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THE MADISONIAN OTt ntana, rOp e i ot ed the b th e \°°- • ••••••••. ***** •.., will he . and ci I0 opri et „ City, all the lotel; tillateds es are alwa T , verythink'• charges a s • n tht! city. t• • J. A. Dea!en Shoe Finc. City, AI ICE. the c() -par: hernia' the flint is this Vs All kii PhiLipK Beet AN - .41EIT ' busitte••• leaseti t line. , 1:374. na awl \fli3 111 ' testa. E, Jeri CLI THE MADISONIAN - - klATURDAY. JANUARY 9, 1M7S. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year in advance S5 90 tee n x r mo o hs t h „ a ADVERTISING RATES. '1111: lir I DISON I t . as an advertising etittal to any paper in Montana. 1 a a f.e .4 ••• st a. a. a. Inch ... ... $3 $5 $71 st3•$104115 $20425 2 Inches 5 8 9i Ill 12 20 301 40 3 Inches 7 9 lli 121 15 25 37 55 4 Inches 8 111 12 14 17 30 45 70 6 Inches ; 10 121 15 18 24 38 65 90 13 Inches 1 1 . 8 241 30 34 401 55 90 140 a Inches 110 44)1 50 re) se 75 150 250 The above scale of prices Is for ordinary sin- - le -column, display advertising. Solid and buIar aduertisements will be charged at the 4teli rate 47fir space occupiesl. LOCAL NOTICES, Fifteen cents per line for ffrst, and ten cents epee line for each additional insertion. CARDS, One-half inch, S2 for one insertion ; $3 for two insertions; 88 per quarter; 816 per year. rr The foregoing schedule of prices will be strictly adhered to. All advertisements counted in Nonpareil measure. .1013 VRTNTIENC4-, executed the best and neatest style. and on reasonable terms. NEWSPAPER DECISIONS. 1. Any one who takes a paper regularly from the Postonice-whether directed to his name or another's, or whether he has subscribed or not -is responsible for the payment. 2. If a person orders his paper discontinued, he must par all arrearages, or the publisher may continue to send it until payment is made, awl collect the whole amount, whether the pa- per is taken from the (Alice or not. 3. The courts have decided that refusing to take the newspapers or periodicals from the Postoilice, or removing and leaving them nn - railed for, is prima facia evidence of intention- al trawl. PROFESSIONAL. G. F. COWAN, Attorney and tounselor at Law, Radersberg. Montana Territory. 11EN RV F. WILLIAMS, Atly & Counselor at Law, VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE over the Post Officer. J. E. CALLAWAY, Attorney and Coun- selor at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE, adjoining the office of the Secre- tary of the Territory 111. W. TOOLE. .1. K. TOOLE. TOOLE & TOOLE. .Attorneys at HELENA, MONTANA. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. IOIIN T. SliottElt. T. J. OWERLY,-.: SHOBER & LOWERY, Attorneys rind coun- selors at Law. JITIMENJA., rir Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. SAMUEL WORD, Attorney at Law. VIRGINIA CITY. M. T. JAMES G. SPR ATT, .Attorney and Coun- selor at IA - ANN -- VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. Nv practice in all the Courts of Montana. W. F. SANDERS Attorney and Coun- selor at Law. HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all Courts of Record in Montana. C. W. TURNER, La A. NV VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. OFFICE: Adjoining Colonel Callaway's. 9 WM. F. RI R KWOOD, A.ttorney at Law, IRGINIA CITY. Can be found at Judge Spratt's office or Pro- bate Court Rooms. Will practice in all the Courts of the Territory. Miller Sir, Addoms, Fire, Life Insurance, and Real Es- tate Agents, HELENA MON r AN t. I. C. SMITH, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. Office at the Old Le Beau Stand, Wallace street where he can be found night or day E. T. YAGER, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. Will practice in all branches. Office , ne door above the City Drug Store. H. BARKLEY, M. D. Physician & Surgeon. RADERSBURG, M. T. H AS had twenty-one years' experience in in his profession -four years of that time a surgeon in the Confederate army, He is pre- pared to perform all kinds of surgery. IN FEMALE COMPLAINTS. his expe- rience is not surpassed by any physician in the Territory. TO THOSE WII0 HAVE VENEREAL COW PLA IN TS.-tionorrhea, if called upon within live days after the tirst appearance, he will cure in seventy-two hours. In Syphilis, he wJL cure in live days- lIi treatir...nt is different frein any physi- tuan in this •.'erritory. lie is prepared for Cleansing Extracting and Filling Teeth DR. C. S. ELLIS TI AVI NCI taken an interest in the Drug Department of A Carrnichael's store at Silver Star, Montana,can be found at all times, day anti night, at said store, when not absent on professional busi- ness. 1-2Stf 0. B. WHITFORD, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, PE:At LODGE. . neta'TaNA.. VOL. 2. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1875. NO. 9. JPC) - ETR,Y. OUT ON THE SCAR. From all the Year Round. Gold flashes back to the glowing west, From the headland, crowned with gorses, Silver gleams out from the sea's broad breast, In the names of the wild \white horses.\ Like sapohire shines each clear rock pool, Were brown, and crimson, and rose, The sea -flower.„ ; shy, and scentless, and cool, Are wooed by the winds to unclose; And the billows ,like warriors ranking for war, Steady and regular, sweep to the Scar. Gray, and jagged, and cruel, and strong, The rocks lie under the head, While the breakers sing their mighty song, The dirge for the mariners dead; For thick I ween do the sailors lie Down in the ocean deep. With the wind's low sob, and the sea mew's cry For lullaby o'er their steep; Little they -reek of the moan st the bar, Or the fierce surf \calling out on the Scar. Many a token of storm and of death Mu- t lurk in those rocky caves, Left, when the foam hides all beneath, And tossed by the furious waves, The gallant ship strikes hard and fast, And the blue lights burn in vain, And the rocket hisses athwart the blast, And the fearless fishermen strain To force the life -boat where crash and jar Tell how timbers are parting, out on the Scar. But calm to -night as a babe's repose Do the tides and their whispers come Murmuring aye through the ebbs and flows With their lips of creamy foam, Murmuring on 'neath the rose -flushed sky, Through the lovely gleaming of May; Till the happy smile creeps to heart and eye, Sunning all cares away; And tret and turmoil fade, faint and far, From the heart of the dreamer out on the Scar. THE OLD HOME. BY WILL WALLACE HARNEY. An out -door quiet held the earth Beneath the winter moon, The cricket chirped in cosy mirth, And the kettle crooned, upon the hearth, A sweet ohl-fashimed tune. The old clock ticked, a drowsy race, With the clicking of the cricket, And red coals in the chimney -place Peeped out, with many a rosy face, Like berries in a thicket. The crane's arm empty, stuck out stiff, And tinware on the shelves Twinkled and winked at every gliff, In the flickering lire -light, as if They whispered to themselves. The good dame in her ruffled cap, Counted her stitches slowly, And the old man, with full many a gap, Read from the Big Book on his lap, The good words wise and holy. The old clock clicked; the old man read, HiS deep voice pausing, lowering; The good wife nodded, dropped her head - The lids of both were heavy as lead - They were sound asleep and snoring. Oh. bale old couple! sweet each dream, While -all the milk -pans Puss paints her whiskers in the cream, Till John and the belated team, Brings Maggie from the quilting. May Time. I pray, when falling years Make thin my voice and thrapple, Find my last days of life like theirs, As sweet with children's love and prayers, And like a winter apple. MY FIRST LOVE. I never shall forget the school Conducted by the Misses Gurning; For underneath those ladies' rule, 1 entered on the paths of learning. Not merely learning taught by books, But that which comes of other fashion, The science learnt from lips and looks - The all -absorbing, tender passion. 'Twas pretty little Laura Hayes, Whose charms my youthful heart excited; We hadn't been at school three days Before our solemn troth was plighted. I found my seat was by her side, (For all in school had settled places,) And there we both sat open-eyed, Staring with grave and solemn faces. We had no tears, no April showers, No jealous quarrels or repentance; We used to sit and stare for hours, And not exchange a single sentence. Indeed, our love -words were so few, We often used to find it handy, To show our warmth of feeling through The sweeter medium of our candy. And other things, as well as sweets, Formed mute memorials of feeling; As crusts, or cakes, or potted meats, Preserves, or even orange -peeling. Her cheeks were pink, her eves were grey, Her teeth were sharp, white and pearly; (She bit me in a tiff one day,) Her hair WAS long,and brown.and curly. At last. I kissed her, and instead Of showing any feeling nettled. She put her hand in miue and said, \I like you,\ and so that was settled. So things went on, until, at last, Some comment having been excited, I said that alier what had passed, We really ought to be united. Why not? my age was six or more, As well as I can now remember, And Laura told me she was four The twenty-ninth of last September. She somehow took a different view, Thought we were very well without it, Besides, she asked me if knew The proper way to set about it. I told her (after some research) All that was needful for our marriage Was, that we both should go to church And back again, but in a carriage. She seemed to like it, so I pressed Tile matter with the greater vigor; But Laura thought it might best To wait till we were rather bigger. She gave me her most solemn word Our smallness was the only reas-m Which prompted, when she thus deferred Our union to a future season. In spite of all that I could plead Laura's resolve was only strengthened; So finally we both agreed To wait until her frocks were lengthened. And matters being settled so. How came it that our love miscarried? I cannot tell, but this I know - She's not my wife, and I am married! A young lady in Paris, Kentucky, re- marked to a companion in a conversation the other day, that she would never paint her cheeks again before attending a funeral. •Why not?' asked her friend. - Because.\ replied the young lady, I was painted up when I attended a funeral last slimmer, and never wanted to cry so bad in my life and was getting my hankerehief ready, when, glancing around at -. I saw that coarse, yellow skin of hers through the tear tracks. and it looked horrible. never had such hard work to hold my tears in since I was born. I'ru done painting for funerals.\ I PREPARATIONS FOR A GERMAN STUDENTS' DUEL. Next to the skin they wore a coarse white linen shirt, and a thick pad under the right arm to guard the brachial ar- teries. On the arm were placed a thick leather glove and a silk sleeve, then a sleeve of quilted canvas about an inch thick. an elbow -pad of leather bound on with straps, and a canvas bandage over all. So thick were these bandages that it was impossible to let the arm hang by the side. A tightly -twisted silk handkerchief extended from the little finger along the outside of the wrist to guard it. A large thick, leather apron, slit in the middle so as to be faetened to each leg with straps, covered the lower part of the chest and extended below the knees.. To prevent an accidental weatod 1. :ht.:. ve a pair of Iron eye -goggles were strapped on, fur- nished with glasses for those who were short-sighted. A padded neek-guard completed the dress. Thies swathed and bandaged up. the appearance of the com- batants was rather comical as, with their huge bandaged arms supported by friends, they walked with a slight swag- ger around the room, waiting till the um- pire hail taken his seat. The seconds were provided with arm -guards and feath- er -peeked caps, with neck -guards like small bolsters, and with swords, not to protect their principals, but to prevent lout play. The umpire, watch and note- book in hand, soon took his seat, and the weapons were handed to the swordsmen. The swords have a very large iron -barred hilt, something of the shape of a clay- more hilt, but much larger. They are quite straight, about three-quarters of an inch wide at the hilt and tapering to a quarter of an inch at the point. They :ire very thin and flexible, and low -tem- pered. iii order that they may not be brit- tle, and require constant straightening during the fight. They are very sharp at the point for about nine inches; the rest is blunt. GLORY AND ITS COSTS. The United States is not the only coun- try sufferinar. from the tunes. in Prussia there is a falling off 01 £920,000 in the customs receipts of the year, while the statnp duty for the first eight months oh 1874 produced £24,000 less than in the corresponding period of 1873; and near- ly all of the other receipts show a similar diminution. To meet this Herr Cam- phausen, the Finance Minister, is plan- ning a general increase of taxes, and no- tably on tobacco, which, at present yield- ing but £500,000, it is proposed to make yield £6,000,000. Germans, who are al- most all smokers, complain of this. While the military budget of Germany is lies.: thnn that - of Russia. France and En - land (the exact figures are-fitissia, 000,000; France, £18,100,000; England, £14,416,000; Germany, L13,600,000), the expense of the army is increasing out of all proportion to the national wealth. ill the United States, each soldier of the service costs, all told, at least $1,000. The yearly cost of each soldier in France is reckoned at £19 2s. 6d., and in Gerthany £17 I2s., but the increase for which Herr Von Roon stipulates will meke the Ger- man figure equal to the French. Both the German officers and soldiers, how- ever, are demandieg more pay, and com- plain greatly of the increased cost of liv- ing. It is easy to see where the money goes. There is building a chain of six- teen forts on the Alsace-Lorraine frontier. Then there is the proposed reorganiza- tion of the Landsturm, and two more store wagons are to be added to every ar- tillery -battery, an 1 that wagons and field - pieces shall, in future, be drawn by six horses instead of four; so that 180 horses will not be required for each battery. Then the national ambition is to possess a great fleet, and the recent launch of the Deutschland and Frederick the Great makes seven German first-class armor - plated frigates, and the Imperial navy comprises besides three smaller iron - clads and 45 ordinary men-of-war, mak- ing a total of 55 ships, carrying 423 guns, and manned by 4,000 sailors. All this is very expensive with an army of 1,261,000 men, and hence the cry of the Minister of Finance for more of the sinews of war. Hemmed in between Russia with her peace force of 850,000 men awl a war force of nearly 1.500,000 more, and with the war force of France, which is equal to 1,027,000 men, Ger- many may well be anxious. The peace establishments of thee three countries are not less than 2,500,000 men in the field, to say nothing of the fighting fleets upon the sea. And all this for glory. power and supremacy of men and na- tions abroad.. The proper definition of a man would seem to be a fighting animal. and of kingdoms SO many huge menage- ries of fighting animals ; all owing their allegiance to the Prince of Peace. and yet doing their very best for each other's de- struction. -N. Y. Express. ase-o--assa TIGER HUNTING. Jamrach, a London dealer in animals. gives the particulars of a tiger capture in Asia. Full-grown tigers are never brought away for the ---me of showmen, as they cannot be tamed, and make trouble by gnawing anti breaking their cages. Therefore only those under six months ofage are captured. The natives stealthily watch the lairs at the time Of brooding. and upon waylaying a male at a distance from the female and her litter, shoot hint. For his head they get a gov- ernment reward of fifty rupees. When the cubs are old enough to live without their mother, she is also shot and behead- ed. The capture of the young ones is then easy. They are kept at Calcutta until after teething. and are then sent te the purchasers. The Sul an of 'Turkey buys many, but urns: of them go to me- nao - eries in various parts of the world. Tigers are also killed by the natives for their skin. which, it hamleomely marked, are words a hundred rupees. The ('law. too, are bought by the Indian jewelers. and sold for ornaments. Jamrach says that the number of men eaten by tigers in Singapore is very great, and that an average of one Chinese woodchopper dis- appears every day. DOES IT PAY? A writer in the Erie (Penn.) Dispatch, in a consideration of the subject of wast- ed energies, throws out the following suggestions: \In doing a thing there are several points to be considered, as the re- sistance to be overborne, the strength we have, and whether, it we are able to do it, the necessary exertion is not better re- served for something else. A man may be able to get a barrel of flour up stairs, or pull on a pair of boots considerably too small, and keep a bottle of liniment by him for a week after in consequence. A woman with an armful of bundles, or a heavy baby, may succeed IN catchin\ horse -car ten rods ahead, and pay for her triumph by the 'heart-beat,' vertigo, a aomethime worse. She may take -op, whip and put down a half dozeu e eeepata, in addition to the spring scrubbing .and general house -work, as some ambitious workers do; but such misspent force usu- ally results in the speedy introduction of a step -mother into the family. Years ago we knew a family that for three gen- erations had drawn all the water for household use by a well -sweep nine and one-half rods distant, when there was nothing to prevent the digging of a well at the house and the drawing of the water by a pump. About the same time we also had knowledge of a skillful, wall - layer, whose labor was in constant de- mand, who worked by the week at cut- ting up old stumps for his winter's fuel when he could have bought three times the amount ot good cut tire -wood with the money readily acquired in his appro- priate calling. Our mind also goes back to the period when there lived in Erie a Mali 01 rare ne-chanical genius, who could have achieved marked success by steady aims and well -directed industry, but who yet so tnisapplied his acknowledged ca- pacity as to prove a signal failure in life, becoming baukrupt in fortune, and evil; in name. Indeed, it is easy to see that most people, except ourselves, are wast- ing much time, and frequently doing much damage by misdirecting their phys- ical powers.\ Sa•-•-•ett• THE EFFECT OF MUSIC ON SAVA- GES. Sir Samuel Baker, in his new volume of African adventure, tells us of the no- table effect of music upon the natives. \I believe,\ he says, \the safest way to travel in those countries would be to play the cornet, if possible, without ceas- ing, which would insure a safe pas age. A London organ -grinder could march through Central Africa, followed by an admiring and enthusiastic crowd, who. if his tunes were lively, would form a danc- ing escort of the most untiring material.\ isiiiotgo-inP tite iiiiTerent record we should have if music instead of gun- powder, had been employed as a force for the conquest of savage races. The Pilgrim father. who so severely coe- denthed ungodly music, might have re- versed his judgment had he known the effect of the file and the drum and trum- pet on the sensitive ears of the Indians; he might, indeed, have organized bands of organ players; and, even it his own spirit had severely SU tiered under t, at un- wonted noise, the speedy conquest of the otherwise intractable savage would as- suredly have rendered the employment of such means good and wise in his judg- ment. Let African explorers liereafter go forth with many wind and string instru- ments; even the pirates of the Ceina seas. or the cannibals of the Pacific, would cease to be a terror to every trawler, had they means at hand for the production of \sweet and dying sounds.\ Fearful has been the bloodshed because the power of Orpheus has been unknown or neglected, and future travelers. explorers or advent- urers into unknown wilds may cordially thank Sir Samuel for this valuable hint. HOW THE SPIRITS ENTERED. BRAVE LITTLE WOMEN. They Recover an Erring Sister at the Muzzle of Their Six -Shooters. From the Philadelphia Press, Dee. 2. About ten days ago a young man of prepossessing appearance made the ac- quaintance of a lady in Camden, who is the mother of several children, and who until the advent of the modern Don Ju- an, lived happily with a devoted hue - band. The personal attractions of the young Philadelphian proved stronger than her fidelity to her spouse, and at last, yielding to his solicitations, she left husband and children and came to this city, where her paramour found a quiet boarding - house, in which she Would, as he fondly hoped, be safe from pursuit. Had he taken equal pains to conceal hint- saelt the result might have been different. 11e, however, engaged a room at the Merchants' Hotel, on Fourth street, only seeing his inamorata at rare intervals. Last evem iing . two young. welleiressee and evidently cultivated ladies, who af- terward proved to be the sisters of the frail wife and mother, entered the Mer- chants' Hotel and inquired for the young gentleman alluded to. They were in- formed by the clerk that he was in his room and they could see him in the par- lor. Thither they bent their steps, and soon after their unsuspecting victim ap- peared. The acetic suddeely changed. Two pretty faces which the clerk had seen all smiles suddenly became darken- ed with frowns. The little right hands, which a few moments before quietly re- posed in their muffs, unexpectedly drew trom some dark recess two Colt's revolv- ers. The young man was abruptly col- lared. The revolvers suddenly came into unpleasant contact with his head, and he was ordered in cool, determined tones to lead the way to the house in which the Camden lady was concealed. For a mo- ment he hesitated, but the cold chambers of two revolvers stared him in the face, and he reluctantly left the hotel with his fair captors and went with them to the house in which he had placed his fah victim. When the brave hale women found themselves face to face with their fallen sister. they let go their hold and allowed a sadder and wiser man to return to his hotel. The Camden lady returned to her hotne last evening. Mr. Noyes, the founder of the Oneida Community, has asserted that when the spirits first undertook to break through the boundary between themselves and humanity they were compelled to seek out the weakest point of attack. They could not force themselves on the precep- tion of men of strong intellects and - ills, and were hence compelled to seek out hysterical women and weak-minded men througn whom to force an entrance to our world. This ingenius theory has been to sone- extent justiffed by our own experience since we undertook the discussion of spiritual phenomena. We have been in- undated with letters from spiritti dists so enthusiastic that they defied the restraints of grammar and syntax. We have had inatincripts form Edgar Allen Poe and other once meritorious writers, who have evidently sineetheir ad eent into the spirit world become unnecessary and hopeless idiots. Scores of long-haired men and short -haired women have visited us and prophesied to an unlimited entent and with an utter disregard of the fact that A daily newspaper cannot he put to press while the entire establishment is listening - to direful predictions of flood, fire, and pestilence. The class of s e tirittlalkts who have thus honored us with their personal and epistolary acquaintance have convinced us that if the main tact of spiritualism is true Mr. Noyes' theory of the manner in which the spirits gained entrance into our world is not to be con- tradicted.-Ne ii im..._.....c York Gra p!tic. • A gentle. husbandless creature in Illi- nois writes to a law; er who adv:rtised that he would provide companions for unmarried persons; -. My Dear Mr.--. this is to certify that I am a widow with thirteen chill wen born, have had three husbands, each of which died in peace in his own way. I have a small farm, and would take anether husband yet, if I could find a young one. No old. bull- headed sardine need apply; he will not be taken in. Ten dollars will be given to you to produce the man.\ Love loveliest when embalmed in tsars. Ire-4--sens SHAWLS -IN DIA., CASHMERE, HI - MALAYA. The latest designs in India shawls show very little white in the work. A square shawl with filled center, worth $1,000, has no decided sinuous lines, such as have been in fashion of late, but only sufficient to relieve the other colors. A narrow (Lanni in white fiernra INwsni n11 ruued the edge, however. Another square, filled shawl was made with re- versible corners -one showing the new style without the white design, the other having a white figure running through it. This was worth $900. India shawls. with plain center, may be bought at prices ranging from $30 to $150, in scarlet and black. White centers tor evening wear are from $100 upward. India shawls with Persian stripes cost from $50 to $150, and are both servieable and stylish. he Dacca shawls cost trona $30 to $150. the cashmere imitations of the India shawls, will are very ha nilsonw, are worth from $25 to $70. 'n these the prevailing color is blue rather than white, and they imitate closely the Persian stripes. Square cashmere costs from $10 to $35, while double hawls are worth front $25 to $30. Figured cashmeres are once more revived. Almost any grand- mother will have somethine - similar in her collection. The centers are tilled with pal n -leaf designs, while a border passes round the shawl. These are in all colors, though crimson and gold prevail. The same class of goods are shown in stripes, and both are valued at $25. Light -weight cashmeres, with set designs in silk and wool, cost $20. Ottoman shawls in silk and wool are now shown in small set tie - tires, and are a great re- lief to the eye after the pronounced rail- way -blanket st:ipes that have been so long worn. When stripes are used, the broad. plain ones are filled with set fig- ures, and the alternate ones an. combina- tions of very narrow stripes; these cost from $20 to $25. A W:11111. be:Intl/id shawl. hi !own as camel's-hair cloth, comes in all solid colors, and is particu- ell - 1y attractive. They are ‘vorth about $20. The Ilintalaya may be bought at prices ranging trim $11 to $18. The beaver reversible shows a plain center, with plaid border on one side, and plaid center with plain border on the other. These have tassel-frheire. They are also shown in solid colors, and in narrow stripes. WHY HE WORE A WIG. THE GATHERING STORM IN EU- ROPE. One need hardly be even so much of a prophet as Mr. Disraeli to forecdst the thick coining on of troublous times in the Old World. In comparison with the present attitude towards each other, and with the present internal condition of the greater Continental powers, all was per- fect peace in Europe when the Emperor Napoleon III. in that famous speech de- livered, if we mistake not, at Lilie, prog- nosticated woe and war from certain \black specks on the horizon.\ They are not black specks now; they are visi- ble clouds as big not only as a man's hand, but as the hand of a giant, which are roiling and piling themselves up over Paris and Berlin, over Meth - id and Rome. The teaty which gave Alsace and Lore mine to Germany has failed to give Ger- many either peace within her OW11 bor- ders or the assurance of peace with her defeated but still formidable foe. Alsace and Lorraine, by their deputies in the German Parliament, decline to be par- ties to their own pacification and to their consolidation with the Empire founded for the greater glory of the Hohenzollerns by the genius of Prince Bismarck. The Marshal -President of France has declared his determination to maintain order at home and friendly relations with the rest of the world, but he still finds it necessary to maintain a state of siege within the re- public, and the military budget of every state on the Continent is kept at the war point by the incessant devotion of the French Government to the reconstruc- tion of the armies of France. The pow- ers that be in Spain nominally represent the deliberate will of the Spanish people, but they exist really by force of arms, and are more than usually suspected of relying in the last resort for support, not upon the favor and the convictions of Spain herself, but upon the resources and the influence of a great foreign state. The personal relations of the Pope with the King of Italy are believed, on very good authority, to be perfect friendly and cour- teous, and the great body of the Italian clergy are certainly doing their work in entire practical concord with the Italian Government; but the alleged oppression of the Vitican by the Quirinal makes Italy the objective point of a world-wide system of hostility and provocation, and it is impossible for the financial advisers of King Victor Emmanuel to see their way out of the fiscal swamps and shal- lows through which Italy, loaded down with a burden of military expenses out of all proportion to her resources, has ever since her independence been flound- ering on from bad to worse. Without taking at all into the account, thereof , either the chronic perturbations I b ie ee E n a , ss , t e e r t i tI le 9 1 1%i iitliout nstantly y of et t . settling itself more perilously than be- fore; or the internal di:-00111 - ellt:i Nvhich threaten to precipitate the colossal Em- pire of Russia into a career of aggression abroad as the alternative of anarchy at home; or the irritation of the Scandina- vian North under the stings Of the Ger- man policy in the Baltic, it is quite clear that the whole body of the European world is juet now in a condition of fever- ish excitement which cannot be indeti- nitely protracted, and which may at al- most any moment resolve itself, at one or another point of the Continent, into a ill- rect Outbreak whereof no man can pre- tend to foretell either the locality or the results. No more striking illustration of the state of political atmosphere has been for some time given than our dispatches of yesterday tell of, in the hot passage of Nvords between a French Radical mem- ber of the Assembly and the fiery Bishop of Orleans, and in the almost savage terms hi %%ilia Prince Bisneu - ek on the floor of German Parliament proclaimed his. purpose 01 deadly war against Rome. For parallels to the temper shown on both sides in these collisions, at Paris by the eloquent prelate and by his republi- can antoronist, and at Berlin by the Chancellor and by his ultramontane as- sailents, we of this country must go back to the days of the old anti -slavery crusade in the halls of Congress. We should be sorry to exult in the misfortune of neigh- bors. but it is certainly it legitimate sub- ject of congratulation for Americans that on this side of the ..A.thilitic on era of in- testine discord and sectional hatred seems to be givi ar, place to a new reign of na- tional harmony, order, and justice, while on the other side of the Atlantic are a brewing wars and rumors of wars which threaten to involve not state alone with state, teat whole sections of society with one another, and the civil With the ecclesiastical power - from one end of the Continent to the other. MAIDEN NAME,i-TIIE LATEST NUG- GCSTIONs. In giving reminiscences of Col. Levi Boutwelh a noted man in his day, a Montpelier, Vt., writer tells the follow- ing story: \The Colonel was uncommonly bald, and without his heaa-y dark wig looked not a bit like himself. Once he was in the wash -room of the pavilion, and for convenience of his ablutions had laid hie wig aside. Presently a young spruce chap, with extremely red hair, came in. Noticing the Colonel's nude head, he in- - Well. Colonel, why don't you have some hair on you head?\ It was an impudent question, and the Colonel knew it. Looking savagely at time real head of the saucy young stran- ger, he replied: • When they made me and had me all finished except my hair,they told me they had nothing left except red hair. I told them, then, egad! I wouldn't have any. I would rather go without. They might save that for impudent young popinjays and holse The young inquisitive and joker was perfectly willing to drop the subject.\ Men ren Ifr,r. must ,o be taughtas though you THE TROUBLE A DOCTOR TOOK TO FIND OUT ABOUT WINKING. The purely reflexive part of the act of winking has been ingeniously timed by Dr. Sigismund Exner, who chose this act as the one best adapted to enable him to determine the time required for a com- plete reflex action. His apparatus con- sisted of it very light lever of straw, ter- minated at one end by a bristle, which applied to the eyelid, the other end be- ing connected with the usual contrivance for exactly registering the beginning of muscular contraction. The stimulus was an electric spark, applied in two ways, by passing in trout of the eye, and thus oper- ating - on the optic nerve, or by exciting the nerve of sensation by striking direct- ly on the corner. He found the interval between the spark and the beginning of motion, that is, the time occupied in the transmission and reflection of sensation, with the period of latent excitation in the muscle, to vary with the intensity of the stimulus, from about one -eighteenth to one twenty-fifth of a second, the strong- er the spark the quicker the action. The period of latent eXcitation of muscle in man has never been precisely determin- ed. Dr. Exuer estimated it about a hun- dredth part of a second, which would re- duce the time required for the purely re- flexive part of the act of wiliking to about 1-22d of a second tor a weak im- pression, and 1 -27th of a se _ond tor a stronger stimulus. THE DROP ACT OF A TRAPEZE PLRFORMER. He had walked across, then returned backward, and had again crossed over about half way to tehere the trapeze was swinging, at a distance of 25 feet from the ground. While performing the \drop act\ the rope broke, and he WitS precipi- tated to the ground, and although pain- fully, he was not seriously injured. He gives this account of the affair. \I was hanging by my toes on the main rope, head downward. I let go and dropped in the air until my feet reached tile bar. I caught the bar with my toes, when one end of the rope opposite the Academy broke, and down I went head foremost to the emelt on my face and hands. I sprained my left leg and skinned iny face, and my %NI - lit was out of joint. I had two doctors operating on me in less than two minutes, and about two thousand people gathered around me Nvho were there to see me walk the rope. They would not let ine go home, and I had to give a lec- ture on my short experience in bal- looning, rope -walking, and legerdemain. I was greatly applauded. I held a lec- ture in he Academy. I will not be satis- fied dam Avt (in yo.wrono ortor I not lit tied until I walk again, and give them good poition. I am sore all over. M3 bones pain tue, and I can hardly do any- thing. This is the worst thin , that has happened me yet, but it don't scare me.\ -From the Lancaster Examiner. If ladies prefer to retain their maiden names after marriage, and their husbands are willing, we don't see any valid ob- jection to their doing so. They may find a difficulty in so impressing the fact of this preference upon other people, mere :legit:tin tan etS, or casual compan- ions of voyage. as to save their ears from being offended by the use of the objec- tiouable title; we should like to hear Lucy Stone (for instance) relate her ex_ ierieece on this point. It is even con- ceivable that rebellion against a social convention may expose them, at times, to social awkwardness of a more serious character. That is their own affitir, how. ever. But, when they propose, as one of them del at New York the other evening, not to remain Jane Smith and Mary Jones after their interviews at the \hymeneal altar\ with Messrs. Brown and Robinson. but to transmit these names to their female of&pring-all the girls to be Smiths and Joneses. and the boys to be Browns and Robinsons-we submit that they may be in danger of carrying the matter a little to fare -Springfield Re- publican. Thinking leurs - eti) thinking. HAIR -DRESSING. -IS- PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY -AT- Virginia City, - Montana THOS. DEYARMON, Editor and Proprietor. J. R. WILSON, Associate and Local Editor. Papers ordered to any address OMR be changed to anothn. address MTh* option of the subset lber. Remittance by draft, check, money order or registered letter may be sent at our risk. THE MADISONIAN is devoted te th• advocacy Of the principles of the Democratic, part and to general and local news. TUE SULTAN AND SATAN. There is an eastern story of a Sultan who overslept himself, so as not to awaken at the hour of prayer. So the devil came and waked him and told him to pray. \Who are you ?\ said the Sultan. \0 no:matter,\ replied the other; \my act is good, is it not? No matter who does the good action, so long as it is good.\ Yes,\ replied the Sultan, \hut I think you are Satan. I know your face; you,have some bad motive.\ \But says the other, \I am not so bad as I ant painted. You see I have left off my horns and tail. I am a pretty good fellow, after all. I was an angel once, and I still keep some of my original goodness.\ \That's all very well, replied the sagacious and pru- dent Caliph, 'you are the tempter; that,s your buisness ; and I wish to know why you want me to get up aud pray.\ \Well said the devil, with a flirt of impatience,\ if you must know, I Will tell you. if you had slept and forgotten your prayers you would have been sorry for it afterward, and penitent; but, if you go on, as now. and do not neglect a single prayer for ten years, you will be so satisfied with yourself that It will be worse tor you thau if you had missed one sometimes and repented ot God loves your fault mixed with penitence. more than your virtue seasoned with pride. The most natural -looking coiffures are now most stylish, flair -dressers delight in showing the whole of the parting Of_ the top of the head, provided the hair is thickly set. A large tress on each side is waved in soft large waves; there is no side parting; the whole mass of hair except the waved tresses is drawn down togeth- er low down behind, tied there, and al- lowed to drop in a short, thick loop, not braided, and not as long as the Catagon loop. The waved tresses are then brought low behind, and fastened by a short strap made of the ends of the tress. This makes the charming Psyche coiffure, and displays a handsome head finely. Ladies who have not much hair of their own retain high coiffures, as there is muchin- dependence in hair -dressing just now. Finger puffs are massed over the top and back of the head and soft loops are added behind, so that while the coiffure towers high above the head, it is also low behind. Young ladies whose hair grows thickly above ear, behind it, and on the nape of the neck display its luxuries by combining it straight upward to the tress of soft puffs or elee crown braids, over which droop two small, short, feathery curls. The ornamental coiffure is now set directly on top, on the left side, or quite in front, but now low behind. This ornament is a cluster of roses or other flowers, or else lh.rhmt, downy marabout feathers, with a heron's leather algretto in the center. The chatelaine braid and the low plain Catogan loop are worn in the street. A crown braid is worn with the chatelaine; a bow of ribbon or of twilled bias silk ties the Catogan. A fil- let of black velvet studded with jet beads is a simple and pretty ornainent vlien worn around massive braids. With the present shape of bonnet it is necessary to drag the hair low on the forehead, hence many paste it there in bandoline scol- lops. These have a stiff, set look, and are becoming to very few fiices. It is also necessary that the back hair be soft to fit the new bonuet shapes, and this had the good effect of doing away with the jute and topsies 011CC need for filling, and and bringing real hair into use. THE BEST COMPLIMENT FORREST EVER RECEIVED. 11111Mmilommilla MARRY OR DIE. The Washington Republican tells the fol- lowing : Suit was instituted yesterday for Theo- dore T. Stockman against Emma Stockman for a decree of divorce. He says defendant is a daughter of Mr. George Ellis, of George- town, and that she is about thirty years of age; that about a year ago he was intro- duced to her, and was induced to accom- pany her home, and subsequently visited her occasionally for from four to five months, when he discontinued his visits, and after- wards saw her but once, and then at a dis- tance, until October, when her father met him in Georgetown, and, to his profound astonishment, seized him forcibly by the collar and compelled him to go to his house and marry the defendant. lie says heney- er promised to marry her; that her father literally dragged and forced the plaintiff to. his house and took him into the parlor and closed the door, telling him to marry de- fendant, and, plaintiff replying that ho would not, Ellis put his hand into his bosons to draw a pistol, and said: \Then you must take the consequences.\ He then (-empti- ed, and immediately thereafter left the house, and has not lived with her since, nor never will. AN ORGAN II urit A WILL OF ITS OWN. The good people of a certain country village in Indiana hungered and thirsted for an organ to assist in the church ser- vices; hut as they could not afford to him an organist, they bought it self-operating irn r•-• t /1.1% t toa tr, Ayri n th e n &Wm tunes o a religious cast. instrument was plaeed in position far the next Sunday. The sexton was instruct- ed how to set it going, and how to stop it, but unfortunately forgot the latter part of his business; and after singing the first four verses of a hymn before the sermon, the organ could not be stopped. but continued playing two verses more; then just as the clergyman completed the words, \ Let us pray,\ the otgan again clicked and started another tune. The sexton and others continued their exer- tions to find the spring, but no one could put a stop to it; so they got four of the stoutest men in the church to shoulder the perverse instrument,and they carried it down the aisle of the church, playing away, into the churchyard, where it con- tinued clicking and playing until tne whole forty tunes were finished. A PECULIAR CONGREPoSIONAL DISTUICT IN TENNESSEE. Edwin Forrest never received a higher compliment than that one unintentionally paid him by one of those much abused but necessary lesser lights of the dramatic firm- ament, a \super.\ It was at a rehearsal of Richelieu, and the great tragedian, whose uncertain temper made him the terror of bunglers, was standing in the wings with folded arms and frowning brows, watching the progress of the piece, when it fell to the lot of the \super\ to enter an announce \His Eminence, the Cardinal, Duke de Richelieu.\ Shambling on to the stage with the indescribable slouch of his kind, the \super\ drawled out his lines, and was going oif when Forrest. striding forward in his most magestic manner, thundered, - No, sirrah, no: That is not the proper manner in which to announce the Cardinal. Look you. sirrah-enter thus: Assume your position thus, and then announce, - His Eminence. the Ca-ardinal, Duke de II-r-rielielieul\ thus. \Cannot You do that, sirrah ?\ I can't.\ drawled the \su- per.\ \El I cud I wouldn't be a playing here for six dollars a week.\ Crutchfield, in Tennessee, is one of the curiosities of the House. Imagine a shock. haired, unshorn, corduroy -clad fellow. with his trousers tucked into cowhide boots, and his hat on the back of his head, and you have Crutchfield as he presented himself at the House door the tirst day of the last session. The doorkeeper refused him admittance until a colleague vouch- ed for his rights. Ile wears ordinary clothes now, and combs his hair, and has his boots blacked, and, Instead of gaping around the room as he used to, and sits at his desk and scribbles like an awkward schoolboy learning how to write. Ile can't be coaxed into joining the Con- gressional Temperance Society. His friends say he is it diamond in the rough, one part af which description is possible, the other evident. He is a successor to Mullins, who was like him -only more so. Mullins was not satisfied with listen- ing, lie wanted to talk, awl no one s'ho heard his speech on Mosby's pardon will ever forget it. \You may forgive him,\ said Mullins, brandishing his long arms, \but I ain't a goin' to -never -not till the everlastin' day when the angel Gabri- el blows his old trumpet.\ Davy Crock- ett was from the same distriet.-New York World. UNEARNED WEALTH. The Virginia City (Nevada) Chronicle of December 5, tells how some of the people engaged in silver milling wake up in the morning to find themselves mill_ ionares. \General Thomas II. 1Villiams.\ it says, \ holds in his own name 6,500 shares of California and 3,000 shares of Consolidated Virginia. The first cost him little or nothing, it having been awarded him at the time of the Califor- nia consolidation for his share of Central No. 2. He can sell his shares in the Cal- ifornia to -day for $1,950,000,and his shares in consolidated Virginia for $750,090, a total of $2,700,000. His clear profit, if he sells in time, will be over $2,000,000. There is many a soul trudging along life's pathway with weary. uncertain steps, sad and down -hearted, who would, if there was a kind hand reached out to help them, walk erect and step lightly. and even sing while passing over Intd roug hplaces. Such is the devolien of Mr. G/adstone to Homer that in hi' houwhold every article is measured by 1 roF weight. - Punch.
