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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1879-07-04
LETTER FROM NEVADA.
VIRGINIA. Cry, June %, 1879

Ed. WORLD idaho is now attract
ing considerable attention among the
bonanza specializing fraternity, beth
Of this place and California, who are
becoming stcadfast in the opinion that
Idaho il tie coming country for oper-
atoms where capital can be judicious-
~ invested. Like hundreds Of others
leaving Idaho several years ago, !
was under the impression that her
mines were then about exhausted, and
her name hastily succumbing to eter-
nal rest III oblivion; but what great
changes time hath wrought Yon
will meet old Idahoans in every camp
on the coast, and in every city, from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, engaged inl
all kinds of hnsiness; and whether DC.
'cupying prominent positions or en-
gagged in humble occupations, they
anxiously inquire about the old stamp
ing ground with expressions that
sspeak louder than words She is yet
the best country il the world.
know quite a number who are al
ranging business. preparatory to go
ing back this fall to winter in the Ba-
sin. well heeled for heavy prospecting
as soon as spring opens. The float
ing population is becoming frenzied
with excitement, and many are daily
leaving fol Yankee Fork via Corinne
and througa Montana.
Times are very quiet in this city at
present, owing to depreciation in the
value Of stocks stagnated BY suspen-
Sion Of operations in the mines along
the line Of the Comstock, which are
affected by great flow Of water that
is uncomfortable with the machinery
used However, better days are not
far distant, and thousands OF people
are anxiously awaiting The dawning
of the light as it approaches through
the great Sutro tunnel which is near
| ~ completed. 1t taps the Comstock
about the middle and almost 2,000
feet from the surface, which will re-
lieve the machinery Of such an i'm
mense burden that even the lightest
works will be able 10 drain the deep
est nine on the Comstuck through this
tunnel, which will be completed by
the l5.h OF July. Operations will
then be renewed in The dividend pay
ing mines, giving employment te
thousands Of men who are now idle
The best posted men in the city are o.
the opinion that her best days are sc
to come,
The health Of the community il
about as usual, not much sickness, OK
cept pneumonia, which is the prevail
ing disease 1t generally attacks ii
victims with great violence.
a few familiar names still appear il
: the columns of your paper. There i
l Ben Wilson, Geo. Ainslie, Dryde Nc
Clintock, Jim Dawson and Fran
Cooper Jim and Frank are well re
membered by ali cold timers as til
E kings of landlords. They have gu
5 thanks for many square meap an
comfortable accommodations, whic
). were always the best the country a
d forded.
I will close by saying that we al
l. to have grand celebration on tn
L Fourth, the happiest day of my adop
! ed LAND.
o Company Formed to Work the Snal1
River Mines.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1879-07-04
salt for Hammer.

Elnery's large * train passed
through here Tor Banner last Wednes-
day. The train consisted Of fourteen
large wagons, which were loaded
with salt for the Ellnira Company.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1879-07-04
j mexican,
Presiding Elder.
Salt.

Ten thousand pounds Of salt on
consignment, at the lowest figures for
cash, at Coffin & Kennaly's.
May 20-4v
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Reduction Of Prices.

Hair cutting or shaving for 20 cents at
OSCAR JOHNSON'S,
Two doors below Kingsley's brick, Wall
street, Idaho City.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1879-07-04

Can it be said that man who is
very much intoxicated Is detected, be-
canse he's mtre'nful?
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1879-07-04

No. / Coal Oil at retail at Coffin &
Kennaly's
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1879-07-04

LORD LAWRENCE formerly yiceroy Of
Ireland, is dead
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Spefial Antifss.
"A CARD.

To all who are suffering from the errors
and indiscretions Of youth, nervous weak
ness early decay, loss Of manhood, &C.,
will send 4 recipe that will cure You.
FREE OF CHARGE. This great remedy
was discovered by missionary Soutl
America. Send self-addresscd envelope
= the REv, JosEPH T. NMAN, Station p,
New York City.
Mar.I'59-1y.
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Rare Trees in Idaho.

Some time ago Mr.. Elijah CLANCY,
Of Placervilie, sent US a supply Of
walnuts, hickory nnts, acorns aud
crab apple seeds for planting They
are doing well, especially the walnut
trees, which are a foot high
TIM Ministry Of the late Egyptian
Government has resigned, and the
Chief PasAa is forming another
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1879-07-04

Barbershop at Placerville.
Our barbershop in Placerville will be
opened on July 1st
A. J. CARAVAN s. co.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1879-07-04
Quarterly Meetings.

The round Of quarterly meetings on
Grand Ronde and Boise District, NJ.
E. Church Columbia River Conference,
will be held as follows:
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1879-07-04

shop ut Silver Dale
Tom Moore and all the 'stiffsp are
going to tie ball. Carrie.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-07-16

There is q sort of murmur of applause,
and I see the children of the band
coming. There are two, a boy and a
girl, on each pony, and the ponies and
the children are dressed in green boughs,
and each child carries green branch.
In all this display Of savagery there is
at least something innocent. The chill
dren are singing some kind of a chant.
and their voices strike the air with q
sharp contrast to the yelling bullets that
announced their coming. Behind them
comes al Indian riding alone. Upon
his head is an immense war bonnet,
made of eagle feathers, the stream ers
falling in showers on his horses back.
The children are his staff, but there ap-
pears to be something incongruous In
the situation. Somehow the children
and their decorations do not gibe with
the war-bonnet.
"That is Sitting Bull" croaks a voice
beside rue. 1t is the first time my cap
tor has spoken, and he spoke in time,
for should not have recognized Bull IN
his head-dress. To my surprise my
captor rises, speaks to the young per.
sons who follow him, and l am left
alone.
"Were you frightened?' asked the
Interpreter, coming up as the Indians
left.
"Pretty nearly to DEATH"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-07-16

thinks 1t necessary to apologize to mod
ern reformers, that the position occu
pied by woman in civilized society is
precisely that for which she is fitted by
the laws of development Of the race;
that all attempts to reduce the sexes to
an intellectual equality are flying in
the face, not of providence, but of zos-
logy; that man, from the embryonic
germ, is marked as the leader, the
discoverer, the originator, woman
as the cOnservator and helper. He
holds that woman's position Is
neither equal nor subject, but COM
Elemental. He gets around the facts
that initiate against his theory, by as
Stunning that women who possess the
originating faculty are masculine and
that men who excel in the practical
qualities Of tact, intutive perception,
and quick practical usefulness are FEM
mime. Professor Brooks quotes from
the writings of Mill and Lacky to show
that the conclusion he has reached in E.
ductively through zoology was reached
by those thinkers deductively through
observation and logic, and closes with
an application of his theory to the prob
lClll VI ILlG CullCdtlOI VI Tic o0ACo.
AS may be easily inferred, he opposes
the plan which would make the intel
lectual training Of the sexes Identical
and holds that the education of each be
adapted to its special capabilities. Gull
ture in the broad sense of teaching the
results OF past experience, is the educa-
tional form corresponding to the law of
heredity and is best fitted to women.
Training, in the broad sense of prepar-
ing the mind for original work and new
discoveries in special fields of intellect
ual activity is best fitted to man. The
education Of woman should be broad,
general, empirical and practical. That
of man should be narrower, deeper,
more thorough and logical. Men
should be taught to think, women to
apply the laws Of thought. Without
troubling the surface of the woman's
rights movement, Professor Brooks
seems to play havoc with its founda-
tions.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-07-16
THE VENUS OF MILO.
The Famous Rampant Receives d New
Interpretation.
Springfield Republican,


A new theory has been added to the
many on the Venus of Milo, and the
last is a curious illustration of the diff
ferent conceptions which the same face
may convey to critics. BY all the sup
porters Of the theories which make the
statue Venus, the face and figure have
been accepted as the Venus Urania, the
highest form Of spiritual love transcend
ing the physical. Lubke lays great
stress on this conception Of Venus as
alone suiting the statue, which could in
no case be held to represent, he says,
the Venus of mere desire. Herr Gerkel-
Solomon, a member of the Stockholm
Academy, has just published q mono
graph in which he takes the new ground
that the statue was one of group rep
resenting Hercules choosing between
duty and pleasurable love, and that the
statue which stands to-day in the Louvre
represented, not the higher, but the
lower appeal to human nature typified
in Hercules That the figure was one
of group is no new idea, but the group
usually selected is one, of which an
example is preserved at Rome, repre-.
senting Venus disarming Mars, theory
to which the position OF the arms lends
weight, and which clothes the statue
with the high conception of spiritual
love disarming brute force. AS is we'll
known, the inclination Of the upper
part of the body was given it when the
statue was first mounted III Paris by
driving wooden wedges between the up
per and lower halves of the figure, on
the supposition that the statue was one
Of Venus, mentioned in classic author,
as looking at her own reflection in the
shield of Mars. The removal of the
wedges brings the statue to more up
right pose. and suits the idea that the
goddess is receiving the gifts of Paris
the need Of beauty; but it is no easy
matter to associate this sublime face
and figure with the empty compliment
of an apple. The most recent theory,
with the exception Of Herr Gerkel-Sol
onions, identifies the statue with the
representation of the wingless Victory
erected in Athens after the close of the
Persian wars. Such statue, attributed
to Phidias, stood in a temple OF the same
name on slope of the Acropolis. and
the personiication Of success in battles
whose fruits were never to depart from
the city Of the violet crown, was repre-
scented as inscribing on shield resting
on her knees the names Of the Athenian<
who died in the wars with Persia.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-07-16
Diseases Peculiar to Students.

President Eliot, of Harvard College,
at the dinner of the Massachusetts Med
ical Society in Boston last Wednesday,
called the attention of the members of
the society to certain peculiar diseases
prevalent among the students Of Har-
ward College. He found that in the Sen
Tor class of 200 young men, forty-two
suffer so severly from diseases of the
nose, throat and lungs that it is impos-
ible, in the opinion of the members of
the Massachusetts, Medical society, for
them to go to prayers for six months to
come. Another peculiarly is that the
disease apparently increases the longer
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-07-16
THE NEW SILVER MINES.
Arkansas Trying to Rival Colorado
Silver City in the Ozark Mountains.
Plenty Of Claims, but Little Pay-Dirt
rs YET
Cincinnati Enquirer.


The new silver discoveries which were
first g struck here over year ago by
Diamond Joe Reynolds, of Chicago,
have, by their accessibility, suddenly
become almost as attractive as the ia
nous Leadville region, and yet con-
paritively nothing has been said about
them. The way to get here, and what
is to be seen and done after you get here,
are the subjects which will interest those
who are down with the silver fever.
Silver City is situated in the midst of
the ore regions, and has population Of
perhaps one hundred and fifty persons.
kinnon q Brady keep the only hotel in
the place, which is run on the Euro
pean plan. Beds cost twenty-five cents
per might, four beds to room and you
always sleep double. The rooms and
beds are neat and clean. Meals twenty
five cents. Like all mining towns
small quantity Of liquor is sold, and
little gambling is done. The natives
who own the land raise y little corn and
sometimes cotton, but "nary" thing
else. They live on salt meat and corn
bread as Injuries, their regular diet be-
ing tobacco and bad whisky.
The Wandering Boy Lode is ore of the
prospective]y rich mines, the ore having
beer found at few feet below the sur
face, growing richer as it deepened. [
did not notice any ore laying around
in heaps, as [ have seen in Colorado
but the mysteriously knowing fellows
told No. it was there.
The Minnesota shaft, owned by Dia-
mond Joe Reynolds, is not in operation,
being nearly full Of water, and a notice
on tie door that the machinery is for
sale would indicate that the owner is
expecting to give it a rest for time.
The Glendale consolidated, owned by
St. Louis parties, with another shaft,
was purchased for $4,000. What the
company expects to do with its claims
has not leaked out. There is an i'm
mense amount of secrecy about things
out here, which to me Is bewlldering.
The Alexander claims are being
worked, and with a prospect Of good pay
dirt. Experienced miners CLAIM that
the prospects here are equal to those of
Georgetown, Col, but I was not so irn-
pressed,
The miners seem determined not to
lose anything for want Of claims, and
have staked out the whole country and
are waiting for capitalists to come along
and buy them out Or work their claims
for them. | don't think $500 could be
raised by the men who own two-thirds
of the claims, but they are hopeful and
feel rich. Assays of the quartz show q
yield of from $50 to $1,100 per ton.
George A. Settle, an experienced Idaho
miner, informs me that these are I'M
doubtedly true veins Of silver, and he
is fixing to stay. He is said to be a
man of means, and has bought an in
terest in the Walnut mine. This COM
pany has sent north for quartz crushing
machinery, and few weeks will deter
mine whether they are to get silver IN
paying quantities or not. Claims can
be bought cheap now, but the prices
are going up everyday.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-07-16
A Widows Pension that Went to Per-
jnrer for Fifteen Years.
New York Times. July 4.


Ellen McClelland for three years drew
a pension of SIS per month as the widow
of soldier named George G. McClel-
land, who was killed early in the war
Of the rebellion. She then married one
Patrick Martin, blind man, and lived
with him for six years, during which
time she continued to drew the pension
money. In 1870 Martin died in one Of
the institutions on Blackwe's Island
Soon afterward she went to live as
housekeeper with a man named Ensign,
and up to last month she regularly drew
her pension, witnesses being produced
by her at each payment who swore that
she was still widow and had contin-
ued to be widow since the death Of
.McClelland.
The Pension Bureau was led TO ex-
anime the case. Finding that there
was something wrong, it laid the facts
discovered before the United States At
torney. A warrant was issued for the
woman's arrest, and yesterday she was
brought before United States Commits
sioner Osborn. On being informed of
the charge against her, she at once
confessed the whole conspiracy anG
the facts above stated. and gave IN
formation duplicating one Of her wit
nesses, woman who testified regu-
larly that Mrs. McClelland was widow
and received for this service the larger
share of the pension. The prisoner
was ad omitted to bail TO await exanlna-
ton.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-07-16
HOW to Become Beautiful.
Waterloo Observer

The young woman who desires to
have herself published in the newspa-
pers as Fascinating. beautiful and &C
complished," will please pack up her
clothes in dirty towel, crawl out 0 f the
back upstairs window some dark rainy
night and elope with the man who cur
ries and feeds her dads horse. 1t is a
big price to pay for compliments, but
it will bring them just as certain as a
dirty rainwster barrel will beget mos
quitoes in July.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-07-16

the student attends college, for while
only 10 per centum of of the freshman
class are afflicted, 81 per centum Of the
Seniors are. Still another popularity
Of the disease is that it exists only few
moments of the day, and always about
the same time; it does not prevent the
patients from going to their meals, even
though the prayer bell is ringing at the
same time; it does not prevent their
attending Rotations; they can even
attend to the theater and ride out home
IN the horse-car late at night in mid
winter; they can row in the boats, play
base ball, and even sing in the glee
club. It is known that the disease exists
however for it is certified by the men,
bers of the Massachusetts Medical Socie-
tv
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-07-16

THE deepest mine in the world now
worked is said to be the Adalbert lead
and silver mine in Austria, which is
$3.50 feet deep. The next is Viviers
coal mine in Belgium, 2,847 feet. 1t
was sunk to the depth OF 1886 feet, but
no coal having been found, the work is
at the former level tar
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-07-16

RoxBURY, Litchtield county, Conn,
has an eccentric tramp, who lives in q
cave during the winter and spen DIS
the summer in making begging excur-
sions.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-07-16

A TEXAN Diana's exploit is thus re
corded by the San Saba Neacs: Miss
Vaughan, of Menard county, owns a
brand of cattle and recently, while she
was out herding, her dogs chased a Mex
lean hog out of thicket, 4 The young
girl followed to see the fight and to pro-
tect the dogs if necessary, for it is we'll
known that wild Mexican hog is a
dangerous toe. The hog was getting
the mastery of the dogs, and probably
would have vanquished them had not
Miss Vaughan come to the rescue with
a club and killed the beast"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-07-16

A NEW variety of sweet potato is
being cultivated in Kern county, the
extreme southeastern corner of Califor-
MIA. They call it Ocean Queen. Picked
specimens weigh from fifteen to eight
cen and twenty-five pounds. The
yield is so great that they are fed to
hogs, which thrive amazingly and make
extra pork. Recent tests suggest that
they will make better and cheaper
sugar than beets.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-07-16
Who Caught the Biggest Fish!

The Princess Louise captured a
twenty-eight pound salmon at Indian
House Pond, somewhere near Quebec,
and did it all alone by herself, the Mar
quis, who was in her canoe with her,
touching neither rod nor reel, giving no
directions, and not even venturing to
hurrah after the deed was done. for fear
of misconstruction of his enthusiasm.
This was doing very we'll indeed, and
the Princess is entitled to a great deal
of praise. We believe by the way, that
the trout caught by Mrs. Hayes in the
Adirondacks last summer weighed
twenty-nine and three-quarters pounds,
and was secured while William Wheeler
was a couple of miles away and
sound aslepp. But the Princess fish
was very pretty little fish for all that
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-07-16

" BREAKFAST shirts" are enum Grated
in gentiemen's fahion reports.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-07-24
AbettOrs of Suicide,

II the authorities should be able to
collect clear evidence identifying the in
diyidual who furnished to Parr the
strychnine with which he brought his
life to on end almost in the presence of
the Judge who was sentencing him to be
hanged, at Philadelphia, they will have
acase for the application Of doctrine of
law, ancient and important, though very
seldom invoked. II is the same offense
to aid a person to kill himself that it is
to enable him to kill q third person.
The antiquated methods by which it
was once sought to punish suicide have
fallen into disuse, not at all because sui
cile has come to be deemed innocent or
even venial, but altogether because they
offend modern ideas Of humanity in pun
ishments. The law formerly denounced
heavy forfeiture Of property against a
Guicide; this is no longer enforced, be-
cause it is seen to punish innocent heirs
rather than the real offender. The law
formerly prescribed ignominious burial, ,
this is relaxed because it is seen to in
volve barbarous vengeance, rather
than o true punishment. But suicide is
just as truly the murder of ones self
now as in the days when the perpetrator
was liable to forfeit lands and goods,
and to be burie5, with a stake through
the heart, at place where four roads
met. The courts now realize that the
principal offender cannot be reached by
human penalties, and they forbear the
attempt. But for the purposes of any
collateral inquiry, an intentional suicide
by sane person is fully and entirely
murder. Whoever aids suicide is
guilty of completely in murder.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-07-24
A Strange Wager.

g. Hussey, of San Francisco, argued
that he could stand any amount Of repe-
tition; it was with him only question
of wages. The contestant, to prove his
theory, offered him 50 so day for a
year to carry brick from his store, on
Clay street, to a store over the way and
back, ten hours n day, Sundays except
ed. Hussey faced the monotony gayly,
and at eve chuckled over the $3.50 re-.
ceived. The second day was all right, only
q yawn now then and an increase of to-
bucco squirts, till the fifth day, he Pc
tered out aud caved in. Never in my
life did do work 80 exhausting. I'd
rather stalva than 90 on another day,
said the disgusted individual.