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NEWSPAPER DECISIONS. 1. Any one who takes a paper regularly from the Posteffice—whether directed to his mine or another's, or whether he has subscribed or not —is responsible for the payment. 2. If a person orders his paper diacontinued, he must pay all arrearages, or the publisher may continue to send it until payment is made, and collect the whole amount, whether the pa- per is taken from the office or not. 3. The courts have decided that refusing to take the newspapers or periodicals from the Postoffice, or removing anti leaving them un- called for, is prima facia evidence of intention- al fraud. PROFESSIONAL. G. F. COWAN, Attorney and Counselor at Law. Radersberg. Montana Territory. HENRI F. WILLIAMS, Att'y & Counselor at Law, VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE over the Post °Hirer. J. E. CALLAWAY, _Attorney and Coun- selor at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE, adjoining the office of the Secre- tare of the territory L. W. ToOLE. J. K. TOOLE. TOOLE & TOOLE. _Vttorneys It Jaw. HELENA, MONTANA. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. 101IN T. slitMEN. T. J. OWERLYi, SHOBER & LOWERY, Attorneys and c!oun- selors at 'Law. HELENA,M. T. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. SAMUEL WORD, Attorney at Law. VIRGINIA CITY. M. T. JAMES G. SPR ATT, Attorney and Cc)un- selor at1_271 - NN\. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. W. F. SANDERS Attorney and Coun- selor at 1_4alv. HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all Courts of Record in Montana. C. W. TURNER, A. W . - 1{ 12: it VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. OFFICE: Adjoining Colonel Callaway's. WM. F. KIRKWOOD torney at Law, VIRGINIA CITY. Can be found at Judge Spratt's office or Pro- bate Court Rooms. Will practice in all the Courts of the Territory. Addoms, Fire, Life insurance, and Real Es- tate Agents, IHILEN MONTANA. I. C. SMITH, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. °Mee 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. w:!I practise in all branches. Office one door above the City Drug Store. H. u. BARKLEY. M. D. Physician & Surgeon. RADERSBURG, M. T. I TAa had twenty-one . years' experience in JIS in his protession—tour years of that time a surgeon in the Confederate army. He is pre- pared to perform all kinds of sur.sery. IN FEMALE COMPLAINTS, his expe- rience is not surpassed by any physician in the Territory. TO THOSE WHO HAVE VENEREAL COMPLA iN beiorrhe.i, if called upon within tire tlas s after tne nrst appearance, he NViii care in seventy-two hours. In Syphilis, he - .vat cure in live days. His treatment is different frnin any physi- cian in this 'territory. He is prepared for t1eausior4 Extracting and Filling Teeth. C. S. ELLIS It iVING taken an interest in the Drag Department of A Carmichael 's store at Silver Star, Moutana,can be fatind at all times, day and night, at said wort., witeu nut absent on professional busi- ness. 1-28tf 0.B.WHITFORD, 1. 0., Physiciau and Surgeon, DEER LODGE. MoNTAN..k 1 ameseemmeamenemetmanentleale VOL. 2. -1tVe..\33E_. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, JANUARY23, 18M. BEFORE THE WEDDING. The following humorous lines are credited to the Atlantic Monthly: Milk -white and honey -sweet its flowers Tire locust -tree is shedding: 0, if this weather would but stay. I could not ask a lovelier day, To -morrow, for my wedding! Yes, 'tis, in truth, my bridal path The wind with flowers is strewing. The thing a woman says she won't, She's always sure of doing; And, from a child, I have declared I'd choose a maid to tarry, And single-handed fight my way, Befare I'd ever marry (Though he, by all his deeds and words, Were worth and wisdom proving) A Methodist itinerant, And keep forever moving, Moving. moving, moving— Just two years in a place— Stopping here, and off again, With scarce a breathing space. But when camp -meeting came around, A year ago this summer, The Sedbury people had a tent, And I, with Sister Hartley, went, And first heard Brother Plummer, \A young man looking for a wife,\ Was some one's sly reminder; \And he may look for all ot me,\ I said, \and never find her.\ But when I came to hear him preach, Ile told the gospel -story So thrillingly, through all the grove Went up one shout of \Glory!\ Rough men were bowed, hard sinners wept, I owned his power to hold me— His glowing fervor, like a spell, Against my will controlled me. \For who is he'?\ I said, my own Admiring thoughts reproving, \A Methodist itinerant, Who keeps farever moving, Moving, moving, moving— Just two years in a place; That's too hard a way,\ thought I, \To run the Christian race!\ I said the preacher pleased me not— I did not wish to nieet him; And when we met, I tried to see How coldly formal I could be And courteously treat him; But when a woman tries to hate, Be sure it's love's beginning; The more I frowned, the more I felt That he my heart was winning; Dull (may the Lord forgive!) I found The class, unless he led it, _And sweeter seemed the blessed word Of Scripture, if he read it; And from the closing love -feast, when, As we walked home together, He led me down a quiet path, And kindly asked me whether My future should be one with his?— And I must take or lose him; I felt my hold on earthly joy Wass lost, should I refuse him. \But if I love, there's but one way,\ I said, \my love of proving; And I am willing, for your sake, To keep forever moving. Moving, moving, moving— Just two years in a place— Happy, wheresoe'er I go, If I but see your face!\ So now, my bridal blossoms fall, These locust -flowers sweet scented! My future pathway is the one I've always thought that I would shun, Yet I am well contented! We choose not for ourselves; we go The way the Conference sends us; But, rough or smooth, we know through all A Father's care attends us; His perfect strength our weakness shields, His patient love brood o'er us— What matters it what changes fill The years that lie before us! We only pray we may be kept From faithless servants proving, And onward as we press, May they be heavenward moving! THE TAXATION OF TITLES. The Hon. David A. Welles has written a short and sharp letter to the New York Tribune on the unfairness and illegality of taxing the evidences of property, such as mortgages, notes, etc., in addition to the property itself. The taxation of mortgages has been justified on the ground that the mortgage was the title to as much of the land mortgaged as the money advanced would buy. But the land is taxed, and the holder of the original title pays the tax. Levying on the mortgage title, then, is double taxation of the same property. This is grossly unjust. The fallacy which underlies all taxation of evidences of in- debtedness is, that titles are property, that a thing is what it represents, that a note for $100 is ,$100, or, in a word, that a pic- ture of a mountain is the mountain itself. Mr. Welles humorously adds that this the- ory \admits ot a man having ten acres of wood -land in the crown of his hat, a church with a long steeple in one coat -pocket, and a four-story brick block, with possibly a min -privilege. in the other.\ The Supreme Court of the United States has decided that at State can not tax land beyond its jurisdiction, and that no two States can tax the same piece of hind. This decision makes it possible for any man hold- ing a mortgage on property outside the State in which he lives to resist in the courts any attempt to tax that mortgage. All taxation should be on property. No new property is created by giving a note or a mortgage, which are merely written promises to pay money. If money is taxed. the note representing it ought not to be. If land is taxed, the mortgages represent- ing part of it ought not to be. This is the gist of the whole thing. Promises and agreements at e not property. Only prop- erty should be taxed. Therefore titles (i. e., evidences, of indebtedness) ought not to be taxed.—Chicago Tribune. In Sonora County, California, a few days ago. a mule was drawing a load of lime, which encouraged by a brisk shower went into vigorous combustion. The wagon took fire, but the mule, resenting this demon - station in the vehicle. and with a view per- haps of investigating it. stood still. The driver suggested that he proceed; but the mule put his fore foot to the front and laid his ears to the rear, and maintained his ground. In due time the fire on the wagon singed the mule. Then it scorched him. Then it blistered him. Then it roasted him. But he never moved. There was a princi- ple at stake, and he calcinated in his tracks in support of it. When the process had ended all that was left of what had been a mule was a half barrel of ashes. The season is upon us when the bad man wants to find out if his neighbor has a big wood pile, and if he is near-sighted, and when it betwoveth him to look sharp for plugged -up aloof . holes. TIIE SPIRIT HAND EXPLAINED. The Philadelphia Press of Monday says:—\Among the explanations of ap- parent phenomena which for want of space were crowded out of our last article, was one, which, if true, clearly explains a manifestation which Robert Dale Owen regarded as one of the strongest tests he ever received at a Holmes seance. Mr. Owen was asked during a cabinet sitting to pass through the aperture a sheet of writing paper and a pencil. This was done; a hand seized the sheet and appar- ently laid it on nothing, a few inches back of the aperture, and about four inches from the bottom of the opening. While the paper was thus seemingly sus- pended in the air a white hand slowly traced out a letter, which, when given to Mr. Owen, was found to eontanren - - Mes- sage from and signed by 'Frederick Rob- ertson.' He was familiar with the signa- ture, and had seen time letter written by a 'spirit hand' while the paper was 'sus- pended in the air,' and as the chiro- graphy closely resembled that of his departed triend, he was forced to accept this ostensible evidence of spiritual pres- ence and power as conclusive. The wo- man who confessed that she personated 'Katie King' makes in substance the fol- lowing statement in regard to the man- ner in which this was done: 'The letter was written by Mr. Holmes, 'who had a fac simile of Robertson's hand -writing in the house. When the blank paper was passed into the aperture, another sheet, on which the lines had been inscrib- ed, was substituted, and the paper in- stead of being placed on nothing, was held on a black -board by Mr. Holmes, who had on a pair of black gloves. I (Katie King) then drew over my right arm a black covering, leaving only the hand and a part of the wrist exposed. This presented the appearance of a de - hitched hand with the pencil I pretended to trace out the words on the paper al- ready prepared.'\—New York Society. •110• -•-••NCI Notwithstanding the boats of Superin- tendent Matsell that New York has \the best police force in the world,\ the tes- timony of citizens is that thieves, pick- pockets, garroters, and those who sympa- thize with them professionally, were nev- er beiore within the memory of the pres- ent generation so bold, active and suc- cessful as now. The horse -car barbarism, which resulted ih an extreme case in the killing of Putnam by Foster a few years ago, seems to have been revived with in- creased intensity, and it is even hinted that some of the car conductors are in collusion with the rue ghs who prey up- on the public after the manlier of stage- coach drivers_ and the knights of the road in the ante -railroad days of travel_ Dc that as it may, the street -car has become along certain New York lines anything but a safe conveyance; and not only that, but even the pedestrians in as presumable respectable localities as Madison and Fifth avenues go constantly armed, and even then are not unfrequently waylaid by the sneak thief anti the garroter. So alarming has this state of timings become that the residents of Madison avenue have held an indignation meeting and resolv- ed to patrol the avenue themselves with some medicine of the Bay Ridge label for these pests of society, and Judge Da- ly has called for a mounted police force in that quarter. This is certainly a dis- graceful state of things, and did the late outrage organ still exist in the metrepo - lis it could find grists for its mill without going out of the limits of the municipali- ty. A WISE CONCLUSION Sl0N A , T A LATE DAY. _ Ten years ago smooth -bore gums had been completely abandoned by all the European nations. We, however, pre- sistently adhered to them, and our ordi- nance authorities continued to manutitc- ture fifteen -inch smooth -bores, asserting hat they were the most powerful weap- ons in existence. Suddenly the Chief of the Ordinance Bureau confesses in his re- port that the smooth -bores are wholly unfit to cope with rifled gums, and the famous fifteen-ineh guns of the monitors are effective only at a distance of 500 yards, while a rifled gun of ten inches calibre would be effective at 3.500 yards. He therefore recommends the entire navy with breech -loading rifled cannon. No doubt this reccommendation should be carried out, but would it not have been well if we had availed ourselves ten years ago of the results arrived at by artillery experiments abroad. and saved tile cost of manufacturing the smooth -bores that are now declared to be useless?—Graphic. ass-sa-ame- A man named George Johnson left his home and faintly 23 years ago at Sheboy- gan, and went to Utah. For a few years a correspondence was kept up, but finally he ceased to hear from home, or his tinn- ily from him. Having made a fortune went to She t )oygan to look up his tinnily. He found no trace of them, but learned that a man named Johnson bad removed from Sheboygan several years before to Fond du Lac. He supposed that this was his brother, and according- ly went to Fond du Lae, His surmise proved correct. Here he learned that his wife was married to a man named John Foster, and was living in Oshkosh. He further learned that his daughter had married a son of Foster. He arrived there, called on his wife, and her feelings on seeing her hesband, whom she sup- posed dead, can be better imagined titan described. After remaining, for a few days Johnson took his d.sparture, leav- ing behind his much -married spouse. •ams-sa-ass The 1 tte decision of the Supreme Cohrt of Indiana in regard to the education of negroes in the public schools was simply an affirmation that a law passed by a Republican Legislature which provided for the separate education of the races was constitutional. .** how to get rich—Live on air and sleep on a clothes -line. RULES FOR PLAYEN ONTO A OR- GAN IN MEETIN'. When the preacher conies in and neals down in pool -pit. pool out all the stop- pers. That's wot the stoppers is for. When a him is gave out to be sung, play over the whole tool' before singin, but be Ore to play it so they can't tell whether its that toon or some other tome It will unloose the people to gess. When you play the interlude, some- times pull all the stoppers out, and some- times pull them all in. The stoppers is made to pull out and in. Play from the interludes into the toon without lettin them know when the toon 'begins. This will teach them to mind their business. Always play the interlede &es., 44 , slower than the toon. This will keep it from being the s.arae thus; as die toon. It the preacher gives out 5 virces play 4. Too many virces is teejus. Doorin the sermon go out of the church and cum back in time for the next toon. This will show that you don't mean to be too hard on the preacher by havin tew many listenin too him at wonst. A GREAT GOOSE. A correspondent of the Hartford Times, who wants to equal the stories of intelli- gent animals, he has read, sends the fol- lowing : \A lady in East Granby obtain- ed of a friend six goose eggs and set them under a favorite hen. Atter four weeks' incubation, under great difficulties, the hen came off with one healthy gosling, who caused her much trouble in conse- quence of his recklessness in getting his feet wet. Still, there was great affection manifested by both parent and child. But the hen gradually grew ashamed, either of herself or her strange chicken (which had outgrown her), and she sought an- other nest, in a retired place, and com- menced sitting for another brood. The go -ling wandered \lonely as a cloud,\ until she at last made her appearance with a fine brood of chicks. The gander at this time had obtained considerable size, and labored hard to help support the large family of his half brothers and sis- ters. He would spread his wings and brood the chicks and protect them from the rain, and drive offal! the other fowls who interfered with his adopted family. Ile would go out to the field and bring in an ear of corn and shell it of! tor the chicks ; and woe to any other biped who attempted to share the meal. At last the industrious hen again went to work for another nest, and then the whole charge of the family devolved upon the gander. And he was faithful to his trust. And to- day, if you will to to the farm -house of Mr. Scale-, you wilt see one of the finest of his species you ever saw, still attached to his mother hen and her family, who, apparently, fully reciprocate the feeling.\ THE DELUSIONS OF SMELL. To complete these details, it remains to say something of the delusions of the sense of smell; for this sense, like the others, has its aberrations and hallucina- tions. The delusion of smell are hardly ever isolated; they accompany those of hearing, sight, taste, and touch, and are also less frequent than the latter. Insane peop:e, who are affected by them, com- plain of being haunted by fetid emana- tions, or congratulate themselves on in- haling time most delicious perfumes. Le - hit mentions the case of a woman, an in- mate of La Salpetriere, who fancied that she constantly perceived a frightful stench proceeding from the decay of bodies she imagined buried in the courts of the in- stitution. Impressions of the kind are usually very annoying. Bierre de Beis- mont relates the account of a woman af- fected by disorder of her senses. Whenever she saw a well -dressed lady passing, she smelt the odor of musk, which was intolerable to her. It it were a man, she was distressingly affected by the smell of tobacco, thought she was quite aware that these scents existed only in her imagination. Capeliui mentions that a woman, who declared that she could not hear the smell of a rose, was quite ill when one of her friends came in uvaring one, though the unlucky flower was only artificial. Such fleets might be multiplied; but as they are all alike, it is not worth while to mention them. The latest observations made in an insane asy- lums—among others, these of 31. Pro- vost, at La Salpetriere—have shown also that delnadena and porvemioos mf Int. sense of smell are more common than had hitherto been supposed among such in- valids, and that it' they usually pass un- noticed, it arises from the fact that noth- ing spontaneously denotes their exist- ence.—Fernand Papillon, in Popular Sci- ence Monthly for December. SEX IN CONVERSATION. The old-time complaint regarding the burden la - lies in general conversation is mostly obsolete. In our day women, on the whole, talk in society quite as well as men. They are not quite so epigram- matic, and sometimes lack condensation; but they are decidedly more sprightly, and tell any story which requires quiet dramatic expression a good deal better. Their grand deiect in conversation is ob- ligingness. If the subject started is a bore to him, or one he knows nothing about, the nem will change it or be silent; but a woman will often go on, out of mere ob- Ihringness. with a show of interest whieh is visibly pretense, and a series of replies which are vapid as white of egg. NO 111a3 talks as bad:y aa most nennen on subjecte they care nothing about, for no man who. under those eircumstanees, talks at all. hesitates to be a little bitter— and vanilla, be it nice or not, has at worst more flavor than cream -cheese. But the serene flow of' woman's talk helps might- ily to prevent conversation Iron) degener- ating into intellectual duelling—which, though amueing for two minutes, is a weariness after rive. and to be perfect should be arrested after two shots each. 1Voinen, moreover, u - ake up talkativeness in men—an attribute of the sex which is too often overlooked. A BOLD PRIEST. There is a story told of a pow country pricet who preached such exeellent Ser- meas that the fame of them came to the care of the Cardinal Archbishop of the diecese, who felt his curiosity excited, and determined to go and hear for him- self. He accordingly set out one Sunday morning, be and his suite—chaplain, vi- car -general, and secretary—and, arrayed in lull canonicals, invaded the small elmrch filled with wonderiug bump- kins. The poor priest had not counted on sich goodly company; but the sight of the cardinal seemed to have very little eaert upon him. He went through the service in his usual simple manlier, and afte , ;ward preached a sermon of such im- preesive eloquence that the cardinal felt esoved, and followed him into the vestry when mass was over to compliment him. Probably his eminence was not more ex- empt than others from the occasional Ellin - ye of saobbishnesst for, after having offered his praises; he could not resist the temptation Vadding, \I congratulate you the more, sit, that I was afraid my pres- ence might perhaps render you nervous, and prevent you from speaking with your ordinary excellence.\ \ Oh, no, my lord,\ answered the priest, with a mild look at the cardinal's scarlet robes; \ I make it a point in preaching to look upon my congregation as so many cabbages; and a red cab'eage more or less makes not the slightest differente.\ We are told that the priest was promoted to a richer benefice after this retort, but it cannot have mattered much in his case; for a man who could have found such an answer was sure to make his way in life. VERY LIKE A WHALE. A remarkable discovery of allying frog in the heart of a large tree was made in the city yesterday. Three or four days ago, a section of a sycamore tree, four feet in di tuneter and three feet wide, which was intended for a butcher's block, was received by Frederick Dickman, whose shop and grocery is on the corner of F and Washington streets, a short distance south of St. Paul's church. It lay at the depot a day or two, and, was tla n remov- ed to his premises. Yesterday it was placed upon its side, and cut into two equal sectious with a cross-cut saw, thus making two blocks of the same size. In the centre of time tree an irregular fissure was discovered, which measured six inch- es in length and three -eighths of an inch in width, which fissure extended into each block: One of the blocks was placed up- on its end, the newly -cut surface being uppermost. Dicknenehappening to look lute (Ito earrovv crack, noticed The green and shiny surface of what he supposed was a snake. Having procured a small stick, he thrust it into the orifice, when a green frog jumped out, and tell, appar- ently lifeless, upon the surface of the block. In a few minutes it commenced to breathe, the pulsations of the blood could be plainly seen on the under sur- face of the throat, and it soon revived. Dickman placed it in a glass jar, half-fill- ed with water, when it immedietely climb- ed up the slippery surface and . stuck to the side of the glass, where it could he plainly observed. Its back is a bright green, and the under portion of' the body la a pale blue, like the colorless . appear- ance of vegetable which have grown in a dark cellar. It is about three inches in length, and is evidently a tree frog (mita hy'a). It is still alive, and seems in a healthy condition. Dickman informs us that g croaked, or sang rather, at inter- vals list night. Any one having a curi- osity in such matters can see the frog at his eitablishment, as he intends preserv- ing is with great care.—Virginia (Nev.) Chanicle, Dec. 3. A MARSHAL OF THP*, Among the Americtins who attended a ball given at the Hotel de Ville, Paris, when John Y. Mason was our Minister there, was Jack Spicer, of Kentucky. Jack rushed the dress somewhat strong. and sported epaulettes on his shoulders large enough to start four Major -generals in business. Jack was the observed of all observers, and got mixed up with a party that his triends could not account for. Wherever the Marshals of France went, there went Jack—and when the Marshals sat down. Jack did the same. always taking the post of' honor The day after time ball, Jack called on our Minister to France, who stated up a con- versation in the following way : t near, Jaeli l you were at. me Dan last evening.\ \1 was, sir, and had a hiell old time.\ \For which you were indebted, I sup- pose, to the high old company you got mixed up with. By the way. how came you associated with the Marshals 1\ n How? By virtue of my oflice. They were Marshals of France, while I am nothing else than a Marshal of the Re- public. I showed my commission, and took post accordingly.\ By the right of your office What do you mean ?\ \ Read and see !\ Here Jack presented Mr. Mason with a whitey -brown paper, with at seal big enough for a fonr-pound weight. \ What in time name of heaven is this?\ \ My commission of 'Marshal\ I re- ceived in 1850, when I aseieted in taking the census in Frankfort.\ \ You don't mean to say you travel on th d ' on't mean anything else. That makes me a 'Marshal' of the Republic, and I intend to have the office duly bon- ore i d r ..\ 3mas on allowed that Jack was doing a very large business on a very small cap- ital.—Cincinnati Star. BrighalT1 Young's poor health is thus pleasantly alluded to by the Salt Lake Tribune. \Age and disease, aggravated by the reflections of an ill -spent life, have notified this old, bad man that his sands have run the course of wickedness.\ TILE COST OF LIVING NOW AND BEFORE THE WAR. The compaeison of the prices of the staples of the country in wholesale mark- ets in November, 1859. '64, and '74, shows that prices are nearly as low, and in some cases much lower now than before the war, if they are reduced to the gold standard. Wheat is selling at about the same prices in cnriency as it sold for in gold in 1859. Corn N sailing for half what it did in 1864 (the year when gold touched 285), and about the same price. gold values, as it did in 1859. Cotton is a little more than in 1859, but is about one-mulh the price reached in 1864. Pro- visions, sugar and cease shows a heavy decline, but the present currency quota- tions are above the gold peh'os of 1859: Dry goods show a great decline since 1864, prints being below the prices of 1859. Beef was rather higher in the local market before the war than to -day. Sales were reported in the New York Ledger in November, 1858, for 7 to 9 cents per pound. The corresponding cattle re- port published this year quotes sales at from 4 to 7 1-2 cents. But before these articles reach the consumers, items of cost are added to them, which have not been reduced in proportion to the reduc- tion in prime cost. The tax -rate of 1859 on real estate was $1 75 on a very low valuation of property; to -day it is $2 20 on a cash valuation. A house which was worth $1,500 in 1859 could not be bought for twice that amount now, and rents are from two to three times as hOl now as before the war. While it is true, there- fore, that what are often called the \nec- essaries of life\ have been reduced ill price at wholesale to nearly the price . which ruled in 1859, it is not to be infer- red that the cost of living to working men has been correspondingly reduced. Pro- visions consume about one-third to one- half working men's incomes. The other halt' is ex ended for rent, clothing, fuel. lights and other expenditures ofall kinds, and in many of these there has been no reduction from ante -war prices. But with a reduction hi the prime cost of pro- visions, there will undoubtedly come in time a reduction in the value of things for which corn, beef, wheat, etc., are ex- changed; in other words, a reduction in all the many things which together make up the real cost of living.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. 1 1,2 311 1 ••-•-•••41_ e A ROMANTIC GANG CU ROBBERS. The Paris police have just captured a remarkable band of robbers. They are women, who hab!tuaily passed as men, and, in blouse and trowsers, sought what they could devour Th e hand w as we n Or'-ranized, and leal long pursued its ca- reer triumphantly. A certain Aunette Roux, Alias Troppman, was the chief. and to her boldness the society owed its origin. The six did not live together, but they dwelt within a short distance of each other, all on time route to d'Asnieres. Three are married. The long immunity they have enjoyed is owing in part to their habit of disguise, and part to saluta- ry rule which forbade them to \operate\ in Paris itself. There is prey as rich out- side the fortifications, and not a title so much of danger. So things went on sat- isfactorily with Troppman and Company mail it happened to Mile. alias Madame Henry to fall in love. She fell very deep, indeed, and the object of her young Alec - lions WSS Alfred Robert, a carman, who squinted but was in other respects an Apollo. Like King Gyges, of classic memory, Mlle. Poillu could not resist time deb. - 1st of showing her treasure to en- vious rivals, and she presented her charm- ing carman to Mlle. Selater, alias Bis- marck. Soon was this confidence regret- ted. Black suspicions of her friend arose. One day the rival ladies concluded it was time to betake themselves to action. They drew long knives and hacked each other, while M. Robert looked on like Baal. The police ran in, the ladies were arrested, and in their wrath they de- nounced each other and all the band. All six are committed for trial. THE DOG SAVED THEM. An army officer relates this queer inci- dent: Corporal John Smith, with four men, were employed recently on detail duty a few miles from Fort Sill, Indian Territory. They - were surrounded a hundred Comanches with hostile inten- tions. The soldiers took to the only available shelter, an old buflitlo wallow, %N•here, in an uncomfortable positioe, they managed to protect their bodies and hrrp time Ultimatum at a tiultance for the day and night. The. next morning, sealing for food and water, something energetic had to be done. Corporal Smith tore o;i a piece of his white shirt and wrote on it at note describing their situation. He tied titis to the neck of a small shaggy mon- grel do:r. Nvliiith had followed them from die fort; tie n battering up a canteen, he fitstened it to the animal's tail, and giving him a kick, started him off yelping. The corpor. I says the dog \jest humped him- self.\ The Indians, thinking it a mere act of bravado, paid no attention to the dog. Within two hours he reached the fort, and aid was immediately sent to the besieged soldiers, the Indians making on' at the first sight of the rescuing party. sae. You will remember the things that were said and done, a few years ago, when the keeper of a log house of ill- faiime on Water street. New York, \be- come converted.\ I thilik he was known as \John Alien. the wickedest man in New York.\ Something of the saaie kind was seen amid heard here the . other night. when Bendigo, a worn-out prize- fighter, was paraded on the plattbrin of a chapel. \It is two years,\ said Bendigo, - since Jesus came to me and had a bout with me, and I can tell you that he lick- ed me in the first round.\ The most cu- rious thing connected with this affair is that respectable journals here publish columns of this kind of stuff, which to your simple Christians, seems very much like blaspheuay.—London Letter from New York. TERRIBLE DISCLOSURE—THE REL ICS OF AN OLD CRIME. John Martin. an old Mexican, who lives a few miles below this place, has a small garden ranch, on which is situated a fine spring. A few months since, the spring not supplying - sufficient watts' to irrigate his garden, Martin employed some three or four Indians to clean out and enlarge It. Aftet digging do ell a short distance he found an immense quantity of loose rocks of all size, which he proceeded to remove. After doing so he found sever- al human skeletons. On making this discovery the Indians became somewhat excited, and expressed a desire to stop work; but after much persuasion, Martin succeeded in getting them to work again, and in a short time they took from the spring nine skulls and other bones be- longing to the human frame. The In- dians refusing to work any longer, and the water coming in so fast, he was com- pelled to give up work for the time. Martin is confident that there are several more yet in the spring, and as soon as possible will remove them. Those taken out were taken a short distance from the spring. The skulls are evidently those of white persons—of all ages and sexes— infanta, children and adults. Besides these were also found glass bottles and other conveniences used by emigrants in campinoe also a quantity of flint arrow heads, such as are used by the Pit River split ball. The Indians profess to lw wholly ignorant of the matter, yet all the circtunetances give evidence that an emi- grant train was murdered here many years ago, and that the Indians are au- thors of it.—Modoc (Cal.) Independent. FIFTEEN DOLLARS TAKEN FROM EVERYBODY. Somebody has figured out the interest- ing fact that the total amount of State. county, city. and town taxes collected in the United States in 1870 was $2S0,591,000. which was about $7 a head for the entire population. The total amount of these taxes collected in 1860 was $91.186,000, which was about $3 a head for the entire population. It cost, therefore, more than twice as much to take care of a man in his State. county and municipal relations in 1870 as it did 10 years before. This does not include the Federal taxation. The net ordinary expenditures of the Federal Government in 1870 were $164,- 421,000, which was $4 30 a head for the entire populatien. In 1860 they vere $60,000,000, which was $1 94 a head. In 1860 they were $37,165,000, which was $1 60 a head. In 1840 they were $24,- 139,000, which was $1 40 a head. It will be seen that while there was an increase of 54 cents in the per capita cost of Gov- ernment from 1840 to 1860 there was aim increase of $2 36 in the rate in the last decade, the rate being more than doubled. In this estimate we do not include the an- nual interest on the debt, this, added to the net ordinary expenditures for 1870, would make the pC7' capita cost about $8. A JILTED WOMAN THROWS VIT. ROL. Maggie Dehl,apparently twenty-two years old, was arrested the other morning for throwing vitrol ou Felix Kennedy, conduc- tor of a street car. The girl, who is a fine looking young woman, says she had been engaged to be married to Kennedy, and he had broken his promise. Kennedy says that Miss Dehl got in the car and took a seat. Ile had been told she intended to in- jure him, and was on his guard. She drew a vial of vitro! from her pocket and threw the contents on him. Raising his hands he saved his eyes, but his face and neck were were burned. His overcoat was destroyed. He put her off the car, when she was taken into custody by Special Officer Cook, who took her to the Middle District station. Other evidence showed that Henry A. Rodgers. druggist, who was a passenger in the car, received a portiomi of the acid on his face and neck, burning him severely, but he quickly got out of the car and went to a drug store near by, and applied oil to the burns, thereby preventing more serious results. Prau Wells, also a passenger, had his pantaloons sprinkled and eaten in holes by the acid. At the station it was discos - - ered that the young woman also had receiv- ed injury from the destructive acid which she had scattered about 80 recklessly. Some of it had got into her left eye. Dr. Rey- nolds, who was called in to attend her, thought at first that the sight would be de- stroyed. but had hopes of saving the or- gan.—Baltimore Sun. THE ROTHCHILDS WOMEN. The Jewish Messenger says: \ We take pleasure in referring to the merits of the Rothehild family, not because they are wealthy, but for the simple reason in spite of their wealth they strive to be useful to their kind. the men are immersed in business, they are charitable. But the people will say it is easy to be charitable if you are rich. The women are puldic-spir- ited, intelligent and warm-hearted—found- ing hospitals, reformatories, children's homes, endowing scholastic institutions, encouraging struggling professionals, and taking a personal interest in the doings of the poor. Baroness Lionel makes weekly visits to the meanest portions of London, brightening the home of the Jewish arti- san, giving her good counsel to the earn- est teachers of the free schools, the mat- rons and assistants,of the various charities. The daughter of Alphonse, of Paris. teach- es a good lesson to her sisters in faith, and the rich young ladies of every creed, by re- ceiving a well -deserved diploma as teacher. Ansehn's daughter in Vienna is prominent in music, not only composing songs that at- tain popularity,- but aiding struggling Mu- sicians by pen and purse.\ A perverse inebriate at an anniversary dimmer having fallen under the festive board at a disgracefully early hour; was strongly urged by his companions to get out and take the air. \Never\ said he, \ Dever: a thousand times never:\ But they, nev- ertheless, took him quietly up and set him out in the garden. I'm out here,\ said he. \by brute force. Thaz way (hie) Pm out here; but 't yer think I'm goin' to take titer rail', yea' fooled.\ Bismarck has Kullman's pistol for a mantle ornament. THE MADISONIAN —IS— PUBLISHED EVERY SA'TCADAY —AT— Virginia City, - - Morten. THOS. DEYARMON, Mita. an Proprietor' J. R. WILSON, Associate ad Loeal Editor. Papers ordered to any address can be changed to another address atthe option of the subseriber, Remittance by draft, check, money_ order or registered letter !nay be seat at our risk. THE MADISONIAS La d6toted to the advocacy of the yrinciples of the DeMoi:ratie party and te general and local news. A CORONER'S BOY. He is a boy of deep thought, and hi much given to deductions. The coroner is not his father, but be is a lad IVIeo . was engaged to mind the office, shake ttp . the coal stove, and answer inquiries, lie is a good boy, and he has learned to sy in pa- thize with reporters. When there has be n an inquest the boy puts on a cheer- ful look, and he has the whole ease so that he can rattle it off from beginning to end. \Awful sad case,\ he says to the re. porter. \They found the old man hanging to a beam in the woodshed, still and cold. Splendid chance for you to' say that his wide-open eyes seemed to glare down upon the coroner, and that he had one arm stretched mIt, as if to shake hands with the grim monster Death. You can say that the body sway- ed to and fro in the night breeze :doming as through a broken pane, and that au owl sat on the beam over the corpse, and uttered his mournful ehoo-hoo!\ And then lie rubs his hands, his smile . grows broader, and he continues: \Business has begun to pick up, and there may be nal inquest every day :tor a week. I hope so, for I like to see busi- ness moving and money confines in. ria looking eery day for a case of murder— throat cut from ear to car—blood-stains on the wall— blood-atained knife on the floor—marks from a fearful struggle— desperate villain, and so forth. If you don't happen to be around, I'll send a boy down.\ But there are other days when he ia sad, and he says to the reporter: \Nothing to -day. I'm sorry, but you know we can't push business as grocers do. Advertieing won't help us a cent's worth, and the holiday season is no bet- ter than any other season. I wish I had a case for you, and if anything turns up I will conic down myself and give you the points. There's lots et' folks who' might as well commit suicide as not, but they don't seem to care whether the cor- oner has one case a month or none at all. Be patient, and wat'll try and turn up something to -morrow.\ Who could help but contract a rever- ence for such a boy?—Detroit Free Press. sies-a.dos SECRET ASSAS:ANATIONS IY SOUTH AMERICA. A Buenos Ayres paper says: \Au Im- portant discovery has just been made. For some time past well-known resi- dents in Isidro have frequently disappear- ed without any thing being subsequently heard of them. A train from the North recently - left a case at the San Isidro sta- tion, and the persons to whom it was con- signed innnediately applied fur it, and left for a lam in the neighborhood, on which there is a solitary house. Rumors of revolution which had been current led the Justice of the Peace to be on the qui rive, and, happening to notice the case,' he imagined that it might contain arms for the use of some of the suspected reb- els. Ile therefore ordered aome police- men to follow the case and examine it on its arrival at its destination. It wag tar- ried into the house through a doorway so narrow that entrance even one at a time was difficult. They found them- selves in a narrow and short hallway, amid. pushing on, entered a room about live yards square, in which vere a num- ber of skeletons and bones and other Inia man remains. On the wall in the end was an inscription in Italian, meaning . So die all traitors.' Another large room was then examined, and a large cellar. Nothing remarkable was found in the first, but in this cellar a large number of stilettoes, daggers, knives, pistols and other murderous weapons N'ere found. On maav of these instruments the same inscription, ‘So die all traitors,' s'as tound, and it tnny not be out of place to remember that the same words were found on the dagger Which S‘ me years ago. caused the death of the Italian Con- sul in Buenos Ayres. The cellar was full of bones. and among them the head of a Woman was observed, to Which the hair still adhered:\ • A BEAUTIFUL ANswEn. When tz.c Emperor of Germany wag lately on a visit in a distant portion of his dominions, he was welcomed by the . ehildren of the village. Afier their speak- er had made a speecra for them he thank- ed thein. Then taking am orange from a plete, he asked: \To Ay:lilt kingdom does this belong?\ \To the s•egetable kingdom. sire,\ re-: plied the little girl. The Emperor took a goli coin from hie pocket, and holding it up asked: \And to what kingdom does this be - '\To the mineral kingdom, sire,\ rel plied the little girl. \-led to what kingdom do I belong, then?\ asked the Emperor. The little girl colored deeply, for she did not like to say \the animal king- dom,\ as he thought she would, lest His Majesty should be offended, when a bright thought came, and she said with radiant eyes: \To God's kingdom, sire.\ The Emperor N'as deeply moved. A tear stood in his eye. He placed his hand on the child's head and said most devoutly: \Grant that I may be aceauuttd wore thy of that kingiOo . nn\ A large number of Washington's prl-' 'ate papers were recently brought tot light ty a tire at Alexandria, and some of diem indicate that George was fond of -sinful indulgences.\ There were sever- al bills on which some of the items were \seven packs of cards,\ \four barrels of porter,\ \ten gallons of rum,\ etc. Some fine autographs of Washington were also found. The prevalent suspicion that to spill salt is unlucky, arises from the well- known legend that Judas, the betrayer t pilled the salt at the - Last Supper.\
