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Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-04-13
TIL I II L CIRCLE.
DON'T LET MOTHER DO ~.

Daughter, don't let mother do it,
Do not let her slave and toll,
While you sit, a useless idler,
Fearing your soft hands to soil.
Don't you see the heavy burdens,
Daily she is wont to bear,
Bring the lines upon her forehead
Sprinkle silver in her hair?
Daughter, don't let mother do it!
Do not let her bake and broil;
Through the long, bright suunmer hours
Share with her the heavy toll.
See, her eye has lost its brightness,
Faded from her cheek the glow,
and the step that once was buoyant,
Nowi is feeble, weak and slow.
Daughter, don't let mother do it!
She has caredfor you so long.
Is it right the.weak and feeble
Should be toiling for the strong?
Waken from your l~istlesss languor,
Seek her side to cheer and bless;
and your grief will be less bitter
When the sods above her press.
Daughter, don't let mother do it!
You will never, never know
What were home without a mother
Till that mother lieth low
Low beneath the budding daisies.
Free from earthly care or pain
To the home so sad without her
Ne err to return again.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-04-13

LAST March Ole Elderson,a Norwegian,
of Minnesota, became drunk, and, going
home from DEBORAH, froze his feet and
hands so badly as to cause amputation. lis
wife brought suit against T. Salburg, a
druggist of DEBORAH, for damages>for selling
her husband liquor, and the jury after a
deliberation of two hours, brought in a
Judgment against saburg for $500.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-04-13

THERE was once an awful little girl who
had an awful way of saying lawful" to ey-
%erything. She lived in an awful house,
in an awful street, in an awful village, which
was an awful distance from every other aw-
full place. She went to an awful school.
where she had IA awful teacher, who gave
her awful lessons out of awful books. Ev-
ery day she was so awful hungry that she
ate an awful amount of food, so that she
looked awful healthy. Her hat was awful
small and her feetawere awful lafge. She
went to an awful church, and her minister
was an awful D preacher. ~Whenrshe took
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-04-13

an7awful walk she climbed awful hills, and
when she gotawful tired she sat down under
anfawful tree to rest herself. In summer she
found the weather awful hot, and in winter
awful cold. When it didn't rain there was
an awful drouth, and when the awful drouth
was over there was an awful rain. So that
this awful girl was all the time in an awful
state, and if she don't get over saying saw
ful" about everything l am afraid she will
P~y-and-by come to an awful end.
The silver state., 1876-03-02

Tue editor of the Mazeppa has taken
. hew departure. His regenerated
heart is stirred to its ihnermost depth
with anxiety for the State and county.
This change on his part is almost as
sudden as Paul's conversion. While a
member of the Legislature ne exhibited
no symptoms of it, and, as the record
shows, voted for every railroad measure
that caIoe before the House, and for a
bill by which the public schools of the
State lost $106.000.
When the Devil was sick, the Devil saint
would be-
Sc When the Devil was well, the devil saint
was he
The silver state., 1876-03-02
EXPLANATORY.

NJ Meador Justice of the Peace and
John Moreiand Special Constable of
Gold Run Township explain their
course in the Sevenoaks affair in
another column. They do not pretend
to know anything about the matter ex-
cept in their official capacity. LIE Fevre
made complaint on oath against John
Ssvenoaks. The Justice, as 10y law
required, issued warrant on the
complaint and in the absence of u
regular officer, appointed one to serve
it. That special officer tells what
occurred afterwards. One vindieates
himself from the charge of drunkenness
and the other from the charge Of
cowardioe preferred by the Register.
The facts of the case so far as we have
been able to ascertain are these ::
LIE Fevre worked for Sevenoaks who
claimes to have overpaid him. Lee
Fevre refused to refund the amount
and Sevenoaks resorted to force to get
it away from him. Sevenoaks plead
to assault and paid his fine to Justice
Davis. Men who were at Jersey at the
time, say this is the whole thing in q
nutshell.
The silver state., 1876-03-02

THE g. divining rod has entered
the courts. Al Peck the great Com
stock ''Douser' has brought suit in the
Third District Court of San Francisco,
for $500, 600. on contract between
him and Micheal Castle. acting on be-
half of owners of the Ophir mine,
according to the terms of which he was
to receive one hundred shares of Ophir
stock at $50 per share for indicating
the locality of an ore body. The
plaintiff alleges that he pointed out the
ore body, which was afterwards dis
covered, and that the stock advanced
to $3.50 per share.
The silver state., 1876-03-02

They run in couples, there being in
the present House at Washington two
Smiths, two Browns, two Jones. two
Bagleys, two PEillipses, two Reileys,
two Wallaces, two woods, two Vance-,
two Townsends. two Wilson's, two
Wells, two Hamiltons. two Hewitts,
two Robbins, two Bakers, two Burch-
ards, two Caldwells, two Clarks, and
two Hairless, to say nothing of six
Williams, a Kasson and a Cason, an
O'Neil and Neal, and White, White
house and a Whiting.
The silver state., 1876-03-02
THE CURRENCY QUESTION.

The press dispatches say the Dem
ocratic Joint- Caucus at Washington
have not arrived at conclusion yet
on the currency question. The prop
ositions pending are said to be substan-
TALLY those contained in the Payne
bill introduced in the House several
weeks ago. 1t is proposed that the
committee decide what per centgm of
coin shall be annually accumulated
in the Treasury, and National Banks
vaults, until it amounts to thirty per
centum of the greenback, and National
Bank circulation. A proposition to
increase legal tenders to the amount
outstanding at the time of the passage
of the resumption act is also being dis
cussed. This is to be accomplished
by substituting greenbacks for Nation
al Bank notes, surrendered from time to
time until the greenback circulation
reaches 1882, 600, 600, the amount out
standing at the time of the passage of
the act to resume specie payment III
1879. The soft money members of the
Committee want all greepbacks and no
National Bank notes in circulation.
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The silver state., 1876-03-02
A mist.
Translated by Henry Busch.

Translated by Henry Busch.
Getleman-You ought to be ashamed
of yourself to beg at this time of night.
Beggar-Excuse me sir, l also beg in
day time.
Gent.--But you are able bodied and
able to work. Have you no trade?
Bill am chemist by trade sir,
and would like to ask you for a piece
OF silver to dissolve in spirits.
The silver state., 1876-03-02

Gold closed in New York yes
terday at 114H.
Legal tenders buying at 8S14, and
8834 selling.
Silver is quotable at 4l05 per
cent. discount.
A special from Umatilla says seow
belonging to Grant II Stone, in remov-
ing distractions and widening the
channel at Umatilla Rapids. was blown
up yesterday morning. The shock
was 80 terrific, that it shook buildings
in Umatilla, six miles distant. SO far
as known one man was killed outright,
and two wounded so they cannot re-
cover. Following are the names of the
missing: Connolly, Hanson, Morgan
Sullivan, Fogg, Kruss, Hathaway,
Bruder, McMilly, Tenbrook, Wslty,
Newell and McCabe. 1t is supposed
SuCoC nGlC clOWh tHbO tAC 4aFCt ahu
drowned. AS yet only McCabe's body
has been recovered.
The Wyoming Mining Company
have levied as assessment of one dollar
per share, delinquent April Sd.
The product of the Consolidated Vir-
ginia mine thus far on February's ac-
count, aggregates $2.000,000.
Ex-senator Stewart telegraphs the
Secretary of the United State Senate
that he desires to testify before the
House Committee on Foreign Affairs
about the Emma mine. Gen. Schenck
also desires to be heard, and will leave
London Saturday.
Colonel Gordon, the African explor-
er, is on his return to Cairo.
Louis ]. Jenning, late editor of the
New York Times, has sold out his in
terest of nine shares for 500, 600, the
purchaser being the publisher George
Jones.
Gen Sheridan has written COM
munication to the Military Committee,
offering some valuable suggestions
He urges the necessity of at once build
ing two military posts on the Yellow
Stone for the protection of the Black
Hills country, which is now destined to
be settled i'll a short time; and says
that instead of costing $500, 600 as
mentioned in an appropriation BILL
they can be purchased for much less
sum. The General says there are 9TH
er localities in that country that are de-
cidedly gold bearing, and to which rail-
roads will be extended
The silver state., 1876-03-02

AFTBR two Arkansas farmers had
squandered 81, 100 on the lawyers in
trying to fird out who owned an old
cart, they commenced shooting and
five cents worth of ammunition brought
satisfactory decision. - It's your
cart" were the last words Of the
plaintiff.
The silver state., 1876-03-02
SPECIAL NOTICES.


Strayed from Paradise Valley about
the 18th of September, 1875, two bay
horses, abont five years old, the prop
erty OF IL. Dalrynlple, branded on the
left thigh three bars lengthwise and
vented IN same manner on left shoul-
der. Fifty dollars reward will be paid
on the delivery of the horses to N.
Levy & Co Winnemucca New.
Winnemucea, Feb. 16, 1876. I'm
The silver state., 1876-03-02

A MEETING of the Democratic State
Central Committee will be held at Vir-
ginia City Saturday, March 25th, for
the purpose of selecting delegates to
the National Democratic Convention
at st. Louis.
The silver state., 1876-03-02

NOTHING is so insiduous as a cold or
a cough. Poison does not make a
swiftsr progress in the system. Use
promptly the only sure antedote,
HALE's HONEY OF HoREHoUND AND TAR
Pixies Toothache Drops cure in one
minute.
The silver state., 1876-03-02

WARREN PARKER of Adrian, Mich,
has bid for distinction i'll meanness by
forging the name Of one sweetheart to
a note, and using the money so obtain
ed in eloping with another.
The silver state., 1876-03-02

The Tribune is informsd that Il pros
pecting party left Carson yesterday
morning for Cornucopia.
The silver state., 1876-03-02
CHAMPION SALOON.

CHAMPION SALOON.
Railroad Street, near Passenger rerot,
WINNEsIUCCA, NEVADA.
FBNHE UNDERSIGNED, HAVING RFTIT-
n ted this Saloon, desires to call the atten.
non, OF customers, friends and the public. to
his superior stock of
Wines, Liquors and Cigars.
The READING ROOM of the Saloon
IS always supplied with the latest Papers.
Pictorials and Magazines.
Sole Agents for Jessie Moo.e's Celebrated
Bourbon Whisky.
mar1-tf. &. A. KRINKLE. proprietor
The silver state., 1876-03-02
ESPECIAL TO THE SILVER sTATE.I 5
EASTERN DISPATCHES
The Great Cocking Main

JERSEY, March 2, 1876.
The cooking main for one hundred
dollars each battle, and two thousand
dollars, the odd fight between New
York and Philadelphia began last
night and ended to-day. Thirteen bat
bles were fought. Philadelphia winning
eight battles to New York's five.
Heavy Decline i'm Pacific Mail.
New YORK, March 2. 1876
A decline took place of four to five
per cent. in Pacific mail stock to- day,
on a rum or that its paper had gone to
protest. Mr.. Russell W. Sage denies
the rumor.
The Direct Cable Repaired.
The direct United States Cable
Company announces that Faraday sue
cessfuly repaired the cable at noon to-
day. The picking up of both ends and
splicing occupied exactly one and a
half hours. The cable has been tested
aid found to be perfect.
Congressi0nal-Te Pacific Rail
road.
WASHINGTON, March 2. 1876.
The Com mittee on Pacific Railroads
held "a meeting this morning, and the
subject OF the Texas Pacific was again
postponed, at the request Of SCOTS
friends. The opponents of the bill
say ROW it can't pass.
Bogy Explains
In the Senate Bogy rose to per-
sonal explanation iD his remarks on
the West Point Bill: He might have
done some injustice TO graduates, but
such was not his intention" He wanted
to say West Point was very expensive
institution.
The Grasshopper Bill.
The House Committee on Agricul-
ture reported adversely on the bill to
Investigate the habits of the Rocky
Mountain locust. numbers of other
bills were introduced and referred.
The Emma Mine Disclosures.
CAIcAGo, March, 2, 1876.
James Z. Lyon, who is now raising
such disturbance with his Emma
mine disclosures at Washington, was
formerly engaged i'll mining operations
with Frank Parmlee, David 4. Gage
and Geo. N. Pullman, of this city
They worked the Gregory lode from
1874 to 1876, and lost nearly 500, 900
eacn by the operation. Mr Gage repre-
sents that Lyon, who was the practical
man, was extravagant and iull of
schemes, and proved to be mere spec
ulator. Lyon claims to have discov-
cred the Emma mine. He said he had
opened it, and knew it to be good at
that tune. lie was having trouble,
and he told Gage that Henry II
Baxter and Trenor w. Park were try
ing to beat him out Of the mine. He
engaged the services of Senator O. Z.
Morton and Senator Stewart, of Nova-
da, who he was sure would protect his
interests. subsequently learned
from other parties that Lyon claimed 10
have come out all right; that he had
settled up with Park aud Baker on the
understanding that the mine should be
sold in Enrope for 81 co., 900 or
$4,000, 600 of which Lyon was to re-
ceiye $500, 600, and Stewart 800, 600.
The latter amount to be paid as fees.
Whether this eheme was ever carried
out or not, only know from the pa.
pers. My idea of the Emma mine is
that it was only pocket, rich enough
as far as it went, but not going far
enough. Geo, M. Pullman refused to
express an opinion in regard to Lyon,
but evidently does not view him with
favor.
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The silver state., 1876-03-02
Bogy Explains

In the Senate Bogy rose to per-
sonal explanation iD his remarks on
the West Point Bill: :" He mi 5ht have
done some Injustice TO graduates, but
such was not his intention" He wanted
to say West Point was a very expensive
institution.
The silver state., 1876-03-02
ELE RAP HIC .

BY Atlantic AMI Pacific Line.
The silver state., 1876-03-02
PURE MIGK

I'D OCULAR CUSTOMERS WILL BE
EAsupplied with milk at reduced prices at
the Wfnnemucca Iairy.
Milk by the gallon 80 cents; In less quanti-
ties l2A cents per quart
W. A. TR0UsDAI
Proprietor.
The silver state., 1876-03-02
The Grasshopper Bill.

The House Committee on Agricul-
ture reported adversely on the bill to
Investigate the habits of the Rocky
Mountain locust. A numbers of other
bills were introduced and referred.
The Enma Mine Disclosures.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-09-07
Sheep and Cows Pastured Together.

Since the decline in the price of cheese,
some of our dairy farmers are advocating
the introduction of sheep upon their
farms in ,co,nection with the dairy, and
it is suggested that sheep and COWS may
be kept together upon the same pasture
with advantage. The reasons given are
that grasses left Or refused by cows will
be eaten by the sheep, and thus there will
be less waste on account of tufts and patch
+ es Of grass left by the,eows to mature and
to become hard and woody, And again,
the droppings of the sheep over the sur
ire of fields render the soil more fer
tile and increase the productiveness of pas
turage. Sheep also. it is said, serve a
good purpose in keeping horned cattle
healthy, -,I asf'y =
Some of the reasons given may be all
true enough, and yet sheep in any consid-
cradle number, it is believed, ought. not
to be pastured with mich cows. Sheep,
as is we'll known, pick out the finest; and
best grasses, leaving those that are coarse
and less nutritious for the other stock
Mich cows pastured with sheep, when
the latter are in considerable. number, il
has been observed, yield less milk and
milk of poorer quality than when the two
classes Of animals are pastured separate
". The reason is obvious. If+thcs best
and more nutritious grasses be selected
and eaten down close, leaving the poorer
grasses for the cows, it is evident they
| cannot make such good returns as they
| would upon q more favorable diet.
The best pastures for milk are those
which will make the most beef. Ole
pastures, as is well known, are much bet
Ter for fattening than recently re-seedet
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Starvation I'm New York.

Andrew H. Smith, M. D., writes to the
New York Tribune as follows: Much is
said about the present suffering among
the poor, but those not brought into con-
tact with it can form any idea of the mis-
cry which exists. The gentleman who
passes the day in attending to his business
down town, and at night rejoins his fami-
ly in the country, never dreams of the
agony that is almost within bow-shot of
his closed residence up town. During the
winter, when the city is full of benevo-
lent people, and the machinery of relief
is in operation, extreme suffering is sure
of mitigation in soma way or other. But
now the doors are closed, even the scanty
sum earned at other times by family sew
ing, washing, housekeeping, etc., is
Withdrawn, and for many poor widow
and her helpless family there is no way of
escape from actual famine.
Yesterday called upon poor woman
in Thirty sixth street, a widow with three
little children and a daughter aged nine
teen. This woman was not stolid crea-
ture without sensibility, and capable only
Of physical suffering. She was scrupu-
lousy neatin her person and surroundings.
her face was intelligent and refined, and
her grammar faultless. Before her hus-
bands death they were in comfortable
circumstances. Now, all they have had
for weeks has been what she and her
daughter could earn at making calico
shirts at fifty cents dozen! By
beginning very early in the morn
ing, and working steadily until near
midnight through those terrible days in
July, they have been able to finish doz-
en- shirts. Of the fifty cents thus earned,
thirty cents were pledged for rent, leaving
twenty cents day to feed five persons!
She told me that she and her children
often suffered from hunger, not having
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-09-07

grounds. The old turf is filled with
greater rarity-with finer and more nutri-
tious heritage, from which meat can be
made-than the coarse and flashy feed of
new pastures, and it is upon such pastures
that the most and best quality Of milk is
produced. Now, any class of animals
like sheep, that "bite close' and select
out the more nutritious of the grasses,
must to certain extent leave the balance
Of the food comparatively poor in quality.
Sheep, it is true, will often eat plants that
are left by cews, and if they would always
or wholly feed upon the food left by the
cows, doubtless there would be an i'm
pOrtant gain in pasturing the two varieties
of animals together. But in practice we
find the sheep preferring the best heritage,
and as they bite closer than COWS, they can
always keep the advantage when pastured
together.
The idea of keeping sheep on dairy
farms is not a bad one at this time by any
means, but we should prefer that they be
pastured by themselves or with young cat
tie, and not with the herd of mich cows
The character of pasturage for the produc-
ton of milk of superior quality is imper-
fectly understood by many dairymen, and
there can scarcely be doubt but that the
delivery of milk at factories from differ
ent farms in many instances operates un.
equally, since the poor milk is credited
alike with the richer.-Rural Neao Yorker.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-09-07

the means to buy a loaf of bread, and
being too proud to beg. No wonder that
persons in such straits purchase the cheap
est food that will stay the gnawing of
hunger, without reference to its fitness
Tor human stomach; and when disease
and death follow they are ascribed in the
health reports to any other than the real
cause, starvation. Who shall tell how
often the diseases reported as fevers, ma
rasmus, cholera infantum, sunstroke, are
branches of single tree whose trunk is
famine?
One would suppose that among the
very poor the instinct of self preserva-
ton would develop absolute seltishness
But it is not so. The poor widow is ever
ready to divide mite with one poorer
than herself. I surprised woman the
other day in the act of giving piece of
bread to blind man who had felt his way
to her door. On inquiry found that she
and her children were then, at twelve
O'Clock, taking the first food they had
tasted that day, some bread and potatoes
given them by woman in the same
house. No, it is superiority, not want,
that hardens the heart.
Many heartrending cases have been
brought to my notice by the Rev. Mr..
Mccartney, rector of the Episcopal
Church Of our Savior CThird avenue, near
Thirty ninth street,, who is laboring
among the people east of Third avenue.
At his request visited yesterday family
in East Thirty fifth street. The husband,
laboring man, had long been out Of
work, everything which pawn5roker
would take was gone, the children were
almost naked, and the room presented the
appearance of extreme wretchedness.
The floor was covered with an old rag car.
pet, which was fairly slippery with ac-
cumulated grease and filth and emitted a
sickening odor. l begged them to throw
this carpet away, but the woman lifted it
up and showed me that the floor was full
of rat-holes through which the children
might break their legs, and that the car
pet was necessary to cover up these holes,
and to keep the children from wounding
their feet with splinters and projecting
heads of nails.
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Fretting.

Perhaps of all faults to which woman
in her fraility'' is subject, and to which
she must plead guilty, no one is more i'm
perceptible in its growth, or serious in its
consequences, than the habit of fretting.
That it is a habit every right-minded
woman knows, and that it is serious
fault, she has only to ask the husband, in
whose home that may be the only dark
spot to mar its brightness; or if her folly
forbids that concession, let her study her
own comfort for only day, and her as
constituent will be no less than her pleas
ure, to find that the usual harrassing vexa-
tons of the day have vanished, or become
such trifles that she is ashamed to count
them trials at all, after she has successful
ly combated the disposition to fret at all
annoyances.
That woman has very many causes for
feeling annoyed, none will deny, and that
her patience is very frequently most sore
ly tried, it were foolish for me to assert,
having borne woman's lot' through
veal and woe for SO many years, that
{" the things whereof know, testify"
If any good were attained, or her care
made less by habitual expressions of an
noyance or Impotence, would even bid
her indulge her ceaseless complainings,
only keeping myself out OF earShOt, Tor
her own Individual happiness.
Innumerable buttons to be kept in
place, countless stitches to be taken, con-
fused corners to be Strengthened into or.
der, little feet pattering in and out, bring
ing untidiness with every football unex-
pected rents to be mended, breakfasts,
dinners and suppers to be provided as
| surely as day follows after day in the cal
endar, oftentimes delicate and tickle
appetites to be cared for and suited,
friends to be entertained who must not
dream of the skeleton cares so quickly
slowed away in the secret closet at the
] sound of the door-bell, little students to
be helped over puzzling lessons, school
boys grievances to be listened to and
quietly adjusted, tired heads to be soothed
with mothers hands and potent lullabys-
all these things to be attended to, in
season and out of season, whether the
head aches or the heart is heavy. These
things in themselves must be the greatest
pleasure to a true-hearted wife and moth.
er, yet they bring in their attendant train
so many vexations and discomforts, that
one might be excused for occasional fret
ting if any good were attained thereby
Prudence, IN Son Of the Soil.