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••1 4111111110. cHE MADISONIAN. THE MADISONIAN s • • • • • a r. of r - be SATURDAY. FERittARY 6. 1875. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Six Months Three Months One Year adv,stinee) • • • 7 ADVERTISING RATES. THE :1 1 1 %DIMON' t N, as an advertising is equal to any paper in Montana. _ Inch ..... 1 1 heA • IncheS 4 Inches tt Indies 13 Inehes -211114.4es I .., ....4 ..,: ..v v 1.; 4 70 7. Z. I. ::.. ..1 Z.± I 1 1 4 ::„.. :••• ....... ss :: ••• ... I ... ... pri. 0. .. t‘ . •••• I .... $3 $5 $7 $8 $10 $15 $$25 5 8 9 10 12 2 :101 CI I 7 9 11 12 15 25 37'5 6 11 12 14 17 :10 451 70 10 12 15 18 24 3.8. 65) 90 IS 24 30, 34 40 55 90144) to 44) 5n 55i 85, 75 150 250 Tlif above scale of prices la for ordinary sin- le-eolu inn. display advertising - . Solid and ailvertiseinents will be charged at the tech rate ior seace occupied. LOCAL NOTICES Fifteen cenzs per line for first, and ten cents ter line for each additional insertion. CARDS, One-half inch, $11 for one insertion; $3 for t wo insertions; $S per quarter; per year. The foregoing schedule of prices will be -trictly adhered to. .a.11 ativertiaementa counted in Nonpareil measure. ..I €1J 3P.11 I IN . \IPI IN C4-, Of every description, executed in the best and neatest stsle. and on reasonable terms. NEWSPAPER DECISIONS. 1. Any one who takes a paper regularly from the Post , itlice—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 pay all arrearages, or the publisher may continue to send it until payment is made, and colleet 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 Postotlie, or removing and leaving them un- called for, is prima facia evidence of intention- al fraud. PROFESSIONAL. G. F. COWAN. Attorney anti Counselor at Law. Radersberg, Montana Territory. HENRY F. WILLIAMS, Att'y & Counselor at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE over the Post Office. J. E. CALLAWAY, _Attorney and Coun- selor at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE, adjoining the office of the Secre- tary of the ferritorv ff. As,- TofwT.E. . K. TOOLE. TOOLE & TOOLE. Attorneys at Law. HELENA, MONTANA. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. 101IN T. --11.),:r.R. T. .7. OWERLY,3 SHO3ER & LOWERY, Attorneys and voun- selovs tt Law. HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. SAMUEL WORD, Att0I•11 y at La:vv. VIRGINIA CITY. M. T. JAMES G. SPR AT T, Attorney and Coun- selor at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. Will practice in all the Courts of Montana. W. F. SANDERS Attorney and Coun- selor at Law. HELENA, M. T. ‘Vill practice in all Courts of Record in Montana. C. W. TURNER, - N\ V. It VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. OFFICE: Adjoining Colonel Callaway's. WM. F. KIRKWOOD, Attorney at Law. v RGINIA CITY. Can be found at Judge Spratt's office or Pro- bate Court Rooms. '1% ill practice in all the Courts of the Territory. Miller Sr, Addoms, Fire, Life Inmiraure, and Real Es- tate .tgents, HELENA MONTANA. I. C. SMITH, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. Office at the Old Le Beau Stand, Wallace Street where he 4_•:111 be found night or dal: E. T. YAGER. M. D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. Will practice in all branches. Office one door above the City Drug Store. H. ts. BARKLEY. M. D. Physician & Surgeon. RADERSBURG, M. T. ‘s had twenty-one years' experience in 1 in his profession—funr years of that time sargeon in the Cm in federate army. Ile is pre- pared to perform all kinds of surgery. IN FEMALE COMPLAINTS, his expe- rience is not stirpae4 by any physician in the ferritary. TO THOSE WHO HAVE VENEREAL CoM PLA I. .---tionorrhea, it called upon within live t,i after the first appearance, he will cure in seventv-two hours. In Syphilis, he .cal cure hi ave - tiasa. His treatment is different frem any physi- - _!lan in this \ferritory. lie is prepared for tieanaing Extracting and Filling 'f.te I Ii. D3. C. S. ELLIS 11[ AVING taken an interest in the Drug Department of A Carmichael 's store at silver Star, Montana,can be tounfl at all times, day and night, at said store, when not absent on professional busi- 'mess. i-astr I C. B. 'RHITFORD, M.D., Fiiy:'iician and Surgeon, DLL., MONTANA VOL 2 VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1875. ENOVEY1 1 11. - ‘ 7 . DESIRE. BY NATHAN\ ARNOLD. Thou, who dost dwell alone— Thou, who (lost know thine own— Thou, to whom all are known From the cradle to the grave— Save, oh, save: From the world's temptations, From tribulations; From that fierce anguish Wherein we languish; From that torpor deep Wherein we lie asleep Hey as death, cold as the grave; Save, oh, save! When the soul, growing clearer, Sees God no nearer; When the soul mounting higher, To God comes no nigher, But the arch fiend Pride Mounts at her side, Foiling her high emprise. Sealing her eagle eyes, And when she fain would soar, Makes idols to adore; Changing the pure emotion Of her high devotion To a skin-deep sense Of her own eloquence; Strong to deceive, strong to enslave— Save, oh. save! From the ingrain'd fashion Of this early nature That mars thy creature; From grief that is but passion, From mirth that is but feigning; From tears that bring no healing; From wild and weak complaining; Thine old strength revealing, Save, oh, savel terom doubt, where all is double, Where wise men are not strong; Where comfort turns to trouble; Where justmen suffer wrong; Where sorrow treads on joy; Where sweet things soonest cloy, Where faiths are built of dust; Where love is half mistrust, Hungry and barren, and sharp as the sea, Oh, set us free! 0 let the false dream fly Where our sick souls do lie, Tossing continually! 0 where thy voice do come Let all doubts be dumb; Let all words be mild, All strife be reconciled, All pains beguiled; Light bring no blindness, Love no unkindness; knowledge no ruin, Fear no undoing; From the cradle to the grave, Save oh, save! WILLIAM BROWN, OF OREGON. They called him Bill, the hired man, Anil she, they called her Mary Jane, And lovers often drew a rein To chat and sigh as lovers can Across the gate in snatch and catch; And women winked across their tea. And said, and truly so thought he, That she would make a splendid match. This hired man had loved her long, Had loved her best and first and last; tier very garments as she passed For him had symphony and song. So when one day, with a bow and a frown, She called him Bill, he raised his head, Ile caught her eye, then faltering said: \I love you, anti my name is Brown.\ She fairly waltzed with rage; she wept; You would have thought the house a -lire; She told the sire, the portly squire, Then smelt her smelling salts and slept. Poor William did what could be done— Ile swung a pistol on each hip, He gathered up a great ex -whip, And drove toward the setting sun. He crossed the great backbone of earth, lie saw the snowy mountains rolled Like mighty billows, saw the gold Of awful sunset, saw the birth Of sudden dawn upon the plain And every eve would W illiam Brown Eat pork and beans, and then lie down And dream sweet dreams of Mary Jane. • a • • The teter board of life goes up, The teter board of life goes down, The sweetest face must learn to frown; The biggest dog has been a pup. Her lovers passed. Wolves hunt in packs, Tip\y sought for bigger game; somehow They seemed to see about her brow The forky sign of turkey tracks. At last she nursed a new desire; She sighed, she wept for William Brown. She watched the splendid sun go down Like some great sailing ship a -fire; Then rose and checked her trunks right on, And in the cars she lunched and lunched, And had her ticket punched and punched, Until she came to Oregon. She asked a miner gazing down, Slow -stirring something with a spoon, To tell her trite, anti tell her soon 1Vhat had become of William Brown. He looked askance beneath her specs, Then stirred his cocktail round anti round, Then raised his head and sighed profound, And said \He's handed in his checks!\ Then care feil on her damaged cheek, Anti she grew faint, did Mary Jane, And smelt her smelling salts in vain, Yet wandered on waywoen and weak, Until at last she sat her down Upon a sloping hill alone; And there, good gracious! stood a stone, Anil lo! that stone read William Brown! \0 William Brown! 0, William Brown! And here you rest at last,\ she said, • \ b'ith this lone stone above your head, And farts' miles from any town. I will plant cypress trees, I will, And I will build a fence around, And I will fertilize the ground With tears enough to turn a mill.\ She went and got a hired man; She brought him forty miles from town; Then in the tall grass she sat down. And bade him build as she should plan; But Digger herders with their bands, They saw, and hurriedly the yrau Anil told a be irded cattle -man That some one builded on his lands. He took a rifle from the rack; He girt him in his battle pelt. Ile thrust two pistols in his belt. Then mounted on his charger's back And plunge:I ahead. But when they sheweil A woman there, about his eyes Ile pulletl his hat; and he likewise Pulled his beard, and chewed and chewed. At last he got him down and spike: Oh, lady dear, what do you here?\ \I build a tomb unto my dear. I plant some flowers for his sake.\ The bearded man threw his two hands Above his head, then brought them down, And cried, \Oh I am William Brown, • a • • The preacher rode a spotted inure. Ile gal!oped forty miles or more. Ile swore he neve' hail before seen bride or bridegroom half so fair. And all the miners, they came down And feasted as the night advanced; Anti all the Diggers drank and danced, And cried. \Big Injin, William Brown.\ —Joaquin NO 13. THE FLIAGRANT LIMBERGER. Some folks don't like the odor of Lim- berger cheese; but there are people that can't appreciate the flavor of a well -de- veloped pole -cat. One evening, not very long since, a gentleman had made his preparations to attend prayer -meeting with his wife. Prior to starting he came down town to his place of ousiness, and while there an acquaintance discovered that he was about to engage in Wefts s - day evening devotion. Accordingly, he put up a villainous job. Procuring a huge slice of the most fragrant Limber- ger cheese co be had, he watched his op- portunity, and just as the gentleman stepped out of the door to go home for his wife, slipped it in his pocket. The parties repaired to the church and were soon seated side by side in a comforta- ble pew near the stove. Soon the cheese began to grow loud. The sisters turned their heads about and looked as if a kraut barrel had exploded. The deacons ele- vated their noses and thought of the third plague of Egypt. The preacher smelled a great smelt, and the wife of the unconscious odor casket nudged her spouse and inquired if he didn't smell something. \Mariar it's awful,\ he res- ponded; \it must be in the coal.\ The more the assembly speculated the louder the odor became, and finally all hands united in hurrying the proceedings to a close. Arrived at home, and while pre- paring to retire, the gentleman discover- ed the cause of the unpleasantness, and removed it on a couple of chios.—lowa State Register. A GOOD STORY. A good anecdote is given in a journal published at Nancy, the authenticity of which is guaranteed. It appears that a Prussian prefect in the annexed provin- ces of Alsace and Lorraine was visiting the different localities over which he had authority. On passing through a small village in Lorraine, he asked the old priest to show him over the church, and espied a silver rat in a case high o%er the altar. He immediately asked what it meant. The good father replied that many years ago the village had been overrun with rats, and as a last resort the peop:e clubbed together and offered a rat in solid silver, life size, to the Virgin, since which time but few vermin have been seen. \Do you mean to say that they believe even to this day that an offering of a sil- ver thing can free the country from ver- min?\ \I am afraid not,\ quoth the good father. -Men have grown impious now- adays, but I am persuaded that did they believe it, they wouli ere this time have offered a silver Prussian, life size, at the altar of the Virgin.\ The prefect looked hard at the old cure, turned on his heel, and strode out of the edifice. PLANS FOR REMODELING THE CAPITOL. One of the subjects which is likely to come before Congress this winter is the project for extending or remodeling the older portion of the Capitol building. Two thousand dollars were appropriated at the last session for plans for this great architectural improvement, and two sets have been prepared. one by Mr. Clark, the present architect of the Capitol, and another by T. U. Walter.of Philadelphi,a his predecessor, who was the designer of the two new wings of the Capitol. The latter bias prepared two schemes: the first contemplates the extension of the east front of the central portico for a distance of 270 feet, completely changing the pres- ent ensemble, and giving an immense in- terior space, in which room would be found for the national library, now cramped for room in its quarters in the weatern side of the building. The other idea is to extend both the east and west fronts about 100 feet, by givin4r larsely increased accommodations for the library in its present location and providing a number of large rooms in the easterly portion of the building for miscellaneous purposes. This plan con- templates a graild colonnade extending the whole length of the east front, from wing to wing, but preserving the present irriarular conformation of the facade in a modified form. It provides a new pas- sageway between the Senate Chamber and Hall of Representatives, running along the eastern side of the building, and private entrances from each wing to the library on the western side. The perspective view of the latter plan shows the Capitol building a grand architectu- ral unit from whatever side it is viewed and is regarded with much favor. The Library Committee of the Senate will present a report to the Senate upon this subject at an early day.—Washington star. -\• - • - • - • - •-. 1 1 , 11111 10 ..10\... 1 1111 4- A MULE WILLING TO GO. A bad little boy in Portland lit a pack of shooting -crackers, and thew them into the street to see them -go off.\ One of Ike Batman's mules came along and swallowed :hem before they t'went off.\ The mule walked about fifteen feet and stopped. He began to taste the smoke ot lire -crackers. He laid his left ear around against his ribs, and heard some- tning. It was them crackers having thn. The mule picked out about three and a half miles of straight road and started. A negro met him about a mile the other side of the alins-house, going south, white with perspiration, with streams of smoke shooting out of his noatrils, mouth aud ears. while his tail stuck straight up. and a stream of blue and green smoke about ten feet loni . followed in the rear. Ike found his mule yesterday morning sticking half way through a farm -house near Paddy's Run, still smoking. The man had got his family out and put 'ern up into a lot of trees. Ike hauled his mule home, when he got cool enough, on a dray. The man is going to move his house further back off the road, and his wife and oldest daughter will be bap- tized when the water gets warm.—Cour - ier-J ournal. HUMOR IN SARCASM. The sting of sarcasm lies in the inten- tion of the speaker, and one may trust that the best of the pleasantries over which succeeding generations have made merry, were uttered with enough good humor to take most of the venom out of them. There was surely a genial smile on the face of M. d'Argenson when he congratulated his ignorant nephew on his appointment as librarian to the King, and observed that he would now have a tine opportunity of learning to read. Il- luminated with a gracious smile must al- so have s heen the famous retort of the Prefect's wife upon Napoleon. She had been an object of gossip, and Napoleon meeting her at a state ball, rudely ad- dressed her, \Well madam, are you as fond of men as ever?\ The poor lady had enough presence of mind to answer, \Yes sire, when they are polite,\ upon which the Emperor turned away rather abruptly, and illustrated the littleness of his mind by depriving her husband of his place three days later. And the alleged impertinence of the celebrated Abernethy must have been relieved with a grim hu- mor and bonhomie that took away much of their grossness. The Duke of Nor- folk, who applied to him for treatment, probably enjoyed as well as needed an heroic diagnosis, for he notoriously paid little lttention to his person. \Did your Grace ever try a clean shirt?\ asked the doctor, and what a free masonry of good fellowship is implied in the very terms of the question! It is difficult to draw the line between what is permissible in con- versation and what is not. Reflections on the moral character of anybody while that person is present are unpardonable, however brilliant may be the Wit in which they are wrapped. Of course there is a further rule which is very comprehen- sive—namely. that nothing should ever be said that will iii any way give pain to any person within hearing. But while human nature remains as it has been from the beginnhor, men can hardly be ex- pected to refrain from a thousand and one ways of suggesting to each other that they are fools. A LOWEL MILL -GIRL. The life of the factory girl is a hard one. The great clamorous West demands men and leaves to the East a population drained of bone and sinew, with more women than men to fight the hard battle of life. Girls must earn the bread which sustains them in Massachusetts, and the story of the Lowel operatives has become an old one. From morning till night the weary spinners work and upon a ittance strive to secure the necessaries and com- forts which make life endurable. It is not wonderful that they seek to exchange the hard struggle for a life of ease and rest which they can de so rightly, and proof of their trength and virtue that so few of teem yield to evil temptation. They seek to make the best of things as they are and to assert their rights as they may. A typical girl was she who, dis- couraged and indignant, answered the other day her boarding -housekeeper who was lamenting the fate of a boarder who had married a grocer of limited means. Said this brave and logical mill -girl : \What's the use o' talking? You keep US on bull beef at $4 a week and then ex- pect us to be contented angels !\ • 0.41 THE NEW SHAFT. The new California and Consolidated Virginia shaft, better known as the C. and C. shatt, although recently commenc- ed, already begins to present the appear- ance of regular hoisting works. A large building has been erected over its mouth, an engine is in full operation, the shaft is down a distance of 75 feet, and a dump - pile extends from 25 to 30 feet down the hill, and is in miniature that which it will become when the shaft has been -sunk to the required depth. There is Plenty of room to the eastward to extend it, even should it in future time equal the proportions of the Savage dump or that of the Gould and Curry. A large amount of lumber is being hauled upon the ground for the purpose of timbering the shaft, and the neighborhood exhibits a lively appearance. Three months ago it was one of the most barren localities about town. but now an army of work- men are engaged in the vicinity, the scream of steam -whistles and noise (A' en- gines are heard. team-ters are making new roads through the sagebrush, and a portion of the city which was heretofore deserted and without attractions ot any kind, has suddenly sprung iuto a new ex- istence.—Virginia Chronicle. A DIRTh GHOST STORY. Birds have a great fear of death. A hen canary belonging to the author died while nesting. and was buried. The sur- viving mate was removed manother cage; the breeding cage was thoroughly purified, cleansed, and put aside till the following Spring. Never afterward, however, could any bird endure to be in that cage. The little creatures fought and struggled to get out, and, it obliged to remain, they hud- dled close together. and moped, and were thoroughly unhappy, refusing to be com- forted hr any amount of sunshine or dain- ty food. The experiment was tried of in- troducing foreign birds, who were not even in the house when the canary died, or could by any possibility, have heard of her through other canaries. The result was the same; no bird could live in that cage. The cage was haunted, end the author was obliged to desist front all further a tempts to force a bird to stay in it.—Athezeum. An old man up in Connecticut had a poor, cranky bit of a wife, who regularly once a week gut up in the night and invited the family to see her die. She gave away her things, spoke her last words, made her peace with heaven, then about eight she got up in the usual way and disappointed everybody by going at her household du- ties as it nothing had happened. The old man got sick of it finally, and went out and got a coffin, a real nice cashtnere shroud, a wreath of hinnortelles with\ Farewell. Ma- ry Ann\ and a handful of silver-plated screws. Laying the screw -driver beside the collection, he invited her to just holler die once more. Do it,\ said he, \and in you go, and this farewell business is over.\ Mary Ann is at this moment baking buck- wheat cakes for a large and admiring fami- ly, while they dry apples in the coffin up in tile garret. “S01•10. BY THUNDER!\-WILIpNS WAS INTIMATE WITH HIS WIFE. One night, recently, a Whitehall gen- tleman was Oil the Troy train, returning home. At Saratoga a gentleman from Rutland took a seat behind the White - hailer. In a few minutes a conversation was opened between the two. Ascertain- ing that our friend was from Whitehall, the Rutland gentleman asked him if he knew Wilkins, the editor of the Times. \Know him! I ought to know him, for he is eery intimate with my wife.\ \Yoti don't say?\ replied the Rutland man, ill thstonishment. \Yes sir. I don't want it repealed, but I have indisputable evidence that he has wit hh seenn terms of the closest intimacy \But any friend, you don't live with the woman?\ \Yes sir; strange as it may seem, I do. 0 sir, you little kaow what a man will put up with from the woman he loves. This intimacy Ins been carried on for years right under my nose, and yet by the love I bear the woman I have never yet broken with mir wife.\ \But you cannot sossibly put up with such conduct on the part of your wife? If she is intimate wit. Wilkins, I should think you would branl the villain before the world. I would not submit. No sir! I would not, never!\ The Rutland man had worked himself up to a pitch of excitement, when the train stopped at Whitehall. \Good night, sir? ;aid the Whitehall gentleman, I hope ws will meet again. I thank you for the ieterest you have ta- ken in my afrairs;\ and the two gentle- men shook hands and parted. Jest then the conductor entered the car, when the Ruland man stepped up and asked him who the gentleman was he was just convsrsing with. \That man,\ said Conductor Holcomb; \don't you know him? That is Wilkins, editor of the Whitehall Times.\ \Sold by thunder!\ said the Rutland man, putting Lis fingers in his pocket and taking, oat something. \Mr. Con- ductor, will you please give him this card and accompanying $5 and tell him to send me his paper so long as the mon- ey lasts?\ THE MtN WITH TIM MELODEON. The Mal with the melodeon is not re- garded as a useful addition to a quiet neighborhood. Thousands of human beings have suc- ceeded in winning the affections of their neighbors without the aid of any matuti- nal Massaores of melody. Tie presence of a ntelodeon in an oth- erwise well -ordered community sets peo- ple to thinking. What they principally think is, \Now muelt will it cost to buy the owner out.\ Moreover it tends to make boys too festires, as it were. They hear so much about the man with the melodeon as to regard hitn as a sort of evil genius, whom it would be a virtue to annoy. Hence, in the midst of a morning salvo of \Old Hundred,\ or \The Three Blind Crows,\ he is sometimes dazzled by the apparition of a flying potato, or startled by the impact of a tomato against the opposite 'wall. Misunderstanding the meaning of these signals he plays on, and so do the boys, until a policeman surprises a couple of them, and two households are made wretched for the day. In English citieathe man with the me- lodeon is frequently beguilded into going abroad as a missionary. In France they tax his instrument 20.- 000 francs, at which he gets disgusted and moves across the Rhine. The Dutch arrest him and set him to work on the dykes for every tune he plays before the sun is two hours high. Unhappily, none of these wise provis- ions prevail in the United States, and hither the men with the melodeon flocks from all parts of the universe. In consequence of this, as statistics show, emigration to America has vastly decreased within the last few years. while thousands are going back to the mother country. Nevertheless, there is no de- ficiency of public spirit on the question. and it is believed that no indictment for arson would lie against a person who should set fire to the premises of the man with the melodeon REVERDY JOHNSON ON THE POL- ICY OF THE PRESIDENT. The address of Hon. Reverdy Johnson at the Baltimore mass meeting, upon the same day that the indignation meeting took place at Faneuil Hall, was worthy of one of the most eminently patriotic citizens of the country. The attitude of this venerable and profound jurist has I been, as all know, singularly mild and I unpartisan in regard to Louisiana mat- ters. He has reviewed the situation there, ev . en as recenth as last September, in a calm and judicial temper, and given the President the benefit of all the Constitu- tional and legal points, even of technical construction, that were in his favor His condemnation, at the recent meeting of the policy pursued by the Administra- tion and Gen. Sheridan had all the more force, therefore, because it came from a conviction unobscured by a single doubt, and inspired by aa intuitive recognition of a gross violation upon the revered principles of Constitutional liberty. His words for the President were as follows: -No reflecting and honest citizen who knows our free institutions and desires to maintain them in their purity, and who knows how vital it is to individual and political liberty that military power should be strictly held in subordination of civil power, can tail to see in what has happened and is still continuing in Louis- iana a gross and unexampled outrage upon the rights of the State, and an outrage which, if not sternly rebuked, may, and probably will, be committed upon other States and upon Congress it- self.\ Of Sheridan he observed: \Since civilization has favorably progressed un- der the influence of our Christian faith, no words ever fell from the lips of any man, civilian or soldier, which more out- rage every obtigation of humanity or ex- hibit a more fiendish thirst for human blood.\ Thus Johnson, O'Conor and Evarts have spoken, and all in condemna- tion of this inhuman Louisiana policy. PROFESSOR TYNDALL'S EXPERI- MENTS ON FOG S1GNAL:J. AN AWFUL LIAR. He didn't look like a liar. He had in Ilia a George Washington sort of face, and his enunciation was loudly honest and decidedly nasal, lie sat roas lug his alternate sides in front of a red-hot saloon stove, amid a par'y of bammers who were to outlie each other. \Talkin' about lightnin',\ said he, \I reckon none of you lazzaroni was ever struck, was you? Well, I was. You see I was out shootin' prairie chickens in Eelinoy last August, and there came up the awfulest thunder -storm I ever see in the whole course o' my life. It rained cats and dogs, an' the thunder rolled, and the forked lightnin' darted all over the sky like fiery tongues. I got behind a hay- stack that sort o' leaned over to the south, an' the first thing I knowed the lig,htnin' struck that, and set it afire. Thun I moved to a walnut -tree that stood near, an' a double-jinted bolt rip- ped that into splinters. I moved to an- other tree, an' the lightnin struck it. I hen I begun to think it meant me. an' so I jest walked out, humped myself up, an' took three or four of the d—chest claps I ever heerd. It shuk me up right pert; but beyond rippin' the coat offen my baek, an' splitten one of my blots from top to tae, it didn't do me no particular damage. But you don't find old Tim around Imam' a row of that kind agin.\ The discoinfitted bummers looked curi- ously into each other's faces for a mo- ment, and then, one 'hy one, silently arose and sneaked out, leaving truthful James master of the field, The conclusion of Professor Tyndall's inquiry into the relations of the atmos- phere to fog -signaling, and the general conditions of acoustic transparency, shows that neither rain, snow, fog nor wind. are necessarily obstacle to the pas- sage of sound, through sounds of difler- ent degrees of shrillness are variously af- fected by them to an extent riot yet ac- counted for. Many of Professor Tyn- dall's experiments were made in London during the fogs of December and Janu- ary last, but all the conclusions arrived at were also verified by causing sound -waves to 'pass through artitieial Showers and fogs, with precautions ag lust confound- ing the results of the temperature of the medium with its density. However load- ed the air might be with smoke or floc - cull, if it was continuous and homogen- eous, little or no sound was lost in the passage. The inference is that sound - signals may be used without any fear of their proving useless on the very occas- ions when they are most needed, as has hitherto been assumed. Under the most unfiworable circumstances, the Professor believes that the \siren' of the experi- ments -\man certainly be tilled on at a distance of two miles; in the great major- ity of cases it may be relied upon At a dis- tance of three miles, and in the majority of cases to a distance greater than three MASONRY -ODD -FELLOWSHIP. We may take it for granted. that so long as poor humanity is subject to ills and misfortunes and poverty—so long as the so-called Christian churches ignore the claims of sickness, human wretched- ness, and human needs, in neighbor, or stranger, (without regard to age, sex. clime or con(lition,) and consider it a more imperative Christian duty to spend money in making proselytes than in binding up the wounds of the unhorsed traveler on life's highway,; --so long, we say, will Masonry and Odd -Fellowship and kindred orders flourish. as a prime necessity of the human family—as sup- plying a want no other relizion (for this is religion) has yet cared for. Let those who traduce them show their own supe- riority in works more approved by God and the angels—if they can.—Farming- ton Press. THE DICTION IRV MODERNIZED. Sonic one whose experience has soured di8position and inado 1dm cynieal, has been supplying new definitions to old words with the following result : Honesty—A lost art. Murder—An obselete term, once used by toe ancients to indicate the transmi- gration or Embezzlement—Spelt t -h -e -f -t in the dark ages, but altered to suit panic prices, and means wealth, happiness, joy, and singing all day long. Divorce—A patented machine for sev- ering two limbs at a time. A handy ar- ticle to have in the house when mortifi- cation sets in. Territory for sale. Children—An order of animals known and divided into various species, viz: the brat species, the aged species, the duck species, the cub species, the kid species, the rooster species, and the whole species. Love—A windmill that shifts as often as the wit el. Frequently utilized to draw water and spank babiea. Happiness—A flea on the back ofa dog that has lost its front teeth. Faine—A. counterfeit bill on the top of a greased pole, which few obtain, and when obtained is found to be not worth the trouble. The dictionary when complete will doubtless prove interesting. Pat applied to the captain of a canal boat at Albany to know if he might -work his passage\ to Lockport. Jona- than said, -Certainly,\ and assigned to his Irish friend the task of leading the horses. Pat seemed satisfied for some tune, but by the time he got to Schenec- . taci t ly a new light had broken in upon him, and he inquired how much ic NVOLIld cost him if he went as a passenger; \for by the powers,\ said Paddy, \I'd almost as soon go a foet as work my passage in THE DAUGHTERS OF CAPTAIN MARRYATT-A DISGRACEFUL QUARREL. I do not know whether Miss Florence Marryatt's novels had their way to New York. If so, it nsay interest:those who read them to hear that Miss Florence is carrying on a literary fight with Miss Augusta. her sister, in which the latter, I regret to say, has already been terribly punished. Miss Augusta Marryatt was, perhaps, not far wrong when she describ- ed Miss Florence Marryatt's novels as \sensational\ and \ridiculous.\ It may even be true, as Miss Augusta Marryatt has alleged, that Miss Florence Marryatt. by her style of writing, is bringing the family name into contempt. It is cer- tain, at all events, that Miss Florence Marryatt having, long since. married Mr. Ross-Church, has legally lost au might to call herself by the name which Cap- tain Marryatt, her father, rendered illus- trious. But she possesses a pen and a public, whe!'eas her indignant sister has only a pen; and while Augusta can only protest against the novel -writing propen- sities of Florence, Florence can introduce Augusta into a novel. This she has, in fact, done. She has at the same time painted herself as a young lady of (Treat literary ability and of general excellence. A very much better person, in short, than Augusta: for which reason Augusta hates her, and is made to say against her in the novel the very words which she is known to have said against her in actual life. —London Corr. 01 the New York Sun. UNAIRED,ROOMS. _ • ,_ A writer in the Country Gentleman says: pass some houses in every town whose windows might as well be sealed in with the walls for any purpose they have but to let in light. They are never open summer or winter. In win- ter it is cold; in the summer the flies stray in, or, it' they are netted, the dust sifts through the nets. Now, I can tell a person who inhabits such chambers when I see him in the street—there is such a smell about his clothing I always wish for a sniff of cologne or hartshorn or burnt leather or something of the sort. 'to take the taste out.' A house that is never aired has every nook and corner filled with state odors of cooked meats, boiled vegetables, especially cabbages and onions, which, as the weeks go by. literally reek in their hiding -places. The very garments of the children tell the same story of uncleanliness: It is bad to have unwashed clothes, but there may be an excuse for it. But what excuse can there be tor unaired ones, when air is so cheap and tree? There is death in such PUBLINHED Evmur SATURDAY —AT -- Virginia City, - Montana THOS. DEYARMON, Editor aud Proprietor• J. R. WILSON, Associate and Local Editor. Papers ordered to any address can be changed to another address atthe option of the subscriber. Remittance by draft. cheek, money order or registered letter may be sent at our risk. THE MADISONIAN is devoted to the advocacy of the principles of the Democratio party and to general and local news. AARON BURR'S DAUGHTER. The old story of the sad late of Aaron Burr's daughter is brought to mind in the narrative of Jean Baptiste Callistre, one of Lafitte's men residing in Calcasieu, Louisiana, who writes to the Galveston News that after Lagitte abandoned his adventurous career. Chauvet, his first lieutenant, took command of the Ven- geance and sailed into the G uhf for a cruise He captured the American privateer schooner Patriot, bound from George- town, South Carolina, to New York. Ev- ery person on board was put to the sword or made food for the sharks. After dis- posing of the dead Chauvet descended into the cabin, and soon called out in an angry tone for Callistre the mate to go to him. They found him in the cabin confronted by a beautiful woman who held an empty battle in her hand, with which she had struck Chauvet, who had attempted to make too tree with her. He ordered them to tie her hand and foot, convey her on board ot the Vengeance and place her in his cabin. She fon!rlit the men and did all she could to jump overboard. Callistre says she died a few days after their arrival in Galveston. She was a very handsome woman, and the daughter of a distinguished American. Her chilling, which was of the finest inaterhil. was marked \A. A.,\ and she had a golden locket containing the ?or - trait of a beautiful boy. On the locket were the words. -To my wife Theodo- sia.\ She was buried on the island, a few hundred yards to the east of the old tort on the point. It was whispered among the men that Chauvet had killed her because she would not yield to his wishes. Callistre is very old now. He was the b.st gunner and oarsman Latitte and Chauvet ever had. He was nicknaineal L'Ecolier. L111111Ta elintabers. Dc.ttcr a 31vartn of flies or a cloud of dust; better frost and snow in a room than these intolerable sme11:3. The first thing in the morning - , Ytten you are ready to go down stairs, throw open your windows, take apart the clothing of your beds and let the air blow through it as ward as it will. There is health in such a policy. HE Y. --Ha T SCIENCE OF SUGAR -CANDY. The following is from an article in the Popular Science Monthly for January. by Professor Tyndall: \A few years ago I paid a visit to a large school in the country, and was asked by the Principal to give a lesson to one of his classes. I agreed to dc so, provided he would let me have the youngest boys in his school. To this he willingly assented, and, after casting about in my mind as to what eould be said to the little fellows, I went to a village hard by and bought a quan- tity of sugar -candy. This was my only teaching apparatus. When the time for assembling the class had arrived, I began by describing the way in which sugar - candy and other artificial crystals were formed, and tried to place vividity before their young minds the architectural pre_ eess by which the crystals were built up. They listened to me with the most eager interest. I examined the crystal before them, and when they found that, in a cer- tain direction, it could be split into thin ianlinfe, with shining surface of cleavage, their joy was at its hight. They had no notion that the thing they had been crunching and sucking all their lives em- braced so many hidden points of beauty. At the end of the lesson I emptied my poakets among the • clas-e and permitted them to experiment upon the sugar -can- dy in the usual way.\ . LOS ANGELES 11-41111 tLINNAB AR MINES. Mr. Herrick showed us a lot of cinna- bar ore, which he brought from claims recently discovered in the Sierra Madre range, opposite San Bernando. He \.says he traced the peculiar stratum for over seven miles, and the cropping denote the presence of a lead of cinnabar the entire length. To satisfy us that the yellow. rotten-lookfing rock was really charged with quicksilver, he reduced a piece of it to powder, and laying it on a copper sheet, saturated it with mariatic acid. In a short time the powder was reduced to a fine pulp. Then washing it off with water, the face of the copper plate was covered with an infinite number orquick- silver globules, which, under a magnifi- er, were brought out very strong. A species of black earth procured at the same time was subjected to the same pro- cess, and gave quicksilver results. This earth is very plentiful, and can be Shov- eled up by the cart -load at points near the base of the range. It the Sierra Mad- re is a cinnabar -bearing range, it \va1, with the transportation facilities so near it, become the objective point of a vast industrial population.—Los Angeles Ex- press. A French master, when going on horse- back to an academy for ladies, was thrown off into a ditch. When he made his appearance before his mistress, in order to apologize for the dirt which be- smeared his habiliments, he said, \Ah madame, I have fallen into the dish.\ \Oui monsieur,\ she replied, \I see it, since you are covered with the aosaey.\ tow -S --ma CREEDE WAY TO TEST SULPHILT• RETS. Since it has been found that sulphurets will pay to save in milling process, and that the country abounds in the material, we give below a hint to prospectors in testing rock, which never fails. Several veins, which ligve been heretofore cou- t , idered of little value. on account of the large amount of sulphurets contained therein, and the ignorance of the way to test them, have been found to be immense- ly rich in gold. A new eta is opened in mines here, and it will yet be found that these snlphuret veins are the ones for du- rability and wealth. This crude mode will not hold good in all cases (in all kinds of sulphuret rock), hut will bring out more or less of the precious metal, if there is any in it. \Put a piece of rock into the tire, say about the size of your fist, and heat it to a cherry -red through- out, but do not get it to a white heat, as it Will fuse an I run; take it out of the fire and gve it a gentle shower -bath, so as to cool off slowly, as too sudden a cooling will slake up the rock. When cool, ex- anlitle the rock, and if it is rick it will generally show the gold. But for a sewer test, pulverize it and \horn it out\ in the usual way. This, perhaps, is not so sure a way as the test with acids, but acids are not always at hand in the woods with the prospector. After burning-. as above, if it does not show gold, it will not be apt to do so with acids, as it scarcely, if ever fails to bring the color; that is, where the aul ph tirets are composed mostly of iron and sulphur, or arsenic, this test is good, and will notfail. But where the sulphu- rets are copper (and iron) tie test is not so good, because the copper fuses and carries everything that comes in contact with it, so if there is any gold with it, it will be covered or fused with the cop- per.\—Tuolumne Independent. WHERE IIE HAD THE ADVANTAGE, Just at the close cf the ware of 1812 a United States man-of-war entered tho Boston harbor. The commander was known as a bully of the first water. En- tering a barber's shop in Boston, and finding no one but the boy present, he demanded, in au insolent. overbearing way, \where is your master?\ -Not down yet, sir.\ -Well you may try it: but look here, my youngster (laying his loaded pistol on the table). the first drop of blood you draw on my face I'll shoot you.\ \All right, sir,\ was the reply. The boy shaved him, and did it well. Af- ter the operation was throue - le the bully turned to him as he took up his pistol,. and remarked, \Wasn't you afraid?\ \No. sir.\ retorted the boy. -Didn't von believe I would shoot you?\ -Yes, sir.\ \Then why wasn't you afraid?\ The boy very cooly replied. -Because I had the advantage.\ \Advantage! How?\ demanded the irate bully. -Why,\ said the boy with the utmost nouchalance, \If I had drawn blood I should have taken the razor and cut your throat from ear to - ear!\ The bully turned pale, but never forgot the lesson. In St. Paul they tell the story of Mag- gie Flynn. She loved and was loved by a worthy ....wing man, who hoped soon to make her his bride, but slander's enven- omed tongue poisoned her reputation and caused her lover to cancel their en- gagement. She, suffering unjustly from the cruel blow, lost her reason. and would have been carried an incurable patient to the insane asylum had not the employers of her quondam lover investigated the stories affecting her character and ascer- tained their utter groundlessness. He was traveling, but they ordered him home, told him the good news, and sent him to claim Maggie before she should be sent to the mad -house. She was with the Sheriff, who was about to convey her to her destination, when the young man came into her presence. At sight of him, the clouds that lowered on her intellect broke away, and—bridal-veils--not straight-jackets are in order. The editor of the Linn Creek Stet de- sires it to be plainly undtrstood that al- though he considers himself a public man, his woodpile is not to be considered a public wcodhlle. 1 .
