The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1869-12-17
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From the Brsnfns Repabl,c..2 'o 1'nt"
Since yesterday afternoon, 4 committee
repfeienting the Treasury Department, Gen.
Butterfield and Assistant. Treasurer Tolger,
have been engaged In examining the coin in
contained III the vaults At the Sub Treasury,
and are progressing in their inspection at
the rate of about ten million dollars day.
The works. conducted in the Gold Room Of
the Sub Treasury, to which the coin is
brought, half million At ! time, on trucks
from the vaults situated n another part Of
the building. The coin is in bags containing
5000 each, and each denomination is pack
ed separately. -' '7''H: 3"' .'-... I. .1~ ''
The process Of counting Is simply this /:
An atsaeAs Of the Treasury Department at
Washington selects Z bag from the lot upon
the truck, opens and counts the contents
piece by piece. He then passes It over to
another otsacAe, who pours the coin into one
pan Of IN accurately sdjusted scale-threc
Of which are in the room m-snd In the other
pan are poured the contents of the remain
ing bags upon the truck, one after another;
the coin in each sack being weighed against
that which has been counted, and the amount
upon the begs verified. Should any percep-
tible difference in weight be noted, the con-
tents of the deficient bag arc counted, and
the error corrected. In examining small
coin, snch as dollars and quarter eagles, a
shade of difference in weight is not unfre-
qucnt, but a count of the contents has in
yariably shown, SO far, that tho amount was
| correct ,-,,. ... .-,.- ..f. .f.........
There are about $75, ,0o0, 900 gold coin,
4O,OOO silver coin, and about 4,500, ,000
gold and silver bullion in the vaults and un-
der the control of tho Assistant Treasurer.
The bullion and silver have already been
examined, and the gold coin will occupy the
time of the examiners for six or seven more
days. The committee is composed Of Mr..
s. Guthrie, representing Secretary Bout
wells Office; Mr.. Moore and Mr. Byowcr
NulCA0 VI CUuS SII VuC AHCoSUTy DCiVSl y
ment and Mr.. F. b. Tappan, President OF
the Gallatin National Bank, representing
| General Buttcrticld and Assistant Treasurer
Folger bal -' .
A MIRACLE IN KENTUcKY.--A strange
story is current among the colored people
and is exciting some of them quite too mucl
for their own happiness. 1t is as follows:
| Some time ago, mot long, however,) .
child died, and its body was duly coffined
and taken 70 the burying ground. There il
was deposited alongside of the newly open
Ell grave. After the service at the grave,
anegro man took hold Of the coffin to hand
it down into the grave, but, to his astonish
Mcnt, he could not move it. He called te
his assistance another stout fellow, and til.
two tried but failed to bulge tho coffin. Two
more came two their help, and the four hat
no more power over it than they would owe
q mountain of granite. The coffin clun,
tight to the ground - if glued. This aston
ishing turn of affairs called for an cxplana
! ton, and it was determined to open tho cof
fin and see what was inside Of il. It wa
done, and behold the child was found to b
1 alive. Further examination developed tn
fact that there was printed upon the bottom
of its feet, those words ;: ss'There has bee,
no preacher in Heaven for eleven hundrct
years" The negroes say that the Lord tii,
not intend to let that child be buried alive
and 50 took this method of preventing it.
| Is our opinion that some designing scaml
has been playing on the creduli,y of thes
people for sinister purposes. - Lering.o,
(kyD Ssatessaas, Nov. 26.
MINING UNDER the SEA-There is a vas
copper mine in England, where shafts ex
tend many hundred yards under the sea
The moaning of the waves a. they dasl
against the rock is forever sounding in thos
gloomy aisles. When the storms come, tn
sound of the waters become 60 terrific, tina
even the b0ldest mincrs,cannot stay below
but1eaye their work and come out upon Oh
earth. Overhead are~asses Of bright cop
per streaming thrpugh the gallery in air di
rcctions, travcrsed by net. work of thil
rcd veins of iron, and over ali the salt wate
drips, drips down from tiny crev,ces in tn
rock. Immense wealth of metal Is contuinc,
in these roof, but no miner dares give it an
other stroke with his, pickaxe., Alrcad.
there has been one days work too much up
on it, as huge wedge of wood driven int,
tho rock bears witness - The wedge is sl
that keeps back the sea from bursting !,
upon nthun. .5o Yet there are three tiers of gal
leries where men work day by day, no
knowing but at some fatal hour the foo,
may be upon them, rendering all escape a
hopeless 40 it was in the days of Noah Tn
awe:stricken visitor hurries away from, tn
scene. With heart appalled, in, view of th
hourly dangers. s.1, .,., \
| WHAT HORSES BRINa.-Horscs of grea
reputation, eputtalsll9s =, hare always commanded grca
prices. Al Newmarket in 1905, a bay colt
i BY Hpato, sold far r-471, ,O0o. In, the. sam