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The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-01-13
Black rHiIIs Nusgess.

Lawrence county bonds are selling at S2s
cents. s-@
A grammar school has been opened in
DeadwOod.
Both saw-mills at Fountain City are run
ming night and day. + #&3
Panthers are at work among the focks be-
low Deadwood.
The ore body in the Portland mine is as
saying $3.50 to the ton. -
Deadwood's postofice has been fitted with
Yale lock boxes.
The Boulder canon belt Of quartz is turn
ing out a genuine bonanza. .
A number of new and handsome residences
are being erected in Terraville.
There will be more prospecting done next
year in the Hills than ever before.
Free gold specimens continue to come in
from Rocheford and the southern Hills.
All local mining stocks are very active in
Deadwood, with a strong upward tendency.
"Pinafore" entered the metropolis of the
Hills or the 18th of December and is now
running to crowded houses.
The Caledonia mill made a clean up last
week that was very satisfactory, over $1,000
being the result.
Galena has become prominent as one ofthe
most flourishing camps in the Hills, and is
destined at no distant day to become the
focus of trade second only to Deadwood.
The tide of immigration is pouring into
the Hills at a rate unprecedented in the his
tory of this country.
The evening Ne,cs says a $4,000 silver
mill was on Monday shipped from Chicago
for the Portland mine, in the Bald Mountain
district.
The county commissioners have made a
survey Of a road from Sturgls city to Galena.
The new road will shorten the distance some
nine miles.
A row over the possession of a rancho near
False Bottom, necessitated the reading of the
slentf7s writ to the occupant at the mouth Of
a couple of pistols.
The Northwestern Transportation Com
pany have freiglted into the Hills since JAN
uary l, 1879, $4,000 pounds of freight, and
carried 1900 passengers.
COasting is becoming questionable, says
the Times, since the young lady was dunn ed
into a prospect shaft tnd one boy got his head
busted, and another his leg fractured.
The Milwaukee and Black Hills Mining
Company has purchased the Elkhorn mine at
Bald Mountain, for $1,000. The company is
confident that a BONANZA is hid away in the
Elkhorn.
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CHIPS.

Hall fare-A mulatttO.
Extremes meat-OXtail soup.
A green Christmas makes a lean plumber.
Brooches of promise are good suits for
lawyers.
Christmas is the popular c%andy-date of the
children.
The Republican Committee is now solid
against the Widow Oliver.
All pedestrian matches end in being a con-
test between cripples.
China claims to have tanned and subdued
the bicycle 200 years ago.
They make no bones about cremating a
man in LeMoyne's old furnace.
The woman who thinks it no harm to drink
is in favor of woman's tights.
The r,mor that Gail Hamilton received IA
proposal is pronounced false.
The pin is mighter than the sward. You
can sit on the sward with impunity.
There is a distinction with a difference be-
tween attic rooms and rheumatics.
The hope that cold weather would freeze
out the pedestrian fever is a vain one.
One blessing the new year promises lis.
The TichbOrne case will be reOpened.
People who are preparing to swear off had
t" "iipS ~ JIM
"What do you do when you have a cold?'
"Cough," was the sententious reply.
Several Harvard men are writing d drama
called The Faculty Meeting; or, The Curse
of Rum
Nothing makes the character of a boy SO
transparent as to be laid across the parental
knee.
Jay Gould says he makes money for fun.
The newspaper paragraphers make fun for
money"
Having blown the Cars shirts to blazes,
the next move of the Nihilists will he to saw
his overshoes.
Now the iceman gives generous measure to
make up for last years deficiencies in weight.
General Grant has been so thoroughly
toasted that he looks brown, yet some people
suppose it is unburn.
When Mr.. Hayes heard the news from
Maine, he remarked that the spirit of 20 was
abroad. DID he mean 1876?
Says old Father Christmas to the farmer
eff you have any steers to shed, prepare to
shed them now
"Show him an egg and instantly the air is
full of feathers says Bob lngersoll, defining
a sanguine man.
a witty but h~eartless proof-reader on al
Eastern paper recently added to the dealt
notice vi II sonrM hat celebrated cOlnred MAJ
the line, death loves a shining mokr."
AS the Grant boom grows stronger many
Northern Republicans are buying carpet,
bags and studying the timetables Of the rail
roads leading South.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-01-13

Fernando Wood. of New York, in speaking
II his new funding bill now pending in
Congress, said that few people realize the vast
amount of money in the United States which
is required to be kept invested in Government
bonds. There are over ten million dollars
tied up by courts to await the result of litiga-
ton, for all money which the law requires to
be employed in all absolutely safe manner
must be invested in Government securities.
No other disposition of the money do the
courts consider sufficiently void of danger.
Railroad, merchant and bonanza kings invari-
ably so invest a portion of their wealth that
it may be good beyond the hazards of bust
ness so that i. the event of a panic or other
misfortune, they would always be sure of a
reserve fund. Thus Vanderbilt has fourteen
millions in registered four per cents, and only
a few days ago when Flood. of Comstock
fame, presented his daughter with two mil
lions of dollars to BE- used as pin money, the
gift was not in greenbacks nor gold, but in
registered four per cent. bonds.
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FASHION II

Plush is used to excess in Paris dresses.
Feather turbans are in favor at the present
time.
The girl of the period looks perfectly lovely
in "point " lace.
blondes thiss season.
The new dress goods in the stores this year
are remarkably beautiful.
Feather trimmings are much used for orna-
menting evening dresses.
Lace bedspreads and pillow-shams to match
come in Swiss tambour and antique Iaces.
The new mauve is more gray than lilac,
and is trimmed with pale-rose or with reddish
violet.
African lynx is a new fur that will be very
popular for trimmings and sets as the season
advances.
New sashes have plain ends. The EN-,
broidered, tringed, or ornamented ends are
out of fashion.
A very elaborate wedding dress sent out by
Worth is a combinatiO.l of satin with bro
caded velvet.
Scarlet flannel, needle-worked in scallops
and finished with gathered linen lace, is very
pretty for skirts.
Satin embroidered with iridescent beads
and strung pearls is used tor the richest wed
ding dresses this season.
Mufs made of the same material as the
costume are in r~eticule shape and are some,
times galnisled with lace.
Handsome evening dresses are trimmed
with the new white lace that has the desigr
embroidered with gold threads.
Shot silks are much used for evening dresses
in combination with brOcades thar combine
the colOrs in the clangeable silk.
Among the ~favorite materials for winter
dresses should be placed satin; above ali
black satin. 1t is even preferred to veivet
and has almost entirely replaced taille.
A Philadelphia bride who was in deel
mourning was recently married in a dress q
white Grape cloth, trimmed with puthugs All,
shirrings of the same material.
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A DISTRICT COURT FOR BUTTE.

A petition addressed to the Supreme Court
Of the Territory, and to be presented to them
at the present session, was circulated some
,lays ago among our business men, and by
them generally signed, praying the Court, in
view of the accumulated cases remaining un-
disposed of at the late session of the Court at
Deer Lodge, to appoint two terms forthe pres
ent year, and tor future years, at Butte. This
is a matter in which all the Inhabitants of this
town have a deep and personal interest. The
Silver City is rapidly growing both III popu-
lation and business. and the necessity OF a
Court of general and enlarged jurisdiction
nearer home than at Deer Lodge is becoming
every day more apparent, and, indeed, more
indispensable. The change that is m st
needed is the formation of a new county with
Butte as the county seat but as this object
can not be attained until a new Legislature is
convened, we hope the Supreme Court will at
least give us courts and not subject litigants
and the entire public to the enormous burdens
at present imposed by compellingthem longer
to 90 to Deer Lodge in order to gain the
remedies which law and courts afford.
The saving to the public as well as to indi-
yiuals resident here will amount to thousands
of dollars in a single year if this reasonable
request is granted. The Supreme Court Is
vested with ample authority over this matter
by an act Of Congress, and we presume such
authority would not have been conferred un.
less it was intended to be exercised in a prop
err case. Certainly a case of more imperative
necessity for its exercise could not exist THANH:
found in the condition of legal matters in thi:
town. Some time ago the Supreme Court
while in session made an. order appointing
courts in Butte, but coupled the order will
some condition relating to a jury to serve
in the court. This condition required legisla
ton to make it etiectual, but the LegIslatur,
failing to act, the order and court both fel
through. 1t is to be hoped that at the presen
session an order will be issued appointing tw,
terms of court for the present year withou
any condition.
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WOman's . No.

The London Truth offered a prize for the
best letter, the subject to be the refusal OF an
offer of marriage. The result was an inun-
dation nearly filling the editors office. Here
are samples, beginning with "Portia," who
took the prize:
Dear Mr.. -: | am very sorry l appre-
ciate you immensely, but l cannot give the
casket without the gen. PoRTIA.
Sweet sounds that give me delight but hurt not.
-Ientpest.
Dear Mr.. Caliban: In declining the honor
OF an offer from you l am constrained to own
in justice to my judgment, that only refuse
such an one because have accepted such an
other. MIRANDA.
Friend ever, husband never. A. S. p.
No, thank you. SWEET PEA.
Dear MIR. -: Take back your offer. l
cannot send a refusal to you, the fiie' d so
value aud esteem. LANARK.
No. dear mother SAYS | mustn't.
Poor Polly.
Dear sir: In declining a proposal which l
trust you will believe | appreciate as the
highest compliment you could possibly have
paid me, [ beg to assure you, in all sincerity,
that upon a review of my own dement's it is
my belief that my refusal of your offer of
marriage is the best and most unseltish return
| can make you. Believe me-, dearsir, yours
sincerely. PINK.
My Dear Edwin: There is nothing in the
world | value more than your friendship.
You suggest to me the adoption of a course
by which ! should most certainly lose it.
How cruel. How unkind. But the strength
of my regard makes Inc invulnerable to
temptation. | an too much your friend to
marry you, and such | hope always to re-
main. Ever your sincere friend.
ANGELINA.
Dear Sir: You chancel to state accident.
ally in a recent conversation that your diges
ton was not good. This being the case,
feel ii would I've uuwise for me to accept tht
proposal you have just made, for amiability
Of temper and chronic dyspepsia, as | know
too well from my dear fat. er's case, ait
utterly Incompatible with the other. a MAJ
with a baI digestion cali, alas! never make
good husband. Yours sympathetically.
SARAH ACToS.
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est good to the greatest numoer. 1he ciIiAehS
Of Butte entertain the most cordial feelings
toward those of the county seat, nor do we
wish in any way to disparage the business
importance of our sister city. Deer Lodge is
a very pleasant and well ordered village. 1t
is surrounded by a fertile and productive
agricultural region and contains within its
rural boundaries many excellent families in
good financial circumstances 1t has schools
and churches and a weekly newspaper, and
in all respects, is remarkably like a retired
and peaceful country town in New Eng
land. 1t wisely makes no pretentions to
the possession Of great mineral wealth, and
has no ambition to make a noise in the COM
mercial world. The only thing it has which
it ought not to have, and to which it can lay
no lust nor reasonable claim, is three terms
of the Second judicial District Court.
During certain periods of public excitement,
the ives, side of the county may possibly
furnish one-half of the criminal cases, but
these, with possibly the addition OF a few
land disputes, will be all the legal business
likely to arise in that section of the county
10 ueIldlu llC dltClItlVll vi iHS TIC J""SN
Were it not for the litigation arising in Butte
and vicinity the legal affairs OF Deer Lodge
could all be adjudicated by a single justice of
the peace. Then why hold court forty miles
from the seat of business? Why compel liti-
giants in mining cases, or in criminal cases
the taxpayers to bear the expense of trans
porting witnesses all that distance when the
cases might be more speedily settled at one
tenth of the cost by having two terms OF the
court held in Butte, which is the money CEN
ire, tie centre of business and the centre of
population?
The fragrant injustice of the order glvingto
Deer Lodge three terms Of the District Court
becomes more apparent as the legal business
increases. 1t is estimated by competent
authority that had the last term of the Court
been held in Butte. at least FIVE thousand dol
lars of public money would have been saved,
for a great number of jurors and witnesses
were summoned from this town, which UNI
necessarily increased the amount of fees and
mileage requiring to be paid. We have no
hesitation in stating that any fair minded man
NIlo VIII lIlpdiGldAly IL phS >hh'''S -
Butte for at least two terms of court each year
will be at once impressed with the reasonable
ness of the demand, for he can readily assure
himself that fully three-fourths Of the legal
business, both civil and criminal, originates in
this immediate neighborhood. 1t is sincerely
to be hoped that The Supreme Court now in
session will deal out justice to cities as we'll
as to individuals, and that whether the petition
lately sem to that honorable body be granted
or not, its members will at least fairly and
impartially examine the question at issue, so
that whichever way the matter shall be de-
cided, there will be no occasion for a feeling
of enmity to exist between the people Of
Butte and Deer Lodge. We ask favorable
action on the petition purely on the merits of
the case.
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Lost Her Leg.

Those in attendance at tie last Patti con-
cert at Piper's Opera House will remember
that as that lady was about to enter for the
first time that evening, and when the rear
doors of the stage We're thrown open by i'll
visible hands to grant her entrance there was
a clatter and a jar and those doors were
quickly closed again. La Diva met with an
accident. Her leg dropped off and she would
have fallen had not the accompanies caught
and sustained her. The delay was not great
before the supper was readjusted and the lady
before the audience. That she. was not IN a
singing mood that night was noticed, but the
attendants say she made everything and
everybody behind the scenes sing, however
Gold Hill Ne,cs, Jan. I'd.
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Whenever the Democrats in any portion of
the United States resort to any questionable
proceedings to acquire or maintain power, the
plot is invariably credited to the engineering
ability of either Sam. }. Tilden or Ben. But
Ter. In the present political imbroglio in
Maine, president %stalwarts. on learning the
complicated nature of the case, without any
hesitation charged Tilden with originating the
scheme, and now that the people without dis
t;nction of party have ridiculed the authors of
such %amanifestly baseless report, poorold Ben.
Butler comes in for a share of public denun-
citation as the main instigator of the villainy
as it is termed. If Tilden is ever renomi-
mated by tue Democrats for the Presidency,
there is little doubt that some enterprising
Republican newspaper will charge him with
having been the secret head of the Molly
Maguires, the chief director of the ku-klux
movement, and the alder and abettor of Jeff.
Davis in his effort to overturn the govern
ment of the United States. Tilden will pass
down into history as the great American
scapegoat, with Ben. Butler a close second.
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Tho Best Dairy stock.

Dairymen are now beginning to inquire
anxiously as to the most profitable diary
stock, and they seem interested in all the
incidental questions relating to the subject.
Among others the effect of size upon the econ
omy of milk production is now under discus
sion, and each side seems to find a solution of
this in accordance with his own practice or
predictions. The keeper of Holsteins,
Shorthorns, or other grades believes the
larger COW produces the larger profit; but
those who delight in the deer like little
Jersey and the moderate-siZed Ayrshire are
tenacious in the opinion that the small COW
yields more profit that is, the smaller COW
yields more product for a given amount of
food. The views of both sides, however, on
this subject appear to be mere matters Of
opinion, not being based upon comparative
experiments of their own. But the question
has been pretty well settled, in some Ct It's
phrases, by experiments in Europe; and it is
Il little surprising that there is nc accurate
experiment with and of the dairy breeds on
record. in this country, showing the relation
of food to product. 1t is certainly discourage
ing that among all our agricultural colleges,
many of them located in dairying States, not
one has carried out all experiment to solve
this question. A few days feeding, with the
weight of the COW at the commencement and
at various periods, of the daily ration of food,
and product of milk, with chemical analysis
of milk at stated periods and the result in
butter and cheese. This, carried out for a
season, with at least ten of each breed, would
furnish a basis of facts upon which this ques-
ton could be solved; and it is an economical
problem second to no other relating to any
speciality of agricultural.
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How to Attract Business.

The most judicious investment of money
for a business man is totell people through the
medium of a standard paper that he is ready
to do business. In dull times an advertise
ment is a reminder to the buyer of wants
which he will supply us early as lie can; it
serves to attract trade, Which is always float
ing around, even nthe laldes' of times, and
gives the advertiser IA chance to bid AS low as
any one else. In flush times, when business
is active, advertising make goods go of, and
the purchaser is not at a loss to know where
to pick up his supplies. In short. advertising
at all times is putting money where ii will do
the most good. Dishelievers in this theory
will have faith In its practice after one exper-
ience-providing they advertise judiciously.
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THE DISTRICT COURT.

Now that the project to have two terms of
the Second District Court assigned to Butte
has assumed a definite shape, in tile recent
action of our leading citizens who have sent
to the Supreme Court a petition to that effect,
it may not be amiss to state the reasons upon
which we base the hope thatl a favorable de
cision will be accorded to the Silver City. In
asking this very reasonable favor at the hands
of the supreme tribunal of the Territory, We
wish it distinctly understood that We are ac
tuated solely by 3 desire TO secure the great
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A DEATH.
A Youn. BOY Slowly Burned to II Corpse
by VltriOl.

At Scranton. Pa, Saturday, Adam Roche, a
fifteen year old son of Frederick Roche, a
blacksmith al the Continental shaft in that
city, was burned to death ontl.e road between
Scranton and Taylorville. lie was employed
around the blacksmith shop as an assistant.
Some of the live stock at the mines became
sick, and young Roche was sent to TaylOrvllle
to procure some vitrlol. He went Oh horse
back. He purchased a bottle containing a
pint and started back, bringing two mules
along. Half way between Taylorvllle and
the mine the cork came out of the bottle, and
the jolting caused the vitriol to spatter into
his coat pocket. Then it slowly worked
through to his pantaloOns, and went streaming
along his limbs. Tn first touch of the vitriul
caused the boy to shout with pain, and the
last of the contents of the bottle was spilled
into his clothing. His cries of agony spurred
the horse into a run and the suffering boy
endeavored to throw the bottle from his
pocket. This action burned his hand Sc
verely, and he c.asped them to his face, which
added greatly to his agony. He lost his con
troll of the horse, and just at The foot of a
steep declivity of the road he was hurled
violently into a ditch, where he lay writhing
in anguish. He recovered sufficiently to tie
the mules to a tree The horse went back to
the mines, and the boys father and several
others set out to find the lad. When discov-
cred he was dead, The oil had eaten into
his ribs, and lie presented a frightful specta-
Gle. His hands were badly blistered, his
cheeks were burned, and the vitriol had sunk
to the bones of his legs. The boy had torn
away nearly all of his clothing except what
had been saturated with the oil. "A large
wound on his head showed that he had been
t, rown head forward from the horse. He
had crawled to IA tree OH the hillside, and his
appearance showed that he had suffered the
w
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COAxING.

A villa in the South-a lake that laves
The marble terraces, whose orange trees
Shake dewy odors over silver waves,
FRnn'd By O languid breeze.
rest, half-dreaming, watching meath my feet
The slowly.gliding swans divide the mere
A rustic, and a voice most clear anu sweet
Steals softly on mine ear.
>. You know what l have come sails
Tomorrow must answer YES or no
Mamma won't hear of it." The young voice
fails,
g But you will make me happy: should die
And generous, and he loves me so, and /
l love him dearly, tool
A silence and a kiss. and round my neck
Two white arms Irvine themselves, as If to
win
Compliance from my yielding heart, and check
Tn sterner thoughts within.
A coaxing Whisper Think of one whole year
That we have waited. Can he go away
Without a word of cheer!"
"Sweet daughter mine, bear with me if | seem.
mi, In love OF you, to play a miser's part;
Long boarded in my heart.
:. Is he so true and wise? ?" $50 wise, so true:"
And can you trust yourself" '. Beneath the
l know there is for me (not counting YOU
One ~only-Only one!"
Well, we'll, no tears! Melhinks I never met
An ADLER pleader-parting good from i'll.
| would 1t were, and would it were not: yet
You conquer, have your will"
Another kiss. another soft careSs-
She glides away as sunlight thro' the flowers
l sit and muse, the winds in idleness
Ruffie the orange bowers.
1.-TWO hearts made happy, so what need Il
frown?
The children love each Other-smilc, then
wife;
A happy love is sure the fairest crOwn,
And whitest flower of life"