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- --\N'Isaa7a4GialrnaFettriemegaaelaee_a-a - ,....0mammccmk THE MADISONIAN. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 19, 1871 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year in adaranee Six Mcatitha 6 6 Three Months 2 50 ' .150 ADVERTISING RATES. a . Flit YI A DISONIAN, as an advertising S e.,.tal to any paper in Montana. 1 hull ..... .. 3; $5. -,' *.• $11flais S -se llnehes '';[ t.4 9; lo le 2e se to 3 Inehes e ! 11 12 la ea 37 35 4 InChe el 111 12 11 14 30 -I.) 70 li I twheA 10 12 1 I. - ) N 2t :18; it.% no 13 Inches , Is 21 3o 34 40; aai 90 Ho Sai [aches 1 to pi! 511i 55 es: Thi lao 250 The above cale of prices Is for ordinary Min- s k -column. display advertising. Solia and ativerti,;ements will be charged at the on,!1; rate Loy space t/Ce111)111. LOCAL NOTICES. Fifteen cents per line for ar,t, and ten cents erliae for each additional insertion. CARDS, one-half inch,_ $.2 for one insertion ; $3 for two inaertions; a'S per quarter; $16 per year. ,ss f . The foregoing schedule of prices will be stricti‘,- tolltermA to. an a dvertisements counted in Nonpareil es saaire. • TC).13 Pr?INriaNc-k, • - - - ry 4lescription, executed in the best • tiJi. and on reasonable terms. NEWSPAPER DECISIONS. 1. Any one who takes a paper regularly from the Postoilice—whether directed to his name or another 's, or whether he has subscribed or not —is responsible for the payment. 2. If a person ordera his paper discontinued, he must pay all arrearages, or the publisher continue to send it until payment is made, colteet the whole amount, whether the pa- per is taken from the (Mee or not. 3. The courts have aecided that refusing to take the newspapers or periodicals from the Postottice, orrenxoving and leaving them nn - railed for, is pima facia evidence of intention- al frawl. PROFESSIONAL. G. F. COWAN. Ittorno and Counselor at Law. 1Zadersberg, Montana Territory. iii: iti\ F. WILLI.4MS, Att'y & Counselor at Law, VIRGLIIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE ot er the Po.t. (Meer. J. E. CALLAWAY, _Attorney and Coun- selor at Taw. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. -av VICE, adjoining the office of the Secre- ,' the Tereitoev E. W. TOOLE. TOOLE &TOOLE. .Attoriik-y:-; 1t laLSS HELENA, MONTANA. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. F 4 HIN T. 7-11itetEl:. 11WERLYz SHOBER 84 LOWERY, Attorneys and coun— selors at HELENA, M. T. W11 practice in alt the Courts of Montana. SAMUEL WORD, Atttll'Iley at Law. VIRGINIA CITY. M. T. JAMES G. SPR ATT, A:ttorney and Ct)nn- &4elor at LaAN\. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. Will praetioe in all the Courts of Montana. W. F. SANDERS ttorney and Coun- selor at law. HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all Courts of Record in Montana . C. W. TURNER, lLA A. - W . - X - 1;7. , VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. OFFICE: Adjoining. AtniCeita VOL. 2. VCIII:4171`11, - ‘7. -- anamaa mmasaatasaansima . gssieging saapassawssase4essss LOVE AND LABOR. [From the Chambers' Journal.] We die not all; for our deeds remain To crown with honor, or mar with stain; Through endless sequence of years to come Our lives shall speak, when our lips are dumb. What though we perish, unknown to fame, Our tomb forgotten,- and lost our name, Since naught is wasted in heaven or earth, And nothing dies to which God gives birth. Though life be joyless, and death be cold, And pleasures pall as the world grows old, Yet God has granted our hearts relief, For Love and Labor can conquer grief; Love sheds a light on the gloomy way, And Labor hurries the weary day; Though death be tearful, and life be hard, il Yet Love st. Labor ;shall win rev. ass. • If Love can dry up a single tear, If lifelong Labor avail to clear A single web from before the true, Then Love and Labor have won their due. What though we mourn, we can comfort pain; What if we die, so the truth be plain; A little Spark from a high desire Shall kindle others, and grow a fire. We are not worthy to work the whole; We have no strength which may save a soul; Enough for us if our life begin :successful struggle with grief and sin. Labor is moral, and fades away,: But love shall triumph in perfect day; Labor may wither beneath the sod, But Love lives ever, for Love is god. CADENARBI A. By IL W. LONGFELLOW . [Prom the Atlantic for December.] No sound of wheels or hoof -beat breaks The silence of the Summer day, As by the loveliest of all hikes I while the idle hours away. I pace the leafy celonnade, Where level branches of the plane Above me weave a roof of sand Impervious to the sun and rain. At times a sudden rush of air • Flutters the lazy leaves o'er head, And gleams or sunshine toss the flare Like torches down the path I tread. fly ::-Ionaariva's garden gate make the marble stairs my seat, And hear the water, as I wait, Lapp;ng the steps beneath my feet. The undulation sinks and swells, Along the stony parapets, And far away the floating bells Tinkle upon the fishers' nets. Silent and slow, by tower and town, The freighted barges conic and go, Their pendent shadows gliding down sum By t o wn and tower berged below. The hills sweep upward from the shore, With villas scattered one by one Upon their wooded spurs, and lower Bellagia blazing in the sun. And dimly seen, a tangled ma.; Of walls and woods, of light and shade, Stands beaconing up the atelvio Pass Varenms with its white cascade. I ask myself, Is this a dream? Will it all vanish into air ? Is there a land of such supreme And perfect beauty anywhere? Sweet 'vision! Do not fade away; Linger until my heart shall take Into itself the Summer day, And all the beauts of the lake. Linger upon my brain Is stamped an image of the scene; Then faded into the air again, And be as if thou hadst not been. THE 310UNTAIN MEADOW MASSA- CRE—JOHN D. ILL. THE MAN CHARGED WITH OUTRAGE, AS A POLYGAMIST. At the age of 20 years, two years after going to Galena. he left and returned to Kaia akskia and followed gambling for two years; at the age of 21 he waamarried to Miss Agatha Ann Woolsey, a poor farmer's girl. Speaking of this match, Lee said: \My uncle was poor, had colonel Callaway's. married a rich wife, aral they fought each so desperately that I concluded I WM. F. KIRKWOOD. i would marry a poor girl.\ Attorney at IL •- AV, , After gambling two years, seeing the VIRGIN IA CITY. j Can be found at Judge Spina's office or Pro - 'bate Court Rooms. Will practice in all the Courts of the Territory. - - GEORGE CALLAWAY. VI. D. Physician and. Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE, at the Law Office of J. E. Calla- way, until further notice. • I. C. SMITH, M. D.. Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTAN A. Office at the Ohl Le Beau Stand, W a llace atreet where he can be found night or E. T. YAGER, M. D.. Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. Will practice in all branches. (Mee one door above the City Drug Store. H. b. BARKLEY NI D. a surgeon in the Confederate arniy. He is pit - pared to perform all kinds of surgery. IN FEMALE COMPLAINTS, his expe- rience is not aurpaased by any physician in the Territory. TO THOSE WHO HAVE VENEREAL COM PLAIN TS.—Gonorrhea, it called upon withiu class after the tirst appearance, he cure in seveuts, - -two hours. lit Syphilis, le will cure in tire days. Ilia treatment is different fram any physi- an in this Territory, lie prepared for causing; .1:traeting and Filling Teeth. C. S. ELLIS TT AV1NG taken an interest in the Drug Department of A hael's store at Silver Star, Montanu,can at all times, day and night, at said nen not absent on profeeeional busi- 1-2stf WHITFORD, M. D., E r .:4 t T\: wrong and injury of it, and the trouble it brought upon innocent people, he swore off anti has never gambled since. By his first wife he had thirteen children, the last two being twins; ten are now alive. She died at New Harmony, Utah, six years ago. Soon after marrying he went to Vandalia, then the capital of Illinois, where he lived about four years, engaged in trading, having a small store, also in stock raising and farming, during which he acquired a nice farm of 160 acres, with good buildings; had 1,000 sheep, 200 cat- tle, horses, etc., and was comfortable and independent, lie there became a good shot with a rifle, seldom equaled at any shooting match; and not one man in a hundred of crack shots can equal him now, as old as he is. In the year 1S36, one day when return- ing home tlirough a dreadful snow -storm, he met two men perishing with cold, their feet being already frostbitten. It was on the open prairie, some distance from any house. Ile took them to the nearest neiglesor's and had them cared for. They - were Mormon miesionaries. Ile says: \From them I first heard the • • new religion which they were preaching.\ Physician & Surgeon. It set him to thinking and searching the scriptures. It worked on his mind so RADERSBURG, M. T. that in 1838, two years afterward, he ii in s h a i . , ad ,r t:..r f e en „ ti - 0 - 1 0 1 ne t, ,r a N r .e s 2 ' ir :_x o i t ierh : e i nati ni n c ! in went to Missouri where Joseph Smith was to investigate the subject. On the 17th day of June. 1838, le; heard Sam. H. Smith, a brother of the prophet. preach, and was converted and baptized by Elder Daniel Cathcart, in Davis county, 31o. His wife was also converted and baptized at the same time. He then took up his residence with the Mormons in Davis county; was with them when driven out of there as well as when they were ex- pelled from Nauvoo. He had a splendid house at Nauvoo. with 90 thet front, that would have cost 550,000 in Utah. it had twenty-seven rooms all splendidly - fur- nished, upon which he turned the key when he left and never got a cent thr it. On the way to Council Bluffs he was eon- tracting commissary for the camp. He came to Utah the year after the Pi- oneers, in 1848. In Utah he has general- ian and Surgeon, ly been a pioneer in the advance settle - L. MONT.'N A ments. In Nauvoo he was a military A r › , _ ( - - , VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA SAITTRDAY,DECEMBER 19,1874. ----------- man with the rank of major; also clerk and recorder of the Seventies. Then he learned the broadsword exercise and taught it, having 150 pupils. His several offices made him money and he got along well. Has been on missions about eight years, preaching Mormonism, mostly in the South. At Nauvoo he had charge of the public works. In Utah he helped to locate Provo, Payson, Fillmore, Paro- wan, Cedar City, Washington, St. George and other places, and founded New Har- mony himself. He has been one of the Seventies, a high councilor and an alder- man; was also a member of the Legisla- ture thr four years, and member of the constitutional convention front Washing- ton county. He took his second wife, Nancy Bean, in 18-t by whom he had one child, when * they 4:1rated, and she is noN's - the wife of Z. B. Decker, at Parowan. He marri- ed his third wife about six months after, one Sarah C. Williams, by whom he has eleven children, and with whom he is now living. His fourth wife is the Rachel of whom so much has been heard, by whom he has eight children. He married her at Nati- voo iii 1845. Her name was Rachel An- dora Woolsey, a sister of his first wife. Besides these he has eleven other wives and three \sealed women,\ they being old and only sealed for support, one of them being the mother of Rachel, and another two sisters. He is the father of sixty-two children, one for each year 01 his life. fifty-four Of whom are now living (and gossip says there will soon be two more—gay gamboliers.) I told them that on the strength of this I intended at the next election to vote for Beecher for President and John D. Lee for Vice Presi- dent, notwithstanding Lee's eighteen wives, giving Beecher th e first place on the ticket. Ile says with pride that he has taken no wives since the law against it of 1862. He was cut off from the church at the April conference, two years ago. he thinks unjustly and on account of the malicious aspersions cast upon him.—Corr. 01 Salt Lake Herald. THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. The prospective Centennial Exhibition of 1876 appeals to the citizens of this country for a support on a variety of grounds. The celebration is not to be merely a grand gala occasion for the pro- duction of festivities appropriate ta the events commemorated, but even senti- ment is to be eclipsed by utility, and its commercial significance will be of the ut- most importance. Manutacturers, mer- chants, bankers, capitalists and business men, of great or small operations of whatever kind, have a direct intereet in the success of this enterprise. Such an exposition as is here contemplated is pregnant with wonderful revelations of value to commerce and gives both a con- sideration and an impulse, not only to National, but to international business. A contemporary quotes some suggestive statistics from English records. In 1850 the exports ofEngland were $665,000.000; in 1853, after the great Exhibition of 1851, her exports amounted to $1,080,- 000,000. The various States upon which this enterprise depends for success are fast coming to realize the opportunity that is here presented, and already from some ot the States there is a greater de- mand for space by exhibitors than it is possible to give them. In this great gathering of exhibitors, buyers and pur- chasers, the people are directly invited to partnership by the low price of stock, which is only $10 a share, and Boston and Massachusetts should be first to re- spond to its invitation. The agencies of Boston will be seen, by official announce- ments elsewhere, to be of high character, and they are ready to furnish all desired detail as to what progress has been made with the undertaking and what are its pecuniary prospects. PRINCE BISMARCK AS \DUMMY.\ The Paris correspondent of the Lon- don Daily News relates the following an- ecdote: A Saxon military band gave a private Performance before Prince Bismarck, a few weeks ago, in Berlin, just prior to his departure for Kissingen, and one of its members has furnished a Dresden pa- per with an account of their reception by him. The Prince showed them over his house, and pointing to a desk in the Prin- cess' room told them his wife, as they might observe, kept the cash. He had from the beginning entrusted her with the charge of his money allaire, while he attended to politics, and he would advise every married man to do the same. tak- ing uo more than his wife gave. Draw- ing it table out of: corner he said: \At this table M. Theirs, 31. Fevre and I play- ed a dummy game at whist. That dum- my was won partly owing to you Saxons, for if all had not been so brave, I should have lucid no trumps in my hand. When we began to negotiate, the gentlemen would not understand my French be- age to stand against Pruseut when all the others had lost their heads. \You nmet see,\ he said, \that it could not be help - ea. We were forced to find out which of us was the strongest.\ ala-4--aa• The President's salary at present amounts to $137 07 per day, including Sundays. It might be well to cut off the Sunday per die in. just to see what effect it would have on the Third Term pro- ject. cauae I demanded too much. Thereup- on I spoke German to them, and that they would not at first properly under- stand; but at last we agreed. They con- ceded everything; and when they had that there W:IS not a dozen men in that signed their names to it I again spoke city who would stand a certain test which French with them. Had we been united he specified. The wager was accepted. two hundred years ago we need not have twelve representative male citiums desig- been tyranized over by the French; but now, thank God, we are united, aud hope we shall remain so. It they once more require it, we shall give them a tall.\ Alluding to the war of 1866 the Prince eaid he had always respected the the largest number of deaths from this Saxons. for they above all had the eour- pearance, and was moet anxious, (Weed draft. The conclusion is that fur - class of diseases takes place either in the 'laces with large oven and suitable feed heaters are the most economical in all An old exch fellow- a71774=7:ti7-Z early morning, when the powers of life respects; but in order to obtain the best lug on delinquent subscribers: e Look - are at their lowest, or in the afternoon, results, intieh care is needed ill stoking. lug over an old ledger we saw a long ar- when acute disease is most active. The SEA SICKNESS: - -- nd NOTES ON SCIENCE AND INDUS- _ that the rolling a pitching , motions are TRY. Having, as .we assume, demonstrated isiproved submarine vessel has been suecessfully experimented %sift' in Paris- It is oblong in shape, both ends !wing cylinders in which pistons can be moveil oat and in, thus varying the vol- tune ()fair and making the vessel rise or sink, as may be desired. To prevent the sea water interfering with the action of the pistons, the internal surface of the cylinder is protected by an arrangement like the bellows of an accordeon. The vessel has glass windows at different parts, and tools of various kin& can be protruded through caoutchoue 'sheaths which prevent the entrance of water. There :ire two screWs, one vertical, the other aorizontal. driven by compressed air di' k the hand—the latter tieing used Ma:ascot a slight vertical or longitudin a iudination. And, in addition to these, suit:61e pneumatic apparatus is provided for the expulsion ot vitiated and the sup- ply of fresh air. the same, and that neither is the cause ot' sea sickness, the question then arises! 1Vilitt is the cause? There is only one other motion to which it cell be attribu- ted, which is the perpeedicular fall or drop that is experienced from the mo- ment the vessel descends from the nun- mit ot one wave until she conies to be again upborne by the wave next follow- ing. That this hypothesis is the correct one there can be but little doubt. The same drop or tall is experienced in the \merry-go-round\ at a fair; we mean that popular paddle -wheel looking apparatus with swinging boats attached to it. Many can vouch tor it that this machine produces in a Iew turns the worst form of sea sickness, as it is termed. In the ordinary rope swing the drop or fall pro- duces the same effect in these subject to sea sickness. As a last proof of the cause ot sea sickness, and the difficulties to con- tend with in providing a means of allevi- ating it to any extent, we may cite the case of lady passengers embarking at the Tower and being obliged to retire to their cabins before the vessel passed Erith. This surely cannot be said to be caused by either rolling or pitching, it is simply the very slight heaving produced by the small paddle steamers passing to and fro. —Time Navy. A COUNTERFEIT HUSBAND. Freeport, Illinois, has had a clahnant, and the claim he made was quite new and peculiar. Years ago—probably fifteen— Alvah Gaylord married a good young woman in Stephenson county. After the birth (Wide second child. Alvah wandered away, and was heard of no more. Mrs. Gaylord brought up her little family in respectability, and became known as the Widow Gaylord. Ten years after, a bronzed and deeply -whiskered man called upon the widow, one evening, and told her that he was sorry he had run away, but had now come back to live with her and his children the remainder of his days. He said that he was Alvah Gay- lord. At first she was incredulous, but he showed her certain marks on his body, which convinced the woman that he was none oteer titan her long -lost husband. She had now found him, and his children clung to his knees, and the whole family took the man to their hearts and home. So they lived in happiness for a time. Now, a brother of Gaylord was never quite convinced that this big -whiskered man was his long -lost brother. The strawberry mark (lid not satisfy him, and he kept, his eyes upon Mrs. Gaylord's new-found husband. At lengtlethe claim- ant sold the family cow and pig, and pocketed the money, and acted otherwise suspiciouely. The brother had him ar- rested; his claim was audited, and found fraudulent. He also had a good deal of counterfeit money about him and forged bonds in profusion. His claim was ex- amined before it court, and his mune was found to be John Travers, who had sailed into the Ai-a:nous of the widow Gaylord and become the father of a family under false colors. The widow is in a very un- settled condition again, and is almost sor- ry that the court interfered just when she was beginning to leel at home with her hueband. John Travers, the claimant of Alvah Gaylor's wife and children, and COW and pig, and all that was his, has been sentenced to a three years' residence in dm Illinois penitentiary. TIIE IIAYDEN EXPEDITION. Mr. Kellogg and F. D. OW•en, of Pro- fessor Gannett's division of the United States Geological Survey, arrived last night from the South. They left the par- ty at Saguache. The remainder of the party will arrive here about the 15th. They are obliged to travel slowly on ac- count of the reduced condition of their Pack animals. Their explorations have been over a rugged and mountainous country, and long marches have been made, WiliC11 are always si vere on ani- mals. The members of the party, how- ever, have been most succesettil in their scientific wok. The field surpasses in extent the area exploded last season. Dr. A. C. Peale. geologist of the piney, has secured a store of valuable geological information and a hu - ge collection of minerals and rocks-. Mr. Gannett has also secured a valuable series of topo- graphical and barometrical notes for his map and report. The latter part of their journey has been attended with some severely cold weather, which is likley to eontinue, virtually ending the work thr the present season.—Denver News, No- vember 6. ---• -Ns•—e -- r 4 C't t. '•-- 117 NATURE. The common supposition that, by re- Peated reworking's, all iron improves, does net appear to be borne out by care- ful seheitific investigation; and Prof. Morse cites an interesting experiment, where t touch, fibrous puddled bar was taken and cut down, and piled live layers high, aid rolled into a bar, a test piece being taken from this, and the remainder then piled as before, this operation being continued until the iron had underaone twelve workings. The result of this was, it increased in tenacity from a tensile NO. G. GEORGIA CONSI:RV tTISM. THE POPE ON MR. GLADSTONE . _ Georgia affords the best test of Conser- vatisin and its influences in giving healthy tone and prosperous - direction to the lately unsettled aflairs of the State and in the service it has performed in elevating the black race to a point where their free- dom will prove a blessillg and not a curse. The Georgia negoes own considerably over six millions of assessed property, which ie pretty well distributed over the separate counties, but as a favorite method of investment has been savings banks deposits, even this large stun does not begin to measure the surplus that the Georgia blacks have stteceeded in accu- mulating:. Undoubtedly the colored men there own more property than their brethren of any other distinctively South - A dispatch dated Rome, Nov. 10th, seys: This morning the Pope. who has recovered from his indisposition, after receiving the Bishop of Bucharest, ad- mitted several English Catholics to an audience. In addressing them, he said: A former Minister of your country. whom I had believed rather moderate, and who, to say the truth, had never. while in office, manifested arrogance or violence toward the Catholic Church. in- toxicated by the proceedings ot another Minister in another State, has suddenly come forward, like a viper. assailing - ihis bark of St. Peter. I have not read the book, and I have no great desire to read blasphemies, but from what I understand, the Minister, whom they call Liberal, ern Stiese iina even during the IVevr 1!:1`ter‘. the Catholics of that nation and , which measures a period denominated as leads them to believe that I wish those a season of dullness and hard times, the subjects to become disloyal to their soy - reign and the laws oftheir country. Puz- zled at beholding the vast progress made by that great nation in the path of the true faith, the fallen Minister hopes to ar- rest the luminous triumph of the Church by interpreting after his own fashion the will of this poor Vicar of Christ. A great king (Char lemange) said that even the Church imposes heavy burdens increase in their accumulations has been forty per cent, and the impulse Is one of growing thrift which is full of happy promise for the future of both whites and blacks. Even the Freedmen's Bank swindles have taught lessons of wisdom rather than brought permanent discour- agement, and, under the now 'well -estab- lished Conservative regime, Georgia is I working out a reconstruction for herself on the conscience of the population, the that shall be to the lasting advantage of Catholics should bear them from their all her citizens. interest in the communion of the Church- , but our dognms, far from being burdens, are light. Those who will walk astray are not Catholics; they are worse than infidels and Protestants, because, calling themselves Catholics, they daily rebel against God and the laws of the Church. THE GREAT MARKET F011 WHEAT. The British Board of Trade returns show that she imports of Wheat and strain of 43,904 pounds on the puddled I Flour into the United Kingdom for the bar, to 51,824 at the sixth working. Alter nine months ending on the 1st of Oetober this. ths descent was in a similar ratio to were equivalent to 61,060,000 bushels et' the previous increase, and at the twelfth test it gave again. 43,901 pounds. This instance tends to prove—contrary to the views and conclusions arrived at by some—that, if tought, fibrous puddled bar, to commence with, will not improve only to the sixth working, weak or part- y crystalized puddled iron would show a degree of depreciation much sooner. An English physicist of no little abili- ty, Mr. W. L. Jordan, has published a volume on the subject of ocean tides and currents, in which he attempts to account for those currents in a manlier peculiarly his own; that is, he rests his theory upon a cause cosmical in its origin, which he styles vis-inertite, and holds to be a real- ly inherent property in matter, by virtue of which it endeavors to be just what it is and where it is, and that gravitation is simply an effect of vis-inertim. On this principle the author—like the ancients with their abhorrence of nature for a vacumn--accounts not only for the cur- rents. but also the tides both of the ocean and the atmosphere, and not only for these, but for the entire motions of the stellar and planetary bodies. The automatic steam whistle lately in- trodtpied imi France is stated to be an en- tire success. The velue of this whistle is operated by a, spring lever. Usually the lever is held by an electro-magnet, and the valve is closed, but on passage of a current in a certain direction the lever is liberated and the whistle acts. This ap- paratus is connected by insulated wire with a metallic brush projecting below the locomotive. Between the rails, and a little in advance of the sight signal, is a metallic plate mounted in wood, which, when the signal is turned into the position for stoppage, COInes in the way of time brush on the locomotive, and on contact a curreet flows, the whistle is made to sound, and continues to blow until stop- ped by the engineer. Concrete, necording to a writer in the London Building News, would be a bet- ter material than br els for the walls of warehouses, and need not be made so thick as would be required for brick walls, being about one-third or one-fourth stronger; it should, however, have plenty of iron hooaing as bond throughout it, so as to prevent settlement and cracks; when this material is used, internal ples- tering, become unnecessary. The smile writer says that concrete should also be used for the staircases and landings—iron hooping or wire being employed to pre- vent risk of friwtur—the steps to be cast in moulds and built into the walls on both sides, instead of being made to hang over on the outer side, as , is so frequently the case. Steps made of tire -clay, terra- cotta, or artificial stone, are also both du - rabic and fire -resisting. Wheat, or 2.000,000 bushels in excess of the same time last y ear. The two chief source e of supply are RAS:Aft and the United States. The quantity imported from the Unikd States is 31,218,000 bush- els, an increase of 6,000,000 bushels over the previous year; while the quantity drawn from Russia is 12,197,000 bushels. as compared with the same time last year. The growing importance of the United States as a source of food supply for the millions of Europe is very grati- fying, though Wheat this year is unfor- tunately the least profitable cereal pro- duced. THE POTATO. THE MADISONIAN The true origin of the potato is shroud- ed in mystery. It is found wild in South America, but the best authorities doubt its being indigenous in the shape in which Europe found it. Some think it may be an improvement from some truly indigenous plant, just as the beet and the cabbage are known to have been devel- oped from some very unlikely looking seaside plants. This view derives new color from the experiments with Sola- num Fendleri, of Asa Gray, which Mr. Meehan detailed before the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. at the meeting; of October 13. Ile has had it in EFFECTS OF TOBACCO -SMOKING. cultivation some eight years, without the slightest tendercy to change. The flow - Omitting all details of analysis of dif- ferent tobaccos as too familiar for repeti- ers and foliage look like a depauperate tion. Inv experiments have led me to con - form of the common potato. The tubers clinic: are about the size of bullets, round and 1. That nicotine is the special agent concerned in vital paralysis and in dis- turbances of muscular co-ordination, and that its action upon the medullary cen- ters is propagated by way of the pneumo- gastric nerve that the cerebellar centers (co-ordmating the muscles concerned in locomotion) and the corpora stoiata (or great motor ganglia of the cerebrum) are next affected; in other words, that the motor tracts follow the vital in yielding to the influence of the poision. 2. That the cortex of the brain in the last to be affected by nicotine, but is more specifically atilicted by the pyridine, pi- eoline and collioline bases. Hence the diahrence in physiological action between Hornratlez, with its minimum of nicotine perique and cavendish. with their excess: also, the analogous difference between Havana cigars and cigars manufactured from Connecticut leaf. 3. That einoking is often the exciting cause ot the various neuroses, and always a fruitfhl source of local aneuriem, by im- pairing the nervous circulation and lay- ing the foundation for defective nutri- tion in various directions. Cessation from tobacco should be made a eon 1111011 preeedent to mt dical treatment in writer's camp and nervous allections of that type (time paralytic.) —Is— PUBLISLIED EVERY SATURDAY Virginia City. Montana THOS. PEYARMON, Editor aad Proprietor. J. R. W11.-• ix, Associate and Local Editor. I am not going to take any raTeal ground on the tobacco question in its general aspects. Every man \mist judge for himself; and experiment for himeelf, as to the pi tysiologicalaetion of the weed. I have simply recorded my own experien- ces and experhnents, and the concinsions to winch they have impelled Inc. I will not even say that I shall never smoke another cigar, for temptations are often strong and sudden; but I will sav that in such all es ent I should regard myself as the victim of a nervous infirmity, not as one merely indulging himself in a harm- less am d pleasant luxury—of a devil far easier to get out of the bottle, to apply a Moslem legend. than to get back and cork in agaite—Popular Science Month- ly. The \Our readers. WC suppose, have heara that there is to be it big cheese at the Philadelphia Centennial Celebration. That that cheese is to be made on the tVeetern Reserve is natural enough, and still more apnropriate that it should be • Issa—asessiest CENTEN N (SULEESE. Ashtabula, Ohio, Sentinel says: Papers ordered to any address can be changed to another address atth Option of the subscriber. e Remittance by draft. cheek. money at Order ot•rc4isterell letter may be scut, Our risk. TILE MADISONIAN is drrott , ti ta thr advocacy of the principles of the DemoeratiG party and to general and local news. rough. The usual tuberous cells of per- fect bark on ligenous structures have not wholly disappeared, as is usual on roots or tubers. This season, however, sonic of the tubers took to wandering from its definite form. He exhibited a tuber which was about two inches long and one wide, flattened, and with a fine skin, exactly like a \ new potato.\ Mr. M. remarked that the roots of the Solanunt Fendleri endured a temperature of zero, while the common potato was easily de- stroyed by frost; and this was against the idea, he thought, of a community of ori- gin, although the variations were in the direction of the common potato. THE t,PIDER--.10ZINNY'S COMPO- SITION. This is a inseck that cetehes flies in a net like a fish -net, but not in the water. The net is called a web, and wen it cetches dust insted of flies it is a cob- web. The spider knoes he is ugly, so he stays a good deal at home, but ugly wine - men goes to church and wakis more on the street than purty; but they are beth in the same busnines. which is trappina In California they have spider that scorns to spin webs, but goes out and cetches game like otherbeasts of pray. They a re about the size of a girl babh, and a lot pizener. These are tar :unifiers. 'Wen a Milli has bit hiseelfby a tar minder he Ills his skin with wisky and steals a blanket to rap hieeelf in, and hunts a place where his body will be most in the way. Then he lies down, and if the pizen don't w ork all to once he sings the deth-soug Of the brave, and that rocke him. We was tole of this to our house by a travler. who said he guessed he knew a tarnal lot about injins and tar an - tillers, though hadn't never been to col- lege. But Uncle Ned he says it is bete:I- to git a good education first, and then to thro' jim Milne and tar ataulers accord- ing to taste. s. Tms HOURS AT WHICH DEATH OC- CURS. \ON THE SIDE.\ In a paper contributed by Dr. Lawson to the 1Vest-Riding Asylum Medical Re - a erie, England, for 1874, several interest- ing observations are recorded regarding the number of deaths which occur during the different hours of the day. Follow- ing up the researches of Schneider and others, Avho had shown that the great - One day two men in Xenia, Ohio e were engaged in a discussion as to Beecher's guilt or innocence. From this our deba- ters branched off upon the subject of hu- man nature in general. its foibles, weak- nesses, and instability under crucial tests; and growing earnest, one offered to bet nated, and to each a dainty note, written in a feminine hand, couched in seductive yet polished terms, was sent as coming from a lady. The inie-ive said that the writer had seen the gentleman addressed. been hnpressed by his bearing and tip - according to the usual style. The writer would be happy to meet Mr. Vanity at such and such a point at such a time. The notes were duly sent, and the con- spirators anxiously awaited the result of the affair. Much to the chagrin of the gentleinan who accepted the wager, anti the triumph of the other. every one of the men to whom the uotes were sent, married and single, old and young, ap- peared at the proper point at the time specified.—Washington Jae) Reporter. In a report to the Industrial Society at Rheims, M. Foucault denies that the stnokeleseness of a fire can effect any no- teble saving in the amount of fuel. burn- ed; boa on the other band, he assorts that a considerable less of economy re- sults trom the use of smoke consuming apparatus. He cites in support of hi - opinion a long series of observations which have proved that, with the ordina- ry boiler furnaces, it is only necessary to consume from 125 to 150 cubic feet of air for each pound of coal, while Ibr the most part furnaees pass twice that quan- tity. If the draft be reduced in quantity. much smoke is involved, but the pro- ducts of combustion, circulating more slowly, part with their heat more read- ily to the boiler flues. It is further prov- ed that the best means of reducing, the loss of heat by the chimney is by the use of feed heaters in the flue, so as final- ly to reduce to 200 the products of com- bustion, which are often discharged as liot as 400 degrees. Feed water heaters. well set, will produce an economy of from eleven to twelve per cent. with a re - An argument that has not yet been ad- duced in favor of electing Gen. Sherman President, is the wonileriail inauguration and inauguration ball that tie would get up. As a manager of public ceremonies his equal has never been found in the United States. est number of deaths take place during made in Ashtabula county. We had a conversation with J. P. Phillips, Esq., of the ante -meridian hours, Dr. Dawson has been able to determine more closely the Orwell. on the subject. The plans. of time of day when the greatest and least course, are rather immature at present. but we might say. in general terms, that number of deaths occur. Supplementing the cheese is to weigh 28,000 poinale(four- the statistics of other institutions by those of the West -Riding Asylum, he duds teen tons). It will be about thirteen taut that deaths from chronic diseases are broad, and eleven feet deep. Enough fac- more numerous between the hours of 8 tories will furnish eurd so that it wiil and 10 in the morning than any other be made in two days' time, in May, 1876. h The hoop in which it is to be made will our of the day, while they are fewest be- tween the hours of 8 and 10 in the even - be of cast iron, and made in Pittsburg:. In the case of acute diseases, such It will be carried on a car made tor the lug - purpose, directly from Orwell into the as continued fevers , pneumonia , &ail a different result has been obtained. Fol- Centennial building. After it has been lowing up what had been pointed out by looked upon sufficiently, it wilfbe cut up other authorities, Dr. Lawson shows that and distributed to the four quarters of the glo )C. ray of names of former subscribers who are indebted to us. Some of them have moved away and are lost to sight. al though not to memory dear. Others are_ carrying the contribution boxes in some of 011t most respectable churches; and angels in others again have died and are heaven, but they owe us just the occurrence of these definite daiiy varia- tions in the hourly death rate is shown, in the case of chronic diseases, to be de- pendent on recurring variations in the energies of organic life; and in the case of acute diseases the cruse is ascribed either to the existence of a well -marked daily extreme of bodily depression or a daily maximum intensity of acute dis- ease. Trade winds—Business airs, The dirtiest of oil—turmoil, A breezy girl—The windlass: The mechanic's fair—His wife. u AI:Iartford rooster ate yeast cakes attd brst \ Alahaina '' ---now a Democratic majority. No Quorum attends more any other man. Why sleseld the male set aeuid the letter a? Because it Makes men mean. Sand for scouring was first used by the Arabs when they scoured the plain. A sporting correspondent w:Ints to know if Bell's Lite is what people UlCall when they talk of Belles Lettres. The Ogden. U. T., Junction attempts to show that \Mormon polygamy is sexual salvation.\ Van Kok Chog Yo Hi is the name of a Chinese Christian religious asso c iation ill San Franeisem: An American pianist named Kitten is creating a furor in Italy. Wonder if he can i s ) o l as von o t v ne t the sever r ') eti f c s ugue of Bach. N s Ititaii.i)ir.ese strands that . Every time you ( 1 .0 mate up your easier to walk. A brass band in Virginia City, Nevada, has been earnestly requested to practice exclusively in the isolated passage of a mine 600 feet under the ground. The highest prize in a Chinese lottery is twent y -nine cents, and the man \\ ho draws it has his name in the papers and is looked Upon as a heap of a fellow. Five years ago a lady in Chime° *vas married in a dress that cost $1,500. To -day she dishes up the necessaries of life and t•lings pots for a livelihood. Somebody has written a bOOk entitled a What Shall My Son Be?\ Upon whielt some one else frankly replies: \11 the boy is as bad as the book, the chances are that he will be hanged.\ An Oswego paper describes a tire by say- ing that the \ red flames danced in the heavens and flung their fiery arms about like a black funeral pall, until Sant a ones got on the roof and doused them out with a pail of water.\ Romantic and unreqUitted love made James Conwa's jump off a San Francisco dock. Unromantic and sticky mud imbed , ded him to the armpits. and the tide had left no water to drown him. A Western exchange tells us that \Idaho schoolmasters are allowed to kick small boys up and down long flights of stairs. lett the fathers of small boys are allowed to kick the top of the schoolmaster's head off for doing so.\ One man said of another who NV:IN ll1v popular, and who Was fearfully dilapidated phystcally, that he looked as though he were walking through the streets to save funeral expenses, A Bridgeport arte man, who was chop- ping wood last. Nveck, accidentally cut one of his fingers badly. and was so enraged flint he deliberately laid his hand on a block and chopped the linger entirely MI. The 'Milwaukee Sentinel has procured It new proof-reader. and says that neatly ar- ranged on his desk are silver plates of four- teen of his prederessors. The new mall was doing well at last accounts. Silas Card was married the other day, and backed on Ids weildinss, notice were the words: \No Cards.\ But he doesn't know what might happen, A marriage in high life took place in Buckingliatn Count y, V 8. 4 bet Wee?' a color- ed bridegroom seven feet tall and a ditto bride six feet six in altitude. The New York society papers are emitd plaining of a dearth of foreign gentlemen with titles of nobility, this winter, NOich shows that French barbers arc not ae enters prising as they ought to be. \A home without children is like heaven without angels,\ say:. it IientuAy papa, We just want to hae him get out 01 bed four times -a night for a month to keep 1110 baby's legs covenal A young lady of I LimmontIsport, it is re- ported, packed away three hundred and fifty pound boxes of grapes one day recent.. iy in e i g ht Jean's. A natural ihquiry would be where did she pack them? A Lewiston clergymen was left by hi s wife to take care of the baby, the other day, when a young' man alld Woman calae to be married. It was rather a wk ward, but with the babe in arms, he tied the knot. A Council Bluffs lawyer ate peanuts in a court and was tined :;;%*l0 for contempt. The Judge remarked that he was determined to uphold the majesty of the law if it killed the entire peanut crop of the South. Biily Patterson died in Georgia. he ether day,and his heirs or assigns will hot carry on that inquiry concerning the personality of the indiOdual who once struck him. Tito blow seems to have been fatal at last. A young gentleman connected a ill! tile press—that is to eay a newsboy in Wash- ington—being spoken to upon the dirty ap- pearance of his feet, remarked: els° you suppose a fellow can keep clean and support his mother, too?\ A big brother in Pottsville has been brought to shame. His sister had a beau who was obnoxious to him. One dark night on the steps she seemed to be affee- tionately kissing this beau good night. The brother crept up softly and kicked hard, and down fell an elaborate scarecrow. So Clara Morris is married. And now the countenance of the prim single damsel of forty -live, who knits stockings and hates (?) men, will be deeply furrowed with wrinkles of enetempt. anti that voice, that is sharper than the creaking of ice-sheated branches, utter the consuming thought : \ How could a woman with so much genius be suc e h r a fool:\ A vy dirty. debased and ignorant look • ing man came in to vote in a township of Michigan. Said one of the ladies, offering him a ballot: \I wish you would oblige Its by voting this ticket.\ \What kind of a ticket is that?\ said he. \Why said the lady, \you can see yourself.\ \But I can't read,\ he answered. \ Why. cAn't on read the ballot you have In yam hand, which you are about to vote?\ the Nee asked. \No I can't read at all.\ he said. \Well said the lady, \this ballot means that you are willing to let the wamsn as well as the men vote.\ \Is that it?\ he re- plied; \then I don't wan't it; the women don't know enough to vote.\ it of meetings than lie life. Besides, it's 1
