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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1882-10-10


The largest library is the "Biblio-
tbeqne National in Paris. founded by
Louis xiv. 1t contains 400, 900 vol
umes, 300, 900 pamphlets. It's. 900 man
uscripts, 300, 900 maps and charts, and
10000 coins and medals. The COL
lection Of engravings exceeds | ,3OO,-
600, contained in some IL, 900 volumes.
The building which contains these
treasures is situated on the Rue Richie
lieu. Its length is $40 feet, its breadth
100 feet. The largest library in New
York, in respect to separate works, 10
the Aston. About 10000 volumes
are on it's shelves.
Among the most remarkable natural
echoes is that Of Eagles Nest, on the
banks of Killarney, in ireland, which
repeats bHgle call until it seems to
be sounded from a hundred instru-
ments; and that on the banks Of the
Naha, between Bingen and Coblentz,
which repeats sound seventeen times.
The most remarkable artificial echo
known is that in the Castle of Simon-
eta. about two miles from Milan. It
10 occasioned by the existenre of two
parallel walls of considerable length
1t repeats the report Of pistol sixty
times.
The largest bell in the world is the
great bell of Moscow, at th. foot OF
the Kremlin. Its circumference at the
bottom is nearly 68 feet, and it's height
more than ii feet. In its steutest part
it is % inches thick, and Its weight
has been computed to be 443,
pounds. 1t has never been hung. and
was probably cast on the spot where
IL now stands. A piece of the bell ID
broken off. The fracture is supposed
To have been occasioned Dy water hav
ing been thrown into it when heated
| by the building erected over it being
on fire.
The big bridge across the Kinzua
chasm on the Erie extension, ffteer
miles south of Bradford, Pa, was com
1pleted about two weeks ago, and trains
will soon be running over it: The
bridge is symmetrical iron structnr.
and is the highest in the world, the
center span being Sol feet in height
and the length Of the structure is 1900
feet. 1t was built by the Keystone
Bridge Company, of Phenixville, Pa
The completion of the bridge give
the New York, Lake Erie and Western
Railroad direct communication to til,
coal field of western Pennsylvania.
Mr.. q. O. Talmadge of Jefferson
: Morris county. n. j., has plant il
his garden which contains tfty-hys
sun-howers in full bloom. This is be
lieved to surpass anything of the kin,
in the State. He also has three plant
over nine feet high. The most sue
cessful suniower raiser in Patterson
is Capt II. M. Bennett of Hanlbur;
avenue The other, day be showed
repertersa+ stem. six inches long tina
bore ten fully developed flowers. II
has flowers in bloom varying in dian
: ster from the size of q trade dollar t
the size of dinner plate. All tn
Captains flowers are from seeds ths
y he brought from Mexico.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1882-10-10

What is the difference between an
old tramp. and feather bed? There
is a m&terial difference. One is hard
up the other is soft down.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1882-10-10

bill was introduced for no other pur-
pose than to smooth over bis past &C
lions, and to gain votes in Boise
county.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1882-10-10

DYuoKE's dwelling and sewing ma
chine shop at Boise were burned Ia last
Thursday evening. Loss, 5000 Line
nronertv was insured for $4,000.
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LOCAL NEWS.

III
Graft, and Rev. I. T. Osborn arrived
Yesterday by stage.
F1yrY boxes of dried plums, fine,
nice and cheap, just received at J. B..
gmery's. Hustle and get some before
tbey''e all gone.
co1. STEVENSON has constructed a.
harm and stable on his place near
Falk's store, Lower Payette, and has
lumber on the ground for a residence.
Rev. i. w. GRANNIs, Presiding FL
der, will preach here next Saturday,
and Sunday morning and evening.
Quarterly meeting will be held Sum
day.
Dr. D. ARNOLD or DIR. Moar will
make professional VISIT t, this place
| il, about week, aud from here will
90 to Placerville and Quartzbuig, to
remain in the Basin a week or ten
days.
HENRY RUHL writes to us from Som
mervile under date of the Cd, that he
] has eleven wagons loaded with pro-
visions for this place. He says to
tell The boys there will soon be plenty
Of grub i'll camp, and -four" He is
now shipping -four from Walla Walla,
I and will continue to ship all winter.
n COL STEVENSON tells US that men
n and teams are stringing in to Burnt
4 river every day to work on the grades
Il for the @. S. l.. and o. r. & N. Co
II The road is continually lined with
u tramps, bringing up the rear. Mate
n rial is being procured for an iron
Il bridge that will span snake .iyer near
ri the mouth of Burnt river.
III CORRECT TIME.-Prvf. Butler took
the sun" yesterday. Now all who
@ want correct time, listsn for the first
Bringing of the school bell. The frs
bell in the morning rings at $50, the
second at S:45. The noon bells arc a.
1880 and l2:45. Messrs. Lodge &
nj Butler are going to make large sur
#dlal and erect it in some convenien
place In town so that everybody cal
get the correct time" on days wher
@'le sun shines. A table of approx
Namate equation Of time" will he placed
over the dial, 80 as to show how mucl
the sun is slow or fast for every min
ae of time.
E ID. ASHTON and David and Richart
fi'ggs who have been at work in ,h
banner mine, left yesterday for Penn
sylVanla, where they will spend th
WINTER They ran up the raise, t.
connect with the shaft, about twent,
eet' and then had to stop work Oh &C
count OF the seepage of water fror
RAe SHAFT. 1t will be a month befor
y WIN De dry enough to resume oper
4''ohs. The raise follows up alon,
Rae hanging wall on a l2-inch vein c
Rue richest kind of ore. There is a
f'ncn streak eight feet from this an
O"ar's the foot wall, the ore of whic
N n'gh grade. Besides these Their
NC number of small seams in b,
"een' all containing the same grad
u TUCK as the two outside veins. Th
W. wall has not been reached. Ash
- ana the Riggs Bros. have bee
"orK In the Crown Point and Bal
~ mines for over two years. The
'oe Banner is one of the richie,
ues IN Idaho, and they know wher
n they speak.
DAllSVuE Is not dead yet, reports
'0a'fary Notwithstanding. Viii
wy other town on Wood river h:
~ is'e'lhg in such Injuries as da
p'chlcs, poker, monte, faro, fis
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1882-10-10
Born.

In Placerville, Sept. 80, 1882, to the wife
of Mr.. John Myer a daughter.
In Quartzburg, October 5, 1882, to the
wife of Dir Henry FL. Hawkins son.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1882-10-10

stats tudt luiS COtapdHy was ulduv up
of the miners of the Basin, and that
they held public meetings, that prior
rights were guarded, and that the bill
was approved of by every man in the
Basin before sent 10 Washington. The
bill he speaks of giving the company
twenty-five feet on each side of the
hume, is drawn up SO as to guard the
rights of miners in every respect, and
there is not a man4in the county that
will oppose it, Had this one been in
troduced in the first place there would
have been no wrangle about bedrock
fume. George knew, as well as any
one, that the original bill was not the
kind the people wanted introduced.
He was we'll aware that if he made
known the provisions of the bill it
would meet with red hot opposition,
and would be defeated. Therefore he
endeavored to keep his constituents of
the Basin in the dark until the bill
could be pushed through. This latter
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31
Important TO Democrats.

Election this year occurs on Tuesday,
Tth of November, 1882, Polls open at 7
a. m, and remain open continuously un-
til p. M.
Voters must be assessed and register.
ed TWO MONTHS preceding the election,
this year on or before Thursday, Septem
ber 7th. Voters who have not paid
State or county tax within two years
next preceding the election must pay on
or before Saturday, October 7th. We'd
nesday and Thursday, September 9th
and 7th, are the final days for assessing
and registering. On each of these days
the assessor is required TO be at the
polling places in hie district from 10 a.
IN. until p. IN, and from until Q y.
M, to perfect his list. Any elector has
the right to examine the list and require
correction by adding qualified voters.
names or striking off disqualified ones'
In case of neglect or refusal by the reg
lister Tho court is required to issue the
summary process to compel correction.
Evag person added aast be assessed. Nat
uralized citizens must produce their
certiticates,aad the register record them
Persons intending TO be naturalised maY
be 50 registered. but certificates must lie
procured on or before Saturday, October
1th. The list is required 10 be exposed
It the polling place from and after Au.
gust stlss for examination s. electors.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31

AN Independent branch has split of
from The Republican party in Maine,
and like their brethren in Pennsylva.
MIA, declare that they have been bossed
by the demagogues quite long enough.
They announce the following as the
platform of principles to guide them
in the future:
|. Thorough and systematic reform in
all branches Of the civil service.
2. Faithful execution OF the laws In ali
parts of the State, including the LIQUOR
iuw and the laws for the observance of
the Sabbath, having temperance without
hypocrisy and prohibition without
drunkenness.
3. Strict economy in the expenditure
of public money, and n consequent re.
duction of taxes.
4. Opposition to machine politics,
"boss" rule, political assessments, bribe.
~ and fraud In controlling elections and
conventions,
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31
The Democratic Platform.

Tile Democratic party of Pennsylvania, holding fast
to the faith that all power not delegated by tue Con
titution reserved to the States and the people, up
holding the sancty of personal liberty the security
of private property and the right OF local selEgover
ment demanding honesty ana economy III the ad
ministration of government and the enforcement OF
all the provisions of the Constitution by the Legisa
tare and the Courts of the Commonwealth declaring
against monopolies and in sympathy with labor seek
ing its protection and in favor of the industrial inter
ests of Pennsylvania at all times do sOemnly protest
against evils which the policy of the Republican par
~ aud the nsolence of its long possession of office
have thus brought upon the country; therefore,
First-We do protest against what Is called the boss
system, and also the plundering of offceholders by
assessments of money for political purposes Public
offices are the property of no party but are open to
every citizen who is honest. capable and faithful to
the Constitution, qualifications which Jefferson de-
clared were requisites for Office.
Second-We protest against the spoils system. 1t
is prostitution of the offices Of the people so that
they become the perquisites of the politicians.
Third-we denounce alrepudiaton, State and Fed
era because 1t is dishonest and destructive of that
public morality upon which founded the existence
and perpetuity of free institutions. 1t should be
made odous and the political party that aids it and
abets il with Office deserves public condemnation.
Fourth-We deuounce spoliation OF the State Treas
crimes whose acts agrant subyersions of official
trusts and wrongs done the people.
Fifth-We believe the Republican party, as now or
ganized and controlled Is based on fraud, force and
corruption and there can be no hope OF true reform
except by the force of the ballot box excluding II
from place and power.
Sxth-The Democratic party demands of the Leg
islature an honest iust, and true apportonment
Seyenth-UpOn these declarations we invite the CO.
operation of all honest citizens who with desire
the reestablishment of honest government
"IN Hoo sIGN0 vIsCEs.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31

A RUMoR prevails that Secretary
Lincoln of the War Department, is to
retire from the cabinet of President
Arthur in consequence of existing
complications between him and promi-
nent army officers. Judge Advocate
General Swain and Quartermaster
General ingalls,, are said to be at open
war with Secretary Lincoln's strict
administration of the affairs of the
War Department, and have bro ight
strong influences to bear to force his
retirement; but it is not likely that
the son of Abram Lincoln will be
driven out easily, except by his own
choice to get rid of disagreeable asso-
ciates.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31

CooPER's circular demanding blood
money from the Pennsylvania en-
ployes both in the general and state
government are flying about freely.
He will doubtless raise large corrup-
tion fund, with which to boom the boss.
machine ticket, but he will just as like
ly disgust many reputable Republi'
cans, when they compare the platform
of the 10th of May convention with
his mode of collecting campaign funds.
Here is the plank.
"That we condemn compulsory assess
ments for political purposes, and proscrip-
tion for failure to respond either to such
assessments or to requests for voluntary
contributions, and that any policy of po-
litical prescription is unjust and calculated
to disturb party harmony"
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31

A CALL for a public meeting, signed
by thirty-two of the most prominent
colored Republicans in Philadelphia,
is published in the papers of that city.
The meeting is to be held on the 4th
of September, and is intended to "give
manly expression publicly of their
views and purposes bearing on the
coming contest, to be addressed by
eminent speakers in sympathy with
the Independent Republican move.
ment in Pennsylvania" The colored
Republicans are also seeking emanci-
patton from the bondage of the ring
bosses And why not? They have
served them long and faithfully, and
have received nothing in return but
neglect and contempt.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31

They FURNISH THE ISSUE THIS
TIME.-The Democratic party is some-
times described by its enemies as a
party in search of an issue. IF that
description was ever accurate, the
enemies Of the Democratic party have
now rendered it inapplicable. The
issue of the present campaign, and of
the next, has been supplied by the
Republican leaders in Congress. KeI-
ley and Kasson and Keifer and Robe
son and Reed and Hiscock by mere
folly and mere jobbery have done
more to show the country that a
change in the political control is ab-
solutely necessary than could have
been done by the wisdom and the in
tegrity of an equal number of Demo
cratic leaders.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31

In this State when Democracy was
in power, practical measures for the
relief of the workingmen were enacted.
The first homestead bill was Demo-
cratic measure. The mechanics lien
law came from Democratic hands.
The law abolishing imprisonment for
debt was of Democratic authorship.
The $500 exemption law was passed
by a Democratic Legislature for the
benefit of labor, and the anti-store-
bill" act was drawn, presented and
pushed to passage by Democratic leg
islatora
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31
CHAUNCY F. BLACK, Of York.

The active participation of the lead
ing business men and manufacturers of
the state with the opposition to Boss
Cameron and his machine, does not
bear out the declaration of the venera-
bic head Of the dynasty that the Inde-
pendent movement is free trade con-
spiracy. The venerable Simon knows
better. He knows, and realizes the
fact intensely, that the movement is
nothing more nor less than rebellion
against the usurped authority of the
Cameron Dynasty"-an effort to re-
cover from the degrading serfdom in
which they we're held, by asserting the
right of the party to voice its action
aud choose its representative. The
old politician has not grown so stupid
with age as not to see that the power
has departed from his house, and that
his successor, the junior boss, can no
longer order who shall be the candi-
date for Governor, or to fill the other
offices of the Commonwealth, and re-
ceive slavish obedience to the man.
date. This was intimated to him a
year ago by the detection of $4,000
from his party, and it is now to be en-
phasized by the entire overthrow and
defeat of the stalwart boss ticket thus
brought forward. Some seem to in
dulge the hope that our neighbor Gen
eral Beaver, by virtue of his own good
character and blameless private life,
may be able to stem the torrent and
reach the goal of his ambition, bat the
case is scarcely a possible one, and has
little, if any probability, attached to
it. He represents the very worst and
most Objectionable feature of this one.
man boss power, againts which the
manhood and the intelligence of the
best element of all parties are arrayed
to overthrow and destroy. His nomi-
nation by Mr.. Cameron and the an.
nouncement of his candidacy many
months before the convention conven-
ed to ratify it, gives prominence to
him as the Cameron machine can
didate, which bodies defeat and not
success, against contestant so
formidable as John Stewart, or of
Robert e. Pattison, if Mr.. Stewart
were not in the race.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31
GIN Hoo siGSO vIyCEs. ;

THE prohibitionists of Crawford
county played a sharp trick upon the
party candidates for the Legislature
in that county, by pledging them to
favor their constitutional amendment,
If elected, and then held convention
and nominated their own men. All
the candidates of Crawford county are
therefore a unit On the temperance
question, and the prohibition party
must triumph in any event.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31

Boss MALONE of Virginia, is even
more hoggish than Cooper and Cam.
eron, in making assessments upon Gov
ernment officials and laboring men.
Malone demands five per cent. of the
Virginians, while Cooper's circular
only claims two per cent. of the Penn
sylvanians. Not to be out.hogged by
the Virginia boss, Cooper will doubt
less issue another circular. This is all
additional to the Hubbell steal.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31

In the last "stand and deliver" cir
cular of "my dear Hubbel" issued to
the trembling officials, scrub.women
and laborers, he urges them most pa
thetically to come to the rescue of the
grand old party" Yes, the grand
old party scarcely out of its swad-
ding clothes, is in peril of dissolution,
bankrupted of honor and decency by
just such hollow-hearted robbers as
Jay Hubble, Tom Cooper and Don
Cameron and the methods they adopt
to maintain their personal control.
They may force ducats from their vic
Tins, but it will not save the "grand
old party" if they can find no higher
motive for its existence than public
robbery, and contempt for law and
decency of legislation as developed by
the last Congress.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31
BELLEFoNTE, PA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 81, 18o
No Political Dictatorship.

The paramount issue in the ap-
preaching state election, says the
Harrisburg Patriot, is whether or not
the people of Pennsylvania will en-
dorse the political dictatorship set up
by J. Donald Cameron. All other
political questions are temporarily
subordinated to this, not only because
they are of less Importance to the peo-
pie of the state, but because they are
to great extent involved in the main
issue. Cameronism stands for every
thing that has made the politics of
Pennsylvania u reproach during the
last decade and therefore with the
downfall of the Republican dictator
must perish all the political evils that
have recently afflicted the common
wealth.
1t is not disputed that the will of
Cameron has been law for many years
to the leaders and politicians Of the
Republican party in Pennsylvania.
Republican conventions have assem-
bled simply to register the decree of
the senatorial dictator. A majority
in those bodies in spite of the instruc-
tions of their constituencies has in
variably been found willing to execute
the plans of this political autocrat.
He has thus controlled the legislature
and the executive; has spoken for the
state in the nomination of the candi-
date of his party for president has
welded the power of the state in the
formation of presidential cabinets has
distributed the patronage of the feder-
al government within the state and
made the proud old commonwealth to
all intents and purposes mere mano-
rial estate of which he has been the
obsolute political lord.
Nevertheless it is not simply against
Mr.. Cameron's absolutism that protest
is made. The one man power would
be as odious under any other name as
it is under that of Cameron. 1t would
be as unrepublican, dangerous and
hateful if exercised in the same form
by another. While in the whole his
tory of the state the name of Cameron
is unique as the synonym for usurpa-
tion of political power, the struggle is
not merely for the overthrow of the
present dictator but to redeem the
state for all time from the personal
domination of any one man, or clique
or coterie. The battle is against what
in common parlanee is aptly called
"bossism" and against Cameron as the
reigning "boss." Political leaders
there will and must be-men whose
intellectual gifts, high character and
profound learning will entitle them to
distinction and respeet-but there will
and must be nevertheless an end of
political lords of the manor with their
retinue of spoilsmen and sycophants
fit only for the court of despot.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31

THE Labor convention which met
in Philadelphia on Tuesday last, en-
dorsed the Greenback candidate for
Governor, Thomas A. Armstrong, of
Pittsburgh.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31

A SKETCH Of the life and character
Of the next Governor of Pennsylvania,
will be found on the sixth page of the
DEMOCRAT this week.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31

The conferees of the Eleventh Con
gressional district, comprised of Mon
tour, Pike and Columbia counties, and
part Of Luzerne and Lackawanna,
will meet at Mauch Chunk on the 9th
of September, to place in nomination
a candidate for Congress. The aver
age Democratic majority in the dis
trict is 5000, and as nomination is
equal to an election, an animated con-
test may be expected. Each county
will probably present a candidate.
Columbia has named her distinguished
statesman, the Hon. Charles r. Buck
alew, whom it is to be hoped will. hold
the winning card. His experience
and great ability in the Pennsylvania
delegation to the next Congress is
much to be desired.