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Tennessee Topography.

Detroit Free Pre's
The numerous blind roads leading
off the Virginia pixies are no c0mpari'
son to the number in Tennessee, and
neither can u Virginia negro feel as
certain about mixing q traveller up
Riding out from Murfreesboro toward
Nashville l turned to the right tC
strike part of the battle-ground, and
on going half a mile I saw three roads
branching off. All looked alike, and
after puzzling over it l rode back tc
where negro was working alongside
the road and asked:
"Can you tell me where that right
handed road leads tor"
eyes, sah. You keep right on da'
road an you'll rise hill, Den you'll
go freu some woods. Den you'll gt
down hill an cross a branch an go NJ
anoder hill and be right darp
"Right wherew
81 dunno, sab, but it's plain road.
"Wbere does the middle one go TOP
oval. you'll go freu de woods fust
Den you'll come to an old mule balket
wild load of wood. Den you'll vino
aroun' a hill an take a slant to tn,
right, an by keepin' straight on you'l
see de place."
"What placep'
al dunno sab, bat l reckon you'll
find him down in dar somewhar'."
Sand the other roadp"
"Dat's de bes' one of all. After yor
branch off you'll see a fence. Der
you'll turn to de right and see big loE
ban. After you pass de ban you'll
likely see my brudder jim cuttin' out
cotton. Doan' mind him, but keep or
across de branch, slew aroun' to de left
a little, an arter you riz de hill you an
all right"
"How all right. Wherell 1 bt
then?"
81 dunno, sab: Ize nebber up as fal
as dat. If you doan' want to seenobody
nor 90 nowhar nor find muffin you'd
better stick to de pike. You'll NEE
somebody on de pike who'll tell "
whar to make shortcut to hit d,
zact plantashunP
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-07-06
Bonanza Mackey's London Hotel.

LophOp Let er.
Recently the bonanza kirg, Mr.. Mac.
key, was staying at the boosted excel.
sior hotel of London, "the Grand Cen.
trail Of Charing Cross" and his coming
to this establishment created a perfect
Juror from directors down to "Boots."
Fearing the usual style of bedroom
would not suit the purse-prince, the
manager had a partition wall of the
largest dormitory pulled down and suit
ably decorated. Thus a superb large
bedroom and an adjunct thereto were
in readiness for the renowned purse
bearer. Everything else went on in a
similar style Of extended and exclusive
attendance to the financial hero. At
the end Of the fourth day Mr.. Mackey
called for his bill and indicated his de-
parture. The bill came and was scanned
closely and items objected to. But
they were paid, for no European hotel
keeper "harks back" in these matters,
knowing full well the objection is suf-
icient to prevent revisit and the re-
bate would be a dead loss. The bill
was fully paid. Then came the serv.
ants for their balm of Paradise-"tips." "
Mr.. Mackey proudly went along the
soft-carpeted corridor and gave the
vassals-one shillng-25 cents! Then
the wrath of all hoteldom was up.
Five days after this prince of purses
telegraphed from Paris for rooms in
the same hotel. He was answered by
curt telegram, saying merely: "All
full.' Then his wrath also was aroused
and he vowed he would build hotel
in London large enough to accommo
date six thousand persons, and swamp
all the "Grands' Northern
Southern, and Westernl And so faI
he has only spoken in his wrath. But
that an American hotel in every way
worthy of the name of "Grand" is to
he built in London there is no doubt
The site is chosen on the Thames EN-
bankment rear ground, and a few hun
dred yards east of the Charing Cross
Metropolitan railway station.
This hotel is spoken of as something
that will astonish John Bull, even il
his most domestic nil admiral moments
1t is manifest that the American tour
ist of this age is becoming an epicurear
hunter after bon bouche that arise;
above pork and beans, for of all growl
ers over Great Britain's defective dish
es there are none 80 loud and 80 long
as the young men from Connecticut
aud Coney island, who carry boldly
their parental trademarks of milk aHt
pie, dyspepsia and doughnuts, and arr
the majority Of our mouthy moderr
American tourists in Europe, who fai
to live on Michael Angeles, Titians
Rafaels, Rubens, royalty, and what the!
POLITICALLY style "rot" in designating {
dish not patented by Delmonico. Wha
the new American hotel in Londor
will be, no man in his wisdom dart
predict, for there is just this difference
between England and the United State
that they are two nations and tive
peoples, and ever will be-all the kith
and.kin sentiments to the contrary not
withstanding.
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THE LOOMING MAN.

A pair of very chuDby legs,
Encas.d in scarlet nOsS;
A pair Of little stuhhy boots,
With rather doubtful tees;
A little kilt, little coat,
Cut as mother can
And 10! before US strides, in statA,
The future "cOming maH"
His eyes perchance will read the stars,
And search their unknown ways;
Perchance tee human heart and soul
Will open to their gaze!
Perchance their keen and flashing glance
VIII be nations light
Those eyes, that now are wistful bent
On some "big fellows kite"
That brow wh,re mighty thoughts will
In solemn, secret state,
Where fierce Ambitions restless strength
Shall war with future fate;
Whore Science from now hidden caveI
New treasures shall outpeur--
lis knit now, with troubled d0ub',
Are two, or three cents, more?
Those lips that, in coming years,
VIII p'ead, or pray, or teach;
Who'e whispered words, on lightning
flash,
From world to world may reach;
That sternly grave, may speak command
Or, smiling, win control
Are Coaxing new for ginger.
Vita all bsby's soul?
Those hands-those Ii tie busy hands
So sticky, small and brown;
Those hands, whose Only mission seems
TO tear all order down.
Who knows what hidden strength may
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-07-06

Now we will find one, my husband.
l am longing to show how nicely | can
cook; how daintily / can clean a room.
While you read l will work and In the
evening we will sit together in our
tiny sitting room, and be far happier
than we are in these crowded hotels.
And, Edward, if we are very saving
we can buy back your books. There
are all my jewels; surely they will buy
some2'
Edith, stopl My own happiness be-
wilders me, You love me like that ?
You will be happy in a poor home,
cooking and working for mep"
Edith lifted her shining, dalk eyes
to the noble face bending over her, and
drew down her husbands head till her
lips touched his.
81 love you'll love you'll" she whis-
pered. Love will make all labor
Light if it is for your
There was CONSERVATION in the gay
circle of Edith's friends, when, the next
day, she was missed from among them
SpecuIations were wild regarding the
sudden disappearance of the brilliant
star of society, and many were the
pitying words lavished upon her when
Edward Lancaster's losses were
known.
But the little wife neither knew of
the pity nor asked sympathy. Her
husband accepted professorship in
college, and little house was taken
and furnished for the home Edith
craved.
The beauty that had made Edith a
star in the most brilliant circles of
society lost nothing in her husbands
eyes when it was the home-light after
days of college work. In her quiet
dresses, without glittering gems, Edith
was as lovely as she had ever been in
her costly ball or dinner toilets; and
the little hands that could rest idly in
luxury, glitter with valuable rings
and flash over the plane keys, were
busy from dawn to sunset in the
housework that women find ever await
ing them.
Edward Lancaster was never very
poor, and Edith never knew again the
wants and cares Of her girlhood; but
the wealth that was lost was not re
stored, and never regretted. by its
loss he had learned his wife's heart
deprived of that he found the treasure
of happy domestic life, and in his new
duties he found the pleasure of max
ing the knowledge he loved useful tC
others.
"The Professor has been two years
in his new home, when, one evening
from the college, he found Edith sew
ing busily upon a cloak for year olt
boy growing in the cradle.
She held up her work for inspection
"My yachting dress, Edward"
81 remember it," Edward answered
gravely.
"Do youf l never wore it but onct
the last day we were at Whitecliff.'
"The day" her husband answered
, "when after an hour of doubling ago
! ny, found my wife had married III
: with the true love-for better, TO
: worse"
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-07-06
How Much Land for Each,

The recent census gives the total
area of the United States (not reckon
ing Alaska) at 3,026600 square miles,
of which $500 square miles are occu-
pied by water-lakes, rivers, bays, etc.
leaving 100000 square miles of
land, or 1900, 100000 acres. The total
population is 50,155,7S3 This land
evenly divided, would give to every
man, woman and child 373 acres, and
an onion patch 8 by 8 rods over. If
we divide the population into families
Of six persons, each family could be
allotted 227 acres. Allowing one quar-
ter of the land to be mountain ridges,
sandy and stony tracts, and other
"bad lands" there would still be left
the regulation "quaJter section" (l6O
acres) for each family. But the CEN
aus figures now being made up are for
June, 1880. Since then over 1000, 900
people from foreign lands shave come
TO stay" as American citizens, and the
natural increase has been considerable;
the total increase from 1870 to 1880
was 3 per cent per annum. So we have
now, March l, 1882 nearly 81, 100000
Inhabitants. As the acreage of land
does not expand, there are now less
than So acres each, or not 152 acres
per family, and the average amount is
rapidly decreasing. No cause for
alarm, however. With the best cult
ure one acre will supply plenty of food
for one person, and at this rate we can
allow more than 40O,000,000 acres for
waste land and still have an acre each left
for the estimated entire population OF
the globe, which is somewhat over
00,000.000. This is great country.
Thanks for the iron sinews of tie l0O,.
QUO miles of railway lines and telegraph
wires, and the speaking tubes of the
postal department, we are, as a people,
brought into one closely united family,
occupying Uncle Sans great farm.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-07-06

The city collector Of Baltimore had a
call, the other day, from a prominent
Presbyterian minister, who paid him
s8,s907l. The minister stated tnat one Of
his congregation had handed him stout
envelope marked "sss9s.7l," with the re.
quest that he would take 1t to the city. col
ector and pay 1t over to him for the city
treasury. The giver stated that he had
received 1t from an unknown party, whe
had intimated that II was to pay what be
thought he owed for back stain and city
taxes. Collector Taylor opened II and
fcrnd =; Contained the amount named,
mostly In slco and $50 bills. The Clergy
man salt 10 was entirely ignorant ~ 10
who the party was whose conscience bad
HIckvu hln,
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Isaac Wilcox, OF Chautauqua, N. Y, a:
whose house young man died of small
pox some time since, in digging In the gar
den the other day, unearthed the dead
mans clothes. He picked up silk hand
kerchief, had II washed, and used 1t as q
nsck.cloth. Ho is now confined to his
house with an attack Of varioloid.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-07-06

Renaissance is pronounced "Iuhna
songs" 1t means, literally, born again
or q new birth. 1t Is generally applied
to the style Of decorative art revived
by Raphael, during the pontifcate Of Leo
A good many PEOPLE talk fluently abou,
renaissance who don't know the difference
between Corinthlan entablature and Q
bologna sausage. The present custom Of
Singing hlg words among people who dt
not pay their bills is becoming too sponta
usous aud too ,bvious.--Bill Nve.
Col. Robert @. lngsrscll e~d family will
pend the summer AZ Long Bsach, L. l.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-07-06

Mrs. John B. Cough telegraphs from
Worcester, Mass, to Atlanta, that owing
TO several neuralgic attacks Mr.. Cough
will be unable to nll bis lecture engage
ments In that city,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-07-06

plunderp What good can you expect
to come out of such workp
Do the work yourselves. Run youl
own machine. Organize the voters
and let the leaders go to the devil
who is their natural parent and pro
tector.
"Who would be free himself must
strike the blow"
Educate, agitate and organize! Sow
the seed and spread the light.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-07-06

One ofthsesrliest settlers-An egg shell
--Ct,e. Sat- Night,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-07-06

she was Gods woman" She had
been sane enough at intervals to pick
up this one of Guiteau's phrases. AT.
Ter the disturbance OF the early part of
the night, Guiteau fell sound asleep
at thee o'clock, and did not wake up
untll five.
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"MEN OF THE MINUTE"

Some men are born great, some achieve
greatness and some have the greatnes
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-07-06

through and finished with a tremulOus
voice. The rope was adjusted at 1885.
This, with good-hyes and the arrange
ment of black cap, took two minutes
The signal was a white handkerchief.
The drop fell at 1887. The neck was
evidently broken as there was scarcely
Il movement. In five minutes he was
lowered within reach for examination.
In thirty minutes the pulse had ceased
to beat. There was a hush as of death,
as he hung after falling, and in this
silence prisoners in the adjacent corri-
dOrs
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We are a little surprised to find the

We are little surprised to find the
Democrat standing in for the bedrock
fume bill. Jud Boyakin has always
been on the side of the people rs
against monopoly. But Geo. Ainslie
is in this scheme, and Jud is not at
liberty to say anything disrespectful
Of George or any kind of swindle
that no might be in with. George
seems to have strong hold on Jad.in
some way Or anoeher.
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The Galvest on News defends the
ranchmen. and. cowboys Of Texas
against the prevailing impression that
they form a drunken and reckless
class, and de clares: ''In but a few
classes of people can, there be found
more intelligence, integrity, sclf-reli-
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anoe, reliability, and general chivalry
than exist among the stockmen or
'ranchmsn Of this State; and it 10
questionable whether any class Of en-
pioyes exist who practice more sobri-
ETY. and self.denial, who are more or
derly from Christmas to Christmas,
and who are more faithful than are
the cowboys"
WHEN 4 LocArros CAN BIZ RELocA-
rED.-As many hcaters of claims are,
IN donl't as to when the annual as
sessment work must be done, the
Gold Hill Nescs furnishes the follow
ing important information: A miner
making location this year has until
January l. 1883, to perform the nee
essary labor, and the claim cannot be,
jumped and held before that time. It.
is untrue that the Jumping" season
dates from the location Of the claim,
or, in other words. that il mine is,
located on the 9th Of October, 1881,
it can be jumped on the 9th Of Octo-
berr 1882, if it has not received the
assessment work. The law was made.
to protect the poor man. A. miner,
without means, locating valuable,
claim on the 8Ist Of next December.
could hardly perform 800 worth Of
labor before the morning of January
!, 1882. The jumper must wait until
January l, 1888.
The he aviest and most powerful To-.
connective il the United States is now
being constructed in the shops Of the,
Southern Pacific Railroad at Sacra.
mento. It will have four pairs Of
driving wheels ~ feet in diameter.
and the cylinders will be 10 einches in
diameter with 80 inch stroke. The
weight will be, when in running order,
about sixty tons, Or about onehalf
greater than the present strongest en-.
gines. This is exclusive of tender.
but including the latter, and the fuel.
and water for use, the weight of the.
engine being bnilt will be about nine
ty tons. 1t will be used on the heavy.
grade Of Tehatchepi Pass.
That queer marriage question in
Montreal where the subject of the va
lidity Of the union of Catholic young
woman to . Protestant man. by Pro-
testant minister has been submitted
by the judge to the decision of the Ro-,
man Catholic bishop, under an, old
French law, has become further COM.
plicated by the discovery of the ina
bility Of the brides parents to prove,
her formal baptism.
cts long way from this world to.
the next, said dying man to.a friend
who stood at his bedside. "Oh, never
mind, my dear fellow" answered the,
friend, consohngly, you'll have it.
down hill"
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4 LOCAL News
Mas. G. S. KINGSLEY went down to

Boise yesterday on v'oit'
VIM. Coughanour and family, Of
ouartzburg, spent a couple of days in
this place this week.
We have received from Mrs. Cal.
CIawson, of Bonanza, fine litho-
graphic view eff the Montana mine,
with Mr.. Estes in the background.
The sketch was made by Mrs. Claw
son, and is a fine piece Of artistic
work.
Bill LIBBY tapped the Lucky Boy,
in Gambrinus district, the other day.
The tunnel was run in sixty feet The
ore is not first class where the vein
was tapped, but Bill expects to strike
it good by running short distance on
the ledge.
A LITTLE five-year old came running
down street the other morning and
sang out to one of the boys of this
office: "Say, did you hear about it? A
man died last night, and he died up
the bedrock funnel"
We are pleased to see our friend,
Tim Carroll, Auditor and Recorder,
again up on the streets. Some ten
days ago he slipped and fell, severely
injuring his leg at the point where am.
putated, and has since been confined
to his room, suffering with excruciat-
ing pain.
Rev. A J. JosLYN returned from
Boise last Friday. Mr.. Joslyn assist.
ed Rev. j. Mexican about week in
the protracted meetings of the M. E..
Church at that place. Fifty converts
were made. The average attendance
each evening, Mr.. Joslyn tells US, was
about three hundred.
DoN'r fail te be on hand at Carri-
cams ball in Garden Valley next Fri
day evening, ye trippcr of the light
fantastic toe. 1t will be grand af-
fair. Several large sleigh loads will
go down from the Basin, and the dane
ing portion of the valley will turn out
solidly.
We learn from the Democrats Wei.
ser city letter, that the boys down
that way have been, of late, indulging
IN few shooting scrapes with dias.
trous results One between two men
Raney and Eshom, the latter receiving
S2-calble pistol ball ball in the
breast. Rancy was arrested, but
tho next day while taking a walk with
his guard compelled the latter, at the
muzzle of a revolver, to stand while he
made his escape. Raney had not yet
oeen recaptured at last accounts.
Another shooting ARRAY occurred on
the End between John Smith and jim
my johnson, Smith shooting johnson
IN the neck, from the effects of which
ne died soon after.
The local editor of the Bedrock
-Oemocut gives Father De Roo, of b.
ker City, tough puff" The Father
accused that paper of robbing the poor
Irish by charging IS for $40 ad. of
festival, which little bill the Revcr-
end gentleman refused to pay. The
Democrat tells about DeRoo's beer
and wine sprees, and then winds up
with little hog stealing scrape. as
follows: "When P. D. made the as
sertlon that we could not say any
ming against him be evidently forgot
The time he sent tho writer down to
the potato patch with gun, under in.
structlons to shoot all Jas. Mc1nroes
aogs that made their appearance, and
now, after we had killed ono this man
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= BEDROCK .FLUME BILL
AGAIN.

AGAIN.
Mr.. G. S. Kingsley fails to show
that the bedrock fume bill is
> good one-for the people. We
admit, and so will everybody else in
the Basin, that a bedrock flume ia
More's and Crimes creeks would.
to be brief, be the means Of infusing
new life into Boise county, and would
be benefit to everybody in the county,
and the Basin in particular, provided
the rights of the people be not
interfered with. That there is an
immense amount of wealth in the beds
OF these creeks, no one doubts. The
points in the bill that are objected to
are these: 1t grants to the company
one hundred yards on each side of
More and Crimes creek-not on each
OF the fiume as Mr.. Kingsley endeav-
ors to make it appear is probably the
intent Of the bill. As none of the
claims are held under United States
laws, being taken up according to To-
cal laws-not the Territorial laws
the company can hold all the ground
inside the limits of the grant asked
for. If not, why does the company
want the three hundred feet on each
side? There i no ground not now
occupied, that will pay the expense Of
working. Those who own ground
outside of tn ese threehundred feet can
be debarred from dumping into the
creeks. In bedrock flume bill, which
was introduced in Congress several
years ago, it was found necessary, in
order to protect the rights of miners
in this regard, to insert clause, Civ
them the right to continue to dump in.
to the creek. If rights previously &C
quired in relation to dump cannot be
impaired. why was it necessary to
insert that clause. Admitting that
no rights of the miners will be i'm
paired in any respect, the bill doesn't
compel the company to put in the
fume-simply gives them the grant
to do as they please with it.
Scarcely anyone believes that it
is the intention Of the company to put
in fume. 1t is deep laid scheme
to get hold of big franchise,
for which they give nothing-the bill
not even compelling them to do 81 n
gle lick of work on the flume at any
time. Had the intention been to
benefit the whole country inplace of a
few individuals public meetings would
have been called and bill would
have been drawn up giving the COM
pany the right Of way to the beds of
the creeks. and that is all the grant
they would have got.
Mr.. Kingsley says: at is said this
bill gives the grantees a complete mo-
nopoly of all this timber--2O00 square
miles. Why? Because these creek
channels are the only outlets for this
immense amount of timber, and these
are now being utilized for this pur.
pose" He then goes on to say: NOW
who don't know that it takes these
streams combined to float a single
saw log, and that only during a
spring freshet, and that all logging
has been done below their junction,
and never can be successfully carried
OH above" We admit this. Every
miner knows that if these
creeks should ever be fumed, the
points of commencement will be
above their junction. The question
is, why is grant of More creek. with
one hundred yards on each side, asked
for from the junction clean to Boise
river, distance Of twenty miles? We
hope to see this scheme knocked j,
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8Orn.

born.
In this place, on the Both ult, to the,
wife of E. L. Morgan, daughter.