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Great Damage Done by Lightning in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS, August l2.-To-night the AT.
lantic Flour Mills, on the corner OF Main
and Plum streets, of which George Balm,
President of the National Millers' Associa-
lion, Is President and Manager, was struck
by lightning, and re now mss Of ruins,
scarcely stick or stone OF the splendid
structure remaining. An explosion seems to
have instantly followed the stroke of light
nng, and nearly all the upper part of the
mill burst open. The walls cracked from
top to bottom. The bolt had scarcely
touched the building when fire issued, as If
by magic. from every part, and in half an
hour the mill and its contents were CON-
pletely destroyed. A number of men who
were at work on the different floors were
blown out of the doors and windows, re-
ceiving serious aud perhaps fatal injuries.
1t Is feared that several persisted in the
1ames..
Tie fire Immediately spread TO the Future
City Oil Works, extending ON Plum street
| from Main To the river front, and they are
| now burning with intense ierceness. A
| warehouse containing resin and turpentine,
on tue same block, Is also in flame, aud the
| Plum street depot of the Iron Mountain
Railway, on the opposite side of the street,
| Is Threatened.
ABOUT seventy men were employed IN the
| mill, all Of whom, 1t is said, are accounted
for. Several were badly burned, however,
and have been sent TO the hospital or taken
| TO their homes, and their names and injuries
| will probably be learnedto night. Wongel
| Razecker, Bohemian barrel mailer, jump.
| ed from second story window with his
| clothes all ablaze. He was badly burned
on the upper parts of his body, and
| the skin has peeled from his hands. Robt.
| Lorimer jumped from the fourth story aud
| escaped with broken arm.
Mr.. Balm says the loss on the mill Is $l40,-
| 600, and that IL is insured for $i20,0O0, most.
| ly In Eastern offices. The Future City Oil
| Works were damaged TO the amount Of $45,.
900, the principal injury being TO the red.
merry. The whole establishment IS insured
for $4,000. The loss on the rosin ware
house Is not known. sss
The stables and storage house for the bot.
tiers Of Anheuser Bros Brewing Associa-
tion, corner of Eighth and pestalozzi streets
| about mile aud half from the Atlantic
Mills, were struck by the same bolt Of light
ming aud damaged to the extent Of 5000
| covered by insurance. IL Is now stated there
| were only twelve men In the mill at the
time, of whom the following were more Of
less seriously burned and are now in thu
hospital William Dolphin, Chris Reinler
Henry Villman, Dick Roberts and james
| Fisher.
The Iron Mountain Railway depot ~as no
| burned.
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THE San Francisco Chronicle OF the l2tn'
says johnny Skae, for many years identified
with the mining interests Of the Comstock,
and who at the time Of the Sierra Nevada
boom could have sold out for millions, went
on glorious drunk yesterday morning, and
made himself 30 hilarious on Kearney street
that Officer Rainsbary was compelled to ar
rest him on = charge OF drunkenness. The
only property In the fallen Comstock kings
pocket was bunch Of keys; and 80 utterly
poverty stricken was he that he was unable
20 produce 81 bail, and was compelled to
dose of the effects Of his potations until
some sympathizing friend who heard Of hii
misfortune, appeared and bailed him out
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THE holders of Northern Pacific stock
had pleasant surprise late yesterday AFTER
noon when strong buying movement set In
In New York, the results Of which were felt
here, Immediately sending the common up
to All and the preferred upto ~, a gain OF
one point for the former and two for the lat
ter from the figures TO which the stock had
sagged during day Of almost unprecedent-
ed NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Times, August
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RAIL ROAD NOTES,
AS They are Picked up Promis-
cuouSly.

Our Butte AID Helena contemporaries are
still engaged in arguing in favor of their re-
spective routes for the Northern Pacific Rail-
road, and, incidental to extolling the merits
Of their respective routes and the business
thereof, are saying some things adverse to
the other that they would resent If said by a
correspondent of n St. Louis or Chicago pa
per In view of the fact that the line of the
road Is determined ii looks ~ though half
these arguments were wasted. ~. s
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New Mexico Is rejoicing In an annual
,ncrease of rainfall. Scientists attribute 1t
70 the rapid extension Of railway lines and
the subsequent increased cultivation Of
lands. III this Is cause and effect and they
hold good In Montana, We ought TO have
web-foot weather here when all the projected
lines of railroad are built.
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AT THE recent term of Supreme Court
Beayerhead county was detached from this
and made part of Judge Congers judicial
district. The Court term at Deer Lodge
was deferred from September TO the third
Monday In November, and September
Term set for Butte.
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THE FINEST CROP OF GRAIN

Their oats arc nearly ready for cutting and
will yield, at low estimate, 90 bushels to
the acre. Messis. Pearson, Dan Mcdonald,
and Fahey have fine crops ready for harvest.
All, however, are now haying, aud after that
Is over, cutting and thrashing commences
IN earnest. Under the guidance of Mr.. Hair
rington, q gentleman of superior all ailments
in the cattle line, was conveyed over into
the Flint Greek road again, aud left to pur-
sue my way honewari. Ali of the people In
and about New Chicago who are engaged in
farming or stock growing are prosperous.
Their ranches are perfect
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THE Tombstone Nugget evidenced Its ap-
probation of the deceased by printing Us q
headline over the account Of the killing OF
"Billy, the Kid" The suggestive sentiment !:
@ A Garner In He'll Filled"
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A RECENT medical paper on insanity,
while admitting that II IL largely increasing,
and 10 covering m extensive range Of mental
affections, ayers that we know next TO moth
Ing Of It's pathology. IL Is thought TO be >
disease Of physical degeneration rather
than one or civilization, n stated by Esquir-
roi, but the causes Of mental disease, its
course and its methods Of cure, are regarded
Of yet remaining undiscovered. II ID esti-
mated from statistics Inst one In thirty OF
ill persons reaching the age Of twenty may
be- expected TO become insane In the older
States Of the Union. Insanity Ia found 70
be much less prevalent In new and fresh
places than In those where the population h
centralized; 10 more common In the Eastern
States than In those Of the West, and Is least
often met with In the farming districts Of
new states. Its frequency has become more
and more strongly marked In the last twenty
five years, and much closer attention 10 neu-
Biological investigations 10 recommended
&su
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THE next term Of court for Beaverhead
county Ia ordered held at Dillon. This vir'
tusliy determines the county seat question,
n the terms of court are required to be held
nj the county seat.
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TALKING about your rich men, Uncle
Sam Is pretty we'll fixed himself. He had
nearly s237 ,oOO, 900 in cash in his Treasury
pocket the other day.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Superintendent Pardee, who has been Wis
ting the springs Of Jefferson county, has, we
hear, sufficiently recovered from his recent
illness 70 return homeward. During his alb
sence Superintendent Showers carried the
work on In his usual admirable manner.
The Salmon pumps are throwing water
through the Sharktown tunnel into the pure
alter which has hitherto afforded tile inlab-
iiAnts Of Tower the supply needed for cook
ing and washing purposes. A short fiume
from the tunnel down past the principal
houses would obviate the necessity IL much
grnmbling and Inconvenience. aud II tile Su-
perintcndenis named, do not want to receive
the analhcmas " every fair one intowi, hey
hail better attend - this matter ut ouce.
Superintendent Clark leaves fur The East
In the morning. We await with pleasure
his speedy return. SAND BAR.
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Messrs. L. L. Bonner and Washington
Dunn returned from Missoula Monday. Gen.
Anderson, accompanied by A. j. Hammond
left Missoula Sunday morning for Spokane
Falls During Gen. Anierson's stay in Mis-
souia he gave Mr. Dunn contract for twen-
ty-fiye miles more grazing toward Missoula
with the probability of the contract being ex-
tended TO fifty miles also to +. L. Bonner Il
Co, and Hammond 81 Co., the contract for
supplying the ties, sawed timbers, Timber
and pile, on two hundred miles of the road
about one hundred miles each side of Nilsson
IL. Al there are twentv-eight bridges be-
tween mouth of Little Blackfoot and MIS-
soula alone, and IL takes 1900 ties to the mile
this IL pretty stiff job. They have the priv
ilege either 10 saw or hew the ties. The most
of the contract win be filed from the He'll
Gate canon timber.
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nor BEDS OF HOSPITALITY,

and every home Is most comfortably furnish
ed. never saw more cordial reciprocation
of good feeling and neiehborly love than ey-
idenced among the residents Of Willow
Creek settlement. Every man SPEAKS well
of his neighbor, and all apparently seem un-
seliishly interested in each others welfare.
SAG upon nearly erery table copy Of the
NEW NoRTH NEST
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TOMMY Mc'rAaUE's FIGURES.

In the closing lines of my letter | cannot
but refer to The recent visit to Phil,psburg of
Thomas McTague, oui Deputy Sheriff lie
lives In Deer Lodge City. In conversation
with q coterie OF burghers at Imkamp's, be
,swure point blank that during the recent
visit Of the comet, over 5000 in gold dust
that fell from its tail was cleaned up off the
the ro,f Of the Scott House in one night, and
that The amount collected by the citizens in
different portions Of the city during tine pas
sage Of that tail was roughly estimated mt
one million dollars. This being looked up
OH as the most stnpendous lie Of the nil,e-
teenth century Tom was at once ordered to
leave town, which he did--when he got
ready.
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NEWS reached town on Tuesday, appar-
emily well authenticated, that River Grow
Indian was shot and killed on Sunday last,
somewhere near the lakes north Of Sweet
grass, by party Of white men. We have
been unable to learn any of the particulars
Of the affair, on account Of the extreme ret
icence of the operator at Sweetgrass, but IL
Ia rumored that the Crows are highly indig-
nsnt over the outrage and make ominous
threats of revenge. II the reported shooting
IL true, whether accidental or otherwise, IL
Ia, To say the least, very unfortunate occur
renee, and no time should be lost In making
such reparation for the act rs the Indian
custom demands.
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The twenty -five-mile grade contract on the
Northern Pacific, west If Little Blackfoof, is
about completed and rs the end of the grad
ing season approaches new dispositions Of
the worknieu are being made. Many OF the
Mormon graders desire 10 return to their
Utah homes this winter. These Mr.. Dunn is
transferring TO the Utah g. Northern work in
fhe vicinity of Silver Bow and Butte, while
tho si.s 4 sire LATE fall anil winter work
are beiDi q zen its ~ .a.tifiaf ~ good fig
ures on the neW contract below Edwards
vile. On "Wednesday and Thursday of this
week 10 teams passed from the N. =. grade up
to Silver Bow, where they will work some
time AMI then return to Utah. On the other
hand, Mr.. Bennett, freighter, Is about TAX
ing fifty teams off the road TO place them on
Northern Pacific contracts.
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onvrLLE GRANT, the demepted brother
Of the ex-President, who gave the family .
great deal or trouble, died few days
ago, aged 4s years. Orville Grant was q
successful business man In Chicago twenty
years ayo, but business losses growing out Of
the lire OF 1871 effected his brain, and In
1875 be became thoroughly insane and was
In an insane asylum two years. After being
released his mania took the form OF imagin-
Ing he was conducting enormous business
enterprises, and he travelled overthe country
engaged, Is he believed, In gigantic specula.
lions. These actions gave the President
much distress and cost him considerable
money, but orville was not placed In durance
again until about year ago, when he was
committed 1t Morristown, New Jersey.
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STAR ROUTE CONTRACTS.
Deeision by the Attorney General on the
Points Raised.

WASHINGTON, August f3.-Second Assist
ant Postmaster General EImore, who Is con-
sidering the propriety of restoring the origi-
nal schedules on number Of expedited mail
routes, recently submitted the following
questions to Judge freeman, Assistant At
torney- General Of the Postoffice Department:
for his opinion and advice: First-Does or
dering expedition on aroute constitute anew
contract Second-Has the Department a
right TO order the restoration of the original
schedule on an expedited route, when ex-
petition is not warranted by the revenues of
the Office supplied, or when from any other
cause 1t is deemed for The good of the SER
vice so to do? Thirds the Department
warranted In Withholding allowances Of one
months extry pay on the amount deducted
from the pay of the contractor for such in
crease of running time, and II so, under
what circumstances may such indemnity be
claimed j? Judge Freeman in his opinion de-
cides that under the law as IL existed prior
TO the passage Of the act: First The Post
master General was not authorized to in
crease or expedite mail contracts. except for
causes appearing subsequently, to the execu-
ton of the original contract that 1t was the
| duty of the postmaster to advertise all service
| let, and that an order lessening or increas-
ing services without causes, advertising, or
naming date to appear after advertisement,
! and letting of original service was void ;
i that where such orders have been procured
| by fraudulent representations, or statements
and payments been made Hereunder, IL is
the duty Of the Postmaster General to bring
suit for the recovery of such payments.
Second-He further holds that under the
the statute the Postmaster-General has not
authority to expedite or increase service be-
/ You'd 100 per cent. of the original amount
| The statute provides that additional com,
pensation shall bear no greater proportion
to additional stock and carriers necessarily
employed, than the compensation in the
original contract bears 10 the stocks and
carriers necessarily employed in its execu
ton. Under this language he holds thai
| while the postmaster-G General might, under
circumstances already stated, allow a very
large proportion Of the original contrac
price, he was not authorized to multiply tbs
amounts. Tbird-That the advertising ac
requires the Postmaster-Gen to adver
tise not portion, but all of the service to b.
let, aud that If after making the contract HI
should discover that the public good requires
double, triple or quadruple service, IL woult
be his duty to annul the contract aud read
vertise. Fourth-That where orders for ex
petition have been improperly made, HI
should annul them without one months ex
ira pay.
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Mr.. James Packer, who was in town Thurs
day evening, says he h working u small force
ofmerin the canon back of the HUMP, cut
ting brush for the surveyors. The men en-
pIoyrd between Silver Bow and Butte ARE al
50 engaged In that work. No grading Il yet
done ut either place, but |. Il expected ii will
begin In day or two. Whether after the
grade Is buiItto Butte the force will be- turned
toward Deer Lodge or sent 70 some other
point Mr.. r. does not know. He says all the
Utah employees will remain until December
and many all winter All are offered winter
work. Hessys II II Il desired, he can grade
the track from silver Bow 70 Deer Lodge in
one month with the no TENNIS and 20 men now
working an the extension. The wvrk from
silver Bow 10 Bnsar quite light Mr.. Puck
u has the heaviest contract IN the Northern
Pacific and win ~ detained some time after
the balance ofthe ssctioni i ccmplsted.
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The construction of the Utah 4 Northern
from Divide to Butte IL progressing slowly.
The track Is only laid four or five miles this
side Of Wunderlch's. AMI two or three miles,
including a heavy fill for thousand feet, re-
main to be graded south Of Silver Bow.
Small detachments of men are at work
between. Silver Bow and Butte, to which
place II ii not likely the track win be laid
before late in September. There has been a
vast amount Of energy reserved in the con-
struction Of that road this year.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-26

LONDON, December 25th.-According to
intelligence from st. Petersburg, great indig
nation prevails there at the reprehensible con-
duct of the President Of the administration
OF Eastern Siberia, who refused to telegraph
tie announcement of the arrivals of the sur
vivors of the Jeanette because they were
without funds The first news of their escape
was consequently delayed ten weeks.
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50 10; mean daily thermometer, 49, z; mean
daily humidity. 797.

80 20; mean daily thermometer, 80. z; mean
daily humidity, 797.
Another fnhictiOn-A /" "Go.as.you.pIease IS
Again.
NEW YORK. December 26th-A. M.-About
2,0Oo people assembled ia the American Insti.
tute Rink tonight, to witness the beginning
OF the six day go-as-you. please walking match
for the championship of the world. At -
o'clock the following started: Frank Hart.
Fred Krohne, Harry Howard, Patrick Fifz,
gerald Ben Curran, John Cox, John Ennis.
r. Lacouse, A. ElsoD. d. J. Hertz, P. Ed.
wards, a. P. Curtis, NJ. Noremac, M. Wade
and B. Gettings. AT 1890. Curtis had scored
four miles and three laps, Cox second, Fitz
gerald third. All the men were on the track,
and a few laps behind the leader. Prizes
aggregating $1,000 will be awarded; also a
silver cup to the first man, provided he covers
500 miles.
An Indiana Town in Flames.
SULLIVAN (Ind) December 26.h-A. M
at 1880 To- night FIRE broke out in the no
ton store CT Kollipksy Brothers. The FIRE
department of Terre Haute left on special
train at IL o'clock.
At this writing Il A. NJ. the whole west eide
of the square, consisting OF twenty-five build
ipgs, is destroyed, and the fire is still spread
ing with great rapidity.
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MYSTERIOUS. "A mysterious incident :"
is said to have happened the other day in
Washington favorite room in the old man
sion at Mount Vernon. In the room are
many relics of Washington, including an
old round-faced, peculiarly shaped clock,
which has stood in silence for forty years.
Only two or three rusty wheels are left in
it. On the afternson OF November 10th J.
McH. Hollingsworth, Superintendent of
the Mount Vernon Association, was show
ing the relics to party of visitors He
came to the old clock. ''This clock" said
he-when to his astonishment and terror,
three strong, distinct strokes were
struck upon the bell of the clock, and were
heard by all in the party. Mr. Hollings-
worth 'was overcome with emotion" and
requested the visitors to lea7e the room.
He could not understand the phenomena.
The clock, he said, had not been disturbed
in the twelve years that he had been Super
intendent Of the grounds. 1t is open in the
back, and one can see, he said, that the
works are broken and only few of the
wheels remain in position. The whole thing
was mystery to him. The details of this
occurrence are given by 81. w. Buel, in
letter to the st. Louis Republican, and
"tbis story," he says, is not a ssnsation
"but fact" If he or Mr.. Holhngsworth
could master the courage examine the au-
cient timepiece, it would probably be found
that the mysterious striking was due to the
breaking of some spring or wheel.
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EDUCATIONAL.

School OF Practical, Civil. Mechanical and
Mining Engineering. Surve. ing, Drawing and AS
saying, "a Post st. A. Van der Naillen, Principal.
The Berkeley Gymnasium-A Ftrst-class
Academical Institution, affords Classical,
Literary, Scientific or business Education. For
catalogues or particulars, address JOHN r.
BURRIS, Superintendent, Berkeley, Cal
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"What do you mean by disturbing me
at this hour of the night" said an Austin
doctor, angrily, to negro who woke him
at 3 o'clock in the morning. 81 jess al
lowed, boss, dat yer was so busy yer
didn't hab time ter tend ter poor folks in
der day time. 80 1 lowed I'd Jess drap in
after supper. "-lTsxas Siftings.
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NEWSPAPER WAIFs.

A scientific man says great noises will
make milk sour. They will also make the
average citizen pretty sour, especially if
they come at night when he wants to sleep.
Boston Post.
"You appear to have constitutional
antipathy to water" said an unspotted
humanitarian TO rum-rosy tramp. mo,
returned the latter, sit isn t constitutional,
it's accidental" "Strange! How did
you come to have such an aversion to
water" Easy enough l had two sons
drowned ia it. ~ Brooklyn Eagle.
A Rochester street-car horse shot out
with his heels the other day, and hit the
driver with one and the cash-box with the
other, and an investigation showed that he
had kicked six dollars into the drivers
overcoat pocket. Such wonderful sagacity
on the part of the horse caused the dis
charge of the driver.-[Detroit Free Press.
The Morning Post, the journal of the To-
ries and the aristocrscy, speaks OF g the late
DR.. J. G. Gilbert, editor of Scri5ner's Mag
azine." A German weekly paper published
here does not get much nearer it, printing
DR. G.. Howell, editor" Thus have the
Dutch taken Holland. - Detroit Free
Press.
An advertisement in Berlin paper an
nounces that ga young noblewomaB,
having large fortune and holding distin-
guished position, who is as lovely as Helen,
as good housekeeper as Penelope, as
economical as the Electress Marianne of
Brandenburg, and as spirituelle as Nine.
de Stael, who sings like Jenny Lind, and
dances like Cerito, plays the piano like
Rosa Kastner. and the harp Ike Bertrand.
bat who is as austere as Lucretia. having
no masculine acquaintance, seeks hus-
band"
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DRUGS. CHEMICALS.

A. f. Downing q s0n-Wholesale Dealers
in Druggists and Proprietary Special'ies, NO. Is
Second street. Grand Hotel Building.
Justin Gates.-Pioneer Druggist, removed TO 722
Montgomery street. Country orders solicited
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HARRY BERNARD,
MANUFACTURER, COR. SIXTH AND L STREETS
SACRAMENTO.

Ey have hand and for sale at the lowest
possible prices, the new style OF PONY PHAEToNS,
the handsornest in the State. Family Carriages
latest patterns. Neatest Open Bucgies in the State
Light Top Bucgies. Heavy Top Buggies for noun.
tain use. Farm rs Carriages. Trottiug TTagons
ing and Trimming done at the lowest price, None
but the most experienced workmen employed
Repairing neatly done, and all work is warrarted