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The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-04-16
1DAHO CITY. THU HURSDAY. APRIL l6 1874 a.94

LlNcoLN's PROPHEcY.- as quo
ted IN Forster's life of him, related the follow.
ing story: "On the afternoon of the day on
which the president was shot there was a cab
met council at which he presided. Mr.. Stan
ton' being at the time Secretary of War. was
detained, and arrived rather late Indeed they
were waiting for him, and on his entering the
room, the president broke off in something he
was saying, and remarked: Let us proceed to
business, gentlemen Mr.. Stanton then MOTTO
cd with great surprise, that the President sat
with an air of dignity in his chair instead of
lolling about in the most ungainly attitudes, as
his invariable custom was; and that instead of
telling irrelevant or questionable stories, he
was grave and calm. and quite different man.
Mr. Stanton, on leaving the council with the
Attorney-General, said to him, That is tho most
satisfactory cabinet meeting have attended
for many long day. What an extraordinary
change in Mr.. Lincoln The Attorney -Gener-
al replied, we all saw it, before you came in.
While we were waiting for you he said, with
his chin down on his breast, "Gentlemen, some.
thing very extraordinary is going to happen,
and that very soon"' To which the Attorney.
General had observed. Something good, sir,
hope when the president answered very grave
ly; Il don't know; don't know But it will
happen, and shortly too AS they were all i'm
pressed by his manner, the Attorney General
took him up again: Have you received any in.
formation, sir, not yet disclosed to us!' NO,
answered the President: 'but have had a
dream. And have had the same dream three
times. Once, on the night preceding the bat
tie of Bull Run. Once. on the night preceding
such another (naming battle also not favora.
BILE to the North). His chin sank on his breast
again, and he sat rejecting. Might one ask
the nature Of this dream, sir T. said the Attor-
ney General. Well. replied the President
without lifting his head or changing his attitude
Il am on a great, broad. rolling rivcr-and am
in boat-and drift-and drift.-But this
is not suddenly raising his face and
looking round the table as Mr.. Stanton entered
let us proceed 10 business, gentlemen Mr.
Stanton and the Attorney General said, as the.
walked on together, it would bc curious to no
ticr whether anything ensued on this; and the.
areeed To notice. He vas shot that night"
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-04-16

CHARLES FRUsH left Walla Walla lately, the
Statesman of that place says, without the formal
ity of interviewing his friends. His objections
to the customary good-byes were based upon
financial differences between him and those he
loved.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-04-16

A sxEpr1c who was trying to confuse
Christian colored man by the contrary passages
were in tho Spirit and the Spirit in us, receiv'
ed the reply: r.,.,;.a do+
rotsr. nuts it in de fire and it gets red hot
how'd now de- poker'e in de ere. and Do tres 10 de
poker"
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-04-16

A HOME OF ONES own N-Human existence
implies the necessity Of food. raiment and shell
ter. A habitation is scarcely less important to
life than the question "what shall ye eat and
wherewithal shall ye be clothed9" Happiness,
in civilized countries, largely depends upon the
comforts and c0nveniencies with which home
may be invested. i'
Every man in this country, especially if he
has family, should possess home Of his own;
and, generally, this may be secured in few
years by industry, frugality and prudence. In
large towns and cities, the money expended for
rent by persons engaged in ordinary avocations
will, in few years, purchase modest home.
To be dependent upon landlords year after
year for habitation is often inconvenient and
unpleasant, besides being very poor economy.
There are many vexations and annoyances,
which few renters escape, attending their ex-
periences as tenants of other peoples houses
and tenements, while the burdens of taxation
for municipal purposes fall mainly upon the
tenants; as landlords charge the taxation i'm
posed for public improvements on them to the
rent-roll, and it therefore comes out of the
pockets of their tenants.
In house of his own, one feels not only that
he is less dependent than when occupying
tenement belonging to another. but there is an
incentive to improve and beautify home; to
make it attractive and thus add to it's value-a
motive not often present when man lives in a
rented tenement
From every point of view it is advisable for
man of family, when he has found perma-
nent place of residence, to determine to pro-
vide home for those dependent upon him.
Whether in town or the country, this is ad-
visable, and the reasons for it are so obvious
that it is scarcely necessary to refer to them.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-04-16

SAYS the Baker, Oregon, Herald, Tom Mel.
son laid an egg on the Lafayette Courier's ia.
BILE which measured u 81 inches.
We wouldn't have believed that of Tom on
less reliable authority than the Herald
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-04-16

Coon company is always good thing. bu'
too much Of good thing takes away from it
the quality Of goodness.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-04-16

SPEAKING truth is like writing fair, and
comes only by practice; it is less matter OF
will than Of habit, and doubt if any occasion
can be trivial which permits the practice and
formation Of such habit -Ruskin. 'f
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-04-16

RoCHEFoRTE, the great French agitator has
escaped to Australia, and ruinor says will soon
visit America for the purpose of entering the
lecture-feld.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-04-16
protsssiupal Cards.
JOyAS w. BROWN,

rropyry AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. AND
- pnblic, Idaho City. /. L. Wal practice
- ,s1 Courts OF the Territory. OFFICE on Com
j ..,j =. a. s.res., TWO door above Court House.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-04-16

-ropyry AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. IDAHO
l T Otfce On Montgomery street. second
;Ir above the POstoiice.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-04-16
mAHO WORLD.

-. !, aik Building Adjoining Masonic Hail. Wall Street.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-18
WEST.

spatch from Fort Dodge, Kansas,
Commanding Gen. Mills met 400 or
eynene Indians, twelve miles from Red
Texas, on the 18th OF August, and af-
short engagement, lasting five hours,
hem over thirteen miles up high hills
most impossible canons, with loss to
of twenty-five to thirty killed and
'ed- Our casualties are three badly
bd.
st. Louis Globe has reports of
ding of the bodies OF five men who
from Southern Utah last November
he mountains to the San Juan mines in
|io, and were reported last March by 3
bion named Packer to have undergone
hardships in the mountains, and fin
erished- 1t turns out now that they
murdered by Packer, who chopped off
eads with a hatchet and robbed them.
has been arrested and is now in Jail.
&c the declaration of Gen. Sheri.
at no one would be allowed to visit the
Hills eonntry without authority from
eriordepartment, meaning its authorized
. that department has been in receipt Of
> number of letters asking permission
here; but letter from the department
interior to Gov. Pennington, OF Dakota
~, states that all applications to visit
ck Hills country viii be denied, for the
that the government il bound By treaty
ect the Indians in the exclusive enjoy
that country.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-18
American Thoroughbreds.

Kentucky has been the Seeding spot
for American thoroughbreds since the
soils and grasses declined in the worked
out parts of Virginia and Maryland.
The limestone of Kentucky give bone
TO the animal; he natures early upon
the blue grass. The men of Kentucky,
bred to horseback, and adventurous
wagerers of physical spirit, have kept
mp the turf for about sixty years, and
l believe that the Lexington course
dates back to the year 1913. 1he war
absorbed most of the thoroughbred
stock of the south to seat officers IN
the saddle and toward the close of the
conflict we heard chiefly of Alexander's
stables. The Aiexanders, as / have
heard, were a Scotch family with ex-
pectations of property in the old coun-
try. They owned Lexington and Aus
member of the family now keeps tue
stables. In 1865 a number of rich
New Yorkers, brokers and Operators,
re olyed to go on ehe turf. Leonard
Jerome, a nervy broker, formerly a
newspaper editor at Rochester, N. Y,
taking the cue from his partner, Will
liam Tracy, formerly of Baltimore,
founded the American Jockey club, af-
ter courses had been established at Sara
toga snd Paterson, N. J. He used all
the influence to which his means and
acquaintance entitle him, and brought
into the turf August Belmont, his
friend, correspondent of the Roth
childs, who had previously appeared
with great brilliancy on the English
turf. Belmont is generally called the
head of the turf in America, on account
of his position in the American Jockey
club, which is the ruling influence in
turf matters in the United States, as
well as by his liberality in the purchase
and importationsof the best thorough
breds attainable, both from Kentucky
and England. Jerome himself met with
heavy losses in speculation about 1867,
which necessitated the playing of a
comparatively inferior position upon
the turf.
The establishment of the Saratos a
and Monmeuth park courses, aud ac-
cessories of Jerome park, transferred
the management of the turf from the
south to the north-Kentucky itself
becoming breeding and buying place
for the moro wealthy horse fanciers of
the metropolis.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-18
The Profits of Cotton Raising.

A cotton planter, and formerly a
Chicago man, writes from Nicksburg,
Miss urging northern and western dnea
the business capable of yielding when
conducted by northern men, upon north
ern economy and principles, with capl-
tal of their own. After recitiug, for
purpose ; of comparison, the old meth
DDS of storing in use before the war,
Which are now still more indiffierently
pe1 oetuated, he gives the results of
porthe methods of farming applied
to cotton raising, in this wise Corn
and cof con were formerly both planted
in d1 Ills, and, great superfiuity of seed
being used, the process of thinning both
crops to a stand IS slow and tedious.
The corn was u.s. lly cut out to feet
~ the drill, rows feet apart the cot
ton l ! to 2 feet in the drill, rows feet
apart. Both corn and cotton can be
planted IN " check" feet each way,
O. 3 by 4, with perfect success. They
cau then be cultivated with the I'M
proved farming nipple nents of the west.
The buggy ploW can DO used IN both
crops alike until the CO.. ION has branched
SO as to forbid its further use; and then
the swee p-tbe only important labor
saving nipple neat in cotton culture,
except the dodb'e scraper, used before
the war-cln be used until the cultiva-
ton of the crop is finished-about the
middle of July. The bush-like shape
of the cotton so shades the ground that
weeds grow only in the middle of the
rows, after the cotton has attained a
height of two feet; so that our sweep,
running once in the middle" woulS
90 over ten acres a day and keep it cleaS
1t may be readily seen by this that the
use of the same implements used IN
cultivating corn crops in Illinois, with
strong teams, would enable one man to
cultivate at least twice as much cotton
and corn as under the old system, which
to-day is far more imperfect than it was
| before the w9r.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-18
Bathing Children.

Some mothers think, when their chill
4 an get beyond two or three years OF
f..e. the, ,requent entire bath can be
dispensed with. If some of the man
facts of physiology were we'll known
and understood. every one would per-
ceiye that cleanliness of the skin is one
of the conditions of good health. IL
happens when bathing is disregarded
that the lungs, kidneys or bowels nave
more than their own apportlonmenJ OF
work. If these are strong and hea'tny,
they may bear the tax with little appar-
ent injury, but, in most cases, lover
ing of the vitality and tone OF the sys-
tenn ensues. Large batE tubs are pleas
ant and convenient, but not indlspensa-
ble to the proper cleansing OF the SKIN.
A speedy sponging of the body In pure
water. followed by friction IN pure air,
is all that is necessary. When dlsln-
clined to use water, find a thorough
application of the fiesh-brush to the
whole person an admirable substitute
especially, on retiring, it relieves ner.
| yeusness, equalizes the circulation and
| induces quiet sleep. Mothers, above
| all. should see that their children are
well bathed. If their skins are KEEP
| active and healthy, there will not bt
half the danger from fever, colds, ant
eruptive diseases. If your little one i
| cross or troublesome, and finds no occu
patton that pleases him, tfy the effect
a bath; sometimes it is magical, and,
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-18
How the Grange PAYS.

In the grange with which 1 am con-
nected, during the past season there
was an actual saving, in one quarter, OF
SI20 to the few farmers who purchased
implements. Now take the 10000
oranges and we have a total saving
ST 81, 400, 600 to the farmers of the
United States in three months. But
you will say at once that this amount IS
ssge peF yeFS DO ss55sysr s5y it n2r f Dy every
does 1t cost the amount ID. u. Z. ..
has mentioned to run the oranges every
quarter. The cost of charters, seals,
regalia, etc., is never imposed on the
grange but once. This would require
deduction from his figures of over
million Of dollars, after the first quar-
ter.
We not only consider it paying IN
stitution to us on account of its imam
cial benefits, but we, as class, nave
begun to consider the social influence
of the organization. We cannot deny
that we are far behind the city IN regare
TO social life, for we have never had til:
opportunity OF mingling together, ano
Educating ourselves in that sphere
Thus it has not only proved itself to b'
a safe for our pockets, but also store
house for our minds.-CSnet'a'lati Ft"tes
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-18
Prehistoric Musical Instrument.

In French cave which M. Z. Pielte
discovered in 1871, he has found pre-
historic musical instrument, which he
describes as une ftsto neoLithiQtle. 1t
is formed of bone, and pierced with two
well-made holes and was discovered in
a LAYER of charcoal and cinders IN the
cavern of Gourdan (aante- Garonne),
aeSosiasoSI with flint implements of neo-
1ithic types. Evidences have before
arts of engraving and sculpture among
the stone-using folk of Gaul, but this if
the first testimony that has transpired
TO show that they were sensible to the
divine influence of melody. One car
easily construct moving romance oui
of this crude bone flute, upon which
some enamored lover may have serena,
ded his savage sweetheart by the light
of tender moons.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-18
The Wives Return.

The Paterson Guardian says: GA
recent paragraph calling attention to
the fact that the summer widowers were
having the jolliest times imaginable in
the absence of their voluble halves has
had a most remarkable effect. The
wives come trotting home to see abodt
this thing. One gentleman who was
having an unusually good time, and
whose wife had gone away to stay till
the middle of September, was wonder
fully astonished on going home at four
O'Clock in the morning to find his wife
sitting up waiting for him. She gaze
him rousing reception, and he looks
like the last rose of summer. The wide
world may wag as it will, but it is doubt
ful if he ever smiles again. The wives
are coming home unexpectedly every
day, and husbands had better look out
little in order that they may save
some trouble." 4"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-18
The GrasshOpper Plme.

The plague of locusts inEgypt. as
depicted in the book of Exoas, is said
by eye Witnesses of the Ryages of
western grasshopIers to bta correct
picture of the p'odeIr.k &EssA pme
eoRGH5tE sEse iace of - s---
that the land was darkene-S 7'iid they
did eat every herb of the Ian and all
the frnit of the trees which u hail had
left and there remained not ny green
thing in the trees, or in the hls Of the
field. through all the land oiEgypt. "
Most melancholy detrils com, from all
pa. Is of the west. In Kana a long
drought dwarfed and withed grass
and grain then myriads of rasshop-
pers darkened the atmospere, and
swarmed down upon plain M valley,
literally stripping the fieldsof every
green thing. This ravaging i1ect army
Travelled at the rate of twentYr thirty
miles day the air was ale. They
worked in concert, swooping own upon
TOW with fierce rapidits beating
against the houses, swarmingn at the
windows, covering passing rail road
trains, and leaving destrUctio in their
path. Farmers and their fnilies at
tempted to fight the irvadersvith fire.
Piling brush and hay about teir fields,
they applied the torch, sRd 5he suffo-
eating smoke filed the nrfor miis
around. In some sections tbs deyic =
drove back the incoming grssheppers.
But this calamity has destoyed the
hopes of many a farmer, Eb, IS a new
settler, had risked his all n he hope OF
an enriching crop. Some, ,diaeartened,
only desire to raise motey mough to
seek some less stricken loclity but
the majority are energetaly working
to guard against tie disstnus conse
quences wrich naturally tllew such 6
scouAe. But next wintr it will be
very {fferent in Kansas rom what il
was three or four years 90, when corr
could scarcely fnd salelt fifteen ceni
bushel, and was even ued as fuel II
some parts of the state, eing cheaper
than coal
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-18
GalileO's Telescope.

In the year 1909, Calico relates, he
first heard from a friend in Flanders
that an instrument had bees invented
by which distant objects wee brought
near and the powers of visid extended.
He resolved at once to imitae and sur
pass it. BY his singular mechanic.
dexterity, his knowledge of optics, and
his highly polished glasses, lie was soon
able to produce telescope Bfore which
the Dutch instl lment sank 10 neglect,
heard Of but thrill 5jf9 l.s--,-sssss
over Italy and Europe Tsn III was
known that the famous Padpn profess
or had prepared an optic g1ai that en-
larged the bounds of vision al endowed
mankind with new powers. Ehe charn
. SURPRISING novelty covere. the won,
derful inve ,tion with an Qnssecedenle.5, =
renown. The great and te learned
contended for the possesslogoI tne ne" !"
instrument. Calico carrin hls tele-
scope to Venice, and from tle tailesl
bell towers senators and nooies saw
through the magic glass graz srgosies
sailing far out at sea, and '1e olsIan'
shores brought near and maue visible,
All the value of the new instrument
broke at once upon their MINDS
must must change IA the principles Of military
STRATEGY and diminish the perlls OF nav
ioatiA Magistrates, senat9rs ana c!si
ems covered the fortunate inventor VIII
annIause. With discreet courtesy Gan
leo presented his telescope 70 .bn me 1"Is UOg'
81 a fr;endly audience, and the Vene
tians at once raised his salarI TO thou
sand forins. Covered with 4oh91s P AM
emoluments, he returned 20 IauGa qua
laevts noSep;es opHii that yet awaited him in tn
sHfTt- silent heavens, or of the pains and woe
he lase-vT was destined to bear n his late
Years We from the heretical regulations Q
his too truthful and fatal telescope.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-18
FoREIcN.

The great strike of cotton operatives
Bolton, England, has begun.
1t is reposted in Berlin that an order
VII soon be issued expelling from Prussia all
ore'gn priests monks and nuns.
An official dispatch announces that
ieneral Pavis has gained victory over the
oarilsts Three thousand troops will leave
Tor Cuba the present month, and Eve thousand
in October.
Early in the afternoon of August %, an
attempt was made in Lima to assassinate the
president OF Peru, while proceeding from the
palace to his house. Although several shots
were hred none took effect. The leader Of the
band and thirteen others have been arrested.
Prussia proposed at Brussels that the
people Of that country found in arms aud not
regularly enrolled in the military force should
be treated as criminals !; also that they should
be similarly treated if they refuse to assist
the inssders when called upon. The congress
rejected the proposition. In 1913 the Prus-
sizn governments called upon the people to
become land storm and rush upon the
invaderr With any arms they could seize.
ben It was the other mans OK that was gored
Captain-G General Concha has published
decree in the ofhsial gazette ordering out
Immediately FOR active service i've per cent
Of All the volunteers enrolled on the island of
Cubs. to serve until the first Of April, 1875.
bring ont about 3, 800 men. Exemp-
6Qt be purchased with money, those
obliged to serye or provide sub.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-18
THE EXCURSION.

Again, as I thread these rustic WAYS
Here in the heart Of the summer land
am gently reminded Of other days
by objects rising on either hand
D1S Wo los'ty t,iS, yon 6o%eTy I; q Iid-strean,
Recalls quaint feast like feast in a dream.
But dear alike to my mind and heart.
There were only six Of us Ralph and Nell.
And Curtis and Rose (city cousins the Iast)
Ana gray-eyed Florence, whose deep heart - Well
was her lover, aud it's long since past:
But jollier party never filled craft
as We rounded that point bv the cedar glade.
Ihe sourest ascetic could not bat have laughed
AT the highly romantic appearance We made.
Roses and jonquils on bright heads in crowns,
, nreaths Of them, too, from the gunwales float,
Boughs OF fresh foliage in wild festoons
:, From stem to stern Of the painted boat;
But under them ali on cheek and lip
AoseDuds more tempting and laugh and song
d3hds spashlng over, aud oar-bades a-dip,
Ana beauty and bliss, as we drifted along.
We reached tho Island: How well I-recan
me pretty girls screams as We helped them to
How Rose vet her feet. and Flo's ainsy shawl
Like cloud veiled my she gave me her
Then the neat little lunch in the Iegended arot.
with the white cloth spread by the sprtHg at its
The jests remember, the toasts I've forgot,
sosStb- out 49, i-''s - FROM 80 s',a- =, 49,
Then we made them swing from grapevine
Read poems, told tales, with rOmp now and
then,
Played croquet while had a rubber Of whist,
And talked with the echo that baunts the glen
Then IN couples apart, as betrOthed lovers should
strayed, TO repeat the Old tale ever young
How well remember the bench in the wood,
Between the two oaks, and who sat there so long.
Then, weary but blithe, at the days dim close,
We drifted in peace in the starlight a-down,
And saw with regret, as the sickle-moon rose,
The faint-twtn king lights of trim little town:
For our hearts were so fuu and our souls we're so
blest
We wished The fair stream were enchanted, that
Night glide down for aye on its sof-heavin breast
iii lost in the gleam Of far fairy sea.
Tiuged with romance how these things now appeari
For, just on my way through the village to-day
passed the old house where for many a year
Fair Florence my rivals proud home has made
gay;
And Ralph and Neii are long married and Rose
Passed away when poor Curtis was killed by the
wars;
And am alone, while the calm river flows,
Unheeding and brig0 through its blossoming
shores.