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Hecia and VeSUyiuS.

Professor Palmieris reports Of Mount We
suvius state that the present modest eruption
of Nesuvius has lasted since 1879. 1t hecan
al the bottom OF the vast deep crater left after
the eruption of 1872, aud was therefore only
visible to those who assembled the summit of
the mountain. But now this crater is filled
up by the new lava winch flowed at successive
periods, and therefore tile fresh streams which
issue tom the eruptive cone flow dow The
external parts of the mountain, generally on
the side towards Naples. The new eruptire
cone las gradually increased III height until it
now protludes about fifty feet above the edge
OF the ola crater.
Writing on the 18th Of last month, u cor
respondent says the mountain has been in an
uneasy state for several years, and slight erup-
tons lave constantly taken place but the eli
max seemed to have been arrived at on the
18th, when the Nesuvius changed its mantle
of snow for one of fire. As the wind blew
illiOusly from the northeast the lava de-
scended in the direction of Portici, covering
a large portion of the cone and presenting a
magnificent spectacle. On the 18th there was
less disturbance, but even IN its state of great
est activity the mount ain made none of those
awful efforts which form a grand eruption.
There were some local shocks and a heavy
breathing from the furnace, but there was no
tremendous explosion. The cup was full. and
it flowed over. This aowing-over, however,
if continued to great excess, may produce far
greater disasters than a roaring discharge
which finishes the whole business.
An eruption of Hecla, the famous volcano
of Iceland, is soon expected. Miss f. Peturs-
son, a daughter of the Bishop of Reykjavik,
who made an ascent of this mountain last
summer, found that the temperature of the
sides of the larger craters has recently under
gone a considerable increase and from a
number of very small assures and holes on
these craters there arose heavy white columns
of vapor the s%ulphurous character of which
was much stronger than for a long time past.
From these circumstances it is inferred that a
new eruption of the volcano is probably to be
expected. This is considered the more likely
as since the last eruption the period of quies-
ence' usually observed between the outbreaks
of Hecla has already been exceeded. The
last eruption took place liz the year 1915.
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Victor Hugo has a rival in graphic elo-
quence. An rNchange tells that a working
man at Manchester, England, recently made a
very effective temperance address in the
public square. In his hands he held Il loaf of
bread and a knife. The loaf of bread repre-
sented the wages of the nottingham. After
a few Introductory remarks he cut off a mod
crate slice. "This," he said, ais what you
give to the city government He then cut
off a more generous slice, land this is what
you give to the general government ~ then,
with a vigorous flourish Of his carving knife,
he cut off three quarters OF the whole loaf,
saying, "this you give to the BREWER by
this time only a thin slice remained; he set
aside the greater part of this to the s'public
house," and had left only a ! crumbs ;
'and this you keep to support yourself and
your family" The response of his auditory
OF fellow laborers showed that they keenly
appreciated the force of his illustration.
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THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

A pretty deer is lear to me.
A hare with downy hair,
l love a heart with all my heart,
But barely bare a bear.
IT'S plain that no one takes u plane
To have a pair of pears,
A AXE though, often takes a rake
To tear away the tares.
All rays raise thyme. time raises all;
And through the whole, hole wears,
n writ in writing 'right,' may write
1t "wright,' and still be wrong
For write" and rite are neither fright
And don't to write belong.
Beer often brings a bier to man,
Coughing a coffin brings.
And too much ale will make us all
IS well as other things.
The person lies who says he lies
When he is but reclining,
And when consumption folks decline,
They all decliT e declining.
~ quail don't quail before a storm:
A bough VIII bow before it;
We cannot rein the rain at all:
No earthly powers reign DER it.
The dyer dies awhile, then dies;
To dye he's always trying,
Until upon his dying bed,
He thinks no more of dyping.
A son OF Mars mars many II sun;
All deyS must have tEeir days,
And every knight should pray each night
To Him who weighs his ways.
It's meet that man should mete ont meat
To feed miStortuneS SON;
ii fair should fare Oh love alone,
Else one cannot be won.
y lass, alas. is something false;
or faults Il maid is made;
Her waist is but Il barren WASTE
Though stayed. She is not stuii.
The springs spring forth i'll spring, and shoot
Shoot forward one and all;
Though summer kills the flowers, it leave
Thu leaves to fall in fall.
l would a story here commence,
But you might find it stale;
so lets suppose that We have reached
The tail end of our tale.
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move the doors be closed.
Mr.. Gordon-I accede to the motion. |
see it will be necessary.
Mr.. McDonald-I call for the regular order.
Vice president-Tha motion is in order.
The regular order bill to authorize the Sec
IetaIy of the Treasury to ascertain the amount
Of land located on military warrants in certain
States was taken up.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.-Senator Cockrell,
of the committee on claims, reported adverse
ly the bill granting a pension to the widow of
General Custer. AT the request of Ferry it
was placed on the calendar.
Senator Garland, from the committee on
judiciary, reported a bill to amend section
1852 of the Revised Statutes in reference to
bigamy and polygamy.
Senator Randolph moved to take up the
bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter. 1t was
made a special order for Monday, next after
the morning hour.
Senator Cations resolution requesting the
President to transmit copies Of the cores
pondence respecting the inter oceanic canal,
was adopted.
A bill to readjust certain postmasters' sal
aries, was adopted.
After the morning hour a bill authorizing
the ascertainment of the amouat of land
leased on military warrants, was considered,
and EDWARDS spoke thereon.
The committee of the whole decided 129 to
Al, that the committee on Mississippi levees
had no Jurisdiction over the Mississippi river
improvement committee, but solely over the
Mississippi.
HOUSE.
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THE OLD BARNS TENANTRY.
b. +. TAYLOR.

b. F. TAYLOR.
The rooster sulks on the managers ledge,
He has a tail like a scimeters's edge.
A marshals plume on his Afghan neck,
An admiral'S stride on his quarterback.
He rules the roost and he walks the hay
With a dreadful cold anda Turkish way.
Two broadsides fires with his rapid wings
This sultan proud of a line of kings
One cultural laugh, four blasts of horn,
Five lusty syllablcs rouse the morn
The Saxon lambs in their wooden tabs
Are playing school with the a, b, abs
A. clio! All the cattle spell .
Till they make the blatant vowels tell.
And a half laugh whinny fills the stalls
When down in the rack the clover falls.
A dove is waltzing around his mate,
Two chevrons black on his wings of slate,
And showing off with a wooing note,
The satin shine of his golden throat
It is Ovfd's Art of Love" re-told
In a binding fine OF blue and gold!
All, the buxom girls that helped the boys,
The nobler Helens of humber Troys-
AS Inoy Stf1pppu the nuSkS WIN luStlll1gf Olu
From eight-rowed corn as yellow as gold.
BY the candle light in pumpkin bowls,
And the CLEANS thai showed fantastic holes
In the quaint old lanterns tattooed tin,
From the hermit glim set up within;
By the rarer light in girlish eyes
AS dark as wells or blue as skies;
hear the laugh when the ear is red,
7 Cnn liz h1IpSI prl,nt, fI,n ,,fnif ,,nsI
The cedar cakes with the ancient twist.
The cider cup hat the girls have kissed.
And I see the fiddler through the dusk
AS he twangs the ghost of " Money Musk! !"
The boys and girls in a doubl row
Wait face to face I'LL the magic bow
Shall whip the tune from the violin,
And the merry pulse of the feet begin.
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still he has a memory Tor all slang express
sions. The other day, at a little social party,
he mentioned the fact That the chief clerk in
the office in which he was employed had re-
signed. "And you've got the vancancy, l
suppose. Pinky ?" jokingly inquired one OF
the boys. ooh, yes" sarcastically assented
Pinkler, GIVE got the vacancy-in my
mind" Eyes, that's So" giggled the pref
tiest girl in the room, and then, strange to
say, everybody laughed, and Pinkler says he
can't for the life of him see what it was that
so aroused their merriment.
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81 hear Alphonse is about to be married,
Mackus."
"Alphonse, the devil! To whom?"
T the amiable and accomplished Miss X
"Suffering Ireland Fitz Theodore, is it
possible? Why, the amiable Miss y is but a
pair of tongs, l should say"
"Tongs, to he sure. But what better fire.
s~idecompanion could Alphonse select ?"-S
F. Daily Exchange.
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hat Edison Says.

Edison says: "The Oldest lamp in my
laboratory, after burning sos hours, had its
electrical resistance measured, and there was
not che difference Of one-tenth of an ohm
from the time when it was originally put in
the circuit. The surface of this carbon,
which burned eos hours, Is as bright to-day
as il was the day when first pat in, whereas
equalization makes the carbon black Edi-
son has not sold a share of his stock.
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THE OVERLAND HOTEL.
HELENA, MONTANA,
WIN. MCLEAN, Proprietor.
ECONOMY FAMILY SOAP.

This Soap will wash in hard or soft water
without a board better than any imported soap
will de with hard labor. 1t makes clothes soft
Greese it is the cheapest soap ever offered in
this market; IL Is manufactured IN Montana only
the best material being used. Support home
manufactures. Direct orders to
j. p. NELSON,
ixo.ly. VIRGINIA CITY. M T.
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House

WASHINGTON, Feb. Bills were intro
dueed By Kelly, for the issuance of new
bonds in place Of the Sis.
, 1880-11-20
General Grant.


Grant twelve years ago said "let us
have peace, says the Portland Standard.
but when the country was ready for peace
he demanded sectionalism, hate and dis
union Even Conkling or Blaine did not
wave the bloody shirt SO eifectually as the
''silent man on,horseback. His illusions
10 the "reble brigadiers," the su!id
South, the necessity for 1.-The rule Of the
North, and other pet expressions Of the
stalwart press and orators, show that he
concealed his real sentiments when lie
was running around the country hunting
up a nomination. Those who believe IN
the sincerity Of his professions at the
time are likely II reverse their opinion
, 1880-11-20
General Grants Position.

General Grant is now IN a position, says
the San Francisco Ners Letter, t. WELD
rr mt power in the Garfield administra-
ton. He can Justly claim that he did
more than any other one man, Conkling
probably excepted, to elect Garfield and
Conkling hesitated TO enter the fight till
Grant reassured and constrained him.
These two men saved New York to the
Republicans, and they must become men
of mighty influence in shaping the Repub-
lican policy Of the next four years. Doubt
less Grant could get any position he might
ask or his friend Conkling ask for him.
Office he cannot covet That would be a
condescension But there is sometimes a
power behind the throne greater than the
throne itself. Wellington was such a
power IN the reign of William ~ He
rather liked it. Grant might like TO be a
second Wellington to Garheld-in a pos
'itOn to say, ''Do this" and to have it
done, or Refrain from that" and see it
not done or attempted 1t requires a
strong will TO rule a mind like Senator
Conklings. He Is the most autocratlc
Senator since Henry Clay and the greatest
since Webster But Grant has mastered
him in some way or other. He both likes
and fears the silent chiefrain, and when
Grant directs Conklins obeys. He did
not wish to 90 and see Garfield at Mentor,
but Grant said ''Go, and he went. Conk-
ling, as the leading Republican Senator,
will rule Garfield to great extent, and
Grant viii lie Conklng The Camerons
Simon and Don-will also be strings to
the Grant fiddle, and the music will be-
come persuasive, enchanting and overpow-
ing. Grant may, if he wills, shape the
policy Of the government. Beyond that
after the end Of Garfeld's term-what
S. +. Nens Letter.
, 1880-11-20

: The returns Of the Presidential election.
says thas Missouri Reiysiicdn, Indicate
with sufficient clearness for all practical
purposes the election If Garfield and Ar
thur. New York Is list to the Democrats
and this of itself would decide the con-
test. but the Democrats have failed to
carry Connecticut and TO recover Indiana.
and the votes Of these tive States together
with New York strengthen the R.publl-
can victory and place it beyond dispute.
Our opponents viii rejoice "rer result
which at one stage Of the CANVASS, they
despaired oi and Democrats did not look
for, and in their exuitatiVns they viii for
a time forget the deep scars which their
chief candIdate brings out OF the conflict
and which he viii bear as long as he lives
II does not require long arch TO md
the causes Of this disaster. The first pre-
mouit.on Of II vas the Indiana defeat III
October, from which the Democratic party
never recovered. But sha, c.Used the
Indiana defeat! Why should Indiana,
Which voted FOR Tilden and Hendricks N
1876. fail to vote FOR Hancock and Eng
lish four years latrrl And Why should
New YUrk, Democratic IN 1876, be Re
publican IN lS80i The answer is that the
ticket " liich is defeated was not as strong
a. the ticket which was elected four Years
aso. We de- not nse tn disappointment
# the hour 70 d!sparage the great person
al merits of Gen Hancock, for he has
borne himself CALAMITY through the con
test ami won the curdial admiration of
he party wl-ssD:: :andarl he bore. Bat
While eising fniTds, rit to Han:ock, 1t
mus. lie admitted that the Democratic
ticket did not possess the weigh'y moral
element which Mr. Tilden would have
impaired, and that il made fatal waiver
Of the claim which the party had for the
fraud against Mr. TildeD four years ago.
Tha. this issue, which ought to have been
the controlling one in the canvass, disap-
peared from II 40 soon as Dir. Illdens
name was set aside goes far to explain the
defeat. There were other agencies that
conspired with this error to bring about
the untoward result-the tariff question
which the Republicans most unfairly used
to eontro! the wOrk-peopie in the manu-
featuring towns Of Indiana and the East,
and not tn" least by any means. the
use of money That money was extrava-
gantly used to buy and import votes in
Indiana and other States is fact, deplor
able as II is shameful, which the falling
of in the Republican October majority in
Indiana clearly attests- The Republican
leaders dared not face the reckoning
which transfer of the books at Wash |
ington to their opponents would have led
to-and as the election four years ago
proved clearly that the people were
against them, the only resort was to force
a br,bed verdict-an this they did with
method and hardihood which they took !
little pains to disguise.
, 1880-11-20
Il Won't'd do Gentlemen.

SPoKNy FALLS, Nov. Is, 1880
ID. c. LEwiS:-C Cheney has So ever all, but
precincts were thrown or, because Judges
though sworn, did not subscribe 10 oath. Get
legal opinion. AkN- A PESErHr.
The above was receised'b,, ddge d. c,
Lewis -n Saturday. Having feeling
with the welfare and reputation for the
Territory at large, We cannot but condemn
TIE attempts tc override the expressed
wish of the people at the ballot box set
aside upon mere teehnicalities- Eighty
three majority for Cheney faE the county
seat of Spokan county nM al others in
a vote of one thousand shows pretty con
clusively that the new town of Cheney for
the county seat is what the people want
up there The reason assigned for throw
ing out the vote of the seven precincts is
the fact that the Judges, although sworn,
did not subscribe to the oath; no other
irregularity is charged. This would hard
", and most decidedly must not, justify
the disenfranchisement of all the vstr in
these seven precincts; if the vote for
county seat is thrown ont the entire tick
eta must share the same fate, from Dele
gate to Congress 10 Constable of their re-
spective precincts. The STATESMAN has no
idea of seeing its Territory disgraced by
any such little tricks rs these. The can
Wasting Board of Spokan county areevident-
ly seeking notoriety and We can assure
them that they are i'll very far way to
yet little more Of the article than they
will relish or care for DISTINGUISHING
voters does not often prove lucrative or
pleasant enterprise. They are making a
record, which if presisted in will not east
IL be hlgtted out.
, 1880-11-20
The Calm after The Storm.

The following sensible talk appeared in
the New York Herald on the Friday fol
lowing the presidential contest
Last Friday drums were beating all over
the country, excited orators We're shouting
from two or three Thousand stumps, pro-
cessions, torchlight and daylight, We're
marching up and down, political "r.ans
were Illuminating threats and uttering
abuse of their opponents, and the county
seemed on the eve Of bloody revolution.
To-day all ltheexcitementh has subsided. The
banners and unifcrus have been put away,
the orators and managers have bathed and
pu: on clean clothes and for the most part
good manners, everybody has gone about
his business and the country is as quiet as
a theatre after the close Of the evening 5
performance.
And after all the intense excitement.
lasting several months, election day passed,
~ lar Ms W. nave uOtiStu, Win Dnt tVn
Insignificant disturbances in the whole
vast country.
Surely it is great event II matters
l;ttle what party succeeds 81 l.s:: As the
American people remain such masters of
their passions, SO long as they iiave such
self-restra'nt as they have shown during
the bate canvass and since the election.
No American anxious for the future ni his
cpnn'ri, tor the curly II orderly free
government, hu: mnsF thank God and
take Courage, as lie reviews the summer
and fan, and sees how, in the mid~, Of
TIA alpaIemtl, widest excitement, sn,i
when the lnteEses; psssi lis ale aroused.
the American iuye of order prevails over
all, and fifty millions OF freemen discuss
heir affairs, cast their yo.es and sbii, hv
the result III peaec and guiet.
, 1880-11-20
Hoist with their own Petard.

Newspapers are continually being made
victims for the benefit of some eastern
scheme. Many fall into the trap willing
", and without a thought Of the conse-
qucnce or the after trouble that may issue.
We have received from W c. Hill Of
Hills Land and Mining Journa., Wash
ington City, circular which they request
US TO publish and circulate; asking Con
gress to make Legislative declaration sf
forfeitures where railroads have not been
built including the one running through
your (our) country" We donot propose TO
comply with this request.
First, because the suggestion comes
from source that has lo interest IN COM
mon With our people and know nothing
Of our isolated condition, cur necessities
or our interests. Strangers do not often
interest themselve in our affairs unless
they have some pecuniary object IN view
We will calmly wait and see the plan and
purposes that advisors have prepared for
us, and then effect, should THEN s,Igges
tiens become An accomplished fact. II
reasonable and right AMI will insure 20
eur general benefit and interest we viii
cheerfully encourage IT, Bu', We haze no
wish TO take a step backward-our isola-
F.. tion has been To Tainful apparent for Il
hong time past 1t is our duty tn encour-
age railroads; We want them to connect
our prolific and extensive wheat fields
with tide water. We want direct cO.p-
munication with the Eastern States, AMI
we do not want nor will we attempt 10 re-
tard these enterprises a single day.
The people and schemers living in
Washington City enjoying the benefits Of
railroads, radating in every direction,
may desire monopoly in their advanta-
ges and may desire that this beautiful
North Western land shonld be held for
relegated back to the rowing bands Of 81
washes in order that fat places may be
made for Indian Commissioners, Agents,
etc, etc. But as journalist representing
a rapidly increasing population who are
developing the unbounded resources of
one Of the finest countries on the globe,
we do not intend that such things shall
be. Railroads are our only hope; on
completion, the recent home OF the red
man will be converted into prosperous
and happy homes for those OF our own
race
We are opposed to the petition second
", because the Land Grant Railroad Co.
have already graded their road l15 miles
through this part Of Washington Territory
and are laying track at the rate Of 3 miles
per day, and will have entered the South
ern boundary of our territory with the iron
horse and passed ont near its North East
ern corner before Congress could posi- .
bly, pass the act suggested; therefore the /
time has passed, irretrievably passed be- |
yond that period in which Legislative III !
terference could be made effective. Our
people not being affected by any legisla-
tion on that score We prefer letting those
sections ofthe country that may be effect
ed by it, attend to their own business.
And thirdly, and lastly We have no
time or patience to spare in trying TO
resmrect defunct issues.