 74 in Germany, $4 38 in Prussia, and $3 38 in Italy. Our most expensive trades here are the building trades, and in them we see the enormous difterence of wages between the two continents. A first-class mould- er of bricks earns $20 77, with board, in Massachusetts, and $5 94, with board, in England. A mason is worth $24 here. against $10 17 in England, $9 53 in Scot- land, $4 50 in Prussia, and $3 21 in Italy. A bricklayer Is paid $24 here, against $10 17 in England and $5 57 in Germany. A plasterer commands $24 in America, while his wages in Europe vary from $6 08 in Italy to $18 10 in Prussia. A carpenter earns $17 in Massachusetts, while in England he would earn $8 17, in Scotland $7 62, in Germany $9 25, and in Switzerlang $8 10. Plumber earn the comparatively low wages in Massachu- setts of $10; in England they are paid $9 78. iii Germany $4 86. In the business of slating houses, the wages here are $18, to about $S in Europe. In painting they are $17, to about $10 in England, and about $12 in Germany. Considering the unexampled good har- vests both at home and abroad, and the consequent decrease in the price of food of all kinds, it would scent from the above figures that wages in this country are disproportionately high, and that the tendency will be to lower figures. --•10•6•-•••••121• A CURIOUS BILL. A correspondent of an English news- paper sends the following communica- tion, which will be read with interest by all Christians and thinkers. One meets with curious things in his jouruey thronolt the bounds of this broad circumanibular globe. I have met with many myself; but the most unique thing I remember of seeing is the following curious bill. paid in the year 1182, by the officers of the Church of England, for repairs at the Winchester Cathedral. This is a literal copy: WINCHESTER, October, 1182. For work done by Peter 31. Sollers. s. d. In soldering and repairing St. Joseph... 0 6 Cleaning and ornamenting the Holy G 0 6 Repairing the Virgin Mary behind and before and making a new child ... 1 s Screwing a nose on the devil, and putt jug hair on his head, and placing a 6 new joint in his tail 6 Paid December, 1152 11 4 1'. M. SOLLERS. Charch Meehan& ek. •as•--0 CLEANLINESS AND GODLINESS. THE GUILLOTINE. Science, says the London Lancet, would almost seem to be as tardy of growth as moral principle in some quarters if we may judge from tile arguments against death by decapitation which have been revived in conneetion whit the recent ex- ecutions in France. Poitiers the Limours murdeser, and Moreau, the herbal pois- oner of St. Denis, were both guillotined last week, and forthwith the Parisian press inveighs against that mode of exe- cution, citing the old experiments of Dr. Sue (the novelist's father), and even ad- vancing as \la plus f.-appant preuve\ that the decapitated head feels and thinks \la lone de Charlotte Corday rougissant sous he suffies da valet:41e l'executeus.\ Our readers may remember that rather less than four years ago we had to refute tho theory of Dr. Pine!. that Tropinatin's head, havire_r lost under the guillotine the sources of common sensation, yet retain- od hearing. sight, and smell, with the whole apparatus of consciousness aml In- tellect. The trunk, he maintained, died quietly and painlessly from hemorrhage in the course of a few minutes; but the brain, shielded by atmospheric pressum retained its blood and consequently its life, for no fewer than three hours. It is still necessary, it seems, to reassert the fact that while the brain possesses a con- siderable quantity of blood after deeapita- tion, the blood rapidly becomes venous for want of oxygen, the condition being like that in complete asphyxia in which consciousness vanishes in ninety second!. The physical shock sustaine I front the guillotine would of itself. moreover, par- alyze all nervous functioos too comi lete- ly to admit of consciousness taking - place durieg the briefinterval necessary for the thorough deoxidation of' the blood. Be- yond the momentary impact of the de- scending knife on the felon's throat. no further sensation can be felt. Indeed the mode of execution is so painless as al- most to weaken the deterrent force of capital punishment, certainly to deprive those ‘vho would abolish that punish- ment of any argument deducible from the \horrors of the guillotine.\ Professor Lyon Playfitir recently deliver- ed a long address on sanitary reform be- fore the Social Science Congress at Glas- gow. In the course of his remarks he said; \It is not a pleasing task to dwell on the habits of the population even ill our country, in past times. Go back only to the time previous to the Reiorma- tion, and you can have no difficulty in understanding why luxury and squalor produced the plagues of the times of the Thudors and Stuarts. High above all other dwellings were the castles and monasteries, but the cabin of the peasant was worse than any to be now IbUlld in the furthest isles of Scotland. It was made of reeds and stick plastered over with mud. In these wigwains lived an ague -stricken population. In the towns the mechanics lived in rooms without glass windows. slept on straw beds, and worked in Nvorkshops unheated by coal fires. Even in well-to-do houses rushes covered the earthen floors, and got satu- rated with scraps of food, which remain- ed to putrefy under a new layer of rush- es scattered over it. So that the 'petre- men came to dig saltpetre out of the floors. Filth, instead of being abhored, was almost sanctified. The monks imi- tated the filthy habits of the hermits and saints of early Christian times, for the early fathers commended theln. EVell St. Jerome used to praise the filthy hab- its of hermits. He especially commends an Egyptian hermit who only combed his hair on Easter Sunday, and never washed his clothes at all, hut let them fall to pieces by rottenness. St. Antho- ny never washed his feet. St. Thotnas Becket, when martyred, had undergar- ments in a state which makes one shud- a n I ) e il d t :.1 1 1 ) ( : t u t . der in the retnetnbrance. And so the id ti ImIt n tO rt (lie ile R p e rt r e n t -i t a t thought, or professed to think, that by antithesis, polluted of time body indicated cleanliness of the soul. Practically, in- deed, it helped to do it; because the wior of sanctity which infested these old monks and hermits helped to keep them apart from the temptations of time world; for the world se:smelly eared to come into too close contact with those odoriferous saints. But this association of filth with religion was unlisppy in its consequence, for men ceased to connect disease with uncleanliness, and resorted to shrines and winking virgins for cure of maladies which were produced by their own phys- ical and moral impurities. Under all these influences plagues were very de- structive in England.\ ass -as --.4 The servant, who was a little deaf, told a doctor on his return home from a heavy day's work that he was wanted to attend a serious case some five miles away. He packed his instruments, and with a few reflections on the uncertainty of human life in general, and a doctor' - annoyances in particular, he drove rapid- ly away. Half an hour later he entered a parlor, the atmosphere of which was heavy with the fragrance of a night - blooming cereus; fifteen minutes later he had discharged his servant. Heavy rains in Ohio have extinguished the forest fires. REM IIIKABLE MEMORFe: S. In the last issue of the Prin ter's Circu- lar we made room for an article from au English magazine on remarkable feats of memorizing. All of the examples were extraordinary, and, what is more to the point, well authenticated. The British writer, however, ignored one remarkable instance of a retentive memory, and that one was the strong mental storehouse of Houdin, the famous French necromanc- er, now no more. Houdin could pass through a library where he had not heels before, read the titles of the volumes, note their bindings and positions on die shelves, and hours afterward astonisli hia host and guests by telling them the names of the books in the library. the styles of their bindine - s, shape of the letters out the backs. ‘vhether large, small, gilt or plain. Houdin, who, though a clever myst :ler, was as far as possible removed from a charlatan. frankly tells us in his memoirs that he cultivated his remarkable me- monie faculties by noting, as lie passed along the streets, all the articles in shop windows, trying his utmost to remeniher as niany of them as possible, repeating the names and peculiarities of the varied contents to himself, and then invariably ret timing to veriry his mental catalogue. Persevering in this odd school, lie sus- ceeded so admirably that he could, at a passing glance, memorize the come' is of a library. And there live4 in the last century an obscure London actor, who could, mutter a single reading, rep( at back- ward lIme contents of airy newspaper, ad- vertisements and all. In the latter in- stance, the wonderous power oi memory - was a gift of nature and not an muainiiss I art, as in the case of Houdin..mid the actor Sothern has told the writer ef thia that lie could memorize the word,: of mis part while his wife read them to him. ho reclining upon a lounge, wearicl by re- hearsals and performances. THE HAPPY 111N. A 3f:thicken - nal. published hi A assista, informs IN that a few days mug ) a young - man of that city applied for a diverse. Ile is represented as inditstriou s steady, and of good habits. his wife, he said, was most abusive to himself and child, timid he told a sad story of domestic! tie - happiness to the Judge, coneheling with, \1 don't say nothin' agin the waarin. Judge. but I wish you could live with her a little while; you'd think I hattirt told hall the truth.\ The J‘14170 declin- ed ths proffer of the husband, and hand- ing him a writ of devorce told hint he might go on his way rejoicing. Ho del. He rejoiced so heartily that evening that he got as drunk as a boiled owl, was ar- rested, locked up all night, and taken before a police justice the next morning. The jnstice, on hearing, his story. said he had given a good excuse, and, heaving a sigh. remarked: \Most snybody in your place would have done the 1 - .41ine thing. You were the one happy man in Augusta last night.\ ilisa--41—mate• Says an exchang. -An eminent phy- sician, who devoted his whole um ntion to diseases of the throat and lungs. told us the other day that about three-tourths of all throat diseases would get uell by wearing very loose collars . and no neck- tie at all. He said that often singers would come to hint for throat disease and loss of voice, and he would tear open their cravats and cure them with no other treatment whatever. \The pressure of the collar on the arterles of the neck i very had for the health,\ said he. also added: \ If yon have d:sease of t lie throat let nature do the sniring. and tin; physician just as little as possible. It is stated that small. old-tashisatsi window panes are coming ill again.\ said no wonder, when one sees what t.niall pains achitects take to put their wiadasva in the right places,
