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1 , 1 THE MADISONIAN. tri DECEMBER I2. VS7I worear,0.-raffirmEmpe:msnmemmt TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. nee Year taratice) .. :5 00 Three Months \ 1 50 six Months ------ • • 2 50 ADVERTISING RATES. E DISONIA.N. as an advertising 4 ; ; , :7!1 , 4-• 111:11 to any paper in 3lontates. i • •••▪ •• VOL, 2, -4 1 . ••• $.1 $5, $'7 $10 Si ts 9 lo •.!o :1.4 - 11 12 . 1:i - 27b :•• 11 1•2 It 17 :1') 4.; To • lo 1; 1- • 37-, 90 1. f.1, 31 i 10. :15i 90j 140 • ooi 5.5 1 65; 75 i 1501250 The allove seale of prIces Is for ordinary sin - display advertising. Solia and oot l : c.elvertisenients will be charged at the r o t ;*. )1 - Jeice occupied. LOCAL NOTICES, rif!,0:1,.,11t- per line for ffrst, and ten cents fyr each additiinial insertion. CARDS, tnoehalf 'Jodi.. $2 for one insertion ; $3 for ova ieoetions: per quarter; *16 per year. 1 . ,regoing schedule of prices will '''.\-'111.:01vcriisetnents counted in Nonpareil J()13 i'llIN'TTN-€4-, ,1,-cription , executed in the best nrate.7I .43 it.. and on reasonable terms. NEWSPAPER DECISIONS. wte) take:4 a paper regularly from the ;lice—whether directed to Alta name or s, or whether he has subscribed or not rc-pt•nihle 1. or the payment. lf a person orders his paper discontinued. I nia-r pay all arrearages or the publisher r!,7“intle to sent it until payment is made. , colleof the whole amount, whether the pa- I ler is taken from the office or not. 3. me courts have decided that refusing. to ta ke t9e newspapers or periodicals from the removing and leaving them mi- m e o i for, is prima facia evidence of intention - 11 trawl. 'hieIUl O. PROFESSIONAL. G. F. COWAN. ntOrney and Counselor aT Law. Ratiersher2 - . Montana Tecrit.)ry. R V F. WILLIAMS, :Itty Counselor at Law, 7 - 7e:INIA CITY, MONTANA. FICE over the Post Oflic:r. J. E. CAI LAW AY, Attmariey LI:11(1. CC)111 - selor at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. F E, adjoining the office of the Secre- :see; of the Territory 1 w. J. K. TOOLE. I - _ TOOLE &TOOLE. • •• HELENA, MONTANA. Will pract ire in all the Courts of Montana. TOTLN T. •411774:Elc. T. J. OWERLY2 SHOBER 81, LOWERY, Attorneys and ec•un— selors at 11..aw. HELENA. M. T. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. SAMUEL WORD, Attorney at I_Aaw. VIRGINIA CITY. M. T. JAMES G. SPR ATT, Attorney anti Conn— selor at 111,1INV. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. illPractice in all the Courts of Montana. R. W. HILL. Attorney at GALLATIN CITY. M. T. W. F. SANDERS .21. - t - torney - aria C1ottn— selor at Law. HELENA, M. T. - ;i1t practice in all Courts of Record in Montana. C. W. TURNER, L VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. OFFICE: Adjoining Colonel Callaway's. W M. F. KIRKWOOD Attorney at Law, viiturNEt CITY. Can he found at Judge Spratt's office or Pro- bate Court Rooms. Will practice in all the t_Ourts of the Territory. GEORG:: CALLAWAY, M. 0. Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE, at the Law Office of J. E. Calla- way, Esq., until further notice. I. C. SMITH, M. 0., Physician and Surgeon. VIRG:NIA CITY, MONTANA. Office at the Old Le Beau Stand, Wallace treet where he can be foutid night or day E. T. Vrr\ an. Physician and VIRGINIA CITY, 'M. T. Will practice in all branches. Office one door above the City Drag Store. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA SATURDAY. 1-3)1 '' 17 \ 71 :1 / _A 101E91 - RV. AT THE OLD GATE. And so we have met here again, love; Here is my hand once more; And with the heart, now stricken— So proud in the days of yore. I knew not how much that I loved you When that world was spoken by me That sundered our lives that uight, dear, And sent you over the sea. Here I have sat all alone, love, In the first fresh hours of spring, When the blackbird tilled the twilight With the songs that it used to sing In the golden fall of that autumn That buried my heart's delight; But never a song could [sing, love, In the calm of the falling night. I have wailed long by this gate, love, By the gleam of the days of old, When the sunset of summer came down Jove, On their wings of amber and gold, And lingered among the tassels Of that bright laburnum tree; There was glory above, 'mid the branches, . ut never a gleam for me. You thought that my heart was cold, love, I knew that it seemed so then; But maidens of seventeen years, dear, Are not to be judged with men. There's a beauty of trust we must soar to, There's a love to which we must grow; And these years have unsaid that word,dear, That I spoke to you long ago. There's a lingering kiss on my lips, love, It has lain since yours touched mine: There's a ;ove in my life that is yearning To cling to your heart as it shines; Ah! now you have taken that kiss, love, And with it crushed out the past; I have waited long, long at the old gate— I have waited, but found you at last. • 4411 0 SOWING :AND REAPING. From All The Year Round. We live by thought, and by the men who spoke The darkness into light; Who bade 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 s and tears, and toil Alone may irrigate the soul. The crimson fountain bubbles in deep gloom, The funeral pyre's aglow And all around the yawning tomb The harvest 'gins to grow, Lo! forth the sturdy reapers come To shout the welcome Harvest Home! The sickle sheathed, the crop is gathered in, And garnered in the brain; Not all the kings who v;ctories win May root it out again: Nor check the spread, thro' years unknown, Of future harvest to be sown. ts. BARKLEY, M. 0. !physician 8i. Surgeon. ILADERSLIJRG, M. T. I .AS had twenty-one years' experience in 4. in his profession—four years of that time a surgeon in the Confetlerate army. Ile is pre - to perform all kinds of surgery. IN FEMALE CO.MPLAINTS, his expe- rienee is net surpassed by any physician M the erritory TO THOSE limo HAVE VENEREAL (*OMPLAINTS.—tionorrhea, if called upon w Oleo five La t 6 after the first appearance, he a III cure in seventy-two hours. in :s.yphats, i.e vJL cure in live days. .11is treatment is different fron any physi- - :man in ibis Territory, lie is prepared for Cleansing' Lxtracting and Filling; Teeth D. C. S. I NG taken an interest in ? the Drug Department of A -tore at Silver Star, M(,utana,can f.und aZ all tinies, day and night, a! said r'f'orv, 1.14it - 116ent on professional bust- -28t f O,B.WiIITFCRLL !I. D • y Physician and Surgeon, ):\ FAN.% . DEER LODGE.... NEW LOVE. NEW LIFE. From the German of Go the. Heart, my heart, what spell is o'er thee, And what troubles thee so sore? Such a life hast thou before thee That I know thee now no more. All thine old delights are dying, Gone thecause of all thy sighing, Gone thy power and gone thy zeal, Heart, since love did o'er thee steal! As fair youth to bloom advances In this vision of delight, Do her true and kindly glances Blind thee in their wondrous might? Should I vow no more to see her, Be a man, and wisely flee her, Heart, you will not be denied. Back you hear me to her side. And this magic thread entwine thee, Never to be loosed by me; And this lovely maid confines me; Never more shall I be free. I must in her sphere enchanted Live the life that she has granted; Thou that wrought the change in me, Love, dear love, oh, set me free! A NEW TIt - EATMENT OF CONSUMP- TION. A peculiar method of treating pulmon- ary cavities in plithisis, pursued by Pro - lessor Mosier, of 1Viesbaden, is described as consisting in the injection of certain drugs through the wall of the chest, and leaving the canula, so as to repeat the operation at discretion. Ile has even made an incision into the NV:111 of the cav- ity, inserted a silver tube ar elastic cathe- ter, and succeeded in drawing away the secretion and in tin -infecting the pyogen- ic walls by means of weak carbolic acid lotion. It is stated that no difficulty was experienced in the operation, and the condition of the patient was improved, the cough becoming less troublesome, and the fhbric symptoms apparently mod- erated. One point at least is regarded as settled—and it is certainly one of great importance—so far as could be by a few experiments of this characterommely that the local treatment of pulmonary cavi- ties is undoubtedly practicable, and that the lung is more tolerated ofexternal in- terference than has been generally be- lieved. REMARKABLE IMPROVEMENT IN ENGLISH CITIES. London has not been asleep while the great cities of the world have been march- ing on, (luring the last decade. The un - derground railways, running in every di - rection and to every point, are simply wonderful. Her old narrow streets are being widened at an immense cost. The most costly property . in the world is be- ing converted into capacious streets, and superb structures are everywhere in pro- cess of erection. The new Victoria street, running from the Mansion House , is already magnificent, but when finished Nvill be etiil grander. The litmous Poul- try will soon be at least as wide as the C heapaide. The Thaines embankment is only an- other of the numerous demonstrations which old England is givine- continually that the power which she is putting forth to preserve, magnify and perpetuate her - sell ia at least equal to that by which the old Britons created her. The banks of the Thome s were formerly very unsight- ly places. Now they are simply grand in their vast proportions of masonry and the spacious boulevards that now skirt the ancient limits of the city. But to write of London in her 0 - rand march of growth in all that is substantial and beau - tiful in prosperity requires the space o f volumes rather than a newspaper letter. Its vastness is absolutely bewildering. I saw many of the leading towns of the provinces which I had known very famil- iarly when a boy, and was surprised to find that what I have written of London is measurably true of them. Many nar- row streets in prominent localities had been widened, and streets of buildings that had no better service for the people than their antiquity, had been supersed- ed by handsome structures of much pri- vate or public utility. That portion of Liverpool bordering on the Mersey has been, since my last viait, a dozen years ago, so entirely changed, so vastly improved as to be as new as a strange country to me. ETIQUETTE. A Yankee out west who recently wrote home to his mother that he had seen a live hoosier, has sent her home another epistle on western etiquette. Here it is: Western people go to their death on etiquette. You can't tell a man here that he lies, as you do down east, without fighting. A few days ago a man was telling two of his neighbors in my hear- ing a pretty large story. Says I,\ stran- gor, that's a whopper.\ Says lie, \ stran- ger, lay there,\ and in the twinkling of an eye I found myself in a ditch, a per- fect quadruped, the worse for wear and tear. Upon another occasion, says 1 to a man I never saw before, as a woman passed him, \ That isn't a specimen of your women. is it? ' Says he, \ You are afeard of fever and ague, stranger, aren't you?\ \Very much,\ says I. \ Well,\ replied !me, • that lady is my wife, and if you don't apol °clic in two minutes, by the honor of a gentleman, I swear that these two pistols,\ (which he held in his hand) -shall cure you of the disorder en- tirely; so don't fear, stranger.\ So I knelt down and apologized. I admire the coup try much, but darn me if I can stand so much etiquette; it always takes me unawares. —•—• - sig\- -0-1411 P\ — P1IOBABILIT/ES. When you see e. man going home at two o'cloek in the morning and know his wife is waiting for him, it is likely to be stormy. When a man receives a bill for goods 11111•••-•-•-•••ar • LOVE'S REVENGE. Some five or six weeks ago a young man owned Charles Perrin, taventy-three years old, and a carpenter by trade, fell in love with a good-looking girl whose parents live on Orchard street. Charles has red hair and a freckled face, and al- though the young lady treated him cour- teously when hecalled at the house, she had her mind Made up that she Avuuld never wed a red-haired man. After an acquaintance of three weeks he asked item' to become Mrs. Perrin, and was greatly not think of such a thing. Charles then sought to have the oil folks put in a good word for him; they decline to interfere. He continued his visit, perhaps hoping to soften the girl's heart, but Thursday evening the crisis came. He went to the house with a bottle of acid in his pocket, prepared to spoil her beauty if she did not give him a favorable answer. There was no one at home but the girl and her mother, and Perrin first wanted the girl to take a walk with hint. She refused to go, and he asked to see her alone. She also refused this request, and the lover had just got ready to draw the bottle from hia pocket when something bit him. He thought it was a dog, but it wasn't. The cork had worked . out of the bottle, and his coat-tails were turning brick -col- or at the rate of a yard a minute. The acid wasn't content with the coat-tnils, but struck out for tlesh, and in about a min- ute the young man was dancieg around the house as it to ,escaps a bullet. Shout- ing, whooping - he got out of doors and threw off most of his clothing and rolled his wife has bought unknown to him, in the mud, and it was sonic time before look out for thunder and lightning. any one could find out 'hether he had 1Then a man goes home and finds no snakes in his boots, or had sat down on a supper ready. the fire out, and his wife brad -awl. He was so badly burned that visiting the saloon \with the rest of the two men had to help hint to his boarding boys,\ it is likely to be cloudy. house. on Fifth street, where a physician When a man promises to take his wife dressed the burns. There is a good deal to a party and changes his mind after she of laughter at his expense. If he makes is dressed, you may expect a shower. his appearatioe at the house again he will When a man saves his cigar wsmey to be arrested, as he told one of his friends buy Iii a wife a new bonnet, and the chit- in advance that he meant the acid for the dren new slices, it indicates a spell of girl.—Detroit Free Press. sunshine. When a man dies and leaves a nice young widow with plenty of money, and yeti see her walking out with the executor of Sunday afternoon, a change is haniineht. _ goo The General Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in session at Philadel- phia, have appropriated 044,0(K , for work in the ensuing year. A wagon was recently sold at Zeiglers- ville, Berks County, Pa., that had been standing long enough in one place to per- mit a walnut -tree about live inches in diana- ter to grow through the bed of the wagon. 70,000 VICTIMS. -- Further Accounts of the Horrible \Iassacre of Christians at Tang - King, China. The Miseion Catholiques publishes the following letter front Mgr. Ptarinier, Vi- car Apostolic to Eastern Tong -King: I hasten to thank you for the interest you have manifested in our cause by publish- ing several ankles oo the persecutions of Tong -King. The readers of the Missions Catholiquee must have been touched by the terrible mistbrtunes of our Christians, and will not have omitted to ask the Di- vine Master to restore peace and prosper- ity to His church in China. We count much upon the prayers of the Catholic 'world. I will not conceal from you that I consider that the present fearful crisis in Tong -King -will prove very favorable to the Catholic rel. gion. God will hear the prayers of our martyrs. The massa- cre of Christians and the pillaging and burning of their villages commenced in my mission, and thence spread into that of Mgr. Gauthier. How can I describe to you the horrors we have witnessed, and which we were utterly unable to prevent. The literati, freed from all restraint, ex- cited by the love of pillage, and drunk with blood, abandoned all restraint, and their wrath knew no bounds. Armed with lances, guns, and even cannons, they threw themselves, followed by numerous bands of lawless men, upon Christian villages, none of which were strong enough to defend themrelves. They kill- ed insn, women, aad children without distinction, sparing neither those who asked for mercy nor those who retused to do so. A schoolmaster, seeing the literati coining, took efuge in the church, and there, prostrate before the altar, im- plored the mercy of God. The murder- ers arrived. They seized him in the sanc- tuary and scalped him. He still contin- ued to pray, and they at last cut his head off. Among them were several old men, women, girls, and even children. Three priests, twenty missionary students, and ten catechists or scholars of Mgr. Gauth- ier met the same fate. About 70.000 Chris- tians, in both missions, were totally ru- ined and dispersed. The majority were hilted in the sack of the villages; many were ordered to apostatize, and on refus- ing to do so, were condemned to death. A great many are still hidden in the mountains, living there on roots and herbs. Others have taken refuge with Pagan friends. Over thirty presbyteries. 200 churches, 300 villages, containing 14,000 families and ten convents of An- namite Nuns have been pillaued and burnt. Ihe material loss on the mission is over 40,000 francs, and that of the Christians exceeds 15,000,000 francs. The labor before us is immense. We have, first of all, to bring the despised Chris- tians back to their villages, and they are neatly naked and eett000t 11 - 97 , 71 - 7 ray m ore - over, their houses are hurt, we have to help rebuild them. I estimate that each mission will require at least 300.000 francs to put it to rights, and where ate we to get the money? We trust in Providence. and entreat the aid of God through the iaterceseion of His last martyrs. s A FRENCH ZIEPORT OF THE SCAN- DAL. This is the way a Frenchman reports the Brooklyn scandal: \One Grand Ec- clesiastic Scandal—Great Excitement in New York and Brooklyn—Three Clergy- men in mooch Trooble—Mons.Moultong, Tiltong. and Beechare have one ferand con troversee. Mons. Moultong is ze pastor of. ze Memos slouch of New York, Discovered by Columbus Ohio, in 1492. Mons. Moultong is accused of taking ze impropare lebertee wiz ze wife ot Theodore Beechare, who is Mrs. liar- iott Beechare Stowe, ze mozare of Onkle Tom, ze blind pianist. Mons. Beechare also is accuse of ze impropare lebertee wiz Madame Tiltonee daughter of Suean B. Anthony. ze sistare of Mark Anthony, taken down when s he t o ld hi m he could who was make love with Cleopetra. 31. Tiltong have cause the separashong of Mons. Beescha re. Ze congreerashong of ze Pleemoz Roch shurch will not Permit Mons. Moultong to preesh longor from ze poolpeet. Ze greatest excitement pre- vails.\ Our French friend appears to understand this matter as clearly as though he had It statement to make. REMARKABLE COINCIDENCES. Probably one of the most remarkable series of coincidences recorded as shown by the statistics of Iowa and Georgia in the matter , : of insanity, blindness, etc. The populations are given as: Georgia, 1,185,000; Iowa, 1.172.933 (the national census made them 1.191.792 mid 1,181,109 respectively), and the following were the showings of the two States as to the tin - fortune te classes: Georgia. Iowa. I 185 1,1e3 790 7e.9 idiotic 677 676 Deaf and Dumb ......... 474 Blind. Insane A PITI ABLE CASE. An Irishman arrested for highway robbery, on being brought before a mag- istrate, asserted that he was more entitled to pity than to be punished. • Pitied!\ exclaimed the justice, while his eyebrows arched with more thrill or- o'clock in the evening she reclined her (huary- wonder and cootempi \ and on head on his shoulder and fell asleep there. what account, pray?\ Just after the train left San Leandro a \ day's work. It h n e ca walk at the rate people, but promote the selizth interests Sure, on aCeUttllt of my misfortune.\ gentleman, who got on the train at that of tour miles an hour, or a fraction better, of favored classes. The waste of capital \ Your mistOrtune, indeed ! What I p'ace, nenieieg something - in the attitude he will make Ids fifty hues a day with- during the ten years since the war occa- that we have caught you. I sup and appearance of the old ldy, approach- pose ?\ out any worry to himself or driver. Most eioned by this policy would be eqoal to a \ Oh, the gintleman tit it's brought me ed her on aud itlqUired, — What is the - horses will not do this because they inlve some vears of the ravages of actual war. here knows my misfortune well enough.\ matter with that lady?\ \Hush\ replied not been trained to it. Even fast horses The people are now waking from the But the gentleman was as astonished as the magistrate himself, and as incapa- ble of understanding the culprit's mean - her • \You will own, I suppose,\ said his worship. \ that you stopped this gentle- man on the highway?\ • Oh, yes, I did that same.\ \ And that volt took from him fifty pounds in bills?\ \ And there your honor's right again.\ \ Well, then, you perplexing vaga- bond, what do you mean by your misfor- tune?\ \ Sure, and the money wasn't in my pocket above a week when the dirty bank stopped payment, and I was robbed of every shillin'.\ Why is it, philosophically inquires the Philo ielphia North American, that among the very'carefully looked after ar- ticles of oleaginous nature in the daily market reports one never finds It quota- tion for elbow -grease? Sure enough! es- pecially when folks \crook their elbow joints\ so frequently. ••••• , THE MADISONIA PUBLISHED rvER_ SATURDAY Virginia City, Montant THOS. DEYARMON, Eaitor aal Proprietor: J. R. WILSON, Associate and Loeal Editor. Papers ordered to any address ran. be eitaitired to another address attbe option of the subscriber. Remittance by draft. cheek. money order or reOstered letter may be settle at our risk. NO. THE devotedto the advocacv of the principles of the Democratiu party and to general and local news. SUFFERINO FOE: C S RIME THEY DID NOT COMMIT. NARROW-GAUGE r..tILROAD FOR THE POPE EXPELLED BY THE 1 At the recent meeting of the Grand Lodge of Masons, Scottish Rite of the Orient, of Palermo, Italy, held in that city outthe 27th of March, Mastai Ferretti, says the English Masonic News, was ex- pelled from the Order for violating his I vows and for perjury. Mast ai Ferretti is no othe! person than Pius IX., Pope of experience of the people of Oregon in Rome. The decree of the Lodge at Pal - railroad matters have not been of the cram is published in the official paper of most satisfactory character. The rail- the Order of Freemaaona at Cologne, Germany, and dated March 27. It is pre- ceded by the minutes of the lodge 411 Olt ECON. About ten months ago, says the New The Oregon Legislature, whose ses- York Times of a recent date, a gang of robbers boarded the brig Mat:um. lying in mid -stream oft the Battery, shot and that State, passed a bill exempting dangerously a-ounded Captain Con- new railroads from naughton, gagged Mrs. Connaughton. and plundered the vessel of property val- ued at $1, ; 200. Two young men, named Richard Carroll and William Du:ran. were arrested by the river police, placed on trial, convicted ot the crime, and sen- tenced to twenty years in the State Pris- on. After their conviction it was learn- ed that their arrest was caused by a per- sonal enemy, and that the evidence on which they were convicted was manufac- tured. District -Attorney Phelps ordered the prisoners to be detained in the Tombs until some inquiries could be made re- garding the case. Inspector McDermott, of the Pollee Central office, and Detec- tive W,IijaIfi George Elder, working up the ease, and soon obtained conclusive proof not only of the innocence of the two unfortunate young men, but that the robbery was committed by Kelly, Con- roy, G-rillin, and Brady, the masked bur- glars arrested in Canal street, and now in State Prison for several similar robbe- ries. Distriot Attorney Phelps at once memorialized Governor at Albany, for the pardon of the two men. Another notification wae subsequently sent to the Governor's cffice, but no action has yet been taken m . Owing to the young en being sentenced prisoners, and in the custody of the Sheriff, they are confined together in one of the condemned cells on the first tier of the prison. From this cell they have not emerged even for a minute's exercise in nine months. Car- roll is in the last stage of consumption, and his fmnily wish him to die at their home in Boston, and not in the Tombs. SHIPWRECKS ON THE BRITISH COAST. The English Board of Trade issues a yearly Wreck Register,which aims to give accurate information in regard to the loss of lives and shipping upon the Brit- ish coast. By the statistics for the six months from January 1 to June 30, 1873, it appears that the number of casualties reported was 967, including every variety ofdisaster from total with all hands to stranding or collisions with only partial damage. The number ot vessels involv- ed N - as 1,200, the discrepancy in the fig- ures being accounted for by the fact that a collision between two ships is reported as the casualty. In 256 cases the vessels were totally lost; but only in 98 was there loss of lite. The number of collisions was 233, and: of other casualties 734. Of the whole 1,206 ships, 936 held British certificates of registry; 225 belonged to foreign owners and 45 are not classified. Apart from collisions, Lutoe a- c. total losses during the six months. Of these 59 were caused by stress of Nveath- er; 30 were reported due to earlessness, inattention or neglect, and 18 were attri- buted to defects in the ship or her equip- ment. The lives lost during the six months was—in fishing-am:las, 16; in col- liers, 233; in other 51111)5, 479. The loss in money value amounted to nearly S10,- 000,000. The greater number of disas- ters occurred on the coast of England, be- tween Dungeness and Berwick. The me- teorological observations show that wes- terly winds are far more destructive than those from the east, the south-westerly winds being the most destructive. The number of lives saved from the 1,206 ships %'as 2.301, the largest share of this work being the result of private be- nevolence. There were at that time 2U3 life -boats stationed on the coasts of the United Kingdom, of which 233 belonged to the National Lite-boat Institution. The institution receive a tine tribute . in the closing paragraph of the Register. which credits it with having saved (Wr- its existence, 22,563 lives from Wreck. AN INCIDENT 01• TRAVEL. FREEMASONS. roads have been built on the subsidy principle more for the benefit of contrac- tors than to provide facilities for trans- portation. Oregonians have been pa- tiently waiting for some time for the completion of the California and Oregon road, by which Portland and San Fran- cisco would be connected by rail. But on the Oregon side the road has been built only as tar as Roseburg, and there is at present no sign of its extension. The p7ospectus of the new road, however, promises to take a new departure in railroad building, and to construct a road not only for the benefit of the stockhold- ers butt as a convenience to the citizens. The company far the proposed road is organized upon the principles which have been found to work well in Calitlir- nia, and under which the Salinas City and Monterey railroad has been carried through to completion. The new road is designed to connect Corvallis, tile county seat of Benton county, with Ya - quina Bay, thus famishing the 1i:rulers of the Willamette Valley with a direct road to a shipping -point. At present the grain from this section has to be hauled to Albany, and thence carried by railroad to Portland, whence there is still a long tortuous line of water com- munication for it to take ere it reaches the ocean. Yaquina bay is about the centre of the coast -line ot the State. and, promising that the proposed tertninus is a safe point for shipping, a considerable distance in transportation would be sav- ed the farmers if the proposed road were built and in operation. ‘Vhcat now sells in Corvallis at 58 cents per bushel—not $1 per cental—and calculating present freight -rates to a shipping point, it is es- timated that if this railroad were built, wheat, at present prices, would realize 78 cents per bushel. Estimates place the cost of construc- tion of a narrow-gauge road from Cor- vallis to Yaquina at $500,000. Farmers are asked to take stock in it upon the agreement that their subscription shall be returned if they desire it in the transpor- tation of their produce. The farmers of Oregon, alt) oogh raising large crops, have not up to the present time prosper- ed financially. The reason is that the cost of transportation eats up most 01 the profits. But with a system of nar- row-gauge railroads, built to be run r we 1 - a nimate purpose of rah and not as subsidy and land speculations, a new era of prosperity would be in store for them. A FAST HORSF. FROM ANOTHER POINT OF 'VIEW. which Mastai Ferretti, in 1820, was ini- tiated into the Order under the old Scot- tish rite. The decree reads as follows: \A man named Mastai 3Ierrett h i, wo re- ceived the baptism Of Freemasonry and solemnly 1.1edtred his love and friendship, and who afterward was .crowned Pope and King, under the title ef Pio Nono. has now cursed his former brethren and exeounnunleated all members . . of the Order of Freemasons. Thereiore, said Mastai Ferretti is herewith, by decree of the Grand Lodge of the Orient, Palermo, expelled from the Order for perjury.\ The charges against Mosta' Ferretti were first perferred in his Lodge at Palermo iii 1865, notification and copy thereof sent to Rome, with a request to attend the Lodge for the purpose of Ids vindica- tion. To this the Pope made no reply, and for divers reasons the charges were not pressed until the Pope urged the clergy of Brazil to aggrezeive measures against the Freemasons of that country. Then the charges were pressed, and the second and third notifications sent. and after a tbrinal trial, a decree of expulsion was entered. and ordered to be publish- ed. The decree bears the signature of Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy, Grand Master of the Orient of Italy. VIEWS OF HON. SAMUEL J. TH.- \ DEN OF CAT'S WHISKERS. Every one must have obiserved what are usually called the whiakers oil a cat's up: per lip. The use of these in a state of na- ture is very important. They are organs of touch. They are attached to a bed of close glands under the skin, an f d each o these long hairs is connected With the erves of the lip. The slightest! contact of these whiskers with any, sntm rouling object is thus felt more distinctly by the animal, although the haits of themselves . have no feeling. They stand out on each side of the lion as well as in the common eat. so that from point to point they are equal to the width of the animal's body.; If we imagine, therefore, a lion stealing throierh a covert of wood in mill imperfect light, we shall at once see the use of these long hairs. They indicate to him, through the nicest fheling, any obstacle which may present itself to the passage of its they prevent the rustling of boughs and leaves, which woutd ,F.:Ite warning to his prey, if he were to attt'aStpt to pass throligh too elose a bush, and thnte in conjunction with the soft cushions of his feet, and the fur upon which he treads, they enable him to move toward his vice; tim with a stillness even greater t han that of the snake, which creeps along the graes, aml is not perceived until it is coil- ed around its prey. These animals are all beasts of prey. and thus we see how even these seemingly useless hairs be- come great help to thm 1 1e an _low w i se ly God prepares every creature for its work, - 473 They still find Charlie Ross occasionallY. sioh terminated a month ago. in order to give an impetus to railroad building in all t‘venty taxa n tio for years. The first fruits of this law is a project for consn ueting the Willamette Valley and Coast Railroad.Hitherto the Among the passengers by the west- ward bound emigrant train was a Mrs. S. Crediford, an a,! , e(1 lady from Albert, Maine, Poor, feeble and alone. she had left her home to cross the continent on an ends - rant train to see her children in California. Two grown daughters awaited 119' at San Jose, and her son had gone to the road to meet her. He found her worn out with the fatigues of the protracted journey in a comfortless emi- (rrant car. and very weak. About six the young man, \don't wake my moth- er.' \No tear,\ said the gentleman, -ehe will never wake again in this world.\ Ile was rig - In. Quickly leaning on the breast of her son the poor old lady had yielded to fatigue and peacefully fallen into a slumber from which she passed hits) that deeper sleep that knows neither waking nor weariness. The emigrants composed her limbs to rest, and brought the body to this city for the bereaved children.—.S'an Francisco Chronicle. It is difficult to see what will he the result of the Arnim affair. The high- handed fashion which has characterized the proeeedings against the Count ap- pears to justify the foregone conclusion that nothing but his ruin will content his enemies. The law in civilized communi- ties does not usually proceed as it hae done in this ease. and it is not surprising that the diplomatic werld, the members of which yield to none in Europe in rank, wealth, and culture, should be in a blaze of indignation at the slur cast upon their body in the treatment which the late German Ambassador t France has re- ceived from his govefiament. It is not likely that the interest in fast horses will abate at present on this side of the country. There is in fact a. rage for fast horses. When it is found that a horse can trot inside of 2:40, a fietitious value is put on him at once. Now, nine - tenths of all the horses are used either for draft or for road horses—that is, for the light work of drawing buggy, or the family carriages. what is wanted is a kind, free herse, intelligent, and with bottom enough to make fifty or sixty miles a day without letting down. Per- haps for this kind of work there never was It better breed of horses than the Morgans. They do not figure very prominently as race -horses, and hardly rank as thoroughbreds. but they are the perfection of road -horses. There is one quality of the horse which has been over- looked. Speed is a good thing. But who thinks of applying it to a walking gait? We doubt if there are as many horses in California. which can walk tour miles an hour as there are which can trot, inside of three minunen There are plen- ty °fillet - 1 Who can walk 50 miles a day, but there are not any ()Teat -number of horses which can do it. We can find more men in San Francisco who can perform the feat. not tor one day, but for successive .leye, than we can find horses. Now, for family use and for road pur- poses, a fast -walking horse is more im- portant than a fast -trotting horse. For such use We don't putt the horse down on extreme possibilities. We want him to go along ander the saddle or in the bug- el - at a rate which will make It good Governor -elect Tilden, of New York, in conversation recently said: \The people are beginning to think that it is time to have a real peace in the United States. It is now ten years since the conflict of arms closed, but we still have the financial system and the taxa- tion which grew out of the period of war. The Grant administration subsists upon the passions and hatred that were eiiren- dered by the war. It is perhaps Mullah nature, but it ie a human nature in a low phase, to perpetuate this state of things just as long as the administration could thereby prolong its power. \At any rate it is unequal in every sense to devising and executing - the measures which the situation of the coun- try now imperatively requires. The country feels the waste of capital during the war; it feels the reaction, the false system of themee, the burdens of debt, and the blight of excessive taxation. Every bueiness,every industry is distress- ed. The inevitable evils of the situation are increased by the policy of the govern- ment towards the States of the South. How can we paralyze the production of those communities to which we are in- debted for so large a share of our ex- ports, create uncertainty in every busi- ness enterprise in those communities, Loki the people of those States by force and terror under such a dominion ae carpet -bag' governments, maintain there the most gigantic and audacious system of robbery ever known among civilized people and not expect that these wrongs would react on our prosperity What we need is retrenchment in (rovernment ex- penditure, reduction in tariff and taxes, economy and frugality in private expen- diture, until production may overtake consumption. \Healing counsels and healing meas- ures are needed. The whole spirit of the government is founded on the illusion of a false prosperity, which could not but break and spread fragments of ruin around us. Everything since the war has been fictitious. The people were taught, after four years of havoc, in which millions of human lives were lost and at least five thousand millions of dol- lars of property destroyed, that we had been all the time growing richer. This tended to satisfy the people with the ex- isting policy of the government, ancl to keep in office the men who held the pow- er. It deluded the people into allowing a continuance of public expenditure that ‘vas unnecessary and extravagant, fat jobs, distribution of pluteter to favorites. costly establishments which ought to have been cut oil. hordes ofeffice-holders and depen(lents, unjUSt and oppressive systems of taxation, adapted not to raise revenue with the least sacrifice to the fail hi this respect. We are sure to have illusion.\ trials of speed of trotting and running horses often enough. Who will show us horses which can walk four miles an hour all day long and bring up fresh at' night? WEALTH or TWO FOREIGN UNI- VERSITIES. The uaiversities of Oxford and Cam- bridge arc among the largest land -own- ers in Britain. They own 319,718 acres. scattered through England and Wales, and this land, as a rule, is of. admirable quality. There are tithe charges which TWO STORIES MIXED. Uncle John Shelby. an old backwoods hunter, one night undertook to entertain a company of bar -room sitters with the narration of his experience in \running down a deer. The ground. he said, was covered with 6 inches of snow, on which rain had fallen and been frozen, forming a crust sufficiently strong to bear his weight. In the morning he discovered the tracks of a deer, and starting after it, xvith the determination of running it down. After describing the course taken, bring them in a yearly income of S453, - and detailing the difierent incidents that 570; th -y get $270,625 yearl rom houees, occurred during the chase, he said that and $306,690 from stocks a shares. about noon he felt Fmnewhitt wear/ and Taken together, the coe of theF,:e two al•••• -e•• 11 11 • F 11{MERS SHOULD 'VISIT E A( IL OTHER. Better, but not a substitute for the in- terchange of experience through the pa- pers by farmers, is the practice to visit and tilk with each other; examining each other's means and methods of doing bu- siness; exchanging suggestions on the - farm and stock and Managentent, anti re- lative to devices of facilitating work. Scarcely any farmer vill c msider ii is time lost who devotes a certain portion of each year to this method of acquiring informatiou and suggestions for use in his own husbandry, for there are some things farmers must learn which no' amount of news -paper descriptien will teach; nothing but actual observation will answer. This sort of education it seems to us. is too much neglected by thrillers. Experience has taught us bow profitable it is, how much it saves in the way of ex- prriments, and how much it enriches in the way of suggestions of improved meth ods, :111(1 by the acemnulation of facts that never reach the public because so few farmers ever write them. It is, there- fore, urged here that no possible invest- ment of time can give greater compen- sation than that expended in exchanging visits with the best farmers of a township Or county. ...----- great univ e rsities in 1873 was $3.724,023— hungry, and standing his gun against a fence, he jumped into a corn field and a sum whic may well make our chief pulled some roasting ears, on which he American colleges unhappy to contem- plate. A large protiortion of this sum Proposed to make a meal. goee to the heads of houses, fellows. and \What Uncle John, snow On the exhibitioners. The chapels abaorb twen- ground, and roasting ears?—that won't do,\ said one of the company. -Hold, on, boys,\ said Uncle John. 'I've made a little mistake, and got two stories mixed!\—Dayton (0.) Democrat. ty times as much as the libraries. Only the sum of $33,490 at Oxford, and $5,355 at Cambridge go to the payment of pro- fesaors.- THE W 0 Drits OF A HEN'S EGG. The following interesting observations on the changes that occur front hour to hour during the incubation of the hen's egg are front Saturn's Reflections: The hen has scarcely sat on her eggs twelve hours before some lineaments of the head and body of the chicken appear. Tlie' heart may be seen to Nat at the end of the second day; it has at that time some- what the form of a horse -shoe, but no blood yet appears. At the end of two days two vessels of blood are to be di- tinguished, the pulsation of which is vis- - ible; one of these is the left ventricle, and the other the root of the great artery. At the fiftieth -hour one auricle of the heart appears, resembling It noose folded down upon itself. The beating of the heart is first observed hi the auricle, and alter - ward in the ventricle. At the end ot'sev- ent hours the wings are distinguishable; and on the head two bubbles are seen for time brain, one for the bill, and two for the fore and hind parts of the head. To- ward the end of the fourth day the two auricles already %isible draw nearer to the heart than hefore. The liver appears towards the filth (lay. At the end ofsev- en hours more the lungs and the stomach become visible; and four hours afterward the intestinee. and loins, and the upper jaw. At the one hundred and forty- fourth hour two ventricles are visible, and two drops of blood, instead of the single one which was seen before. The seventh day the brain begins to have some consistency. At the one litiedred and nineteenth hour of the incubation the bill opens, and the flesh is seen in the breast, In fie r hours more the breast- bone is seen. In six hours after this the ribs appear, forming from the back, and the bill ie very visible, as well as the gall- bladder. The bill becomes green at the end of two hundred and thirty -ix hours; and if the chicken be taken out of its coy- erinee it evidently moves itself. At the two hundred and sixty-fourth hour the eyes appear. At the two hundred and ighty-eiehth the ribs are perfect. At the three hundred end thirty-first the spleen draws near to the stomach and the lunge to the chest. At the ei.d of three hundred and fif y-tive hours the bill fre- quently opens and shuts; and at the end 01 the eighteenth day the first cry of the chicken is heard. It afterward get: - ) more strength, and grows continually, till at length it is enabled to set itself free from its confinement. Boston is agitated. Some profane per - - son has Inaugurated a movement to take a slice off the Common, and so widen Tre- mont street. The petition has had a hearing before the Street Cemeateseioaers, during which the Cc' antnon WaS aesalied as a resort for -bummers and loafers, pea- nut peddlers,\ dze., Scc. No Wondcr the Ilium is outraged. and by mene too, who persist in the deelaratima that they love the Common and all that it inherits. Un- der all is suspected a plot to run a street - railway across the sacred inelosure, and SO destroy the people's pleasure. Venus, the shamefaced thing, shows herself in the daylight now. •
