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The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-25
TRUST TO LUCK.

Helena has a paid fire department Of three
men, not a very heavy force, perhaps, but a
decided Improvement on Butte's contingent
represented by 0. In addition to the men
whose services are paid for, is an active vol
unteer fire company, also volunteer fire patrols
every windy night. To correspond with all
this Butte has a fine Silsby steamer, and
that's all. How long is this insane policy of
trusting to luck going to last? When will
men open their eyes to the folly of risking
their all, day after day, in a town where the
first outbreak of fire will find us absolutely
at the mercy of the flames? Suppose such a
calamity were to occur tomorrow. Suppose
a fate like that recently Detailing Milton, in
Pennsylvania, were TO overtake our little city,
how poignant would be the vain regrets fol-
lowing it! How men would curse the short
sighted folly through which they had failed to
provide against an accident absolutely sure
to happen, unless averted by the precautions
they had failed to take. In Butte there are
individual firms whose losses in case of fire
would be ten times the sum required to bring
in water. Still they move never a hand III
the matter, though recent experience of Older
and better built towns than ours is evidence
that there is no such thing as a fire-prooi
building when all unchecked fire once fairly
gains the upper hand. Where iron shutter;
melt, and bricks become red-hot. there is ne
safety for the woodwork that brick and tina
iron were intended to protect. This we cal
learn from the experience eff others, if W,
will. Must we wait till we learn it from OH
own bitter experience, before accepting an,
acting upon it? We dislike thus to return
again and again to the same subject, but un
less the citizens of Butte awake to a ~realizin
sense of the peril threatening their property
and unless they actively bestir themselves t
guard against that peril, a calamity is liabl
at any day to happen that will be felt as
, shock throughout the business circles of Nor
? tanx, to the most remote corner of the Tel
: ritory. aTrust to luck'' will do in the reall
D of song; but in the practical affairs of life
f is far better to trust to the provisions of il
telligent foresight. Are we doing so?
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-25
THE WORLDS FAIR.

The widow of President Thiers, of France,
has sent to Vice-President Wheeler a hand
somely-bound set of her late husbands
works, to be placed in the library of the
Senate.
Miss Mary Travis, a lady one hundred
years of age, was recently baptized in the
Church of England, a fact without parallel in
the history of the church.
D. C. Bloomer and his wife Aurelia-she
of 3loomer costume repute-celebrated their
fcrtieth wedding anniversary at Council Bluffs
the other day.
Carlotta Guillard was the first French
woman who followed printing for a business.
She carried on this trade from 1906 to 1867, a
period of sixty years, and was famous for the
beauty and correctness of her work.
The first lady operator in the telegraph
service was Miss Sarah G.. Bagiey, of Lowell,
Mass, who commenced in lS4G. There was
a great prejudice against employing females
on the line, but a few of the relatives of the
operators gradually worked into the service.
In a few years the skill of a few bright lady
operators gave them prominence in the pro-
| fcssion, and now they are numbered by thou
sands throughout the world.
Says a philosophic observer: "Nine-tenths
OF the influence eyerted in the world is
woman's, the principal acts of most mems
lives being directly or indirectly traceable to
her or her training.
A four-year-old girl lately made the journey
across the continent to San Francisco alone.
She was a self-reliant little traveller, and was
inclined to resent any intimation that she
could not care for herself. She was, however,
taken in charge by the conductors, in accord
ance with a request wIitten OF her ticket.
Her mother had died in the East, and she
sought her father.
The Cincinnati Gazette tells of a girl who
bought herself a summer outfit for $40. 1t
consisted of two six. cent calicOes, an un-
bleached cotton gown trimmed with handker-
chiefs, q cheese-cloth overdress, a rough blue
flannel, a white Swiss gown and a hat. The
trimmings were lace from her old gowns, and
the ~silesia, tape, braid, cambria, sewing silk,
thread, whalebones and buttons were sin the
house."
Mr.. John Walter Gross, who recently mar
ried Mrs. Mary Ann Evans Lewes, The novel
list, is an Englishman of a highly respectable
family, who resides at WeybridSe, in the
county of Surrey, near London, and is the
senior partner in the banking firm of Cross,
Benson & Co, in that city. His brother, Nj.
Richard j. Cross, is a banker of New York.
Mr.. Cross is a tall, athletic man of about 43
wears, and was for some years a resident OF
Philadelphia, and one of the firm of Dennis,
, town, Wood & Co., bankers. He was never
previously married. His tastes are literary
and his information extensive, and, although
; he is about twelve years the junior of hi:
: bride, a long acquaintance satisfies him that
in no one could lie find a more congapiaI
companion. She, on her part, it is affirmed
has also good reason to be pleased. Each has
a comfortable income.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-25

The long talked of race between Hanlon
and Courtney, which came OFT on the 10Th
near Washington city, must have been con-
sidered by our eastern friends equal IN i'm
portance to the proceedings of the Springfield
convention, since the dispatches describing it
are fully as long and vastly more grandilo-
quent thai those DEVOTED to the latter. To
condense-Courtney took the lead at the
start but was almost Immediately overha" led
and passed by Hanlon. At the first flag
marking an eighth of a mile from the starting
point, clear water could be seen between the
stern of Hanlon's boat and the bow of Court
ney's. At the three-quarter flag Hanlon wa:
ten boat lengths ahead, and fifteen at a mile
Courtney's. steering was at first very good
but became erratic after passing the mile flag
wher ne fell behind more and more rapidly
Ha> IN reached the two mile flag in Is min
= |, Sec, about one-eighth of a mile in advanc'
OF Courtney, who stopped altogether at tw'
and one-eighth miles from the starting point
turned his boat about, and started back to hi
quarters at the Potomac boat house. Hanlol
pulled ahead to the turning stake at two all
q half miles, which he turned in II min. 5
sec. from the start. On the home stretch h
overlook and passed Courtney, and finall
came to the finish in So min. 49a Sec, wine
ing up with . splendid burst of speed with 4
strokes To the minute in response to cheers
the thousands lining the banks. The rae
Vas not contested, the title of champion oar
man q America being awarded, together viii
: the prize meney. TO the victor.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-25

A fair reward for services hitherto made
quately requited is provided for in a House
amendment to the army bill. This amend
ment provides that a private soldier, after hav-
ing served fifteen years honorably and faith
fully in the regular army of the United States,
the last five as a non-commissioned officer
shall be eligible to appointment as SECOND
lieutenant. The amendment was adopted.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-25

Bouton, the art publisher of New York,
has published a monumental edition of
Shakespeare, ornamented with four thousand
fine eng-avings. A single copy costs consid-
erably more than the price of an improved
quarter section of good land in Montana.
Yet there are enough wealthy maniacs-
bibliomaniacs-in the land to supply pur-
chaserS for even such a work.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-25

Speaking Of the defeat of the Grant faction
in the Cook county convention, at Chicago,
on the 18th inst. the Nation as
follows -
"The spectacle of General Grant, who has
twice had the unanimous support of his
party, now contending tiercely for a handful
of delegates in the chief city of Illinois, and
losing them, adds fresh pertinence to the en-
puiry, what were those circumstances referred
10 in his letter to General Harry White,
which would alone make it an imperative
duty for HIM to accept a third nomination p
The letter to General White was written
in 1875, in the last yeat Of Grants second
term. The clause referred to IN the above
extract reads as follows -
az am not now, nor have | ever been. Il
candidate for a denomination. | would not
accept a nomination if it were rendered I'M
less it should come under such circumstance
as to make it an imperative duty-circum-
stances not likely to arise
The Nation is the recognized leader of the
Independent Republicans, although other
journals, like the Springfield Republican, of
scarcely less influence, are working with a
will against a third term. Their way of
rummaging through old documents, letters or
speeches in which General Grant has {" put
himself on record and extracting therefrom
such choice morcedur as the above, added to
their pungent style of commenting thereon,
must be highly distressing to the manage IS OF
the machine, anxious above all things OF
preserving harmony within the party"
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-25

Bret Harte's speech at the Royal Academy
dinner, London, a few days ago was a dismal
failure. He read from manuscript, spoke
through his nose, and otherwise so disappoint-
ed his British hosts that none of their jour
nails devoted so much as a line to his speech.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-25

Up to date the Comstock has produced
$3.50, 600, 900 in gold and silver. Experienced
miners believe the richest portion of the lode
to be at a greater depth than has yet been
reached in the deepest mines.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-25

The Democrats of the Third Congressional
District of California have nominated G. P.
Berry for congress. The Worklngmen's can
didate from the same district is Chancellor
Harlston, of Napa.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-25

The Pope is in very delicate health. His
physicians lave ordered him to leave Rome
for a season, the Roman climate being very
trying to his constitution.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-25

Congress will likely adjourn about the 3ist
of this month.
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Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-22
State Correspondence.
Guil6rd.

MT. B. Monroe and Rev. G. W. Banks have postponed their departure for Europe until next week on account of Mrs. Banks health
 Our new warden has made some very ac- ceptable improvements in the streets of the borough. Notable among them we notice a new concrete crosswalk at the southwest corner of the public square, and the removal ! of the rocks in front of the Munger and Kimberly houses in Union street.
 The soldiers graves will be decorated on Monday, May 31st, and addresses will be de- ivered in Music Hall in the evening instead of afternoon, as has been the custom
 Since May 30th occurs on Sunday this year a praise service in the evening is proposed in the Third church, with selections of music appropriate to the occasion.
 Guilford carpenters and painters have no reason to complain of want of work this spring The demands for additions to, re- pairing and repainting of old buildings, to- gether with some new buildings are so nu- merous that the question is one of time to do the work
 The material for Mir. Bourly Monroe's new barn awaits the carpenters time to do the work of building.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-22
Connecticut Congregational
 Churches.

The One Hundred and Seventy-Grst
 Annual Meeting of the Association.
 The General Association of the Connecti- cut Congregational churches will hold it's Hist annual meeting at Wolcottville, com mencing June 15 and continuing for two days. The standing committee of the associa- tion having the arrangements of the meeting under charge consists of Rev. James B. Bonar, Rev. Dr. Perrin of Wolcottville, Professor William M. Barbour of Yale College, Rev: Joseph H. Twichell of Hartford, and Rev William H. Moore, also of Hartford The session Tuesday morning, June 15, will be devoted to organization and business, and the address of the moderator at the last annual meeting, Rev. Enoch F. Burr of North Lyme, author of Ecce Coelum will be delivered during the afternoon The Lords supper will also be administered and reports submitted, including that of the treasurer the report on transfer to the general confer ence with the charter granted by the Legisla- ture at it's recent session, the reports of the treasurer and trustees of the missionary socie- ty of Connecticut, report of the trustees of the Everest fund, and the place of the an- nual meeting in 1881.
 During the evening session sketches of Rev. Joseph E1dridge, Rev. Adam Reid and Rev. Ira Pett1DOne Will be presented, con- cluding with the annual address to the clergy concio ad clerum, by Rev. Lucius Curtis. The session Wednesday, June 16, will include the report on the state of the ministry and the report of the commission on divorce, ap- pointed at the annual meeting at East Hart ford last year. This commission was in- structed to bring the subject of divorce leg islation before the Legislature at it's session this spring, and secure modification of the divorce laws, with more rigid restrictions. The Legislature passed only one divorce law during the session, meeting in part at least the objects asked for by the commission. The law is as follows:
 'tNo complaint praying for 8 divorce shall be heard or any decree granted thereon until after the expiration of ninety days from the day on which such complaint is made return ablen
 The act was approved by Governor An drews March 9th
 Following the report of the commission divorce paper will be presented by Rev salmon Mccall on Success in Ministerial and Church Work-What is it 2' and will be discussed by members of the convention. The following resolution, adopted in 1877,
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-22
State News.

Rev Dr Lathrop and Mrs Lathrop of Stam ford have returned from Savannah.
 Rev R s Billings of Boston has become pastor of the Congregational church in Nortl Stamford.
 FL Scofeld, Esq, attorney at law of Stan ford, has been very i'll at his residence, Sum mer street, for some weeks past, but is get ting better.
 Rev Hugh Montgomery, prosecuting agent, raided Stonington at a. m. Thursday, anG captured liquor in the saloons of five men each of whom settled for sixty-seyen dollars.
 Decoration day is to be observed with more than usual enthusiasm in Waterbury Two bands of music have been engaged and the military and civic organizations will appear in procession.
 The night watchman of the Willimantic Linen Co-Dwight Shurtlif that while he was in the yard Wednesday night he was fired at by two men who were trying tc enter the company's store.
 Mr. Irving June, of Riverbank, Stamford who was reported last week among the miss ing, turned up all right in Brooklyn. He went to visit some friends, and for the first time in his life failed to tell his parents of his intention previous to his departure.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-22
Local News.
For other Local News see Second page.l
The Chickens.
What New Haven Fancy Poultry Raisers

What New Haven Fancy Poultry Raisers
 are Doing.
 Raisers of fancy poultry in this city are taking quite an unusual interest in reference to the qualification of their private tastes in breeding poultry, and with reference also in part to the next exhibition of the Southern Connecticut Poultry Association, which takes place this year in New Haven. Particular at tention is being given to the raising of com petitive stock. The value of New Haven fancy poultry in these days amounts to quite handsome sum, and breeders attain results which reflect credit upon their discrimina- tion, judgment and exertions for the ''sur- vival of the fittest," There have been seri- of cases, such as the partial failure of settings and frequent losses in the young chicken population by death, in some instances the losses being quite disappointing. One of the leading fancy poultry and pigeon raisers, MT. Wooster A. Ensign, whose exhibits are al ways feature of the chicken shows herea- bouts in late years, met with the loss of all his broods of young chickens, which were stolen in the daytime while the family were at Cea IrOm Iue Tedr OI HIS pHeulASeS' 4Acy were all valuable stock. Mir. c. P. Jordan has been very successful this season, having been quite fortunate, his settings of eggs hav- ing banned out remarkably we'll as testified to by an abundance of young warblers and chirpers in the poultry yard. They are of fine breeds, being chiefly, if not altogether, Black Hamburgs and White Leghorns with premium blood in them MT. George A. Cosgrove, of Whitneyville, has been quite successful this season, and can boast of some as fine Black Leghorns as are to be found in these parts. MT. N. D. Forbes has also a yard full of promising young Leghorns, and the same may be said of numbers of others in the city and vicinity. The breeders think that the present springs chickens hereabouts include not few which will be likely. to win premiums at the coming show, but do not want it told in Gath," being modest or thinking it best to adhere to the old adage that it is not best to count chickens before they are matched. The poultry interest is represented also in this city by contributors to poultry magazines and periodicals, among whom are MT. N. D. Forbes, who has con- tributed number of articles to different pub ications the past season also MT. Cosgrove, of Whitneyville, who has gained quite repu- tation in poultry circles for his numerous contributions.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-22

of action in the relief of pain and infama- tion are two main characteristics of DR. GRos. vENoR's BELLANoDYNE POROUS PLASTER, a remedy prepared by slilfu1 chemists, at the laboratory of the proprietor, and composed of the ingredients of the Belladonna Plaster, renowned for it's soothing properties, and o1 great efficacy and promptitude The Ballan- odyne Plaster affords speedy relief in rheun- atism, sciatica, liver, lung and chest troubles besides other ailments of a painful and troublesome nature.
 Sold by c. R. Converse 165 Grand street.
 my17 MWSaW.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-22

will be of interest to Congregational clergy men in the State:
 Resolved, That general invitation be ex- tended to all Congregational ministers in this State to attend the meetings of this body, and participate in it's discussions, though, as now, only delegates shall be allowed to vote !; and that the standing committee send this i'm vitation, together with the programme, to every such minister two weeks before each meetinP
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-22
Thirty Years Experience of an Old Nurse


 MRS. WNsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP is the pre- scription of one of the best Female Physicians and Nurses in the United States, and has children, from the feeble infant of one week old to the adult It corrects acidity of the stomach, relieves wind colie, regulates the bowels, and gives rest, health and comfort to mother and child. We believe it the Best and Surest Remedy in the world, in all cases of DYSENTERY and DIARRHGAI IN CHILL DREN, whether it arises from teething or from any other cause Full directions for using will accompany each bottle. Nonegen- uine unless the fac-simile of CURTIS & PERKINS is on the outside wrapper.
 Sold by all Medicine Dealers. 25 cents a bottle. my17 MWSaW.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-22
City Court Notes.


 In the City Court yesterday morning Johr Cronan was arraigned on charge of ob structing Officer Beegan on Monday evening while he was taking Thomas Carboy and g prisoner named Kinsella to the lookup. He was found guilty and sentenced to fifteen days in jail.
 James Judge, who was accused of robbing Mrs. Crotty's till at No 151 Ashmun street, had his case continued until Monday morn ing.
 Frederick Freeman, colored, who was charged with general breach of the peace on Elm street, was fined one dollar and costs. Samuel A Moore, charged with driving a hack not suitably numbered was found guilty and fined one dollar and costs.
 The stamford Burglnry-s1, ,OOO Worth of
 Valuable Dresses, Shavvls, Etc. Stolen.
 The elegant summer residence of Mrs Thomas Crane on Strawberry Hill, Stamford, was robbed on Tuesday night of over $1, ,OOO worth of property, including silk dresses, inexpensive camels hair shawl and other articles of wearing apparel. The family had moved in for the summer season on Monday. The trunks from which the property was taken were in a front room on the lower floor and the entrance was made through a window which was unfastened by the bur for some time in the hands of mechanics undergoing alterations and::ssimprovements, and at the time of the robbery was occupied only by Mrs Crane and one servant.
 FajrfieId COunfv Teachers, Association,
 The fourth annual meeting of the Fair yesterday at Westport. Rev. J. P. Hoyt, of Newtown, presided, and Miss Mary J Minor, teacher in the High School in Bridgeport, was secretary. Two hundred and thirty eight teachers were present, who, together with the friends of education, filled National Hall. The president opened the convention with prayer, when Rev. A. W. Lewis, of Westport, made most hearty speech of welcome and offered free entertainment to the teachers present. Some accepted, but the large nnmber who registered at the hotels showed that many preferred not to burden the citizens of Westport with free entertain ment. B. G. Northrop opened a discussion upon examination of teachers, G. B. Hurd of Bridgeport one on interest and equation ot payments, Rev. Wm. Hart on authority and duties of the teacher after school hours, Col. H. R. Foote on relation of industrial educa- tion to the common schools and Rev. A. c. Pierce on obstacles to the success of our schools from the standpoint of an acting school visitor. Among the other speakers who greatly aided the convention were H. M. Harrington, principal of High School, Bridge port, and Rev. J. A. Hamilton of Norwalk. The convention was treated in the evening to @ lecture on Burns as Poet" by Rev. M. H. Pogson, and to-day Prof. Russell lec- lures on 'Elocution" and Prof. P. S. Wood on Hints in Teaching Orthography" This convention was ably conducted and must re- suit in good.