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The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-08-09
STAR ROUTE CROOKEDNES S.
The Evidence on Which the Charges
of Fraud are Based.

NEW YORK, Angus 1.-The Times Wash
ington special says: The local newspapers
owned by the ring OF star route swindlers
have been loud and frequent during the past
week, and more particularly since the ad-
journment of the Grand Jury, in asserting
that nc evidence exists upon which to base
any crimirial charges against General Brady
and his corrupt associates. The exposures in
the Times have been entirely the results Of
personal examinations by its correspondents
of the files of the Postal Department, as these
were made up by Brady or under his orders.
The department has had a swarm of agents
at work for mouths hunting down frauds, and
a mass of evidence has been thus accumu-
lated, none IF which. for obvious reasons. has
been touched yet. The Times exhibits have
been sufficiently convincing of the existence
of gross corruption to rendcr ridiculous, or
rather to account for this persistent "Whist-
ling to keep their courage up" on the part of
the star route thieves. If any doubters exist
it will be only necessary for them to peruse
the chapter presented in this weeks article to
be convinced that the claims of the Washing
ton ring press are wrong. Here is incontro-
vertible evidence--Of Brady's " evidence
that the department under his administra-
ton knew of the existence OF the frauds. and
not only did nothing TO stop them, but resort
ed to every means to aid the dishonest con-
tractors. EX-Postmastel-General Key him
self is confronted by official documents,
whose implied accusations he will probably
find it difficult to answer.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-08-09
The Con1stock Aspect.

The Gold Hill (Nev.) Ne,os thus
paints the Comstock aspect: The stO
ket has been fluctuating considerably
week, and with a downward tendenc
movements of the members of the |
firm are watched by dealers to gain a
possible, of what is to be expected in
future. To those who are expecting
deal in the Moth End Mines, the d,
ii John W. Mackay from the CONS
IA trip to Europe was a damper on the
they considering, aud perhaps Wis
that il there were to be All ore body 81
he would have remained Oh the coast
Great expectations Of a "boom" in
nanza stocks Were aroused by the SUD
turn Of Far aud Mackay to the lode,
price Of those mining stocks was
doubled aud trcbled. No ore has beel
aac~ay has gone 10 Paris, Fair is
Francisco, and, taken altogether, the
or he mining interests al the Nor,
not SO bright as II month ago.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-08-09
SIDE DISHES.

Without content, We shall find it almost as
difficult to please others as ourselves.
There is no merit without elevation, but
there is no elevation without some merit.
Men should not think too much of them
selves, yet a man should be careful not to for
get himself.
No man ever offended his own conscience
but first or last it was revenged upon hin
for it.
He that has no friend and no enemy is one
of the vulgar; and without talents, power or
energy.
A good word is an easy obligation; but not
to speak i'll requires only our silence, which
costs us nothing.
To pronounce man happy merely because
he is rich is just as absurd as to pronounce a
man healthy because he has enough to eat.
Everyone who is trying to lead a good life,
should also try to lead a winsome and courte-
Gus life. BY abandoning gentleness of dis
position and g1aciousness of word and deed,
he throws away a means Of growth and an
effective weapon.
If one will rise above the influence of a
spirit of retaliation and revenge, standing
meantime upon a basis of diSEifed self-re-
spect, the aspect Of human nature around
him will seem to be greatly more pleasing
and att active.
Manhood III the Christian life is a better
thing than boyhood because it is a ripper
thing: and old age ought to be a brighter and
a calmer and a more serene thing chan man.
hood. There is a second youth for man,
better and holier than his first, if he will
look, on and not back.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-08-09
Our Great Inventions.

The fifteen great American inventions of
worldwide adoption are:
l. The cotton gin.
,. The planning machine.
3. The grass mower and reaper.
4. The rotary printing press.
5. Navigation by steam.
6. The hot-air engine.
I. The sewing machine.
IS. The India rubber industry.
8. The machine for the manufacture of
horse shoes.
10. The sand-blast for carving.
IL. The gauge-lathe.
II. The grain elevator.
IL. Artificial i%ce-making on Il large scale.
ID. The electric magnet and its practical
application.
Is. The te telephone.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-08-09
Josh Billings Prayer--Nev
vision.

From tu many friends, ami thin
luce ends, dellves US.
From "A wife who don't luv us and q
who don't look like us, deliver US!
From wealth without charity, froI
without sense, from pedigrees worn 0
from all rich relations, deliver us!
From pack. p ddIers, from young f
luv, from old aunts without money, a
cry m"rbis, deliver us.
From snaiks in the grass, from naiE
butes, from torchlight professions, al
nu rum, deliver US!
From newspaper sells, and pills th
tisic, from females who FAINT, and m
~latter, deliver us!
From virtu without fragrance, from
that smells, from niger kamp meetir
from kats that are courting, deliver IL
From other folks secrets, and fl
own, and women coiun,i,tees, deliver
From folks who WON'T laugh, all
them who giggIe, from lite butes, cas-
and mutton, deliver us!
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-08-09
RACING FOR IA, 900 MILES.
Six Hours Difference in the Time
Made by Two Steamers.

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-The Tribune says !:
The English steamer Lord Of the Isles, laden
with tea, that arrived from Japan by way of
the Suez Canal, on Friday, sailed from Yoko-
hama May 24th, the Queens birthday. On
the same day the Gleneirtny, another Eng
lish steamer, with a similar cargo, left the
same port, and a race of $4,000 for the New
York tea market was begun by the two YES
sells. Heavy bets on the race were made at
Yokohama and at the Chinese ports where
they stopped, and in every case odds were
given in favor Of the Gleneirtny, as she has
won similar races. In his case, however.
some OF the engineers Oh the Lord OF the
Isles had money at stake, which may account
Tor the extra efforts on their part. sit was
only a question of a little more coal, so we
showed it in" said the chief engineer to a
Tribune reporter. "We made Annoy in three
days and a hall, and were delayed there a
week loading our vessel. while the Glens'
cargo was all ready for her and she sailed in
two days. At Hougkong we found she had
started before we arrived, but we had gained
~ - Sooo uCoIs We iCdCIlcu tOllpdpoTf
just AS the Gleneirtuy was leaving, and didn't
see Oh hear of her till we were half wav
through the Suez canal. She reached Suez a
day behind us. We would have been further
ahead if a terrible southwesterly storm had
not delayed us in the Indian ocean. Those
white streaks that cover the smokestacks
were made by waves that broke over the ves-
sci. We had good weather through the Med.
itteranean, but We're delayed by the ma
chinery getting out of order. The Glen
steamed into Gibraller just as we were leav-
ing there. Extra coal and work were used
in crossing the Atlantic, and moderate wealth
er helped US. just as We sighted Sandy
Hook we thought a vessel in the distance
ahead OF US was the Glen, but we were hap
PLY disappointed. Our rival came intu New
York six hours behind us, and that's not "a
very big difference for O race of 1900 miles.
We made IN average of eleven krots an
hour"
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-08-09
No Mans Land.

1t is not generally known that the
strip Of territory in the Northwest thai oon
not belong to anything or anybody. 'oc
organization of Wyoming Territory pup
greater portionof which then belonged al
kota, a queer error was made in deiin1Fer'
western boundary. This was marked Voo
certain meridian line, instead of confdN Nc"
to the eastern boundary of the adifu'''
Territory of Idaho. The result was
portion of Dakota was left west OF theU u
Map-makers, by inadvertence, have may 4
portion Of Oneida county, Idaho, but ilIs'Sl
legally such, nor can the laws o fldaho IA
forced therein. 1t still remains within Il Font
isdiction of Dakota, though separated of
long distance of an intervening TerritoI
crime committed therein can only ten imp
b. the Dakota courts, as also all civi Pr
growing u of local litigation. Tbtpe
some day, unless recliied, produce COZ
able trouble, as it makes it virtually a fca'
for outlaws.-Chicaao Inter Ocean. n
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-08-09
A E
The Mormons at Last Garry Out
their Threat to Kill Bishop
Smith.

News reached here or the 2Sth ult. that the
dead body of Bishop Philip klingler Smith
had been found in a prospect hole in Sonora,
Mexico, after having eluded the vengeance of
his enemies for seven years. Smith was at
one time of high standing in the Mormon
Church, and is noted as the man who exposed
the infamous Mountain Meadow massacre.
Smith confessed that he had been a parLici-
pant in the butchery, and his evidence con-
yicted John D. Lee, who was shot upon the
very spot where he had conducted the massa-
ere more than twenty years ago.
Bishop Smith was convinced that he would
be murdered for the exposures he made. After
the execution of Lee, he said 81 know that
the Church will kill me sooner or later it is
only a question of time After the trial of
Lee, Smiths wife left him by order OF the
Church, and he then went south and lived in
Arizona. Here tw attempts were made to
kill him, but he evaded the assassins and es-
capped. His time came at last though, and the
work was done past lemdying when the body
was found.
At the execution, Lee confessed completely
in the crime, but declared that he was forced
to ''carry out the orders OF the council, -
which were given by Bish'n George
Smith, Brigham Young's first counselor
and right-hand man, and TIA, he was
sacrificed by the Mormon leaders
and was not responsible for the massacre ;
that he repented having anything to do with
it at the time, but that he was forced to carry
out the project or lose his life. The witness
es in the case, however, proved the entire
guilt of Lee. They were Mormons and bore
united testimony, yet a Mormon jury refused
to convict the participators.
The story that Smith told was that an emf
grant train had stopped in Salt Lake City for
three or fOur weeks, and had considerable
trouble with the Mormons. They finally left
the city, however, and then Brigham Young
called together his destroying angels and Or
dered the emigrantS to be killed. Lee, who
was an elder, took charge of the expedition
and followed the party for some days. He
attacked the emigrants in a gorge, but they
defended themselves ably, and the battle
continued that evening and night, and until
the next evening. A truce was now offered
by the Mormons, and as the emigrants were
out of water, they accepted. The result of a
conference was that the Mormcns promised
10 protect the emigrants if the latter would
give up their arms. This was agreed to and
the train moved on. The next day it reached
Mountain Meadows, where the Mormons,
disguised as Indians, murdered every one of
the party, except a little boy and girl, who
were brought up by the Indians. These
children were named Baleman. A ~lieuten-
ant in the army placed the famous cross upon
the scene Of the massacre, bearing the quota
ton, ''Nengcauce is mine, saith the LORD, ]
will repay."-New York Truth.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-08-09
The Marriage Of Bright :
MlNE

Miss. Bright Eyes," the danghI MINI
chief Of the Ponca tribe of lowing na
whom Mr.. Tibbals. the advocate Of n av u subsc,
recently married, is thus spoken Of
respondent of the New York Won ATnENS...
Bright Eyes made many friends EMPsEY.
New York and Boston, whittier -
with others of her tribe to lay the wi from
the Poncas before the people. Sb i, ia fill
oaue"'er 0 ''e cn'e' u the omaha crowded
Poncas. She spent two years at !.
NJ, - ~, .,;,,, -, kna is t
,H- ,l" street in:
tied Washington and the Eastern SaA
other members of her tribe and Mr.. teeme''
Both Bright Eyes and Mr.. Tibbals me ''etn'
a meeting in Steinway Hall, Decem
1870. She was then spoken of as Probate
pretty young lady Of swarthy com, cast, Ju'
whose black and glossy hair was d ,ne
fashionable coil at the back of her bax s sbipm
who wore a Derby hat with yellow I'd product
handsome cloak over a plain black Gil / $4,000
and a neatly-fi,ting pair of light kid ,;oo u II,
She gave a history of her own life, vii g., rot ,
been that of the tribe during the tim.
trouble. in excellent English, and -.
clear, pleasant voice and modest NJ ~
The following is an extract from her II Tvs
There have been times when have
bitterly towards the white beophI eople pu
when l have almost lost faith in G Dying
crushed my heart when 1 saw a litttlI bIels, an
full of people-the Ponca tribe-manyJ a~opositit
my kinsman, abused and driven ahd md, men
big and powerful nation. They Were &c, has II
along well and had many schools and . nmb.
es, 1t was a c~Owardly thing (sI vyomius
her foot, which was Enclosed in a nea y, 10 b,u
boot, and clenched her gloved hands, ook
government to do. To-day stan dpI ,
has nothing but his blanket, and lla, ,-.-
wife and family out on the plains vi N.
comes to you for help. 1t seems d
times that the great government nd
more like dogs than human beings foN'in.
lieyc, however, that we are Gods peob lhe DIV
he will not desert us. 1t brings Chrh efs' WI
er to my heart to- think that he sud A.
when he was Oh earth. Please beIJ our and
are human beings, and that we love aI Uds OF ii
just as you do" prosl ect
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-08-09
BY A WRETCH.
Blaze OIL, Old Sol, blaze Oh
With all your pent-up heat

Blaze on, Old Sol, blaze II
With all your pent-up heat
Blaze on!
Although I'm cooked from head to feet,
Although I'm soaked from feet to head.
A though my nose is blistered red,
Although I've wished that ] were dead
Never you mind,
Blaze IN
Blazc on, Old Sol, blaze II
With all your piercing rays
Blaze on!
You have my blessing on your blaze,
'Tis true, I'm ever shouting ''pheugh!
{Tis true, I've sworn h hot air blue!
Ills true, a son stroke soon comes due;
But don't let. that unsettle you!
Never you mind.
Blaze on!
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-08-09

The sympathetic small boy: Papa: "Tha,
picture shows the story of Prometheous and
the vulture that fed on his liver. Every day
the vulture devoured it, and every night it
grew for him to eat again." Sympathetic
child: "Poor, dear old vulture ! How sick he
must have been of liver every day.
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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-21
Curious RecOVeries.

Perhaps the most curious and valuable
recovery of a book long sought Cor occurred
to the late Mr.. Granville, whose most
munifcent bequest of his extraordinary
library to the British Museum entities him
to the gratitude of all scholars. L mention
the fact on the authority OF my late hon
ored friend Mr.. Amyot, the secretary,
friend and biographer of Wyndham, and
for so many years treasurer of the Society
of AntiQuaries and director of the Camden
Soci ty Among the choicest books in his
library Mr.. Greaviie possessed one of two
volumes of an excessively rare tifteener, |
think. the Mszarine Bible, printed on vel
lum and magnifcently bound. OF course
he was very anxious to get copy of the
missing volume also on vellum, but he
hoped almost against hope. After many
years, however, he lad the unexpected ard
almost unexampled good fortune to get not
only copy on vellum, but the Identical
| copy, as shown by the binding which had
| SO long been separated from the one in his
| possession.
Mr.. Granville, when showing the book
| to Mr.. Amyot and to Samuel Rogers, who
| was there at the same time, told the history
| of his good fortune. Amyot said it was
| the most remarkable coincidence he had
| ever heard. Rogers did not quite agree to
| this, and proceeded to mention the follow
| lbs WniCu hO stliI LuOi ieLldT
| BILE. An officer who was ordered to India
went, on the day before leaving England,
to his lawyers in Lincoln's Inn Fields.
| The day be ng wet he TOOK a hackney
| coach, and when he got out, as he was
| paying the driver, dropped shilling He
! looked in the mud and slush for it ia vain,
and so did the coachman. On his return
| home, after some years service, he had
again occasion to go to his lawyers in
Lincoln's Inn Fields When leaving, he
recollected his lost shilling, and by some
unaecountable impulse began to look for
1t. when. strange to say, just at the very
| spot where he had pait tbs coschman and
on the very edge Of the curbstone, he
found
THE shilling " was the hasty conclus-
ion of my excellent friend.
| Not exactly" said Rogers, D." bu
twelve-penny-wor of coppers wrapped
up in brown paper. "-Ninetenth Century
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-21
strange Suicide of a Child
London News.
An extreord;nsry o.soe.

An extraordinary case of suicide bas oo
CURED at Dukinfeld, Cheshire. the n;o. 1o
being girl named Amelia Birch. aesS I'D 70
years, daughter of Elizabeth Biech, a
widow. Itappears that the girl has been
from time to time intrusted with small
sums of money to pay debts owing by her
mother to provision dealers and other
shopkeepers but, instead of paying the
accounts. it transpired that she hat in
some instances appropriated the money az d
forged signatures of the ira iesmen in a
small book in which the accounts were
kept. The fact came to the knowledge of
Mrs. Birch and she taxed the deceased
with the theft. Shortly afterward the girl
left the house to go to her work at neie
boring mill. she did not return of break-
fast and on search being made her pin
afore, dress and clogs were found on the
nank OF the mill lodge, or pond. and on
the water being dragged her lifeiess bod y
was discovered,
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-21
Z ADVANCING BACKWARDS
A Southern Dark VS. Idea Of 1yi itary
Tactics.
Harnar,s Nc oaziua

Harper's Magazine.
Early in the late civil war, John Dennis,
q full negro, believing himself fred with
patriotic zeal and able to serve his country,
besought his master, Georgian, and OBJ
tanned permission to accompany aregiment
from State, which was soon placed under
the command of Geners | Floyd The his
tory of that campaign is we'll known. On
the retreat John became homesick and was
allowed to depart He had become well
known to General Floyd and all his com>
mand. On his departure be went to take
leave of the general when the following
dialogue was had
General oyd-"Well, John, you are
going to leave US, Ell ?"
John-Yes, Mars Floyd, it pears like
I could do mere good at home now dan
benz here; so thought I'd go homo and
courage up our people to hold on.
General F.-That's right, John. But
are you going to tell EN- that you left US
when running from the Yankees?
Johnnie, sir, no. Mars Floyd, dat |
amt You may pend upon my not tellln'
| nothin' to 'morallze dem people
| General F.-B how will you get around
| telling them, John? ...-
John-Easy enough, Mars Floyd. 1t
won't do to morales dem people. I'm
goin' to tell e dis-dat when l left de
army it in first rate sperrits, and dat,
OWN to de situation Of de country and de
way de land lay. we was a>adyancin'
| back ards, and de Yankees was a>retreat-
| in' on to US
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-21
MARKET REPORTS
/ 10 81 Il
Wholesale Grain and Produce Market.
CORRECTED pAILY.l

Er5e 30 n CHRONICLE OFFICE, !
Knoxville. Tenn. July 20. 1881.
Liberal receipts of new Wheat but much of it
of inferior grade. Prime white and Lancaster
finds ready marketat 81 90. Inferior grades
are hard to sell at S5a90c; old nominal at qnota-
tons. @
CoRN-Buying loose, 62as3c selling. sacks in
cluded, car lots, 65a67c.
OATs-New crop threshed; in demand at Is
a30 cents per buShel.
BACoN-Active buying, Ss4a9c, hog round;
selling. packed in depot, clear sides, lie:
shoulders. SC; hams, 101aa1114c.
LARD-In SO pound tin cans 11a12c.: selling
12a13c.
!, POTAToEs-I Irish new, sea9Oc
HAY-LO0se. S0a90c per 100 pounds baled,
S1.25.
PEAs-In fair demand retail, 81 so.
BRAN-$1.25 per 100 pounds.
FLOUR-NOminal, country extra. buying dull,
~ 5Oa2.75: selling, $2.50aA75 per sack family,
buying. S2.50a2.75: selling. S2.75a3 90 er sack.
i FEATHEEs-Weaker higher, 51a52c.
BUrTER-3hoice roll. Sal2iec; prime, 6a10c
grease butter. 5a7c.
EGGs-Dull. buying at &c.
PoULTRY--Llve chickens, hens, &C per pound;
ROSTERS, 2lac; turkeys. gobblers, &c i; spring
chickens in demand loo each.
KAGs-COttOn, 11sc.
BEEswAx-In demand at zoe per pound.
HIDEs-Dry flint, loc: green, &c.
TALLOw-5c.
FLAX sEED-Per bushel soc.
BRAss-I0a12c !; copper, 10a12c.
WooL-ChOice tub-washed, 35c fair to good,
z7leaSOc; dark coarse. Is ; unwashed, 221aa2s,.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-21

Frank A. Bean, Steam Fire Engine 6, Bostn
was cured of alopecia, or falling of the hair by
tn CUTICURA REsoLvENT Internally and CUTI-
CURA ami CUTICURA SOAP externally, which com
pletely restored his hair when all said he would
lose it.
Thos. Lee. 2276 Frankfort Av., Philadelphia,
afflicted with dandruff, which for twenty years
had covered his scalp with scales one-quarter OF
an inch in thickness, cured by the Cutlcura
Remedies
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-21
SAILING ON A BOILING SEA. .
The VOtcsnic Lake in the White
Island, New Iceland. Mountains.
Prof. Fl. A. Ward, in Rochester Demo-


Island, New Iceland. Mountains.
Prof. Fl. A. Ward, in Rochester Demo-
crat.
/ was AT xious to investigate all these
things little nearer. So, with some diff.
fcuty, prevailed on my captain and men
to return with me to the sea beach, where
we tied rope to the dingy and hauled it
with much fatigue back over the crater
floor to the lake, where we launched it.
and all got in boldly together. But very
charity did we row out in the hot water,
and closely did we watch the clouds of
vapor which the wind swept over the sur
face. One of these at last reached US and
81 choked one of our men, with weak
lungs, that he was seized with fit of
C ughing and we had to take him back to
shore. Then we three rowed quietly across
| the lake during lull in the wind, having
| first taken the precaution to protect ouI
nostrils by tying on handkerchiefs. The
| water OF the lake was If a milky,
Opaque cast but we could feel with
our oars that it was il most places not over
ten feet deep. Lines upon the shore
showed that it daily rose and fell slightly
with the tide of the sea outside. In ia t.
this lake is the fltering of sea.water
through into the lower depression of the
crater, where it is heated by the abundant
gas jets coming through the bottom In
many spots the water was boiling furiously
with much froth and foam, while still its
heat WAS much below the boiling point of
% Fahrenheit. These were dangerous
places. The abundant air in the water
diminished materially its buoyancY, and
our boat sank alarmingly low in crossing
them. We landed across the lake at one
of the sofia oras nearest the beach, and
proceeded with wnat seemed reckless dar-
ing to demolIsh it with our oars 1t WIS a
chimney abb ut two feet in diameter. clay
without, and within it was lined with crys.
tails of sulphur of beautiful straw ellow
splasheu with vermilllon spots. Pushing
in the top of this chimney the fra ments
would first fall down its throat and then
come flying out into the air with explo-
sious toat were amusingly like prolonged
| stentorian cough.