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our former rates.
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John Morrissey at, Saratoga.—M or
rissey has no otherj weakness than
getting- drunk about twice a year, anc
then he is amiable as Pontiac or Go
liath. All the rest of the year he is a
cool, measuring, gain-seeking business
rnui1 , w *th the soul of a merchant. He
owns nearly two acres of ground here,
on which are a large hotel, a pool
house for betting on horses, four cot
tages, a mineral spring, a rock spring,
and a trout pond. He has nearly one
thousand trout, and he took us out to
see them fed. Many ot them weigh
two pounds. His hotel is a substan
tial brick edifice, built on piles and
planks twenty-four feet under the sur
face. He took a swamp, piled it, filled
it, and made a paradise of it. I asked
him how much he had spent here.
I He said: "I have laid out $340,000.
j Wie first piece of ground I bought, fif
I t.V fwt front, I paid $200 a foot for.
, i never bought anything in Saratoga
at second price. If yon reflect on any
proposition over night they'll raise on
vou next morning. I keep a hotel in
connection with niv club house to be
allowed to gamble. I aim with that
hotel to pay my servants and to su|>
port the table. There are seventy
(people in my employment here. The
cook is paid $400 for the season, and
; I generally present him with $200
; when he goes away. The good ser
! vants 1 re-engage for the next year."
\ The hotel part of Morrissey's estab
lishment bears no relation whatever
to his gaming, and tin
games are
neither visible nor the players audible
from tlie dining room. His salie del
jouer is a sort ot transept to his hotel,
one immense room, lighted from the
sky, carpeted richly, with a narrow
rim of gaming tables around the sides,
No citizen of Saratoga is allowed to
play, no intoxicated person, no ver
«laut young men. Gambling has its
own class. There are some men who
game as naturally and as coolly as
they do business. Morrissey himself
never plays, except with great experts,
and men of equal purse and nerve,
Mike Ben Wood or Price McGrath.—
j Philadelphia Times.
Thk Japanese salutes by taking the
slipper off his feet. In Ilindoostan
jonc salutes a man by taking him
by the heard. The King of
Tomato stands during audiences,
jand his audiences sit down to salute
(him. The inhabitants of the Philip
pine Islands take your hand to do you
honor, and then rub their faces with
it. The Laplanders push their noses
vigorously against those of the per
sons whom they accost. In New
Guinea, when they wish you good ev
ening, they place green leaves on your
head. The Ethiopian takes the robe
of him whom he approaches and cov
ers himself over with it as far as he
can. The black kings of the African
coast press the middle finger three
times as a sign of salutation, ihe
Chinese have whole salutes, from
merely bending the knee, to complete
prostration. They used formerly to re
peat the salutations for forty days to
the embassadors, that they might» be
acquainted with them before they
were admitted to court.
Ada County.— The following items
are condensed from the Statesman:
Three families of immigrants ar
rived at Boise Monday night. A por
tion of them go to Walla Walla and
ihe remainder to the Willamette val
ley.
Louthan's fine brick building is rap
idly approaching completion.
The telegraph fioles are all set be
tween Boise and Silver, and the wire
is expected to arrive every day.
The School Census Marshal of Boise
District has completed his labors
There are 135 boys and 118* girls in
that district, making a total of 153
children who draw their per capita o
school money.
Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Hilly are happy
in the possession of a new daughter
It happened on the 24th inst.
Platt Burr has arrangements abont
completed to extend the telegraph
line from Walla Walla to Boise, and
will have telegraphic connection be
tween the latter place and Portland
this fall. Portland subscribed $10,000;
Walla Walla will furnish and set the
poles from that place to Weston, twen
ty miles; the Weston people will do
the same to the foot of the Blue moun
tains, twenty miles further; the La
Grande and Union people will set the
wies most of the wa v to Baker City,
ind Baker City will subscribe $2,500.
' ON THE* WING.
The Great Shoshone Fall:, of Snake River.
Rock Cref.k Station*, July 23, 1875.
Your correspondent found nothing
of interest between Idaho and Boise.
Everything shows signs of drouth.
Streams art* dry, or very low, ground
parched and dusty, vegetation droop
ing and losing its verdure and fra
grance.
Hon. S. Ellsworth, of La Grande,
i aï, d a party of three were booked for
1 Die I uesday s stage, consequently wo
did not leave Boise until Wednesday.
j Although hot and ou<ty wo had the
wind in our faces all dav. We ar
rived at this station Yesterday morn
iug about 10 o'clock. Here we laid
j off and visited the Shoshone Falls,
j These falls are two in number about
three miles apart. The upper or Twin
Falls is about forty feet high. The
main stream is cut into two nearly
equal streams by an Island, hence its
name. The lower or main fall con
sists of one principal and two lesser
falls. The distance between the low
er level and the upper one is about
250 feet. The main fall is 214 feet.
Approaching the river from the sta
tion, which is about ten miles off, we
pass up to the summit of the divide
between Rock creek and the river.
Then there is the general depression
of the river bed. Below this is a deep,
torturous, basaltic canyon or gorge.
From the river, proper, above and be
low the falls, this canyon is about
500 feet from bank to bank, but wid
ens as you approach the cataract from
cither direction so as to form a sort of
basin through the diameter of which
arc the falls. The walls of the canyon
are almost perpendicular, and below
the falls must be 2000 feet in liight.
I need not say that this is a grand
sight, worth any man's while to see.
The awful, the sublime and the beauti
ful combine to render tbo Shoshone
Falls a rare subject for the crayon or
the brush. The photographs of it
which I have seen fail to render it
even tolerably, and a careful sketch
by an experienced band would be a
valuable addition to Territorial or Na
tional Cabinet of Art, and is feally
something to bo desired. I have time
only to add that Mr. H. Mason, a
young man known to many in the Ba
sin, drives between Malade and Rock
creek. It was our party's good for
tune to get with him. On arriving at
Rock creek we found Mr. Lemon, of
Boise City, Division Agent, and fami
ly, stopping temporarily, during the
absence of Mrs. Trotter, who keeps
the station. Mr. and Mrs. Lemon are,'
apparently, very popular with employ
ees and travelers. We remained here
until Friday morning, and found them
very kind and obliging.
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A London correspondent of the Chi
cago Inter-Ocean writes, in speaking
of the Crystal Palace: The fountain
system is constructed on a stupen
dous scale; it consists of two series,
upper and lower. The upper has six
basins, which form one of the chief or
naments of the lower terrace, together
with a great central fountain in the
"Broad Walk," and two smaller ones
on each side of it, making in all nine
ountains. The first six of these
throw their highest jets to an eleva
tion of ninety feet, while a number of
owerjets around them curve and
jend in a variety of graceful forms.
The basin of the great central foun
tain is 1% feet in diameter, and its
lighest jet reaches an altitude of 150
feet. At each side of the broad walk
there is a water-temple, each about
sixty feet high. They are octagonal
in form, f|nd constructed of ornamen
tal iron-work, highly gilded and col
ored. Tlieiroof8 are dome shaped, and
each is surmounted by a bronze figure.
The water is forced up a hollow col
umn in the center to the roof, over
which it falls into basins below, and
from these it rushes down a series of
twelve cascades and is carried over
two stone arcades a distance of 600
feet into the great fountain basins in
the lower series. The sides of the
cascades are ornamented with bronze
fountains, tazzas supported by Cupids,
and the fall of water from a cataract
120 feet in breadth. The two great
fountains in the lower series are the
largest in the world. Their basins
are 784 feet long, with a central di
ameter of 468 feet, each column be
ing composed of 52 inch jets. When
all the fountains are in full play 11,
788 jets are discharged, throwing 120,
000 gallons of water per minute. A
full exhibition consumes 6,000,000 gal
lons, and when lit up by a bright sum
mer sun and kindled into ineflable
beauty by a myriad of rainbow hues it
forms a fairy spectacle impossible to
describe.
General Jo. Lane. —The Plaindealer
in its account of the celebration at
Roseburg, pays the following tribute
to General Joseph Lane:
"And now for the Orator of the Day,
Roseburg was favored above all her
sister towns, by the privilege of lis
tening to the one celebrity of Oregon,
General Jo. Lane, the staunchest old
Patriot that ever breathed the free air
of the United States. He gave us
items of his personal recollections of
veterans of the revolution that he had
seen and talked with; scenes at the
White House. We endorse the old
General's views of a man's duty to his
country and his country's rulers 4 His
address to the ladies was unsurpassed
and met with due appreciation, and
we hope that for many years he may
continue to broil his steak with una
bated vigor."
The Sacramento Record-Union is
publishing in full the trials for the
Mountain Meadow Massacre. Lee's
trial is now progressing, aand the evi
dence adduced thus far for the prose
cution is truly sickening^ At Beav-»
er, where the trials are held, the ex-*
citemcnt among the Mormons is in*
tense.