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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-08-25
Democrat-Star.1

The Democratic party has control of State
affairs ana il Is q FITTING tribute that Gen
eral Robert Lowry should lead the Demo
cratic army on to victory Ia the coming
pampaign-aHd he'll do IL. We could write
columns in praise of our standard bearer
for Governor, but he is too well and favora-
bly, known to require this at our hands.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-08-25
Oxford Eagle. !

As Gen. Lowry seems to be the choice of
everybody in Lafayette for Governor, let us
organize, 60 to work aud give the ticket q
rousing majority. The TICKET i. composed
of good men from top TO bottom, aud we
must make strong pull and all pull to-
gether to elect it,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-08-25

In speech tavoring the payment of
the national debt in greenbacks, deliv-
cred at Lynchburg on the 18th day of
August, 1873, Major Daniel, the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor of Vir
ginia, said The bondholders of the
United States, through these transao-
tions, were aggrandized in three ways
First by getting the enormous sum of
81 ,012, $50, 004 for nothing, save the risk
they took upon the survival of the
country; second, by getting interest in
coin, and third, by Obtaining exemption
Of this immense property nom taxation.
For be it remembered that United States
bonds are exempt from taxation, and
that those best able to bear them share
not at all in the burdens to be borne"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-08-25

Scion CHASE, the Maine Greenback-
er, is reported as saying that the idea
of the Greenbackers, is to pay the Uns
ted States bonds. stop the interest and
prevent perpetual debt. The Repub-
lican idea is to keep bonds out and
make perpetual debt. On this ques-
ton the democratic and Greenhack
parties are in accord. The Democrats
are in favor of short bonds, low inter
est and quick payment 1t is a ready
made party, and the wonder is that
Scion Chase and his band do not join it
instead of engaging in the impossible
attempt to build new party.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-08-25

Total deductions .-..-.... -........s
Leaving only this balance as due
by the State over and bove her
means to pa V.- - %
, 1881-12-24
"A d I'M i m,
From the Spectator

The jackdaw in Esop's fable who
adorned himself with peacock's fen
theirs and sought tt pass himself off as
one ofthose birds, iscommonly consider
ed onlyin the light of warming against
struggling to force oneself into a
sphere above ones own. By many
generations has hat jackdaw been
pointed at with the finger of scorn,
and innumerable people, both young
and old, have not hesitated to pro-
nounce him merely as an irredeem-
ably vain and ridiculous bird,
and nothing more. Though quite
aware how presumptuous it is to YEN
ture to take exception to the unani-
nous and sweeping condemnation of
ages, we are yet daring enough to
assert that full justice has never yet
been melted out to that unlucky bird,
and that there is a meritorious side to
, 1881-12-24

POISON is duNllrdliOH, because IL Ine-
vitably presses Self into the corner,
and kindles generous and elevating
sentiments. There is no room for
these things until Self has been clear
ed out Of the way a bit j; and a man
a know nothing of them, if his ma
ture be too poor and cramped to al
low of his ever being taken out of
himself by an ungrudging homage
paid TO some excellence greater than
his own. No nobler feeling than
that of admiration for one hi her
than himself dwelIs in the breast of
man. 1t is TO this hour, and at all
hours, the vivifying influence in ma, g
life" SO says Carlyle and whether
the world at large consciously agrees
with him or not, at all events its
actions ere such as to justify the be-
lief that it holds the capacity for ad-
miration in considerable esteem,
since it may be generally remarked
that those who possess that quality
receive q far larger share of love and
trust than those who are destitute Of
it. People do not, as Il rule, ppear
drawn to conSien more than they
can help of their affections, secrets,
or regulations to the tender mercie<
of a man who is observed to be al
ways ready to depreclate any kind
ofvirtue, talent, ability, or excellence +
hat is not so nearly allied to his own
as to give him a reflective share in
the praises bestowed thereupon.
Inasmuch, then, as a genuine, self
forgetting admiration necessarily
takes a man to some extent out of
himself, we hold that on this account
alone he VIII be all the better for it.
But It's utility by no means stops
here, and, under proper guidance,
it can render still more important
service. Whatever he admlres has
a good deal to do with the forma-
ton of his character; he will wish
Ohoush perhaps unconscI0usly)a to
initiate it, and incorporate it INTO his
own life as far as possible, and thus
it will supply m ideal, a standard to
aim at. Whether the standard shall
be more or less elevated is evidently
a very serious consideration, and
much, discrimination is needed as to
the persons, qualities, and ether OBJ
iects on which unqu lifted approval
may safely be bestowed. AS for
honest admiration being thrown
away on what is absolutely bad and.
vicious, the chance of that seems too
slight to call for warning against it.
But there is room for a word of
caution against the danger of forget
ting that there are degrees and de-
gees of merit, that all things praise
worthy are not equally so, aud that
a man should beware eff wasting on
some inferior excellence a sentiment
hat is capable ofraising him a good
deal higher, if directed to a more
worthy object. And the only securi-
ty from this risk is to be found in
taking counsel with reason and the
higher nature as to what to admire,
and in carefully shutting out the
subtile influence of Self, as it tries to
interfere in the matter, and create
prejudice in whatever direction may
coan, most ikoIv1 IN nrOvo IN i+r 0pn
, 1881-12-24

" vi LntU
ne was fool enough to put himself
into that most miserable situation, a
false position ; or that he was so dull
as to confuse Semblance with Reality,
and to imagine that pretending to be
a peacock and actually being one
were identical. But what we main
tain as in his favour is, that in spite
OF all this, he had yet the capacity for
discerning, admiring, and longing
after a merit which he knew perfect
ly we'll, he did not himself possess.
1t is a capacity which is not at all a
commonplace one. Look at science,
religion, politics, literature, society,
professions of all kinds, and see how
few people there are who manage
genuinely to admire what is excel
lent in any line that is opposed to or
even, somewhat different from their
own. Directly they show the least
symptom Of such an admiration,
Self infallibIy interferes to try and
prevent it. Honest, hearty admira-
ton for good in others to which a
man allows he has no shadow Of
claim for himself, must necessarily
cast more or less of a slight upon Self;
so Self is always opposed to foreign
merit, and will at best receive it as q
merely accidental and external sort
Of quality, which is to be criticised
and belittIed as much as possible.
Lavish as much as you like, either
directly or indirectly, upon that
supremely worthy object, Self,
and Self will agree therein compIa-
Gently but only let some other pin
nacle of virtue be erected, and its
tone will be very quickly changed.
MI admjrarj Immediately becomes the
order of the day the rival height is
carpcd and cavilled at necessarily; if
possible, it is to be dragged down to
a lower level if it should remain
unaffected by detraction, then the
eyes are to be turned in some other
direction; in short, no stone is left
unturned to try and avoid any
frank and generous acknowledge
ment of its altitude. Should the
admirable object happen to be far
above the head of the admirer, that
ought, by rights, to be no hindrance to
the consideration in which it is to DO
held for us virtue of all kinds a be
instinctively felt and recognised ever
when not understood, it is by no
means essential to admiration that the
thought of the admirer should be able
altogether to represent to him the real
fact of the matter. This condition of
a%ffairs, however, IS sure to be seized
upon by Self as a fine opportunity for
its antagonism. 1t will fluid plenty
of sneers and jeers at the folly of bow
ing down before anything that the
mind is incompetent to grasp, and in
such a case a man needs to be most
especially on his guard lest there be
stifed that nobIer part of him which
prompts him to do homage to the
thing that he feels to be ~intrinsically
excellent, whether comprehended or
not. No doubt this hostility would
not matter one jot if only Self were
treated as it deserves, and if every
one always remembered that the
more completely it is snubbed and
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-10-25
Horse Thieves Paradise.

Meagher comfy is said by the Record to
be the horse thieves paradise. As an in
stance OF the way things are run it says that
when the Barker horses were taken last
sprlng It was about one month before the au-
thorities were appraised OF the affair, and then
The Sheriff heard; OF it incidentally. One
Laaerty, a witness against the thief Curtis
Boteman, is now in Benton with all the evil
dence in the world; yet Nj. RAIDER is so afraid
hat BY some chance there will not be enough
to convict the thief, that he ttelegraphs that
Boieman can be released. A. little less fear
Of ~incurring expense and q little more Sheriff
is what is wanted in the portion of Msagher
county adjacent 10 Benton.
The party who pursued the raiding Indi-
ans, supposed TO be Bloods, lost sight VI The
trail on the judith river near Briggs sheep
ranch. The Indians had stolen forty! seven
head of horses, and had killed cattle at
various points along the route. As they
fed, the Indians would kill and mann The
weaker horses, and one. exhausted animal
was found cut back of his shoulder with a
knife. The pursuing party returned to BEN
ton last Saturday, not having recovered the
stock, but still determined to capture it from
the murderoHs, bloody thieves who have
carried it away.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-10-25
Concerning the Weighing OF Hay
and Measurement of Wood.

Official ordinance number 10 of the city of
Helena, dated October II, 1881, 10 we'll
worthy of direct imitation by the council OF
the city of Butte. 1t provides first, that no
person shall sell hay, straw or coal in bulk
without first having the same weighed on one
Of the public scales OF the city and obtaining
from the weighmaster thereof a certificate of
weight.
1t provides further that these weighmastsrs
shall keep subs showing the weight and
ovner of each load weighed, and shall receive
TIVE nty- five cents for each load Of hay weigh
ed etc., and fifteen cents for measuring each
load Of wood. That these articles, includ-
ing @oal, after having been weighed shall be
sold al certain places in the city, on certain
streets, and no where else, and That the viola
ton of auy section of the ordinance is a mis-
dcmeanor punishable by a line OF from one TO
twenty-five dollars.
Like provisi DIS are made in regard to the
measuring and selling OF wood, except where
it is measured in the yard, by the purchaser.
Now there is no such ordinance III Butte,
and no system OF puullC "eiSh'o oAo ~
ures. There are no recognized STANDS where
these articles may be found for sale. lie use
fulness of such All ordinance is however we'll
recognized BY many business men here. 1es-
terday we spoke OF it to Judge Wilcox and Dir.
| Talent, aid they both appreciate the good re-
| suits , be obtained in Butte by similar pro-
visions. Let us hope that the city couLell
will examine the subject, as they doubtless
will, ana take some action on it. Under sec
ton 20 OF the city charter council has full su-
| tho Ivy to establish a standard OF weights and
,,,..urrs, and under section rs, ample au-
thority to license, tax aud regulate all ped
oilers, retailers and hawkers in the city limits.
Under section 26 the council is granted the
additional "power to make all ordinances
W hich shall be necessary and proper to carry
into execution the powers specified, etc ,
There is no lack of power, the question no"
is as to the advisability Of speedy action.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-10-25
Good Ball.

The Butte lodge of Good Temp'ars Will
give a grand public ball in the ne" co"r'
house building, corner of Montana ana farA
streets, about Thanksgiving day. THIS en-
teri ainment will be given for the purpose OF
raising fl to pay off the Indebtedness OF
the Butte lodge. The cause deserves the ell
courssemsnt OF the public, and the local
lodge has deserved, by its good work lone III
u midst, the hearty cooperation and pat
ronage of the citizens of Butte. The enter
tainment given last Friday night i'll the OLD
Good TempIars' Hall was strictly a private
affair, given by the members OF the buue
ledge for their mutual enjoyment. MOST Oh
the members were present, m the evening
passed oil agreeably in every sense OF 'he
word.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-10-25
INDIANS KILLED.
Trouble Liable To Occur Between
the Whites and Savages.

Special to the BUTTE MINER.
DEER LODGE, Oct. 20.-An Indian was
killed at Steve nsville a couple of days since
by two drunken white men named Morris
and Pierce, who also fired several shots into
a squad of Indians. 1t is reported in Mis-
soula that two or three more Indians were
killed in the melee, aud that their friends are
in arms, and demanding that Morris and
Pierce he delivered into their hands. Agent
Roman and 4 squad of soldiers from Fort
Nissoula had been sent for. There is no
doubt of the killing of one Indian, but the
other reports may be exaggerated B..
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-10-25
THE BUTTE WATER co.
Plent. E Water in Thirty Days.

Superintendent Mccormack informed us
yesterday that arrangements had been
completed by which there will be plenty of
pure water i'll Butte within thirty days, un-
less some unexpected accident occurs. The
pipe is At Melrose, and one wagon load las
been already received. The two new reser-
voirs, which the Company has been building
tor some time, were ABOUT flu. shed yesterday.
The dimensions of the new reservoir are
forty by twelve feet, and they were being
csmented yesterday. Everything is now
ready for the last touches, and it any rea-
the pipes will be laid 10 our doors d the
water flowing ready to hand by the middle
of November.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-10-25
From Fridays Daily.
slx-Toed- 0olu Jack Convicted of
All Keeping an Opium Den. .S%

l
We have already alluded to the difficulty
OF convictingl ana q akeep,ng all opium
den, owing 70 tile phrssaology 81 the statute
and the craftiness of the heathen who keep
up the trade. Yesterday afternoon an aged
ehinsrhaii,, who looked quite As much like an
old African, and was Is wretchsd an object as
one could easily find, was tried on the charge
Of keeping All opium den. A number of his
c"untrymen gathered in the court room, and
the interpreter, Chung Gee, occupied a con-
s~picuous seat inside the bar. When arrsigned
Oolu Jack pleaded shot guilty, in his own
heathenlsh ,v~ernacular, and sat In a dreamy
condition, As If he scarcely realized what was
going oil. Occasionally he would rouse up,
utter a yolley of Chinese, and then relapse
into bis stupor. lie had no lawyer, and
wanted none, and sat, while the witnesses for
Tie prosecution were examined, apparently
the least interested persoa present. Marshal
Joseph venable,a Ar. Cody and Nellie Iiu-
wood, . Park street woman, testified that the
house, or rather den, the old man lived in,
was resoried to by @disreputsble characters,
and the woman testified s~quarely that she
had seen men and women OF her acquaint-
+nrt smoking opium there more than once,
and had smoked there herself. Once in the
midst of her narrative the old mans shoe
dropped off, showing the bare misshapen
foot from which lie takes his name. Then
the marshal testified that he and Cody
watched the den last night, and that the man
and woman whom they arrested in it vent in
soon after IL O'Clock and remained till after
one. The door hal a glass sash, with = cur
tain over il, and in this curtain was a small
round hole through which the officers looked,
and through which they saw . pipe Of opium
lighted and Smoked in the dusky interior.
The opium 5s'kit,'' containing pipe-bowls,
needle s, lamp, and several masses Of opium
spread on old playing cards, was brsughtinto
, court. No witnesses were examined for the
defense, none bsing offered, and OoIu Jack
was fined under the city "rd nance $50 and
costs. This is the first conviction for more
than a year in Butte, and it is to be hoped
that this pernicious habit may be either sx-
tirpated or rendered so dangerous as 10 BE-
come less popular. '@. ...
line woman ana man WHO "efe aITeStcu. ia
Oolu Jacks den will be tried this morning.
The great difficulty in obtaining conviction
under this ordinance IS owing to its language,
which makes it a misdemeanor for any ons
TO visit, keep, maintain or become all inmate
of any place, house or room ochere persons
assemble for the purpose Of smoking opium,
or which is treQuented for that purpose. Il
is often possible to prove that certain persons
have been smoking opium in a certain house
but it is quite a different thing to prove that
the house in which they smoked is frequcnteo
habitually with that object. 1t might be JUS
as we'll as not for the language OF both the
. municipal and the Territorial laws to b.
changed..o as to make keeping a house wher'
any may or does smoke opium a misdemean
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-10-25

sequently q great temptation to sink into it
and pass by the more moderate ore on the
upper level. Indeed there has been no
change in the condition of affairs in the
Gagnon for some time, and the management
is now ready for a regular system OF STOPPING,
lasting probably during the coming year.
The vein is as uniform and as reliable as any
Imaginable, there being a very fine ore body
on the eastern level. .'"" ''.a pr
THE LEXINGTON.
Since our last report a heavy body of water
has been struck in the Lexington, about PAL
fl et down, Which will nat allow further sink
ing until a second pump is set up. This will
be done in the course Of a week. In the
meantime the large number Of men at work
on the new mill and Office, and the enormous
quantities Of lumber strewn along the mill
site, give evidence of the activity Of the Lex
ington company. Some of the lumber is
strikingly fine, consisting of straight beams of
black pine, 80 and 40 feet long, sound as a
dollar, and showing the concentric rings OF.
years of healthy growth. '
II ORIGINAL BUTTE. e,.< .,.
e Good morning, Mr.. Monaghan, how is
everything in the mine? Amy thing new and
startling?" The Superintendent stammered
aud blushed, bis eyes sparkled, as he replied:
"No, nothing new about the mine, but l am
going East about December LIST on important
business. You see we have had no trouble
with water fol, some time, and are at the
same depth, two hundred feet, as when you
got your last report. The new hosting works
will soon be finished, and will be a very fine
building. We may finish it the coming week
aud get ready for sinking. The new safety
cage you can see, we ale just now putting in
place. But to tell you the truth, when l so
East in December, L am going to get-mar-
ried.' ...f 4.... .-..,M. .j.. Il
g .a" THE ORIGINAL. aha g.n.N"
In the Original stopping is going on east and
west on the 200-foot level. On the 100-foot
level work is being done east. Every thing
is running smoothly, and much as at the last
report. ., . . - "lt l.' . ~ '..-
.Es.0 II WABASH. -'
This mine is northwest of the Moulton,
about a mile distant. We are informed that
the engine is set and the machinery in order
and running. A building 81 by 60 feet is
in process of erection. -. 1. .
Dc. THE ISELE.
On the Isele, just south of the Mountain
Boy, work is still reported as done by a
whim, the machinery not yet having arrived.
The new hosting works will be rs by 80
feet, and 20 to 80 feet high. The new car
penter shop will be 20 by 81 feet, and the
boiler house 20 by 30 feet. On the dump are
so Or 60 tons of ore, which will assay from 90
to 500 Dances.
THE BOSTON.
The Boston Company is said to be erecting
a new building 30 by 100 feet.
THE BURLINGTON.
New hosting works are being put up over
the Burlington shaft.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-10-25
W-NVF F1|T NLI TTFfIE7f
From fridays Daily.
THE POTATO
As q Montana Staple.

The museum of natural curiosities in the
hall Of the Saxerac Cub in BuMe--just TO the
left as you enter the first floor corridor--con-
tnlns a gigantic potato. When we havS said
this, We have rendered. the clubi Museum
worthy of the lasting generation and esteem
OF every true hontanian. The horizon of
the neigh boring asriculturist is bounded by
the limits OF his potato field, and when there
''comes a frost, a killing frost, and nips the
ROOT" he falls a. Lucifer did. This being
the case, we read with mingled terror and
surprise that ''one-half the potatoes In all
sections Of the Territory will be lost because
of the early setting in of winter, and failure
on the part of the raiseIs to dug the crop"
Merciful heavens, what is to be done: We
have cherished for months the fond hope tia
we Should never, no never, be deprived Of
the joy Of seeing before us-fori it was merely
aasuperticiai eijoyment-tl,ree knotty and
discolored marbles which on closer inspec.
tioniwe found to be alleged potatoes. Nov
it seems that the larger specimens, one OF
which is said to have weighed four pounds
are being sent to the Michigan sufferers, and
those Intended for the Butte market ale be,
ing frozen OIL the way. Last week two
thousand pounds of potatoes were frozen en-
route from the Jeffe rsou Valley to Butte
Tome down, oh, sun, and save our choicest
tropical fruit; blast the squash, perish the
pumpkin, but for the sake OF a long suffering
community, save the potato.