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m\ Volume xiii. Helena, Montana, Thursday, October 9, 1879. No. 47 PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY MORNING. FISK BROS., - - Publishers. R. E. FISK, - Editor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, TERMS FOR THE DAILY HERALD. Subscribers (delivered by carrier) per month, 92 00 BY MAIL. One copy one month............................$ 2 00 One copy three months......................... 5 00 One copy six months........................... 9 00 One copy one year............................. 18 00 .ERMS FOR THE WEEKLY HERALD. One year........................................$5 00 Six months......................................3 00 Three months...................................1 B0 THE WORLD FROH THE SIDEWALK Did you ever stand in the crowded street, In the glare of the city lamp, And list to the tread of the million feet In their quaintly musical tramp ? As the serging crowd go to and fro 'lisa pleasant sight, I ween, To mark the figures that come and go In the evcr-chaDgiug scene. Here the publican walks with the sinner proud, And the priest in his gloomy cowl, And Dives walks in the motley crowd With Lazarus, cheek by jowl, And the daughter ot toil, with her fresh young heart, As pure as her spotless fame, Keeps step with the woman who makes her mart In the haunts of sin and shame. How liuhtly trips the country lass In the midst ot the city's ills! As freshly pure as the daisied irrass That grows on her native hills. And the beggar, too, with his hungry eye And his lean, wan face and crutch. Gives a blessing the same to the passer-by, As he gives him little or much. When fine has beaten the world's tatto, And in dusky armor flight. Is treading with echoless footsteps through The gloom of the silent night. How many of these shall be daintily fed And shull sink to slumbers sweet, While many will go to a sleepless bed And never a crumb to eat ! Ah me ! when the hours go joyful by, llow little we stop to heed Our brothers' and sisters' despairing cry In their woe and their bitter need ! Yet such a world us the angels sought This world of or.r's we'd call, II the brotherly love that the Father taught Was felt by each for all. Yet a few short years and this motley throng Will all have passed away, And the rich and the poor and the old and the young Will be undistinguished clay, And lips that laugh and lips that moan Shall in silence alike be sealed. And some will lie under a stately stone And some in the Potter's Field ! But the sun will be shining just as bright, And so will the silver moon. And just such a crowd will be here at night, And just such a crowd at noon. And men will be wicked and women will sin, As ever since Adam's fall. With the same old world to labor in, And the same god over all. A RHYME OF THETIHE. [Nellie Q. Cone, in Scribner for September.] Mien Pallan Eudora Von Blurky She didn't know chicken from turkey; High Spanish and Greek she could fluently speak, But her knowledge of poultry was murky. She could tell the great-uncle of Moses, And the dates of the Wars of the Roses, And the reasons of things,—why the Indians wore rings In their red, aboriginal noses ! Why Shakespeare was wrong in his grammar, And the meaning ot Emerson's "Brahma," And she went chipping rocks with a little black box And a small geological hammer ! She had views upon co-education And the principal needs ot the nation, And lier glasses were blue, and the number she knew 01 the stars in each high constellation. And she wrote in a hand-writing clergy, And she talked with an emphasis jerky, And she painted on tiles in the sweetest of styles; But she didn't know chicken from turkey ! Prince Albert, to his Daughter. I am delighted to see by your letter of the ~4ih that you deliberate gravely upon your budget, aud I will be most happy to look through it, if you send it to me ; this is the only way to have a clear idea of one's self of what one has, spends, and ought to spend. As this is a business of which I bave had long and frequent experience, I will give you one rule for your guidance in it, viz.; toset apart a considerable balanco pour Vimprevu. This gentleman is the costliest of guests in life, and we shall look very blank if we have nothiug to set tefore him. Therefore keep a large margin upon which you can draw for all that cannot be calculated before hand, and re duee all the expenses capibb of previous estimate, courageously, so low as to obtain for yourself a considerable margin. Fate, accident, time and the world care very little for a previous estimate, but ask for their due with rude impetuosity. Later retrenchments to meet them do not answer, because the de wands of ordinary life have shaDed themselves a good deal according to the estimates and have thus acquired a legitimate power. Tiie Buffalo Express sends greeting as follows : "To the Marquis of Lome—Dear Kir : Do not let William Evarts get started °n one of his long sentences ; if you do it will not be completed when he has to say good-bye, and a very long correspondence *ill necessarily insue. Choke him off, noble e ir! choke him off! Instruct the Princess [° interrupt him. Have gnns fired to stop him at the first comma, and have the bells ring and the drums beat as soon as he reaches J Period. Reject this warning at your peril ; need it and be happy. i i TUE TURN OF LIFE. Crossing tue Viaduct, that Leads to tbe Valley ol Old Age. [Christian Register.] Between the ages of 45 and 60 a man who has properly rogulated himself day be con sidered in the prime of life. His matured strength of constitution renders him almost impervious to an attack of disease, and ex perience has given soundness to his judg ment. His mind is resolute, firm and equal all his functions are in the highest order ; he assumes mastery over his business ; builds up a competence on the foundation he has laid in early manhood, and passes through a per iod ot life attended by many gratifications. Having gone over a year or two past 60, he arrives at a standstill. But athwart this is the viaduct called the turn of life, which, if crossed in safety, leads to the valley of "old age," round which the river winds, and then beyond, without boat or causeway to effect his passage. The bridge is, however, con structed of fragile material, and it depends how it is trodden whether it bend or break. Gout and apoplexy are also in the vicinity to waylay the traveler, and thrust him from the pass ; but let him gird up his loins and pro vide himself with a fitter staff, and he may trudge on in safety and perfect composure To quit metaphor, "the turn of life" is a turn either into a prolonged walk or into the grave. The system and powers have now reached the utmost expansion, and now begin to close either like a flower at sunset, or break down at once. One injudicious stimulant, a single fatal excitement, may force it beyond its strength, whilst a careful supply of props and the withdrawal of all that tends to force a plant, will sustain it in beauty and vigor until night has entirely set in. The Deep Sen—Some Cartons Fishes. At a recent meeting of Christiania Society of Science, Robt. Collett stated that the deep water fishes collected during the last Atlantic expedition amounted to 23 species, and proved to be of great interest to science, as the fish had, with a few exceptions, been taken from depths which no arctic fishes had previously obtained. The apparatus employed was the so-called trawl-net, constructed on the same principle as that employed by the English fishermen of Doggersbank. Fish were taken up with that apparatus from depths of 1,400 and 1,500 fathoms. Five species proved to be entirely new to science, and k was neces sary to classify one of them under a new genus. This was caught at a depth of 1,200 fathoms, and it was about one foot long. While alive it was beautifully rose colored all over, but of so soft and gelatinous a sub stance that it was half transparent, and the heart could be seen performing its functions, and large portions of the brain, the entrails, and the whole backbone were visible through the skin. The abdominal fins were trans formed into two long, splitthreads, which gave the fish a very peculiar appearance. It was named Rhodichtys Regina , and belongs to a group of the genuine deep-water fishes which is chiefly limited to the tropic seas. Among the other species several were known only through single specimens scattered here and there in museums, and the descriptions of which are generally incorrect and defect ive. The genuine arctic gems Lyeodes, of which, up to the present time, only a few specimens have been ïound near Greenland and other places in the Polar Sea (almost al ways taken by chance from the stomachs of sharks,) appeared to exist everywhere at those great depths, where the temperature of the water is under zero. It has only been tbe lack of suitable apparatus which has until now prevented the discovery. A Two-Headed Suake. H. Semler gives in "Die Natur" an ac- count of a living two-headed snake, found on the line of railroad from San Jose to Santa Cruz, and now on exhibition in the museum of the Woodward Garden, San Francisco. It is a gopher snake (Pelicophis Wilksei.) a species which lives on gophers, rats, mice and small birds. The gopher snake is a per- fectly harmless reptile, like all the other snakes of California except the rattlesnake. The two-headed-snake is twenty-two inches in length ; its age cannot be determined, but i t is not over two or three months ; the full- çrown snake is seven to eight feet in length. Its color is a dirty yellowish-white, with a double row of chestnut brown spots along the back ; these spots are nearly square and seventy-five in number. On each side is a row of smaller spots of the same color and shape. On both of the necks up to the head are also several small spots. From the points where the necks fork to the extremities of the jaws is one inch and a half. The heads and necks are perfectly separate and about one inch apart ; each head and neck is fully formed and in every respect symmetries L i 3ach of the heads has two large eyes. The animal can put out each of the two forked tongues separately or together. The two jaws open into one throat. As each neck is perfectly flexible, the snake can turn each of its heads in any direction at pleasure. It often-time8 lays its two heads close together ; often it spreaas them as far apart as possible, or rests upon the other. It takes its food through either mouth indifferently, and both jfcws seem to possess the same power. - ■ ii I—I — * - A colored man died recently at Oxford, !ST. C., for whom the average bulldozer had a wholesome respect. He could lift a barrel containing thirty or forty gallons, and drink from the bung ; could throw an ordinary anvil twent-five yards, and could pull four men with a hand-spike at one time. He once Killed a deer with a rock, overtook and dis patched a bear with an ax, and canght and hamstrung a ferocious bulL < a JOHN PHOENIX. Hit» Experience of a Jacnass Battery How It Worked. On a certain Western Fort, some time ago, the major conceived that artillery might be used effectively in fighting the Indians, by dispensing with gun-carriages, and fastening the cannon upon the hacks of mules. So he explained his views to the commandant, and it was determined to try the experiment. A howitzer was selected and strapped upon an ambulance mule, with the muzzle pointing toward the tail. When they had secured the gun, and loaded it with ball cartridge they led the calm and steadfast mule out on the bluff and set up a target in the middle of the river to practice at. The rear of the mule was turned toward the target, and he was backed gently up to the edge of the bluff. The officers stood round in a semi-circle, while the Major went up and inserted a time fuse in the vent of the howitzer. When the fuse was ready, the Major lit it and retired. In a minute or tw r o the hitherto unruffled mule heard the fizzing back on his neck and it made him uneasy. He reached his head around to ascertain what was going on, and as he did so his body turned, and the howit zer began to sweep around the horizon. The mule at last became excited, and his curiosity became more and more intense ; in a second or two he was standing with his four legs in a bunch, making six revolutions per minute, and the howitzer threatened sudden death to every man within half a mile. The com mandant was observed to climb suddenly up a tree; officers were seen sliding over the bluff into the river, as if they didn't care at all for the high price of uniform ; the adju tant made good time toward the fort ; a ser geant began to throw up breast-works with his bayonet ; the Major rolled over the ground and groaned. In a minute or two there was a puff of smoke, and a dull thud, and the mule, oh ! where was he ! A soli tary brute might have been seen turning suc cessful back-somereaults over the bluff, only to rest at anchor finally, with his howitzer at tbe bottom of the river, while the ball went off toivard the fort, hit the chimney in the Major's quarters, rattled the adobe bricks down into the parlor, and . frightened the Major's wife into convulsions. They do not allude to it now, and no report of the result was ever sent to the war department. of "Bnb." [Detroit Free PreM.] He might have been twelve years old. He as looked like a boy who tried to grow old fast as he could. He stood on one foot be fore the desk, hands in bis pocket and heac down, and it was easy to see that he was very solemn in his mind. Plans for hooking ap ples, stealing doves and running off dogs were put to flight in his wonderment as to whether he would be cut in two with a buzz saw or sent to Jackson for life. "This 'ere boy," said the officer who made the arrest, "hit that 'ere old woman with an apple." "Yes, he did, and I'm internally injured for life," added "that 'ere" as she came for ward. His honor looked from witness to prisoner, and the prisoner's solemn look increased at the rate of a mile a minute. "I was going up Antoine street," began the witness, "and this 'ere boy was in a yard on "other side. I asked him to tell me where 391 was, and he came out and said he would for ten cents. Did you ever hear such im perdence in a boy like he ! I wanted to box his ears for him!" "And why didn't you ?" "I would, sir, if he hadn't doged!" was her honest answer. The solemn boy looked up. His serious cast of countenance was gone like a flash, and he grinned with delight as he saw how the witness had wound herself up. She saw her mistake and stammered : "I—I—didn't—that is—I didn't—" "You may go home, and I'll see to this boy," replied the court, and she went out rub bing her shoulder where the apple had struck When she had departed he looked down on the boy and said : "Young man, how mariy old women do you intend to murder this season ?" "Nun !" was the brief reply. "Why did you try to murder this one?" "She tried to box my ears, an' she was kickin' at me when 1 throwed the apple," he replied. "Well, sir, the next time you are attacked by an old woman on the public highway you must turn and flee. If you had killed her where would you be now ?" "On the gallus-," was the nonchalant reply. Now you go into the corridor with Bijah. After court has adjourned he will take soap, water and brushes and peel some of that dirt < ff your hands and feet. Don't let me see you here again." Ex-Secbetary Boutwell's speech at the Massachusetts Republican Renunion) on Monday, contained this admirable advice to the party concerning its future : "Our future as a party is with ourselves. If we dally with wrong, if we turn a deaf ear to the cry of the oppressed, if we consider questions of trade and finance, the commerce of the sea and of the land, as of more consequence than human rights, if we neglect to exercise all the powers of a great Government for the protection of its citizens everywhere, then it nan with justice be said that the Republican party bas lived as long as it deserves to live. But if, I anticipate, we are now to engage anew in a contest for tbe equal rights^ of all men with the zeal, courage and persistency which were manifested in the great contest against slavery, we shall deserve and receive a new lease of party life, and for another generation keep the Government in the bands of those by whose efforts it was saved." TOO MICH OIL. A Shameful and Awfnl Waste of Amerl can Riches. [Philadelphia Press.] Just at the present time there is a stagna tion in the oil trade that has its effect in every line of business in the oil region. The pipe lines declare their inability to manage the great volume of oil that is daily brought to the surface. In consequence, the tanks at many of the wells are full and overflowing, and the great illuminator of the world is run mug down the hillsides and through the val leys of McKean county to waste at the rate of from 1,000 to 5,000 barrels per day. In parts of the region, in order to dispose of the dangerously combustible fluid, brooks and streams in the valley are dammed and the oil accumulated in a body on the surface of the water. A number of men then gather about to prevent the fire from communicating with the wells and buildings in proximity, and the oil is set ablaze. The fires are usually made in the day time so as not to alarm the com munity with a vast fire during the night. Oc casionally the pools of oil take fire by acci dent, and are sometimes lighted by malicious persons. A number of derricks and tanks of oil have been burned along the lines of narrow-gauge railroads which pass through the actively developed portion of the field. The fires were created by sparks from loco motives. In several instances, I understand, persons who have sustained loss in this way have proceeded against the railroad company for damages. The causes of the oil backing up in such immense quanties in the produc ing region are attributed to the excess of the supply over the demand, primarily, and the lack of facilities for transportation and tank age by the pipe line companies. At the pres ent time the United and Tidewater pipe com panies have about 3,000,000 barrels capacity of iron tankage in this district attached to the lines, and it is claimed that this is most entirely occupied. Iron tankage connected with the pipe lines is owned largely by indi viduals and oil producing companies. Of course, to the extent of their tankage, the pipe companies take care of oil belonging to the owners of these tanks. The producers who are losing oil are generally the smaller ones who cannot afford to build tankage. The general storage capacity of the pipe companies is proportioned out to tbe latter producers. But, as already stated, these tank9 are about full. It now becomes neces sary for producers to do something effective to check production. A FEHININE SMUGGLER. Clothing Valued at $4,000 Taken From Mrs. Mackey. Among the cabin passengers who arrived by the French steamer Perler at New York, on Wednesday last, was a lady who signed to her declaration that she had no dutiable bag gage the name, "Mrs. M. A. Mackey." On opening her trunk the following articles were found : Six bonnets, worth about 50 francs apiece on the other side; one crimson velvet dress trimmed with otter fur, and estimated to have cost 1,250 francs; 1 lavender cash mere dress trimmed with velvet, 1 blue vel vet dress, 1 pink cashmere dress trimmed with satin, 1 brown silk dress trimmed with fringe, 1 crimson satin dress, 1 pink cash mere morning wrapper lined with pink silk, 2 crimson silk bodices, 1 chocolate colored silk dres9, 1 skirt of black silk and velvet, 1 girl's dress of pink satin and velvet, 1 girl's dress of lavender silk, 1 black velvet boy's suit, 1 cloth boy's suit, 2 capes of black lace and bead trimming, 1 black silk crape, 4 sets of ladies' fine underclothing, 3 woolen petti coats, 3 cotton undershirts, 1 velvet muff, 1 fur muff, 2 pairs of corsets, dozen fancy buttons, 6% yards of bead trimming, 2 yards of fringe trimming, 9 spools sewing silk, 10 yards of ruching, 2 ladies' back'combs, 1 em broidered pin cushion, 1 bronze night cloak and side ornaments, and a quantity of pieces of silk, wool and velvet ready to be made up. The goods are all of the finest quality and most elegant manufacture. The seizure is regarded as one of the most valuable of the kind ever made. The cus toms officers note as a singular circumstance that there were neither handkerchiefs nor gloves in the lot. Mrs. Mackey's person was searched, and from it were taken 13£ yards of deep point applique lace of the most costly description. The inspectors reported also, that the petticoat she wore looked suspicious ly like a collection of silk remnants tacked together, but it was not taken from her. Gen. Walker intends that the enumerators for the next census shall number one to every 4,000 inhabitants, instead of one to every 20,000, as formerly, and quicker work corres pondingly will be made of it. He recom mends that persons peculiarly fitted to know the population be selected, as assessors, post masters in small places, schoolmasters and country physicians. In Germany and En gland the schoolmasters are very much relied upon in taking a census, being well fitted by their daily habit of precise listing and regis tering. —The Deadwood Times says : "Deadwood : s virtually built upon sands of gold. The ( irt in our gutters yields from fifty cênts to 1 in gold to the pan. While the hoodlums are engaged in washing ont tbe gravel of the streets, miners are poshing drifts on bed-rock from ten to twenty feet below the surface. Tliis is a remarkable town. It possesses a hundred and one resources to the ingenious denizen by which to make a grab stake that other cities lack." I a in a f ALL HORTS. - —The Governor of Arizona offers $500 to any individual who shall kill a highway rob ber. The total vote,of Maine at the late election was 124,274, of which the Democrats polled but 18,559. This is a nation with a big N. And that is another capital the Confederates would like to capture. Whitehall Times: "We can not all be President, but we can educate our sons to refrain from wiping their noses on their coat sleeves." —Professor Hayden and others estimate that from 50,000 to 65.000 square miles of Montana's area are underlaid with coal and that several of the measures are yielding an excellent quality of fnel. A farmer's wife in Vermont was beset by seven tramps in a body, and yet true grit aud ten quarts of boiling water cleared her house of the gang in two minâtes by the old-fash ioned clock in the kitchen. —The Salt Lake Tribune says the bullion shipments from that city are second only to those from Virginia, Nevada, and that the mines are in a fair way to equal those of the Comstock in their palmiest days. Ohio Democrats profess confidence in suc cess. The Cincinnati Enquirer claims that not only will Ewing be elected Governor, but the Democrats will secure the Legislature by a majority of at least six on joint ballot. The New York Star gives currency to the report that Tilden has finally opened his bar rel in behalf of Ewing, by putting into the Democratic pool "fifty of the best United States documents"—otherwise $50,000. —The population of Dakota is given by counties, in the Deadwood Times, at 130,415; Lawrence county having a population of 18,000 souls, with 10,000 given both to Yank- ton and Minnehaha, and 7,000 to Grand Forks county. ---The Eureka Consolidated has declared a dividend upon the August product ($230,000) of two dollars a share, aggregating $100,000. This makes th e forty-seventh dividend which this mine has paid to Us share-holders, in the aggregate $4,050,000.— Mining Record , 20 th inst. A Southern man, who had become dis located in Iowa, has been practising his cus tomary diversion of shooting a negro, and is astonished to find himself arrested and im prisoned on account of it. He says he has shot no less than eight in Southern States, and no notice was ever taken of the matter. The Paris Figaro announces that Mr. Stewart's heirs will buy the Grand Hotel, in Paris, recently sold at auction for some $5,000,000, and transform it into a gigantic bazaar, in which will be sold "all the pro ducts of the Union, from the preserved peaches of the Shakers to the hams of Cin cinnati. The New York Sun insists that Henry Gully should be punished for the shooting of Chisholm. We are surprised at the New York Sun, says the Inter-Ocean. What will the Democracy say to such talk ? What will Henry Gully say ?. What will Henry Gully do, indeed, should he happen to meet the editor of the New York tun. In Anna Dickinson's "Ragged Register" we can't swallow what she says about Chica go as' a summer resort, Omaha's oriental air s and cheap hotels, bat when she tells that she was offered a pass over the Union Pacific and then rode on a ticket in preference, and she a professional lecturer—Anna, it is too much—send back our picture. The Oakland Tribune says the true reason why Dennis Kearney backed down from his proposition to burn Grant in effigy was, that when Captain Jack Crawford, the "Poet Scout," heard of it he called at Kearney's headquarters and left the following message for him: "Tell him that if he burns Grant in effigy, or even attempts to perpetrate that indignity, I will make it my individual busi ness to kill him." George C. Perkins, Goyernor elect of California, declares the Republican party the true conservative party of the country. Cali fornia, he says, will cast her vote for the Re publican candidate in 1880 provided the right man is nominated for President. His per sonal choice is Blaine for President and Booth for Vice President He has a great admiration for Grant, bat does not believe in a third term. Still, if Grant were nominated he thinks he would be elected. The acquittal of Gully is pronounced by the New York Sun a "telling Republican ar gument" After reviewing Mrs. Chisholm's pathetic story the Sun says : "Sneering at the 'bloody shirt' will not counteract the ef fect of scenes like this, faithfully described. They rekindle the spirit which raised and sustained the Union armies in the war, and politicians who think this spirit will down at the bidding do not understand its powe r' At the Republican jubilee in Portland the other night Senator Blaine opened his speech in this fashion : "At a dinner of the New England society of New York last December Governor Van Zandf said that he could give a very brief statement of what the Puritans did. The Dutch settled New York and the Puritans settled thé Dutch. In this election the Greenbackers settled the Democrats, and the Republicans settled, the Greenbackers. If there is a voter in New York who can not find a gubernatorial candidate to his lik ing, it will not be due to a scarcity of men to pick from. The 8tate almost rivals Califor nia in the number of parties in the field, there being five tickets, headed as follows : A. B. Cornell, Republican ; Lucius Robinson, straight Democrat; John Kelly, Tammany ; Harris Lewis, Grteenbacker, and John W. Mean, Prohibitionist