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The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-01-11
The Standard Dollar.

Equal coinage Of both the money metals is
whaL must come before silver is completely
monetized. But we think the free coinage
of silver would he purchased too dearly were
we to couple it with an increase i'll the weight
of the standard dollar. The ratio OF silver
to gold now exemplltied in our silver dollar
is ii to /, which is greater than the ratio OF
the two metals elsewhere among the blmetal-
ic natious.-N. Y. Graphic.
The fact that our dollar is already heavier
than that of any other country >eeihs to III
dictate that there IS no wise necessity Tor a
further increase in its weight, as suggested oy
many able tinanciers, and would show that
some other remedy must be sought for the
supposed evil which u legislators propose
to cure. 1t would seem to be the height OF
folly to increase, to our injury, tie weight OF
the dollar which is now heavier than any
| other dollar known to commercial nations
Free from restrictions of any KIND, there
never has been any trouble il regard to the
silver dollar. 1t has done good service, as
history amply shows, and it is now better
able than ever before to do its duty as a relia,
bic medium of exchange. All the present
disadvantages Of our standard dollar are artl'
fetal and legislative. Let them be removed
and it will find its true place and maintain It.
Influenced only, as every true commodity is
by the laws of supply and demand, which
underlie every business enterprise OF men ano
nations. Mining ReraeW.
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CLIPPINGS.

Small custom quartz mills are needed i'll
nany places. TO give the small mirersa chance
to market their ores. In places where the ores
are refractory, smelters should be built. Moth
ing helps a district more than these advaht-
ages, which enables a small miner to develop
his lodges.
Contracts have been let for clearing anu
crubbing of the surveyed line for the Oregon
Railway and Navigation Conpany's road be-
tween Sandy river and the Dalles, a distance
of 66 miles, The terms require the con-
tractors to have the work completed by July
4, 1881. -,
Between Portland and the Dalles there will
be no less than five tunnels: No. 1,ten miles
below the Dalles, 800 feet long; No. 2, twelve
miles below, 900 feet long; No. 3, ~ miles
below, 800 feet long; No. 4, 81 miles below
$50 feet long; No. 5, two miles below the
Cascades, 400 feet long. Work Will oegln
February 10Th.
Amos T. Laird of Nevada county. Cal, is
dead. It one time lie employed as liany as
$50 men in his mines, when, it is SAID, wages
were s. per day. He met with a heavy bust
ness reverse in February, 1857, when a dam
at SCOTS Flat burst and destroyed his proper
ty to such an extent that he was never able tt
overcome the great loss. 1t made him a com
plete wreck financially.
Says the Virginia City Enterprise: Ore:
going from $50 to $50 per ton by fire assa1
are not high grade ores if they are base; free
milling oies that will work up to $40 are hlsl
grade ores these days. lntractable ores tia
can be chlorinated up to $50 per ton, allow
ing that they can be worked anywher" tron
so to 80 per cent, will pay a fair profit to tn
miller, will leave the producer in debt unde
present circumstances. Give the same ore
transportation to cheap reduction and the,
will afford a profit to both producer and re
Queer.
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If it be true, as we readinthe London cores
.pondence of a New York paper, that Mr..
Gladstone snubbed'his Queen when she made
of him a demand for an'increase Of the salary
of the Prince OF Wales, the fact will lift the
old Premier in the estimation Of every fair
minded man. We read the other day that
the Prince had won $25 900 Oh a horse race.
1t is a fashion of betting men to let the world
hear of their winnings, but they are care
full to conceal their losses. This race in
which Wales won was not the first he ever
bet at and it is only fair to suppose that he,
like other sporting men, has concealed his
losses. This is the more fair when we reflect
in other vices, it would be impossible for the
Prince of Wales to spend his income. He re-
selves in round numbers 5000, 900 perannum,
$4,000 per month, or, excluding Sundays +,
Just about 1900 per day. His house rent and
travelling expenses cost him noticing; his gifts
dollars per month he has no old mother or
little sisters to support. The question is
simply whether the poor of Great Britain
should be taxed to pay for the vices of a dis
so!ute Prince. If Gladstone has had the
strength, firmness and sense Of Justice sutf-
cient to negative the request fhis sovereign,
why, then, he is worth to be Premier of the
foremost Empire on earth. That Victoria
should prefer such a request is a fearful
satire on royalty, for it shows that to the EN-
press Of India, even as to the %ragpicker, az
the nobler faculties are failing with age
l avarice, the first instinct which reveals itsel
+ in the infant, has returned and has commenced
to rule old age. The majesty of royalty can
not frown down this vice. Though possess
ing millions which she can never use, though
t hailed as sovereign of the mightiest natiol
, this old woman loves money SO much tina
f she will not save her son from disgrace b,
s paying his debts, aud worse still, she woult
tax England which has been SO generous t.
her and hers to meet the gambling debts Of
S loose Prince. The showing is not a digniife,
4 one for either the Queen or the Prince, blu
cid man Gladstone shines in a magniie
# light in the interview.
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POULTRY YARD.

Lock up the poultry houses. unchaln the
dog, load up the double-barreled shot gun
then trust to Providence.
Jones says that he had a near-sighted hen
that ate a quart Of saw-dust, supposing it was
meal, and then went on and laid a nest full
of bureau knobs. But Jones is nearsightec
himself.
"Bridget, have you dressed that turkey p
inquired a lady o. q new girl. "No, mum
the plaguey thing wont STAN still long enough,
and besides there's no clothes in the house
that'l fit him.
One meal of apo,m feed in the morning
now, IS valuable. The water given fowls tc
drink should be clean and tepid in the very
cold days. Feed amply upon varied green as
well as dry food, and your hens should con
tinue to lay right along till Spring opens.
Keep the snow from drifting into your
chic~ken-hsuses. Strew the floors with fallen
leaves, or coarse cut straw. Feed the
morning meal to your fowls ~drm. Scald
the meal, boil and mash the potatoes or tur'
nlps, and mix these for the early days feed
Fat fowls are desirable to eat. though foI
delicate tastes they can he too fat but oul
brsediug stock of any kind, must not be fat,
because such a condition will cheat us out OF
success, no matter how great pains we may
take to care for them IN all other respects.
Where a person is or is not breeding pure.
but keeps his fowls for their flesh and fol-
their eggs, with no thought of making a profit
from the sales of birds as breeders, it is, no
doubt, "a very good plan tc change the males
every second year, to infuse new blood int
the tiOcks and thus increase their stamina and
consequent productlveness and profitable
ness.
During the ~changeable weather in winter
there is great liability of finding all occasional
egg frozen from being left too long in the
nest. Many persons consider 1t of no value,
any more than a frozen potato. But such al
egg may be brought back to nearly its origi
nal value for home use by the following
method Drop it in a dish of boiling water
and leave it for ten minutes. Upon opening
it, it will he found with a soft yslk, which
will not be the case if thawed out by the cold
water process. Better still, keep a sharp ey'
for the eggs, and not let them freeze.
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Mrs. Spra.ue.

The formal proceedings in the matter of
the Sprague divorce suit has set at rest the
speculations that have been rife for a year.
Every incident in her career has been revived
and talked over again, from the details OF her
white velvet wedding dress her matchless
point lace ~tleunce, which the empress felt
that she could not buy at $4,000 her baby's
lace christening robe, that figured at $1,000,
and countless other things of the kind.
Again it is told how this woman of such uE-
usual grace, beauty and spirit, received her
crowds of callers III her parlors and charmed
high and low, while the man whom the law
called her lord and master would come reel
ing in and sink upon a sofa before all the
guests. Servants were quietly seLt to carry
+. him off and the august senator, led by two
men, finished his SOLDERING nap out OF sight
the hostess. with 1nmoved countenance and
perfect control, maintained her part to the
end. The agouies of shame, and mortlica-
ton that he entaiied On her proud, high
strung spirit have often been guessed at, fol
so far, Mrs. Sprague has been a perfect Spar.
tan In concealing her sufferings from the pub
lie. An amusing incident is recalled OF her,
one over which her father used to laugh when
he touched upsn his daughters traits. On
the occasion of a large party, Mrs. Sprague
sent for her coachman and told him what
duties she expected of hIm-either to oper
the door or assist in the cloak room. The
coachman demurred, and impudently an
swered that he was hired to drive the horses
and not to help in the house. "Very well,'
said my Lady Katharine, shave nv carriage
at the door at 8 o'clock" At 8 o'clock the
carriage drove up. ''Blanket the horses and
wait until | send further werd," was sent GU:
to the Inverted magnifco oil the box. From
8 of a chill wintry evening to 2 of acold.
er m rning, coachee sat with stiffening arms
on his boz, and when the last guest had gone
his orders zane to drive to the stable. A
madden man never held a rein than the dar.
KEY ON the box, but a meeker one never beg
ged the madam to retain him and expiated
his oifense by the most perfect obedience
forever after. Mrs. Sprague has not been ir
Washington since she left for her summer
trip, and will probably not return this winter
1T Is said that her country place OF "Edge'
w0oa,' two miles ont of the city has beer
taken by Mr.. Bartolomei, the Russian Min
ster-Washiagtoa Letter.
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for making money that are offered, generally be-
come wealthy, while those who do not improve
such chances remain in poverty. we want
us right in their own localities. The business
will pay more than ten times ordinary, wages,
We furnish an expensive outfit and all that you
need, free. No one who engages fails to make
money very rapidly. You can devote your
moments. Full information and all that is
needed sent free. Address STINsoN 4 Co., Port
land, Maine.
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The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-01-11

Not long ago Senator Hamlin and Horace
Maynard, now postmaster general, were talk
ing of the unsatisfactory life a public man
leads. He may work all of his useful days
in the public harness, and when exhausted he
is turned out, like a retired canal horse, to
die. Maynard complained that he had been
a quarter of a century in public life and was
now poorer than when he entered. "Well,"
replied Hamlin, 81 am not. l had nothing
when l commenced and have got nothing
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The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-01-11

mr. OUTFIT sent free TO those VINO wish to en-
VII gage in the most profitable business
dbl known. Everything new. Capital not
required. We will furnish you every
thing. $40 q day and upwards is easily made
without staying away from home over night:
No risk whatever. Many new workers wanted
at once. Many are making fortunes at the
business. Ladies make as much as men, and
young boys and girls make great pay. No one
who is willing to work tails to make more
money every day than can be made in q week
at any ordinary employment. Those who en-
gage at once will find a short road to fortune.
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Meeting Pvevented.

DUBLIN, Jan. 3.-The meeting which was
to have been held at euondalkin to-day, was
prohibited because the authorities had reason
to believe that il had been summoned for the
purpose of interfering with the due admins
tration of the law, aud a fair and impartial
trial of the traversers. A troop of Dragons,
one company of infantry and a large force OF
police surrounded the platform in order to
prevent it.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-01-11

BUTTE CITY, MONT
PARLOR SUITS. Chamber and Bedroom Sets
Marble and Walnut Top.
WOOD and Cane Seat Chairs OF all kinds.
B~EDSTEADS, Bureaus. Tables. Bed Lounges,
Sofas, Dressing Cases, What-Nets and Brackets.
MIRRORS, Picture Frames. Clock Shelves
Mouldings, Brackets, and Hat Racks.
MATTRESSES of Hair, Wool and Mo
A No. / Feathers in bulk.
WALNUT COFFINS constantly on hand.
and trimmed to order. Trimmings of all knds
constantly IN stock.
ALSO. q Large Supply of
PANEL DOORS AND GLAZED SASH
Of All Sizes
ny l invite all TO come and see for thennseiv
before purchasing elsewhere.
B-PETIT.
Daily globe., 1881-07-16
Notes offhe Great Fair.

Col King has letters from the Crane
Trunk railway officials saying that two
or three large excursion parties are or
ganiZing in the domion to visit Manitobs
this fall, and are so timing their trip as
to be present at the great fair.
Secretary Clarke informs your reporter
that the reports from Illinois, Iowa and
| Wisconsin, indicate an immense atten-
dance from those sections to the great eX-
position this fall. The immense "air
ship" which is to sail from the fair ground
on Wednesday, September Z, will, of it
self, draw vast crowd of people.
Miss Williams, the English champion,
who is to contest for the championship of
the world with Miss Belle Cook, will sail
from Liverpool for the United States
about the 1st of August on the steam
ship Wyoming, and is expected in Mime
apolis about the middle of August, when
she will go into severe training for her
| great race.
Secretary Clarke was deluged yester-
day with letters from horse and cattle
men who are intending to exhibit their
stock at the Minneapolis fair this fall.
Among them were letters from Maine,
New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland
Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Mn
nesota 1t looks as though everybody
was coming to the fair this fall.
All of the equestrian contestants are
now getting ready for their great battles
| Miss Jewett has two splendid race horses
which she is giving all the work they can
stand in her daily exercise. She is said
to be in excellent health and strength,
and proposes to show her California op-
ponent what she can do when she has fair
| play and no accidents TO interfere.
Miss Belle Cook is said to be in much
better health this year than she was last,
and has been in training for her severe
| races for two months past. She starts
| for Minneapolis the last of this month,
and writes the managers of the fair that
| she wants four or five good horses to
train with Immediately On her arrival
The California woman evidently intends
| to be well fitted for her great battles.
Mr.. J. F. Conkln, one of the adver-
tising agents for the great fair, writes
from Racine that everybody down in that
part of Wisconsin is making arrange
ments to visit the great fair IN Septem-
Der. The races, he says. "arc going TO
draw like huge blister. but the monster
air ship beats them ALL" Mr.. Conklin
says the railway companies have got to
put on three times as many passenger
cars as they are now running TO accom-
m Odatp q II who want IN come
Daily globe., 1881-07-16
LAKE M1NNEToNKA BREEzEs.

Regular Saturday hop at Lake Park
Saturday.
There will be hop Friday night at tie
Lake View house.
Prof. Knerr and family spent pleas
ant day at Lake Park.
The long-legged birds on Crane island
are source of much admiration to al
new corners to the lake.
Mrs. Cary, the great singer, came oui
to the lake IN special car and made g
tour of the upper lake in the City of St
Louis.
The Willard party did not get out to the
lake to-day, to the great disappointment
of an army of newspaper men who came
out to the lake to "repor; the party"
L. Pratt, wife and daughter, Wheaton
Ills; Mrs. II. c. Hlnskanp, Keokuk
Iowa, and Miss Hulda Werth, Black River
Falls, were among the arrivals at the
Lake Park hotel
A Minneapolis party, consisting of P
L. Woodwork and family, P. S. Mann
and lady, Mrs. Major Hale and others, are
promised at Chabman's, and intend to
spend few days at Lake Park.
G. A. Salmon, Minneapolis druggist
captured fine string of fish in the upper
lake to-day. He is especially proud O1
one big fellow, the weight of which can.
not be estimated, but whose head is like
that Of a shark.
Daily globe., 1881-07-16
A BOLD ROBBERY.
L. G.. Con,,or Knocked Dosrm and Robbed 6y
Ttro Highray,nen is Broad Daylight.

H. g. Con,or Knocked Doun and Robbed by
Ttro Highraymen i,s Broad Daylight.
Yesterday L. G. ConAor, Wisconsin
gentleman, who has lately been stopping
in the city, went down to st. Paul. In
endeavoring to take the returning train,
he by some means took the Saltwater
train. Two miles from st. Paul the con-
ductor informed him of his error, and
kindly stopped the train and let him OIL
at the same time two other men
alighted from the train. Mr.. Connor at
once began the weary march back to St.
Paul on foot. He had not gone far, how
ever; when the two men mentioned over
took him, and one dealt him stunning
blow upon the side of the head with a
heavy cudgel, telling him insensible on
the track. When Mr.. Connor recovered
consciousness he found he had been rob-
bed of forty-eight dollars. In the same
pocket book which contained this
money was also chech upon
st. Paul bank for $125 and two time
checks on Wisconsin firm aggregating
about s25. Nothing was taken, how
ever, save the money, as the checks were
drawn payable to order of l.. G. Con-
nor, and, in case of being presented for
payment by the highwayman, would
have led to their detection and arrest.
The theory is that the two men in ques-
ton had been shadowing Connor, having
learned that he had money in his posses
sion, and were following him for a ripe
opportunity to waylay him.
Daily globe., 1881-07-16
NEW YORK GRAIN DEALERS

Efforts TO Amend the Rules Relative to the
Delivery of Grain and Option Contracts
New YORK, July ia meeting was
called for the purpose of receiving and
considering reports of a special commit
tee appointed to confer with the commit
tee on grain, relative to the delivery of
grain on option contracts. Two reports
were submitted. A majority recommend
change in the rules of the grain trade
governing transactions, that identical
grades, afioat or in store, shall only be
good delivery upon the basis of losing
such identity in grade and equalization.
By the rules of value of railroad elevators
receipts of graded grain, having free de-
livery with receipts of grade in book in
warehouse, it was reported and declared
that they deemed it expedient to charge
delivery on option contracts from its
present basis of delivery, but recommend
| ed change in rules so as to enable grain
in approved warehouses to be good deliv-
cry at an advance of one cent per bushel
Addresses were made by different mem
| bers warnaly animadvertlng on the re-
| ports. 1t was moved as an amendment
that both reports be recommitted to the
committee with instruction to prepare
rates for the delivery of grain in store on
the basis of option contracts to provide a
system of registering for all warehouse
certificates issued and also for the gener-
al security of grain receipts, and to pro-
vide for equalizing the value of railroad
certificates if delivered on contract, but
to permit canal grain to be delivered on
contracts at the option of the seller. This
amendment, after some debate was adopt
ed by 272 in favor, to 255 against. The
result is practically victory for the ma
| jority report.
Daily globe., 1881-07-16
Piles.

Piles are frequently preceded by a sense of
weight in the back, loins and lower part Of
the abdomen, causing the patient to suppose
he has some affection of the kidneys or neigh
boring organs. AT times symptoms of indi-
gestion are present, as fatulency, uneasiness
of the stomach, etc. A moisture like perspi-
ration, producing very disagreeable itching,
particularly at night after getting warm in
bed, is very common attendant. Internal,
external and itching piles yield at once on the
application of DR.. Bosanko's Pile Remedy,
which acts directly upon the parts affected, ab-
sorbing the Tumors, allaying the intense itch
ing and effecting permanent cure where all
other remedies have failed. Do not delay until
The drain of the system produces permanent
disability, but try it and be cured Price so
cents. Ask your druggist for it, and if you
you cannot obtain it Of him, we will send it
preraia, on receipt of price. Address The b.
ark stedicine Co., PjQua, Ohio.
Daily globe., 1881-07-16
To Young Men--A Sure Cure.

The awful effects Of early vice, which brings or
ganic weaknsss, destroying both mind and body,
with all its dreidful Ills, permanently cured. The
symptoms before consumption sets in are pslpita-
ton of the heart, tmidity, trembling, nervous dis
charges, dyspepsia ETC., with those sad conditions Of
mind 90 much 70 be feared, foreetfulnees chaes of
Ideas sadness Of spirit, ugy imagining, dielike in
social life and breeding melancholy Esrried men,
those entering that hsppy hfe aware Of pbysi-
cal debility, exeitability Of the nervous organic dim
unition. or other Irregularities quickly sssisted
Young people losing their hsslth, spending time
with pretending quacks and unsuitable treatment,
forcing diseases into t,eir bodies with deadly poi
liver and lungs stomach and bowels, speedily CURED
No false modesty should prevent them calling at once
on DIR. WAS6ERzUG, 43s Jsckson st., between
7th and 9Th, up stairs. Tho doctor can be consulted
ut any me ct his Office and family residen. at the
above place. DR.. Wasserzug win positively stay
hero u months. Medicine for chronic diseases sent
everywhere. Write and mention symptoms.