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AN ADMISSION OF GUILT.

The refusal of Stanley Matthews, one
of the visiting statesmen, who went to
Louisiana to infusnce the. offess of
election ''to make fair count" to APP
pear before ths Potter Investigating
Committee is conceded by all but hide
bound partisins to be square con-
l fession of guilt. Ben, Butler wanted
him to appear and tell thu truth, the
whole truth and nothing but the truth;
but instead of doing so like an honest
man,awho had nothing to conceal, he
skulls ,bshing his chair in +ths. Senate
Chamber and claims exemption from
appearing as witness because eff his
position. As the committee will con
-, tinue the Investigation during the
recess of Congress. it is possible that
Matthews will be brought before the
committee and subjected, against his
a, will, to the rigid cross examination Of
Ben. Butter, who, having neither
guilty person to shield nor innocent
person to convict, wants to know all
the facts
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-06-19
CALIFORNIA ELECTION.

An election is being held to-day in
California for delegates to the Conslitu-
ional Convention. There are from
three to six sets. of candidates in the
field in almost every county in the
State. I'M several counties there are
straight Democratic, straight Republi
can, Workingmen s and Non Partisan
nominees TOR delegates. while in San
Francisco theEe are, perhaps. a dozen
mongrel tickets besides the straighls.
Ii Is impossib bic to foresee what the
political complexion of the Convection
will be, or whether it will have any,
and 1t Is really matter of small conse-.
quence. as the constitution which the
Convention will frame must be sub.
mitted 10 aSote of the qualified electors
ot the State for ratification or rejection.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-06-19
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
ings i'm the Congress.

LONDON, June Is
Berlin corespsndents send very con-
Trajectory accounts of the doings In the
Congress. Some assert that Lord Sails
bury proposed the admission of Greece.
supporting his proposal in speech
which occupied the entire sitting.
Other correspondents declare that the
admission of Greece was not discussed
at all, but Was postponed until Wednes-
day. 1t is stated that when Count
Andrassy Introduced the question OF
the boundaries OF Bulgaria he made al
earnest speech, urging a division o;
Haropean Turkey into districts on
basis of tbs natioualities, thus render
ing reform aud regeneration possible,
the Porte.
The Times correspondent says: The
representatives of EhgIaad moved for
the admission of Greece, aud the repre-
sentatives OF France supported the mo
ton; but the debate was adjourned till
the next sitting. 1t is probable that
Greece gifi be admitted in "a. purely
consultative position. or to limited
number of slttings devoted to Greek
interests. Whatever may be the vote
OF the majority OF the States, it Is not
believed that the Congress will under
tate to compel by force an exchange Of
Bessarabla for, Dobrudscha or sanction
Russia coereiag- Roamania. If the
latter. after au expression OF opinlon by
the Congress, continues TO refuse TO
make the exchange, England will insist
upon u vigorous limitation of the prin-
apshly of Bulgaria to tie territory
north OF the Balkans.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-06-19

can make money faster ut work for us
Nj'than ut any thing else. Capital not re-
quTed; We viii start you; 81 per day
al home made by the industrious. Men.
women, boys and girls wanted everywhere to
.vor4 for us NOW is the time. Costly outfit
ana ternis fsess Address TRuR& Co.. Augrsta !,
maine ap5-77-6m !
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1878-04-09
Contents:

]. The United States Mining Law and Land
Ofnte Instructions hereunder Zach section oi
tile law is Immediately followed hy tho Land ONCE
instructions relating thereto. This ia a conyan.
lent arrangement. as IL avoids turning several
pages when the instructions are consulted in con.
nection with the law
2. A Digest of all Decisions under the Mining
Laws nog IN force. IL IS brought down "a the date
of publication, and containing the latest decisions
takes the place ui all prior publications.
O. New and Improved Forms for making the
various proof, from the location of claim miner =
lien, Notice to delinquent co.owners, Sc down TO
issuance Of patent.
q. A Complete list Of Patented Mining Claims.
arranged by state, Territory, County. and District
This list ls worth to mining men many times the
price Of the book
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WHAT TURKEY WILL no.

CoNsrANrINoPLE, April In the
event of war it is expected that the
Porte will remain passive and endeav.
or TO make IFS territory respected;
falling in which the Porte will simply
protest to the Powers.
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Ordered that the Board no now ad
Ijourn until 9 A. N. to morrow.
"WEDNESDAY, April 81, ga. M-Board
met pursuant 10 adjournment. Full
Board present
Donald Grant appeared before the
Board aud made a statement in re.
gard 10 the dilapidated condition of
bridges on the Banner road and re-
qnested tie Board IL bnild bridges
where said road crosses More's creek.
Ordered by the Board that Ed. Full
mer lie and is hereby appointed q
committee 10 inquire into the matter,
examine said bridges and crossings
aud report at the next regular session
Of the Board.
J. VI. Shepherd & John Veasey
made application for two duplicate
warrants on the current expense fund,
claiming that the originals were lost
or destroyed.
Ordered that the application of J.
NJ. Shepherd & John leasey be and is
hereby rejected.
The committee Of experts appointed
TO examine the county officers books
submitted the following report:
To THE HoS. 3oARD OF COUNTY CosrMrs-
sl0NERs or BOISE COUNTY:
The undersigned, your committee an.
pointed at your last regular meeting to ex. |
anime the books Of the county officers of
Boise county, respectfully report that we
lave carefully examined the books of the |
county Auditor, Treasurer and Assess )r
md Tax Collector Of Boise county for the |
last year, commencing April lst, 1877, and |
'nding April lst, 1878, and we find the
anne correct. We find the assessment
oil for the past year correctly futted up
md that the same agrees with the books
i the Auditor and That the payments spe.
iiied on the roll agrees with the books of
he Treasurer and the receipts on file with
heAuditor Butwe also find large number
i persons arc delinquent on poll taxes,
ghich under the law the collector is re.
ponsible for, unless a sufficient legal ex.
use Is given for their non-colIection. q
latter which we suppose will he presen-
ID before the Board by the Tax Collector.
We also find that the number of poll taxi
eceipts issued 20 The Assessor and Tax
collector have been accounted Tor bv him
! payment to the Treasurer of those sold !
nd IN accounting on the delinquent list
II those not sold.
In addition to the duties required of Us
G made a careful examination of the
nancial affairs Of the county In order To {
what was the actual indebted.
ess OF the county at the present time, and
5ainst what funds said Indebtedness now
and, And we report as the result of our
Ivestigation rs follows.
urrent Ex. Fund .... Sio0gS 10 /
ospitaL ....,...s. .......... e90S rs \
0ad,... ............... 3l3I 9Ild
edmpt u Co. Gen. ............ SOB 90 |
lotal..... SsA 6I1 9SI d
This will include The interest 1= thell
lrrants drawn on the several funds.
we find from the books that the countyl
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European News.
SALISBURY DRRBY's SUCCESS

LONDON, April l.-Sir Stafford
Northcote announced in the House of
Commons this afternoon that Lord
Salisbury has been appointed Foreign
Secretary. The Queens message for
calling out the reserves was then
read by the Speaker.
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Notice.

Notice Is hereby given that we have this day lev.
led an assessment Of twenty per cent ON the capi.
tal stock Of the Garden Valley Milling Company.
payabie or or before the first day of May 1878. tD
j. u. Mclaughlin, Treasurer. By order 81 tie
Board Of Trustees. FRANK 1ARNHAM
March 30, rs. prcsident
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The book contains nearly 200 pages, A.
by inches, and is designed to be pocket
companion for every wide-awake man in
the mining camps and financial centres OF
the West.
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their aid and assistance in furthering our
Investigation. All of which is respectfully
submitted.
T. S. HART, Com
j. BRoDBEcK, ooin
IDAHO Cry, |. t., Aug. 1, '78
1t is hereby agreed to by the Board
of County Commissioners and the
IDAHO World PRINTING Co. that said
printing company will do all the
county printing or any printing that
would be chargable to Boise county
during the year commencing April lst,
1878, aud ending April lst, 1879, for
the sum of five hundred dollars, pay
able quarterly in county warrants,
drawable on the current expense fund
of said county.
Ordered that the Board do now ad-
lourn. Ed. FUnER,
JAS MoRIARrY, Chairman
Clerk.
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NOTES FROM THE BospHoRUs.


LoNnoN, April 1.-The following
items are from Constantinople:
Grand Duke Nicholas bad two
hours interview with the Sultan on
Saturday.
The Russians are fortifying Chatia
and erecting intrenchmen,s at all STRAIT
egetical points.
0sman, Fuad and Reouf PaShas
have gone to the Turkish camp at
Mastak.
Moukhtar Pasha has been appoint
ed Chief Of the General Staff, and Os.
man Pasha Commander of Constanti-
nople.
The Egyptian contingent from
Varna is oncamped at Unblar Skelessi,
a village of Asia Minor on the Bospho-
rus, eight miles northwest of Constan-
tinope.
1t is believed in military circles
that Russia and Turkey hare arrived
at an understanding It's still hoped
that peace may be maintained.
There has been an unimportant
scrimmage between English aud Rus.
sian sailors at San Steauo.
RUSSIAN PEAcFaIAKERs.
New YoRK, April 1-London specials
say that the Gar has ordered 900 ad.
iitional Krupp guns.
LORD DEgBY's RESIGNATION.
4 St, Petersburg dispatch states
hat l)erhy's resignation was a com
llete surprise and caused an immense
III official circles. A Vienna
lispatch says in consequence of
)erby's resignation and The calling.
lut Of tie reserves Austria Las ceased
ler efforts to effect compromise
about the Cen.sress. feeling sure That
{ussia will not yield to England's CO.
uand now.
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This will include the interest," l- the
warrants drawn ON the several funds.
We find from the books that The county
officials hlye discharged their duties most
credible and We arc indebted to them for
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yaaAa 5emf- -meekIg Wurll
Oas in Brick Building Adjoining Hasonic Hall, Wall Street

HEMAN JONES, BUSINESS MANAGER.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS.
TERRITORY OF IDAHO,
County OF BOISE. {

l O'clock P. M.-Board met. Eull
Board present. The Auditor and
Treasurer's reports were examined,
found correct and approved.
The money in the Treasury was
counted and found correct.
The following bills were allowed:
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DF- berger, qurt sal. Hosp. Ply. Hospt T., 225
I. Cooper abf
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rHE PRICE OF AusrmIs NEurRALIrY.

A telegram from Vienna, received
IN paris, states that Count Andrassy
told General Ignatieff that Austrian
neutrality, if not cooperative, might
be secured by altering the southwes.
tern boundary of Bulgaria so as TO
make Ottoman territory continuous
and by securing Austrian military and
commercial supremacy in Servia, Mon
tencgro, Bosnia, Herzegovina and Al.
bania.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-31
How Ireland is to be Set Free.

ODonovan Rosa, whose ''skirmish-
ing fund" now amounts to S44, 373. hints
darkly, in the Irish World, at the man.
ner in which he will expend it against
England He quotes description of a
body of Russian cavalry who, Gin belt
round their waist, carry few pounds of
gun-cotton or dynamite, and, with this
highly obstructive explosive, they may
work incalculable harm" He adds that
gun-cotton and dynamite are not very
dear, and leaves the reader to infer that
the fund, thus expended, would destroy
great part of England He adds GA
small charge of gun cotton, placed SIM
ply upon q rail and fired with fuse.
sufhces to blow several feet of the iron
to distance of many yards, thus rem
derlng the railway unserviceable in an
instant. A trooper may dismount, place
q charge at the base of a telegraph pole,
fire it, and be in his saddle again within
sixty seconds. Even light bridges ard
wel1-built stockades may be thrown
down by the violent defamation of
compressed gun-cotton. and forest roads
considerably obstructed by trees thrown
across, which are never so rapidly felled
as when small charge of thus explosive
is fired at their roots" Rosa claims
the invention of this kind of warfare,
and says, iocularly, that Russia ought
to pay him royalty. He also describes
terribly destructive torpedo that has
recently been invented, and says that
he will probably be able to obtain the
secret of it's construction.-Netc York
lSuu.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-31
Railroad Earnings.

During 1877 the New York Central
railroad earnings amounted to SOC. SIS. :
0S5, against $28, DAG, IS in 1876. The to-
tai expenditures in 1877 were S26. 776.-
3OS, against S27, 973, 04O in 1875. The cost
OF the road and equipment in 1876 was
S97, 1926, 81. 05; in 1877 it was 500 49,
4OS. II total length of track owned and
leased by the company was, in 1876, 2. 1872
99-1OO miles; In 1877 it was 2,47I 99,IOO
miles; the number of miles run by pas
senger trains In 1877 was 1854, $40. and
by freight trains STA, o38; passengers
carried, 1919, 438, or nearly 1000. 600
less than IN 1876; the number of tons of
freight carried was 6,351, 1856.
The Public states that eighteen roads
report earnings for part of December.
amounting to s., 04S, 291, against 81 GIL
737 for the same weeks last year. This
indicates satisfactory gain on the
whole, though but few of the roads are
OF the most important class. Fifteen of
these roads have reported for three years,
and these earned 81, 700, 9O1 in certain
weeks this year, against 81 ,604, 528 last
year, and 81, 702, 091 during the same por
ton of December, 1875. Eleven roads
have reported for four years. and have
earned 81, 457, 662 this month, against
81 .369, 40 last year, and 81, 40, 500 In
1875, and 81, 2S4, 690 in 1874. The result
Is thus far encouraging as to the trafic
for the month, so far as returns from
roads mainly of the second or a smaller
class can Indicate the condition of traffic
generally.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-31
Sheen.

Statistics lately made public show the
sheep in the various countries noted be-
low to be as follows: In the United
Kingdom, in 1876, there were 80. 252, SIS
sheep; in Russia, in 1870, there were
43, 100, 600; in Germany, in 1873, there
were "a, 999, 4o6; in Austria, in 1871,
there were 20, 100, 1914; in France, in
1872, there were 4,589,6 SAT; and in
Spain, in 1866, there were %. 054, $780,
showing total in Europe of about $780,
GOO, 600. In Australia, in 1876, there
were 81, 600, 600; Cape Of Good Hope,
$1,000, 900; River Plata, $4,000, 900;
North America, $4,000, 600; remainder
of America, 5000, 900; and total, 1885,
600, 600. Turkey, North Africa, Persia,
ETC., say 65,OOO,O 900; India and China,
say 81. 040, 900. Grand total, 483, 600,
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-31
HydrOphObia in Germany.

An interesting case is reported from
Germany OF the successful treatment of
hydrophobia with the terrible drug
curare, which paralyzes the motor
nerves, though without affecting the
sensitive nerves, and so stops muscular
conyulsion. The somewhat daring ex-
pertinent was made by Dr. Offenburg,
who treated the case at Munster, in
Westphalia. The patient, peasant
girl, was bitten by mad dog on the
23d of July, but the symptoms of by
drophobia did not come on till the 18th
of October. when morphia and chloro-
form were tried in vain. DR.. Oifenburg
then injected three centigrammes of
curare, an injection five times repeated,
though not always in quite equal guam
tlty, during the next four and q half
hours. The commissions began to di.
minish after the second injection, and
soon disappeared; paralysis of the chest
was prevented by artificial inspiration,
and in fortnight the girl was quite well
again. The remedy is terrible one,
but the disease is still more so, 50 that
the success OF any remedy will be to
the public relief.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-31
Gen. Grant Interviews Yesuyius,

Grant (to Vesuviusl-Do you object
to smoking? Vesuvius- Oh, not at all.
Smoke away. [ like it. I'm an incor-
rigible smoker myself. Puff Grant
Smoking ever make you sick? Vesuvius
Yes. L throw up good deal, and am
troubled with chronic eruptions. Grant
make you nervous? Vesuvius
me little shaky sometimes.
Grant-Folks complain about you smok-
ing any2 Vesuvius-Yes, but it makes
no difference to me. 1 can't live with.
out smoking. I smoke away Just as
long as I please. Grant-So do ].
Think it is a bad habit? Vesuvius-
No. Tn as old as the hills. and I've
smoked ever since l can recollect. Grant
So have I; only my folks complain be-
cause my tobacco scents the rooms. We
suvius-Egad scent all Naples some.
times and the surrounding country.
Grant-Got a match about you? Vesn-
vius-No matches, General; plenty of
sulphur, though. I'm in the gunpowder
line, General, like yourself. Grant
Yes Why, I fought it out on that
humph! I've heard that before. Good
morning.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-31
An Ingenious Rat.TraD.

Mr.. W. Hall, living near Earlville, n.
Y, was last winter very badly troubled
with rats. They got into his hog-house,
and would eat up and carry off about
everything he could put Ill it, even gnaw-
ing the young pigs ears SO that they
would be dripping with blood in the
morning. He set bUshel basket. filed
with ears of corn, in the pen; the next
morning it was empty. The next night
he carried in O basket cf corn and set it
in barrel; it likewise disappeared. The
following evening he put the corn into
the barrel and set the basket into the
top, it just fitting and sinking down to the
rim. The next morning he found hole
gnawed through the bottom of the bas-
ket, and three or four rats in the barrel
with the corn. The hole afforded them
ingress, but they could not Jump up and
get out through it: they only beat their
heads against the bottom of the basket,
and tired themselves out. This was a
novel trap, and, since the rats had made
it for themselves, Mr.. Hall thought he
would try its efficiency. So, dispatching
the rats, he left the barrel, with the
basket III the top, every night, until he
caught sixty rats, when there was gen
eral stampede, and he has since been
comparatively free. So fierce were the
rats for corn that they would mount the
barrel and enter the basket, and des-
cend through the hole in the bottom,
whether there was any corn in the barrel
or not. They recognised the hole as one
of their own make and went through it
fearlessly; and SO firmly had the idea of
corn in the barrel taken possession of the
public mind of the rats that some of
their number visited it every night and
entered the fatal trap of their own MAX
ing. One morning eleven were found
in the barrel and disposed OF. Every one
can have such trap as this if he can
get the rats to gnaw hole in the bot
tom Of his basket Utica Republican
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-31
DUB FORESTS.
Another Step Looking to the Preservation
of the Timber Lands.


of the Timber Lands.
From the Baltimore SUM-
The Commissioner of Agriculture has
addressed o letter to the President re-
commencing an appropriation OF 81, OOO
to prosecute during the next year the
inquiries into the subject of forestry
which were begun last year under the
auspices of the department by DR..
Hough, of New York. The Legislative,
Executive and Judicial Appropriation
bill of April Is, 1876, made provision for
the investigation, with view chiefly to
discover the means best adapted to the
preservation and renewal of forests, the
influences of forests upon climate, etc.
DR.. Hough, who was selected by the
Commissioner OF Agriculture for the pur-
pose, has diligently prosecuted the IN
quiry, not only in the United States, but
has entered into correspondence with
officers of foreign Governments connected
with the forest management and forestry
schools which abound in Europe, where
the vital importance of this great inter
est is well understood, and where for
long years an intelligent and settled
policy has prevailed looking to the in
crease of the woods, the equal season
able distribution of the rainfall, main
tenance of forest upon the higher lands,
and the subsequent preservation OF the
regular supply of water for the springs,
rivulets and rivers, and the pre-
vention of the terrible foods which
wash bare the unclothed mountain
slopes, and by sudden overfows destroy
the agriculture and the manufactures OF
the valleys. DR.. Hough has already
compiled statistics Of the most valuable
character, embracing statements of the
expectation of every class of forest
products from each port of the United
States to each country, from the organ
ization of the Government to the present
time. He has also a wealth of matter,
historical and instructive, which will be
of interest not only to every agriculturist
and landowner, but to every person who
has hope for prosperous future of his
country. The question of timber culture
and timber preservation, not only on the
public, but on private lands of the United
States, is one of the most difficult and
one of the most interesting problems that
can attract our attention. The forest
laws of Europe have for us much that is
suggestive and instructive, and there are
many features of them which it would be
to our interest to adopt. Congress should
afford every facility for a proper under
standing Of the subject, and there is no
doubt that it will cheerfully make the
necessary appropriation to enable DR..
Hough to continue his inquiries. There
is no longer any controversy as to the
fact that something must be done to ar
rest the wholesale destruction of timber
which is still going on in every part of
the United States where there is any
timber left