Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-02-18

| ne tour men who compose the BonSHZS'
| nTm al blood OBrien are j &. Flood VII.
| liam :; % BrieR, John Mackey and James q; =
| falr. They are all lriShmen, and the maa
Mo MIC ofiglnaiy furnished the money was
| MdcheS- VINO owns twice as large an Interest
| IN It's business az ether OF the other Farmers
and who apparently is least engaged I'm the
actual transaction OF its business. Fair trans.
acts all the business at the mines managin,
every detail and experimenting the IIohir
Uaion, Consolidated, Virginia Consolid stes
California, Mexican and Best aud BeIcher
mines. The market and banking business AT
San Francisco Is in the hands Of the men
whose names represent the firm, and 10 them
all the larger business transactions are en-
trusted Associated With them In much Of
their business is the San Francisco Jay could.
and eN- Alabama lawyer with German name
solomon heydenfeldt. He Is a director In
most OF The great mining companies with
which the firm is identified, aud acts WITH
them, although he is not member OF the firm.
PERSONALLY, their characteristics are atIrxc-
fellowwell-met' sort, apparently feeling tho
burden of their wealth very little or AT least
bearing It very lightly. Flood Is the finest
looking ol them all, and a friend said ye.t>r-
day, Ibis honorS set as easily as when a few
Years ago he used 10 retail whisky al a 'bit' n
EIas sat at his Auction Lunch Room; oBrien Is
inclined TO be extremely affable, aud Mr.
Mackey Is kindly and unpreJentious Ills
family is in Europe, and Mrs. MackeyS recep-
tons have attracted great deal of attention
Fair" said the gentlemaa before alluded 10.
is, in fact, the only one of them who seems %
feel his oats, and his bearing is probably due
OF rough men while engaged in the imma dia,e
supervision of the Mines He was bora IN
Ireland in 1881, came 10 America in 1913, ani
received good business training at Chicago.
In California he is a 'I9er." and from power
ty has come into a neat little income of s7500ls
month net. He lives i'm a not very preIeu-
nous, but very white aud glaring villa, on h
street, virginia City. lie has no SnObbiSh
ideas, however and, while he keeps barouche
and four Tor the use of his wife, a pair Of bay
geldingS ana light buggy answer his own
4 IN ahar.
times has had his life threatened by men who
believe hat they have been wronged by him
IN certain stock transactions: Indeed, he is
said 10 60 always armed and TO have carried
the traditional knife in his boot leg for many
years. number of peculiar stories are told
OF ms history In the times when there WAS less
OF civilization in Nevada than there is at pre-
sent, and he has on occasion been known to
deal harshly with the miners in his employ
ment.
The wealth Of these four men. which aches
an income representing an invested fortune of
something like sou, 000,oOn, has all been taken
from the Comstock ledge, which was discOy-
cred in the winter of lS575S by a Swede JAS
Thompson, better known as "SnowShoe"
Thompson. At that time he was the mail
carrier, who went as often az the weather
would permit on Snowshoes over the Placer
vile mountains. He had his eyes open, and
during The winter took 10 Prof. Stewart at
flacerSllle number of specimens of black
rock which looked like dried black mud, and
which was found TO contain free gold and to
assay uniformly as high as fOgty-fiye to forty
seven Ctul- pure EOlu. III was at the time
when placer mining was becoming unproiita-
BILE and quartz mining was being Introduced,
but so rich yield at that time was regarded
as fabulous and generally disbelieved. Much
OF the ore taken from the veins since that time
has been almost pure gold and has aSSayed ina
blocks as high as 20 per cent. From the lode
has been taken, it is estimated by the best au-
thOritieS, not less than Si01,000,0OO.
In 1876 the amount taken out by these four
| men was estimated at Si,j0O0N each, net, i'm
addition to which they realized Sl.01O,0OO each
far nth in fl,aft
| mills on the same lode, making a total in
come from this source alone of S2T,5JO,0D0 be-
| sides that from all the other numerous sources
| OF income which they now possess. They eK-
| pend $1,000 day for blasting powder and
| $1,000 in pure gold is burned and escapes in q
gaseous form from their blasting operations
| Nv. I. Graphic.
PEN PICTURE OF SENATOR EDMUNDs.-Ed
mundS has high, gently Sloping, bald head,
upholstered on the sides with iron gray,
straight, unOied but not coarse hair. His
hair shows that he is no popinjay but il does
| not show that he is eminently gentle HisIOne
| gray beard has self-reiant sacerdotal way Of
| hanging straight dOwnwards; and the over
| Topping, half-unkempt, and positively large
enough muStache gives him determined air.
| He Is TO all appearance man who if there
were little meringue of sentiment on him
| would be beautiful character. But, as ma
| ture made him, he Is one who if he had chosen,
for instance, the religion of the Baptists
would have been baptized in hard water only.
| Men have said that he resembles portraits Of
vi
parents, and by great and rigorous eXertiOu
gained classical education; so that only by
the hardest work did he acquire that learning
| which has aided his coldly judicial mind TO be-
come the largest and strongest mind of the u
| s. Senate. By largest, meant not generous,
but that sort of mind which is exacting and
which is economically just-l"J Jay Chart.
| tom" an DGHburU NelrS.
| LORD DERBY's PROTEST against Russian
| occupation of ConStantinope is published. It
| is very decidedly worded. It demonstrates
| that the entry of the Russian troops would be
| a violation OF the armiStice, and might pro-
| woke disorders, causing the very danger TO tho
| Christians which the Russian government de-
| precates. Il concludes as follows: Her majes-
| Tvs government cannot acknowledge that
the dispatch of British ships to ConstantinOpIe
| has any bearing on the entry of Russian troops
| into the city, which latter measure they con-
slider uncalled for by any circumstances Of
| military or other necessity, and the cORse-
| quences of which may be most disastrous TO the
| whole population of the city. Lord Derby also
| telegraphed to Lord LOTUS on February l3th
that he had expressed to Count SchOuvaloff the
| governments earnest hope that the Russian
| troops would not make any movement toward
Galipoli or any movement of a nature to
| threaten the communications of the fleet, as
| any such movement would be regarded i'm
| England as compromising the safety of the
heet and n IN the actual l state OF public feeling
sequences, which might be most serious.
As-In Meriden, Conn, German woman
belongs to the corps of laborers who ditch the
street for gas-pipe. and she handles the pick
and shovel as skilfully as the best of them.
E6NictOr Hugo is rewriting several OF the
scenes of his dramatic version of " Les Miser-
| ableS," and the piece is 10 be played in Paris
in honor OF the coming exhibition.
Hs-A Canada clergyman has been convict
| ed of skating on Sunday. He breaches on
| Garden Island, and instead OF driving over ON
| the ice or going Oh foot, he buckles on his
| skates and gets across very comfortably. Now,
| is il right TO skate on Sunday?-[ Exchange.
| MARRIED..
| BARKER-WEsT. February IS, 1878, at ST.
| PatIick's Church, by Rev. Father Walter, Ohm