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Bob Burdette's Boy.

The following is an abstract of the
Burlington HaUkeye mans lecture on
the Rise and Fall of the Mustache -:
A boy asks questions. If there was
any truth in the theory of transmigra-
ton when boy died he would 90 into
an Interrogation point. A boy knows
where the first snowdrop lifts and where
the last Indian paint fingers. His pock-
cts are cabinets. He drags from them
curious fossils that he don't know the
names of. He knows where the herbs
grow that have marvellous medicinal
properties, and he nearly sends the rest
of the family to the graveyard by max
ing practical tests upon them. The boy
has his superstitions and he carries in
bis pocket one particular marble-be it
brummie, agate or blood alley-which
when he loses he sees panic and bank
ruptcy coming and retires before the
crash comes with his pockets full of
shillings and creditors meeting in the
back room. He has charm to cure
warts on the hand; he has marvellous
instinct for the woods. As he grows
older he wants to be missionary or
pirate, and so far as there is any prefer.
ence he would rather be a pirate-a pro-
fession in which there are more oppor-
tunities for making money and fewer
chances of being devoured raw. He hates
company, for it carries him to the second
table and leaves him no pie. He never
walks down stairs, but adopts the sim
gle-rail, narrow-gauge passenger tram
way and soon cures the other men,
bers of the family of the practice of
setting the water pitcher on the talus-
ter post. He asks with alarming fire.
quency for new hat, and wears it in
the air or on the ground ten times more
than on his head. Poor Tom loves as
he makes mischief. He muses. his sis
ter's ruffie and gets severely reprimand-
ed. But some neighbours Tom comes
in and makes the most helpless, hope
less, abject, chaotic. wreck Of that ruffie
that it can be distorted into, and all the
reproach he gets is, ssMust he 90 80
soon?' But poor Tom gets weary and
drops off into the wonderland of a bows
dreams, and no mother who has not
dragged sleepy boy off the lounge at
nine O'Clock and led him upstairs can
understand the Herculean grasp with
which a square sleep takes hold of
boy, how fearfully timber and limp it
makes him and how it develops in
Vulnerable joints that work both ways.
He never relates his dreams till every
one else in the family has told theirs,
and there and then he comes in like a
back county with the necessary MAORI
ty. In time Tom comes to desire a tail
coat and glove-ftting boots. Before he
has worn his fathers arctics-on his
feet, and his mothers slippers-on bis
Jacket. It dawns upon Tom that be
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" My Daughter, 0 My Daughter -

About o'clock Monday evening,
says Richmond 0nd.) special to the
Chicago Tribune, as the Cincinnati ex-
press steamed into the depot at this
place, the train was boarded by fine
looking old farmer, accompanied by a
quiet-looking old gentleman, who, from
his appearance, might have passed for
the family pastor. The two gentlemen
rushed through the train evidently in
great haste, anxiously peering into the
face of every lady and gentleman in the
car. "Ah, ha, I've found you at last"
said the farmer, as he halted before a
lady and gentleman who we're seated
together in most suggestive proximity
that would suggest connubial bliss very
recently acquired. The young gentle
man jumped up and demanded the mis-
sion of the elderly party. 81 want my
daughter, you villain, and I'll have her
or I'll have your hearts blood" ex-
claimed the now Infatuated old man
and, whipping out huge navy, he was
about to level it at the young mans
head, when the gentleman who accom-
panied him interfered. The passengers
with which the car was filled, hearing
the row, the call for blood, and seeing
the pistol flashing in the air, stampeded
from the door, and in few minutes
there were but half dozen men besides
the interested parties in the car "Valen-
tia," cried the old man, "come home or
I'll kill you and the scamp that stole
you away from me-" Suiting the action
to the word, he broke away from the old
man who held him, and covered the
youthful pair with his revolver. The
girl, who had sat very quiet thus far,
sprang to her feet, her black eyes flash
ing as she gazed into the face of her
white-haired old father, saying "Father,
I've married this man, and wherever ne
goes there will go; and as for going
home, | will nOt,-shoot or no shoot"
The old man was so infuriated at this
outburst that he would have killed them
both had not the bystanders, who had
sympathized with the young couple
from the outset, disarmed the old man
and held him in a corner, and hustled
the young couple out of the car and into
another train that Immediately started
Chicagoward. The old man and his
were in safety.
The bride was petite little brunette,
and her husband was fine looking
young man, both, to all appearances,
belonging to the wealthy class of coun-
try people. As far as could be learned,
the parties lived at Wilmington, Ind !,
and are all highly respectable people.
The match between the young people
was drowned upon by the father of the
lady, and she, with indomitable pluck,
would have the same man of her choice
in spite of the old folks. So they took
the Sunday night train for Cincinnati,
where the knot was tied, with the above
results. The lady is said to be an only
daughter, and the affair that came so
near terminating with. tragedy will
probably result after the style of old
story -books-"forgiveness and return
to the old home"
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has hands, pair, a good hand. And
when he goes to the first church socia-
BILE with his sister on account of the alb
sence of some other Tom, he finds
that he has eleven hands. and
he wonders where the eleventh
one came from. Now his mother never
cuts his hair with pair of scissors
that have cut miles and miles of calico,
and vast eternities Of paper, and snarls
and tangles of string, and have snuffed
candles, and pared apples, and trimmed
lamp wicks, and pried up carpet tacks,
and trimmed the family nails, and have
done their level best at the annual
struggle of cutting stove-pipe lengths
in two. Now he knows that mans
upper lip was destined by nature to be
a mustache pasture. How exquisitely
reserved he is; with what delicate action
does he make the first preliminary in
vestigation in order that he may detect
the first symptoms of velvety resistance.
And when he has found that it is there
and only needs to be brought out, how
he walks down to the barber's shop,
gazing anxiously into the window and
walks past. At last, when he musters
up courage enough to 60 inside and
climbs into the chair and is just on the
point of whispering to the barber that
he would like a shave, in comes some
modern Esau, with beard as long as
Toms arm, and frightens it out of him
and he has his hair cut again, for the
third time that week, so short that the
barber holds it in his teeth, cuts it with
a file, trims it with a smoothing plane
and parts it with a straight edge and
a scratch awl. Nobody ever did know
how boy gets hold of his fathers razor,
and when the boy gets it he hardly
knows what to do with it. In the
course of a few minutes the blade
buckles on him and cuts every
one of his four fingers. Then he cuts
the strop with it, and would cut it often
er if the strop lasted longer. Then he
knocks it against the side of the mug,
drops it on the floor and steps on it /;
but is pleased to find that none of the
hicks in it are as large as saw-teeth.
Then he wonders that mans nose is
so put upon his face that man can not
get at his own with a razor without
standing on his head. He slashes his
nose, cuts the corners of his mouth, and
makes disagreeable cut on his lip that
makes it look as though it had just come
out of free fight with a straw-cutter
But he learns just before he cuts his up
per lip clear off and his mustache comes
on again. Although without color it
can be felt-very soft felt. And then
Tom has to endure in quiet every sort of
attack from the other members of the
family about his face being dirty; that
he had better use spoonful of cream
and piece of the cats tail to lather his
upper lip, and the taunts of his sister
and younger brother, who ask him and
cry to the company respectively, "Tom,
what have you got on your lip" and
" Toms raisin' q mustache'' But it
grows-short in the middle and very no
longer at the ends. Don't laugh at it !;
encourage it; coax it along; draw it
out; speak kindly Of it. Even after it
has grown long enough to be felt it
causes trouble. 1t is more obstinate
than meerschaum pipe in taking color.
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MoLAssEs CAKE cups of New Or
leans molasses. l of butter, eggs, ! cup
cold water, teaspoonful soda, l tea
spoonful of ginger, cups of prepared
flour; heat the molasses before mixing.
and stir the butter in while hot let it
cool before you put the eggs in~ this
will make the cakes, as they should not
be very thick; bake / hour in quick
ovea.
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PRUSSIA had $50 centenarians, &C.
cording to the last census.
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show. In the distance are the Santa
Catalina Mountains, rich with buried
treasure. Occasionally we came across
broad bitches for irrigating the soil,
some OF them twenty feet wide, dug by
none knows whom.
After jogging along for three or
four hours, we turned to the left among
the mesquit bushes to the Casa Grande.
The old ruin of the prehistorics, like the
castles of the Rhine, looked sadly out of
repair. The roof and all of the floors
had fallen in, and time and heavy rains
had made deep burrows in the sides and
washed out huge masses. It was sur
rounded with numerous mounds where
similar structures of less magnitude had
stood. In fact, whole city had once
existed here. The drifting sands and
debris of the roof and floors had evil
IDENTITY filed up one or two stories, so
that we entered by the upper rooms
through pyramidal-shaped doors or
windows. four feet high and two feet
wide. The walls were four feet thick.
and seemed of limestone, plastered
throughout with fine cement as hard
as stone. The body of the walls was of
softer material; where masses had
fallen out, there could be seen the inn
print OF hands and fingers, as though
it had been nodded and padded while in
soft state and left to dry, after which
other layers had been put on. The
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-07-08

LONDON, July 1.-The Times correspond
ent at Paris says: A majority of the Bona
patists are understood to concur with Rouher
in acknowledging Prince Jerome Bonaparte
as chief of the Napoleonic dynasty. They
argue that the will of the late Prince Imper-
ial, which asks ex-Empress Eugene to Co
operate with Prince Victor, was written on
the assumption that the testatOr would sur
vive Prince Jerome Bonaparte. This rea-
soning, however, is considered a transparent
excuse for the non-observance of the imprac-
ticahle will of the Prince Imperial. Ronher's
retirement from active politics, is evidently
owing to the feeling that he and Prince Jer-
ONE could not act together and the latter
could not be set aside. What between Jerome
and the possible adherence to the Republic
and the impossbility of the clerical section
Of Bonapartists choosing a leader, without
either acting against the wishes of the Prince
lmperial's will, or provoking distinct disap-
proval from Prince Victor, the Bonapartists
are in one of the most perplexing positions
ever occupied by any party.
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FOREIGN.

ROME, June 2S.-The pleadings in the An
tonelli will case have been closed, an judg-
nent will be rendered in ten days. The
lefense pleaded that the suit of Countess
Iamberstine, who claimed to be the daughter
pf the late Cardinal Antonelli, should be re-
ected, because sacreligious children Chat is
children of priests) had not even the right to
,laim parentage.
d LONDON, June 2S-The will of the late
Prince Imperial of France was opened yester-
lay. 1t contained no political allusion. The
whole property was left to his mother.
4 The trustees of the challenge cup say it
must be rowed for on the Thames or Tyne
Sehey will not surrender it to Hanlon to take to
Canada.
LONDON, July 1.-The Queen has COM
handed that the troop ship Orentes, bringing
jhe remains of the Prince Imperial, shall be
Escorted on a part of her voyage by the chan
nell feet.
The steam coal colliers of Merthye, Fidui-
lin, Wales, numbering $4,000 persons, have
S'esolued to accept the masters demand of ten
per cent. reduction.
The Times correspondent at Paris says a
majority of the Bonapartists are understood
ko concur with Rouher in acknowledging
prince Jerome Bonaparte as chief of the Ma
poleonic dynasty.
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New York, June 2s.-The Tribune to-day
prints three columns of enterviews with par
ties interested in mining stocks here, and says
editorially: The talks have been held with
number of influential and prominent men, all
more or less directly connected with the bull
lion interests, and all unite in declaring that
large amount of Eastern capital has been
invested in mining enterprises during the past
year. Various estimates of this amount run
from 5000, 600 to $12,OOO,00O. It is evident,
however, that this is but the beginning. Many
more millions seem sure to follow. 1t seems
the bonanza men are already discussing the
question whether in time the great mines of
Colorado and California will not be controlled
by the capital centered in New York.
W. G. Croly has been lately visiting the
mining regions, and predicts there will soon
be a genuine mining excitement in the East
an era of great speculations, in which much
money will be made and lost. The striking
way in which some of Croly's former finan-
cial predictions have been fulfilled will cause
this one to be received with much attention.
Names are given of twenty-five mines as the
principle ones selling stocks in this market.
Nine are in Colorado, four in California, and
the remainder in Utah, Nevada, Dakota, Mon
tana and elsewhere. ,.....
The Tribune says new companies spring
daily into life, and fresh mines are offered
daily for sale to our buyers. A Wall street
banker, interested largely in mining property,
exclaimed recently: There is no end to the
schemes !; every other man who comes to the
office has a mine to sell. Three-quarters oi
all the mining companies in this market have
been foated merely to make money on the
sale of the stocks. Of course they are all 60
ing to make money, and the stockholder viii
not lose anything to speak Of"
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THE 1.ERRITORY.

j. r. Marks and John Lloyd made . trip to
the Musselshell last week to look out . site
for their new steam saw-mili now on The way
from Benton.-Husbdndmdn
Our fellow-townsman, Gilbert Ecker, had
q severe attack Of paralysis last week and has
been taken to White Sulphur Springs for
treatment.-16. +
Mr.. Noah Armstrong and Judge Annis
returned from the Clark's Fork mines last
week. Mr.. Armstrong is quite favorably
impressed with the mining prospects At
Clark's Fork. He negotiated for some lead
property, and let contract for the purpose Of
having it developed. He left for his home at
Glendale, but will return to the mines within
few weeks.-C0urier.
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America to the Front.

New York, June 29.-Captain Eads, the
we'll known engineer, in carefully corsid-
,red article, gives his views on ship canal
across Panama. The Tribune to-day offers
nls plan of a ship railroad as substitute. He
loes not content himself with merely out
lining his plan, but works out the details so
hat the reader can judge for himself of its
practicability. He would take vessels out of
he water bv well known dry dock methods
pr by an original system of sunken platform
md cradle, raised by hydraulic machinery,
transport them across the Isthmus with their
argoes unbroken and lower them in the sea
IN the other side TO continue their voyages.
che canal would cost at leas: S160, ,000, 900,
md the railroad could be constructed for
50,000,000 The canal would take twenty
i've years to build. while the railroad could
,e finished in tive and the benefits enjoyed,by
This generation. The one could not be made
to pay interest on the ell ormous investment
it would require, while the other would be a
profitable enterprise. The former would re-
quire the assistance of foreign governments.
which would thus get a hold upon the 18TH
mus, while the other could In built us COM
mrrciai undertaking.
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CHICAGO, July 2.-The Times Washington
special says: The Indian Department has
information from the Gros Ventre Agency,
Montana, under date of June 10th, that Brit
ish Indians in large numbers have crossed the
border, that they are destroying the buffalo
upon which the Gros Ventres depend largely
for their support, and that skirmishes have oc-
Cured between our own and the foreign In
dians with loss of life on both sides. The
British Indians are well armed, and are driv-
ing the Americans before them, the latter be-
ing in panic and desiring to cross the Mis-
Indians and one hundred lodges of British
half.breeds are reported being near the post.
Information has been given to the War and
State Departments in order that proper action
NAV be taken. H..# ...-
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DOMESTIC NEWS.

WASHINGTON, June 2S.-Bullion dealers
have been notified by the Treasury Depart
ment that offers Of silver bullion for sale to
the Department will be received on Wednes-
day Of each week, the bullion to be delivered
at the Philadelphia, San Francisco, New Or
leans and Carson City mints.
NEW YORK, July 1.-The Times Chicago
special says: A letter received here to-day
from prominent officer on one of the largest
Kansas railroads states that the red wheat
crop is given up as total failure throughout
the State, and counties in the western part OF
the State e4lave already begun to make appeals
for aid to tile Governor. The rain has come
too late to be of any help, and just in time to
spoil the wheat.
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IxDIAH lIaHr.
Feur InAians KILLED and JeG sharpe
WOunAOA.

Yesterday morning the Independent pub
lished an account Of the stealing of about
forty head of horses from the Missouri valley.
This morning we publish the sequel. On the
night Of the LIST inst. the Indians stole sixteen
head OF horses from Grow creek, and two
from O'Neill's stable, Deep creek, ON the
opposite sldu Of the Missouri river. They
circled through the yalley, and in all captured
about forty head Of horses. On the morning
Of the I'd party of ranchers. composed Of the
following men, @ started % n pnrsus Of o. the w In
Harvey, Thomas Brewer, John O'Neill, A.
Harter and VIM. Woods, with possibly two
other men. The party struck the Indians
trail and followed IL distance Of about
thirty miles to the head Of Sixteen Mile creek,
in the Belt range Of mountains, where des-
perate eight ensued between the Indians and
ranchmen, resulting in the killing of four
Indians and the wounding of JEFF. Sharpe.
Mr.. Sharpe was SO badly wounded that he
could not ride his horse. and messenger
was despatched for q doctor and q wagon to
convey the wounded man home. Mr.. Lyle
Smith, who brought the news to town, states
that the entire band of horses were recaptured
except two which the Indians rode away OH.
We have no further particulars as to the fight
or what band the Indians belonged 10. Six
Indians participated in the fight, and two
escaped.
LArER.-Mr. r. B. Harrison, of the Assay
Office, arrived last evening from the Deer
| creek country, where he, in company with
three others, had been hunting. Unknown
| to them the raiding Indians had passed within
| short distance Of them. Mr.. Harrison in
forms us that Mr.. Sharpe's condition is con
sidered precarious. The thigh bone is broker
and he will have to be conveyed forty miles
part of the way over the mountains, and vii
| necessarily be without medical aid until j
arrives from Helena. After he was shot tn
brave fellow killed an Indian. All tina
section is in arms, vowing vengeance. Tn
two escaping Indians are making for Smitl
River valley.-Independent
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NOTES AND NEWS.

Zach Chandler's friends are vigorously
pushing him for the Presidency.
A thousand parties of pleasure do not leave
q recollection worth that of one good action.
The town of Shenandoah, Pa, is sinking
into coal mine over which it is built.
"Stand up and tell the truth like little
bell-punch" is the latest addition to the
phraseolOgy of slang.
In the museum IN the Ordinance Bureau
at Washington are the pistol and the bullet
with which Booth shot Lincoln.
Kansas has 5,13l school districts, and en-
ploys 6,359 teachers. Male teachers receive
$33.6S per month, female teachers $27.1O.
The tunnel under the Detroit river will be
completed within two years, and will cost
about 81 100000.
The world was never intended for house
of mourning. The flowers are not painted
black, nor is every bird crow.-Hartford
Journal. .-..
Cremation in Paris is being seriously con-
sidered by the Municipal Council, and it is
proposed to establish an experimental appa-
ratus at Pere-la-C Chaise.
Cork Is coming into use in Germany as a
filling for winter bed coverlets in place Of
feathers. 1t is described as not only being
warmer and lighter, but decidedly cheaper.
A Russian Nihilist will write proclama-
ton, steal sheep, make a speech, blk a
washwoman or sing song, all in the name
of liberty.
Mr.. Spurgeon asserts that an old minister
once said to him: "When see . young
man want to preach always feel wish to
take him by the throat and try to choke him
Off"
The idea of cutting ship canal through
the Isthmus of Panama is at least three and
half centuries old. Philip II. of Spain had
a route carefully surveyed by some Flemish
engineers, but never pushed the matter.
"What is the use of fighting the English"
said Zulu, when they can kill aran and
bring him to life again ?"--alluding 10 the
effect of chloroform upon prisoner whose
leg had been amputated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson recently gave what
is feared will be his farewell lecture before
the students of the Harvard Divinity School.
at was Marked" says the Chrsstian Regis,
ter, with his own beauty of thought and
v,gor Of expression. The heat of the chapel
oppressed him, but there was pathetic elo-
quence in the pauses by which he seemed TO
recover himself. In some passages the old
sweet tone overcame the huskiness, and the
sentences came out sparkling like gems. He
vas obliged to omit large portion of what
will prove, when printed, y notable statement
of the relation OF his own life. waFk,tn the
spiritual.progress ofthe world" sssas =
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The New York Mining Record is furnished
with the following list ofmineral patents tor
Montana, issued previous to May goth, 1879 !:
Helena Obice.-Wm. A. Clark, ct al, Stew
art lode; VIM. Chnmasero, ct al, Evergreen
lode; Dennis Leary, Parrot lode; VIM. Chu-
lock, ct al, placer; Harry c. Kesler, ct al,
Banker lode; same, Clear Grit lode Chas.
s. Warren. ct al, Woolman lode David Nc
Cranor, ct al, CRANKY lode /; VIM. Chumase-
70, ct al, Rob Roy lode.
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The no.t.n. works.

We are credibly informed that Mr.. Wickes
has telegraphed orders from New York 70
proceed at once to put the works of the Mon
tana Company in operation, to. make tire
necessary crushing and other improvements
and be prepared at the earliest practical mo-
ment to commence the manipulation Of ore
and the production Of bullion. Mr.. Wickes,
with all required capital, will be on his way
to Montana in a very few davs.-Herdld.